reuters.com - 1/16/2009
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli television broadcast desperate cries for help from a Palestinian doctor on Friday after his children were killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip and troops later helped surviving members of the family. The telephone calls created extraordinary scenes during ...
zombietime.com - 1/16/2009
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zombietime.com —
On January 10, the war between Israel and
Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to...
the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world : what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond ...
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January 10, 2009: The Intifada is globalized as the Gaza ...
haaretz.com - 1/17/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israel is very close to securing the objectives
of its 22-day-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip,...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday, according to French News Agency AFP. "After three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, we are very close ...
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Israel's Cabinet to vote Saturday on ...
turcopolier.typepad.com - 1/18/2009
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turcopolier.typepad.com —
"Hamas officials were set to hold talks in
Cairo with Egyptian mediators to hear the Israeli response...
to proposals put forward by the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.Hamas has offered a one-year, renewable truce on condition that all...
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An inevitable outcome in Gaza
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Israeli TV Airs Gaza Doctor's Pleas After Children Killed
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Israeli TV caught on film the pleas of a Palestinian doctor whose children had just been killed by Israeli attacks, reports Reuters.
The telephone calls created extraordinary scenes during evening news broadcasts as the doctor, a Hebrew-speaking physician who spoke regularly on Israeli television, said three of his children were killed in a tank strike and others were wounded.
"My girls were sitting at home planning their futures, talking, then suddenly they are being shelled," he said in a voice shaking with emotion. "I want to know why they were ...
Gaza Update: New Deal Includes US Troops (and More White Phosphorous?)
Firedoglake —
... Israeli audiences heard one father’s pain when a Gazan doctor who had practiced in Israel before the blockade, and who has given interviews to an Israeli TV station on local conditions during the Israeli attack, called in to the station begging for an ambulance after his own house was hit and his three daughters were killed. You can see the broadcast call here.
Dr. Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish is heard asking: ...
The Scourging of Gaza, Part 1
Comments from Left Field —
... Not true, said Abu al-Aish: “All that was ever fired out of our house was love, hugs and acts of peace, nothing else, ever.” ...
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