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by Rob Walker | January 6, 2009 at 09:53 am
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Israeli tank fire killed at least 42 people hiding in a United Nations school in Gaza, four days into a ground assault launched by Israeli Defence Forces.
Witnesses state that dozens were injured after two Israeli tank shells exploded outside the school, located in the Jabalya refugee camp. A UN official said 350 people had been sheltering at the school, and had been regularly updating the Israeli army about the location of the facility.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into information on the incident at al-Fakhora school in Jabalya refugee camp, on the fourth day of a ground assault launched after a week of air strikes failed to end Hamas rocket salvoes.
A U.N. official says 30 people died and 55 injured when artillery shells landed at the perimeter of a U.N. school in the 11th day of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
John Ging, Director of Operations in Gaza of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that 30 people died and 55 others were injured when three Israeli artillery shells landed at the perimeter of a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
The United Nations Security Council is meeting late Tuesday afternoon to discuss a resolution to halt the violence in Gaza.
The UN Security Council has scheduled a meeting for late Tuesday afternoon to discuss adoption a resolution to halt the violence in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross joined the UN in warning of a 'critical situation' in Gaza. A shortage of ambulances has led to long waits for medical treatment.
The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross has said that wounded people are dying while waiting for ambulances in the Gaza Strip.
World Reaction
The Turkish Prime Minister accused Israel of using the Gaza attack to win votes before the general elections in February.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed Israel over its offensive in Gaza and said it was a bid by the Israeli leadership to score points ahead of the general elections in February, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Jordan's King Abdullah II stated on Tuesday that Jordan will continue trying to stop the Israeli attack on Gaza.
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday affirmed that Jordan will continue its intensive efforts to stop the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, according to the Royal Hashemite Court.
Protesters gathered around the Israeli Embassy in London, England again today, after a number of arrests and violence over the last few days.
About 60 police officers monitored the group of demonstrators, who demanded Israel stop what they describe as a "Holocaust in Gaza".
Iran is dead set against the Israeli attacks, with their speaker of parliament Ali Larijani saying that what Israel is doing is worse than the actions of the Nazis during the Second World War. While there is much talk, there has been no obvious military or financial aid coming from Iran.
The influential speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, has said that what Israel is doing is worse than the actions of the Nazis during the Second World War.
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NowPublic member Sameh Habeeb is posting from within Gaza, his last twitter posting said that explosions were going off near his house.
*Numbers and Figures of Israeli War on Gaza:*Total death toll: 620 while Wounded: 3000.
NP'er Miriam Mannak posting about how South Africa's ruling party is condemning the Israeli attacks on Gaza:
The statement said that that the Palestinian people should have a right to exist within a sovereign state, with secure borders alongside a sovereign Israeli state.
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at 10:30 on January 6th, 2009
Israel's deadliest offensive against the Gaza Strip that claimed the lives of more than 580 lives, including nearly 100 children, as "savagery."
"What reason can justify such savagery?" Erdogan wondered in a speech to his Justice and Development Party in parliament, slamming Israeli attacks on civilian targets.
The Turkish official noted that the offensive was a bid by the Israeli leadership to score points ahead of the general elections scheduled in February.
Erdogan called on Israeli Defense and Foreign Affairs ministers Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni "to forget about the elections, because history will judge them for the black stain they are leaving on humanity."
The Zionist entity "has suffered much in history and should know best the sanctity of human life, especially that of women and children... and the importance of the culture of co-existence," he said, insisting that the Israeli response was disproportionate.
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at 10:35 on January 6th, 2009
Not much to say really. This is, at least, the second educational institution that has been targeted by Israel in the current escalation. The silence, from America's best and brightest, is deafening....
Source: counterpunch.org
Source: counterpunch.org
at 07:44 on January 7th, 2009
In Canada, Ontario's largest university workers union is proposing a ban on Israeli academics teaching in the province's universities... proposed by CUPE's Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee, is in protest of a Dec. 29 bombing that damaged the Islamic University in Gaza.
at 12:46 on January 6th, 2009
The pictures are so sad and heartbreaking. I can't stand children crying.
at 13:02 on January 6th, 2009
Hamas targets (and hits) Israeli schools, Israel does not target schools - Hamas was probably firing from the sites knowing Israel would return fire. Hamas and Hezbollah have used this tactic before.
Israel protects its children by building shelters and warning systems. Hamas' leaders hide in shelters and leave Gazians exposed to fire (when they're not using them as human shields).
at 04:14 on January 7th, 2009
From the 1/7 New York Times:
The Israeli Defense Forces said that their troops had fired several mortar shells near the school in response to mortar fire from the school compound.
“They shot back to save their own lives,” said Ilan Tal, an Israeli military spokesman and a brigadier general in the reserves. Among the dead, the military said in a statement, were “Hamas terrorist operatives and a mortar battery cell.”
The military identified two Hamas operatives, Imad Abu Asker and Hassan Abu Asker, as having been killed.
A young witness from Jabaliya, Ibrahim Amen, 16, said that he had seen one of the militants, whom he identified as Abu Khaled Abu Asker, in the area of the school right before the attack.
Ibrahim said he saw the militant after he answered calls for volunteers to pile sand around the camp “to help protect the resistance fighters.” Ibrahim went to pile sand near the school with his brother, Iyad, 20, who was then injured by the Israeli mortar fire.
Source and the entire article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/middleeast/08mideast.html?hp