Gaza Crisis Israeli Air Force Bombed

Juan Cole 07/12/2006

Gaza Crisis

The Israeli air force bombed a civilian Palestinian house that they said was being used to plot out terrorist attacks.

As a home, it contained innocent civilians including at least two now-dead children.

CSM gives further details of the humanitarian crisis into which Olmert’s invasion and bombings have plunged the people of Gaza.

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Israeli human rights groups protested Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s use of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page