Graphic: 6 and 10 y/o kids killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

[lego 44,165]

Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring his sister, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

Yasin Abu Hussa, 10, died in a raid targeting a base of the Hamas movement's military wing in Beit Lahiya, in the north of the Strip, Qudra said, one of four strikes the Israeli military said it carried out in response to rocket fire into Israel on Friday night.

The Israeli news website The Times of Israel also quoted Hamas' health ministry as saying Yasin's 13-year-old sister was injured in the air strike.

Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants hit southern Israel on Friday night without causing damage or injuries, the Israeli army said.

"Initial reports indicate several rockets hit open areas in southern Israel," a military statement said.

"No injuries have been reported." 

Israel’s military later said that that it had responded by hitting four Hamas targets in Gaza.

 

Tensions have been boiling in Israel and Palestine since the fall of last year. Since 1 October, a wave of violence has killed 189 Palestinians, 28 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese, according to an AFP count.

Many of the Palestinians were killed while allegedly carrying out or attempting to carry out knife or car-ramming attacks. A number of others were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during demonstrations, while others were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

Meanwhile, since the end of Israel's deadly assault on the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, approximately 34 projectiles fired from the Strip have hit Israel, according to military data.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/12/gaza-boy-dies-in-air-strike-after-rocket-attack-on-israel

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dolev 867]

R.I.P, I can't imagine living under control of a terrorist organization willing to sacrifice me for its dangerous religious ideas.

[lego 44,165]

1 hour ago, Dolev said:

R.I.P, I can't imagine living under control of a terrorist organization willing to sacrifice me for its dangerous religious ideas.

 

Keep on justifying Israeli war crimes. 

Yeah, you really can't imagine what it's like being under occupation by the terrorist state of Israel, that's why you talk like this.

 

 

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Anyway, the news is mostly absent from Western mainstream media sites. You really have to look for it, you won't find it on front pages. Without twitter this would be buried somewhere. You won't hear Republican candidates mentioning Palestinian victims in their campaigns either. Their lives don't matter. 

[paul 687]

I mean you guys could keep defending either side in stupid arguments on ggd but at the end of the day both have brought pain, suffering and death into this world and maybe you could realise that your loyalty to either side will achieve nothing. just a thought.

on topic: rest in peace.

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

1 hour ago, paul said:

I mean you guys could keep defending either side in stupid arguments on ggd but at the end of the day both have brought pain, suffering and death into this world and maybe you could realise that your loyalty to either side will achieve nothing. just a thought.

on topic: rest in peace.

Amen!  🙌

[Saymyname432 866]

Israel is a criminal state. Palestinian people are being masacred by Israel and United States supports him.

 

[Azor Ahai 18,861]

5 hours ago, paul said:

I mean you guys could keep defending either side in stupid arguments on ggd but at the end of the day both have brought pain, suffering and death into this world and maybe you could realise that your loyalty to either side will achieve nothing. just a thought.

on topic: rest in peace.

I dont see Palestinians having Tv shows, concerts by famous musicians or the support of the entire western modern civilisation. It's obvious which state needs help ...

[lego 44,165]

1 minute ago, Azor Ahai said:

I dont see Palestinians having Tv shows, concerts by famous musicians or the support of the entire western modern civilisation. It's obvious which state needs help ...

 

it's that typical "both sides are equally guilty/both are to be blamed" rhetoric, but the reality is that oppressor and oppressed are never equal, those who occupy are not the same with occupied, the ones in power with upper hand (and the support from biggest armies) are never equal with those under them, 2nd class citizens, natives without basic human rights. When they kill with impunity and whole Western world goes *sigh, they always kill each other*, nothing changes.

When something happens to Israeli civilian, you'll know their name, face and short life story on CNN, FOX, BBC and all other channels. They'll be included in presidential election campaigns.

Anyway, I didn't post the news to debate again, I just found that first automatic hasbara comment insensitive and dumb.

 

Btw is there a lot support for Palestinian cause in Greece? I always wanted to ask you. 

 

 

[Azor Ahai 18,861]

5 hours ago, VampireHeart said:

 

it's that typical "both sides are equally guilty/both are to be blamed" rhetoric, but the reality is that oppressor and oppressed are never equal, those who occupy are not the same with occupied, the ones in power with upper hand (and the support from biggest armies) are never equal with those under them, 2nd class citizens, natives without basic human rights. When they kill with impunity and whole Western world goes *sigh, they always kill each other*, nothing changes.

When something happens to Israeli civilian, you'll know their name, face and short life story on CNN, FOX, BBC and all other channels. They'll be included in presidential election campaigns.

Anyway, I didn't post the news to debate again, I just found that first automatic hasbara comment insensitive and dumb.

 

Btw is there a lot support for Palestinian cause in Greece? I always wanted to ask you. 

 

 

It's the same like everywhere else. Most people don't know enough about it so they don't have an opinion. Left leaning people support Palestine more and right leaning Israel.

[lego 44,165]

One of the missiles hit a nearby shack, killing Yassin Suleiman Abu Khoussa, 10, and his sister Israa, 6. A third brother, aged 13, was moderately wounded. The army defined the target as part of the “terrorist infrastructure” and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon announced that “we responded with determination and a heavy hand, targeting Hamas assets – we’ll know how to respond even more harshly.”

The children who died were approximately the same age as my young children. A girl and a boy, just like in my house. As a law-abiding and tax-paying citizen I’m an accomplice in their killing. A passive or an active one, it makes no difference. Once, apologies were issued in my name for the deaths of innocent children. Not anymore. There are no expressions of remorse because there isn’t any. During Operation Protective Edge in Gaza hundreds of children were killed. One of them was an Israeli, Daniel Tragerman, whose heart-rending photo refused to let go. All the rest were nameless and photo-less Palestinians.

In the current intifada, this week marking its six-month anniversary, dozens of children have been hurt, killed, wounded or blinded. Not all of them were murderers or terrorists. However, most Israelis don’t care about dead or wounded Palestinian children. In any case their parents are less sad, as we were informed recently by our defense minister and police commissioner at meetings of bereaved parents. In the Israeli mainstream there are also those who argue that these children are programmed to die. Terrorist infrastructure indeed.

Earlier this week, Yedioth Ahronoth, the paper calling itself “the country’s newspaper,” devoted its front page to marking six months of the current intifada. The 39 dead were counted, as were the wounded. The heroism of soldiers and civilians was lauded. This was all on the Israeli side, obviously. However, in order to correctly assess a civilian-military confrontation one must examine its effects on both sides. On the Palestinian side there are already more than 200 dead. Not all of them were murderers or terrorists. In any case, some of these killers were youths running away from home after a quarrel, armed with a knife, or young girls waving around some scissors. Some of these terrorists were children who threw stones at demonstrations.

Yedioth Ahronoth has a private business dispute with Netanyahu (not an ideological one, not with his government). This is why they ended their coverage with a defiant question addressed at our leaders – when will all this stop? Well, under present circumstances it won’t. Netanyahu has already explained this: We will live by our sword forever, all we have to do is erect even higher fences against these predatory beasts.

The truth is that it won’t end until we start seeing the Palestinians again. The dead and the living ones. Currently they are invisible. Effaced. Neutralized. There is no such creature, explained MK Dr. Anat Berko.

This is the only searing of our consciousness that the right has managed to inflict over the last decade, with the help of its collaborators and lackeys. In his new book “A Land Beyond the Mountains”, author Nir Baram does something revolutionary – he travels through the occupied territories and sees Palestinians. Lots of them, as well as lots of settlers. He thereby, before stating any political stance, belongs to a minority group. His insights evoke many thoughts and his conclusions are often surprising. Some of his impressions were published as columns in Haaretz, but only a small minority of Israelis read Haaretz. In fact, only a minority read Yedioth Ahronoth. More Israelis read Israel Hayom, Russian and ultra-Orthodox newspapers or synagogue pamphlets. There are no Palestinians there.

Masses of Israelis trample through the fields of manure and hate published by people such as the rapper-blogger “The Shadow” and his ilk. There one can find only dead Palestinians, or ones who should be dead. From time to time an Israeli is stabbed in the street by an invisible Palestinian from Qalqilyah. Occasionally one runs to a secure area when another war breaks out with invisible Palestinians in Gaza. In such cases people don’t understand where all this is coming from.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.709498?v=A8C394F5076DEEC70D6E8450AD143B42