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refugee camp where 16 were killed was housing the displaced
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
- Israeli tank strikes smash into UN school serving as a refugee shelter - pushing the Gaza death toll over 1,200
-UN aid chief blasts Israel, saying: 'This is a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced'
-Some 200,000 Gazans have fled to UN schools following calls by Israel to evacuate homes ahead of bombings
-One refugee who survived latest attack cries: 'Where will we go next? We fled and the Israelis are following us'
-UN spokesman calls on international community to help stop the bloodshed, saying: 'No place is safe in Gaza'
-British Foreign Secretary offers no assurance of an imminent ceasefire 'if people are insisting on preconditions'
-Israeli military has declared a four-hour ceasefire in some areas of the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons
Israel was warned no fewer than 17 times that a school it destroyed with tank strikes, killing 16 Palestinians and injuring 125 others, had been housing refugees, the UN said today.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in the Jabaliya refugee camp when shells smashed into the complex overnight.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said it was the sixth time one of the organisation's schools had been struck by Israeli bombardments during the 23-day conflict.
He said: 'This is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.
'We know that there were multiple civilian deaths and injuries including of women and children and the UNRWA guard who was trying to protect the site.
'These are people who were instructed to leave their homes by the Israeli army.
'The precise location of the Jabalia Elementary Girls School and the fact that it was housing thousands of internally displaced people was communicated to the Israeli army seventeen times to ensure its protection - the last being at 8.50pm last night, just hours before the fatal shelling.'
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What is sad is that some people still believe the "Israel tries to not kill civilians" BS.
originally posted by: Hoosierdaddy71
The article does not say whether or not weapons were being stored there.
The Israeli military responded by saying Hamas militants near the facility had fired mortar bombs and Israeli forces had shot back.
originally posted by: combatmaster
a reply to: buster2010
What is sad is that some people still believe the "Israel tries to not kill civilians" BS.
What is sad is that some people fail to distinguish genocide from war.
If Israel wanted genocide, there wouldn't be any palestinians left alive today!
Do you honestly believe that this is a genocidal attempt?
originally posted by: buster2010
originally posted by: combatmaster
a reply to: buster2010
What is sad is that some people still believe the "Israel tries to not kill civilians" BS.
What is sad is that some people fail to distinguish genocide from war.
If Israel wanted genocide, there wouldn't be any palestinians left alive today!
Do you honestly believe that this is a genocidal attempt?
I see you have no clue as to what the word genocide means do you?
gen·o·cide
noun
noun: genocide; plural noun: genocides
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Over a thousand people have been killed in Gaza so far and most of them are civilians. So how many people there have to die before you consider it genocide?
originally posted by: buster2010
originally posted by: Hoosierdaddy71
The article does not say whether or not weapons were being stored there.
The article says that Hamas was near the school not at the school.
The Israeli military responded by saying Hamas militants near the facility had fired mortar bombs and Israeli forces had shot back.
If these morons are too incompetent to use their weapons properly then they should be stripped of them.
1. There are now 7 million Palestinian refugees (4.3 million registered with the UNHCR); 85% of Christian Palestinians have fled.
2. 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis live under race-based Apartheid laws (Nazi- and Apartheid-style compulsory race-based ID at all times; race-based marriage prohibition laws; race-based discrimination over property acquisition, property rights, social participation, travel in their own country and family reunion).
3. 4 million Occupied Palestinians are held as prisoners in increasingly abusive conditions in what outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Noam Chomsky of the 63-Nobel-Laureate MIT describes as a “Prison” (they are held without charge or trial in effectively several major Concentration Camps – Gaza, Samaria and Judaea; their capital city has been stolen and violated together with the Third most Sacred site in Islam).
4. Post-invasion excess deaths (violent and non-violent avoidable deaths from bombs or bullets or deprivation, respectively; deaths that did not have to happen) now total 0.3 million and post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million.
5. Annual Occupied Palestinian avoidable under-5 infant deaths total 2,400; annual violent deaths total about 800 (20% children); annual excess deaths total 5,000 – deaths in custody at the hands of a racist, Apartheid regime.
6. It has cost the American taxpayer about $3 trillion (see: mwcnews.net...… ) plus a further $3.5 trillion accrual cost of the racist Zionist-backed War on Terror (see: mwcnews.net...… ).