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Bad News, More Ways Than One
Snapped Shot —
... [Update:] It would seem that the Hamas terrorist organization can't even claim those 3 soldiers as their kills. So, 400 for Israel, 1 for Hamas terrorists. ...
A Little Editorial Eduational Training
Snapped Shot —
... Ok. Today we are going to analyze some random news articles taken from a reputable news service and see if we can find any problems with their editing. Ok? Now, please take out your network-equipped power pads and open to this link. ...
Israel Hits Terrorist Rocket Launch Pad/UN School (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
Israeli forces hit targets near a UN school in Gaza today. The AP reported: Palestinian medical officials say at least three people are dead in an Israeli airstrike near a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip. It is the second deadly Israeli airstrike to hit a UN school in the past few hours. Palestinian health official Said Joudeh says three people were killed and four wounded in the airstrike in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya. He says the school was turned into a shelter for people displaced by an Israeli ...
Operation Cast Lead's Qana moment?
Israel Matzav —
... seek shelter in the school from Israel's 11-day offensive against the Hamas terror group. The missile landed in a courtyard late Monday, also damaging the building. "There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized," said John Ging, the top UN official in Gaza. "I am appealing to political leaders here and in the region and the world to get their act together and stop this," he said, speaking at Gaza's largest hospital. "They are responsible for these deaths." Al-AP adds : U.N. officials say they provided their location coordinates to Israel's army to ...
Is there a bridge too far?
Left I on the News —
... sources at two hospitals said.Or this? Earlier Tuesday, Palestinian medical officials reported that 10 civilians were killed when a shell fired by an Israeli ship hit their house on the Gaza shore. Officials in Gaza said at least 20 people were killed [in addition to the 40 at the U.N. school] in shelling up and down the strip on Tuesday. Only two of the dead could could be immediately confirmed as militants.And, just so we're clear on this: U.N. officials say they provided their location coordinates to ...
Israeli strike near UN school kills at least 30
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... the ruling Hamas militant group that has killed nearly 600 Palestinians. Nearly half of the dead are civilians, according to U.N. and Palestinian officials. "There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized," John Ging, the top U.N. official in Gaza, said after the first strike on the compound of a U.N. school killed three people in a courtyard. The school has served as a shelter for Gaza City refugees fleeing the blistering 11-day offensive. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_i...
Leverett on Countdown: Time for Obama to Speak Out on Gaza Violence
Firedoglake —
... If an incoming President doesn't have the political courage to even acknowledge, let alone condemn, the killing of dozens of children and hundreds of other civilians in a brutal war condoned by our own government, then his Presidency is not likely to succeed in furthering international peace and justice. ...
Nowhere to Go
Suburban Guerrilla —
Link:
GAZA CITY, Gaza – An Israeli bombardment struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, the U.N. and Palestinian medics said, killing at least 30 people — many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded.
An Israeli official said its soldiers came under fire from militants hiding in the school and that the building stored Palestinian munitions.
Despite international criticism over civilian deaths and calls for a cease-fire, Israeli soldiers edged ...
Hamas goes to school
Daimnation! —
... If you believe "Zionist Israelis" like to attack schools for absolutely no reason, well, I guess this won't change what passes for your mind: ...
AP: Two residents saw Hamas firing mortars near UN school
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... No surprise. It’d take an “enlightened” progressive indeed to believe the IDF would lob artillery shells at a school just for giggles. And so, as ...
War Crimes In Gaza
Jules Crittenden —
... AP , of all terrorist-enabling, Israel-bashing news agencies, locates some Palestinians who confirm that Hamas was firing mortars from the vicinity of the school, and other aspects of the IDF’s story: GAZA CITY, Gaza – Israeli mortar shells exploded Tuesday near a U.N. school in Gaza that was sheltering hundreds of people displaced by Israel’s onslaught against Hamas militants, killing at least 30 Palestinians , tearing bodies apart and staining streets with blood. Israel’s military said its shelling — the deadliest single episode since Israeli ground forces invaded Gaza ...
UNRWA lies, denies terrorists' presence in Jabalya school
Israel Matzav —
... and teachers because of an Israel military operation and terrorists moved in afterwards, he added. "We did not open the doors" for them. Gunness also said that the UNRWA teacher who was discovered to be a rocket manufacturer in his off hours was sacked and that his family did not receive pensions that usually are granted to workers. But the terrorists wouldn't have to be in the school to expose the school to danger and to effectively use those inside it as human shields. Consider this report from al-Ap (Hat Tip: ...
