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The Associated Press: UN: 257 Palestinian children killed in Gaza
In this Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 file photo, Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. At least 169 children and teens, ages 17 and under, have ...
Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
time.com — Soldiers on patrol at Kibbutz Nir Am, a mile from Gaza. Even after the start of Israel's... Jan. 4 ground offensive, communities near the border remained vulnerable to Hamas' rockets. (more) Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza?
Full text: UN Resolution 1860 - Israel News, Ynetnews
Full text: UN Resolution 1860 - Israel News, Ynetnews
ynetnews.com — Full text: UN Resolution 1860 Security Council members call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, IDF withdrawal, transfer... of supplies to Gaza, humanitarian aid, and intra-Palestinian reconciliation. Hamas, as well as kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, not ... (more) Full text: UN Resolution 1860 - Israel News, Ynetnews
Misinformation about the 2005 Gaza Withdrawal
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com — I love Daniel Levy -- we're brothers in Zionism , after all -- but sometimes he drives... me nuts. Andrew links without comment to Daniel's recent post informing the world that Ariel Sharon was not seeking peace when he withdrew from Gaza in 2005: One ... (more) Misinformation about the 2005 Gaza Withdrawal
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UN: 257 Palestinian children killed in Gaza
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... her bloodied head sticking out from the rubble of her home, covered many front pages in the Arab world Wednesday. "This is Israel," read the headline in the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. The preschooler was killed early Tuesday when an F-16 attacked her family's four-story home in Gaza City. Four adults also died. As many as 257 children have been killed and 1,080 wounded — about a third of the total casualties since Dec. 27, according to U.N. figures released Thursday. Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsmrj... Edited: to add authors' names

They Send Roses
Booman Tribune — ... Seems like a good investment to me. Especially since the AP is reporting that 257 children have been killed by the Israeli attacks, and 1080 wounded , or one third of all Palestinian casualties in Gaza since the attacks by the IDF began. You can also call the Obama transition team to ask Obama to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza: 202-540-3000 And tell them to take a long look at this picture, too, after they give you whatever is the excuse du jour for Obama not immediately calling for a cease fire. [image] More pictures of dead and wounded Gazans can be seen here: ...

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Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic [Jonn]
thisainthell.us 1/11/2009 — This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguaration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans, but as you can see by the flag above, it was more an ...
Ha'aretz On The Children of Gaza
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/17/2009 — This is a story you would not find in the mainstream press here. And, if it appeared, there would be a slew of protests. How dare the media imply that Gaza's children are innocent victims? Does not the "anti-Semitic" Times, Post, or Tribune know ...
A New Horror
susiemadrak.com 1/15/2009 — A new weapon , developed by the US in 2006, called DIME. Apparently this is what s causing the amputations we’re seeing in Gaza: AMY GOODMAN: Let me go to Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has just returned from Gaza, the Shifa Hospital. He’s back in ...
A Prayer for the Children of Gaza
michaeltotten.com 1/8/2009 — I am neither religious nor Jewish, but I can't help but be touched by "this Jewish prayer for the children of Gaza":http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052871.html published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz while Israelis are in the midst of a ...
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'More than 1,000 killed in Gaza'
news.bbc.co.uk 1/14/2009 — Palestinians carry a wounded man in a stretcher in Gaza City - 14/1/2009
For Children of Gaza, Scars to Last a Lifetime
washingtonpost.com 1/26/2009 — Many Fear That Young Will Suffer Psychological Effects of War for Decades By Griff Witte Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, January 26, 2009; A05 GAZA CITY, Jan. 25 -- One by one, the seventh-graders rose from their old wooden desks and, in ...
Gaza Update: Breaking the Cease-fire
firedoglake.com 1/27/2009 — There are reports of a clash on the Gaza border and unconfirmed news of one Israeli soldier killed and three wounded. At the moment it is difficult to tell what really happened. The most complete report so far is from Reuters :  ...
Gaza: Even After This, The Silence Is Deafening
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/9/2009 — This is hard to read but the footage, which is the whole world is watching is even worse. FROM TODAY'S INDEPENDENT. Four small starving children too weak to stand were found next to the bodies of their dead mothers by ambulancemen who had been ...
No Other Option?!
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/12/2009 — I watch in shock, like the rest of the world, at the appalling death and destruction being wrought on Gaza by Israel; and still it does not stop. Meanwhile, we see a seemingly never-ending army of well-prepared Israeli war propagandists, some Israeli ...
U.S. seeks immediate Gaza ceasefire with conditionsReuters: Politics 1/6/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it wanted "an immediate ceasefire" in Gaza but U.S. officials quickly stressed they would not budge from their stance that it must be durable, sustainable and indefinite.
UN rights body to hold emergency meeting on Gaza (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/7/2009
AP - Officials say the U.N.'s top human rights body will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in crisis-hit Gaza.
Joe the plumber headed to Middle EastCNN Political Ticker 1/8/2009
Then-Sen. Obama's chance meeting with Wurzelbacher on the campaign trail in October turned the Ohio plumber into a nationally-known figure. (CNN) – Joe Wurzelbacher: Plumber. Campaign celebrity. Foreign correspondent? ‘Joe the Plumber’ is ...
U.N. suspends Gaza deliveries after Israelis kill driver (McClatchy Newspapers)Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/8/2009
McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — The United Nations suspended relief deliveries to the beleaguered Gaza Strip on Thursday after Israeli soldiers opened fire on a truck that was attempting to deliver aid, killing one U.N.-contracted truck driver and ...
UN rights chief wants investigation of Gaza abuses (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/9/2009
AP - The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights called Friday for an independent war crimes investigation in Gaza after reports that Israeli forces shelled a house full of Palestinian civilians, killing 30 people.