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Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Something Horrible has been Discovered

The Telegraph: 60 Family Members Killed at Zeitoun
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posted by Juan Cole @ 1/07/2009 02:53:00 PM

6 Comments:

At 3:03 PM, Blogger adempewolff said...

Jesus Christ. No wonder why they were shooting at the ambulances and paramedics, they didn't want them to discover what they had done. This is hard to even comprehend. Forcing a huge family into one house, shelling it, then bulldozing it. I think I am going to send another letter to my Senators.

 
At 4:48 PM, Blogger Bear Witness said...

Where does one begin... the written word isn't enough. Demonstration in London

STOP THE MASSACRE NOW: ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA
SATURDAY 10 JANUARY ASSEMBLE HYDE 12.30 PM
MARCH TO ISRAELI EMBASSY, LONDON W8

... BRING A SHOE
to leave outside Downing Street...

 
At 4:48 PM, Blogger BlueEyes said...

If this doesn't sicken and change minds, nothing will.

 
At 10:03 PM, Anonymous Mansoor Nasir said...

There is a media blackout and I can't find any US based news agencies reporting this atrocity.

 
At 11:00 PM, Blogger dancewater said...

it is even worse than first reported....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4162193/Gaza-medics-describe-horror-of-strike-which-killed-70.html

The medics had to leave injured people there to fend for themselves because the IDF were shooting at them.

And this AP reporter gets to watch IDF video of the destruction of his home:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_gaza_a_reporter_s_story/print


Fisk has said that war is a failure of the human spirit - I said years ago that war is a total failure of human intelligence and human compassion.

 
At 3:28 AM, Anonymous Ben White said...

Eyewitnesses in Gaza...

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The numbers of death and injured reported in the media are far below reality as the media is not able to cover incidents as they unfold. I know of cases where homes were surrounded by the Israeli army and people inside gave themselves up and were shot anyway when they exited.

When bakeries open there are thousands lining up to get their share of bread

A clinic near my hospital was hit by an Israeli missile earlier today

What is taking place is a massacre, more than a massacre

Almost all the cases I saw today at the hospital were civilians, many women and children. This is not an attack on Hamas, it is on the most innocent of people in Gaza

6 ambulance staff members have been killed. Two ambulances were hit. Nothing is safe, nowhere is safe. No moving vehicle is safe. We are afraid for our lives. There is no differentiation between Hamas and Fatah or anyone else

We have witnessed weapons we have never seen before in our lives. Some explode in the sky and scatter bombs all over. Sporadically. I have smelt smells from some of the burns and wounds that I have never before witnessed.

We get the feeling no one is asking about us, the world is not even noticing this is going on, no one cares."


Dr Attallah Tarazi, al-Shifaa Hospital, Gaza City [speaking to German-Egyptian journalist Philip Rizk on the phone]


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[The following are remarks made by the father of a friend of mine in Gaza City, on the phone to his son]

Israel has arrested a number of farmers who live near where the invasion is, they collected their weapons (which are used to protect them from theives and any other dangers) claiming to have arrested some Hamas fighters. This is to prove that the war has been successful so far! Those people are just farmers living quite outside the city between fields...

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