Posts Tagged ‘Isreal’

Murdering and maiming children — war crimes?

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Bullets in the brain, shrapnel in the spine: the terrible injuries suffered by children of Gaza

Doctors at a hospital near Gaza are almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children needing treatment for bullet wounds to their heads.

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.

Gaza’s Children Suffer During Israeli Conflict
Newsweek - Jan 17 2:41 PMEven if Israel’s ceasefire holds, the impact in Gaza will be felt for a long time to come.

Fresh Israeli strike kills three children in Gaza
People’s Daily - Jan 16 10:25 PMOngoing Israeli military attack killed three children in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, local witnesses and medical sources said. Paramedics said that two children were killed and ten people were injured during an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and another girl was killed by Israeli tank shelling in the northern area of Jabaliya. Local witness said Israeli …

UNICEF: Children bearing brunt of Gaza war
CNN - Jan 15 9:01 AMChildren are bearing the brunt of the conflict in Gaza as the Israeli offensive to flush out Hamas fighters leaves youngsters battling indelible trauma while threatening