Apparently Israel is taking a lesson from the Bush Administration….what Geneva Convention?
Multiple sources are reporting that medics and ambulances have come under repeated attack in Gaza by Israeli forces. Aid workers are also reporting that even when Red Crescent ambulance teams contact the Red Cross and the Red Cross contacts the IDF to coordinate the ambulance mission, they are often prevented from reaching the injured. Midmorning on Sunday, Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the town of Beit Hanoun, where Palestinians were mourning the death of a paramedic who was killed on Saturday. Some 40 others were wounded in this most recent attack. Rammatan (the source of CNN’s footage from Gaza) adds:
Four Palestinian medical emergency members were murdered on Sunday night when an Israeli rocket hit their ambulance in the town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza. The death toll of the paramedics killed by the Israeli troops has climbed to 6 and more than 20 wounded.
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January 8, 2009 at 12:28 am
Reality Check
Actually, has anyone considered the fact that since those not receiving assistance are INSIDE Gaza, that maybe it’s the Palestinians who are to blame. They’re not helping the wounded, they’re purposely leaving civilians and their children to suffer and die so that the press will pick up on it. Very clever, but not Israel’s fault.
Maybe we should all step back and think about it from everyone’s perspective. Back people into a wall with repeated terrorist threats and violence, and of course they’ll fire until you stop. If Hamas didn’t have a culture of mentally ill behaviour, this wouldn’t be a problem.
Both sides need to learn to live together. It’s not like people in other places haven’t learned to live together despite major differences.
January 8, 2009 at 12:52 am
the reals
thanks you rcheck,
i’m so sick of everyone acting like the palestinians are the only ones being wounded and killed. never forget. hamas is a terrorist organization, i don’t care what anyone tries to argue. that’s the truth. look where the money and the arms come from. frightening.
January 8, 2009 at 8:32 pm
thevalleyprogressive
Hamas was put into power after the US demanded and supported “free democratic elections” for the Palestinians. Ooops! Reminds me of the old adage, “be careful what you wish for.” Also, If you think that you’re getting the full story from the pro-Israeli amercian media then you are pretty niave. Unfortunately you are only getting a small, biased part of the story, the part Israel wants you to see. Try reading more independent news sources, they’re all over the internet, and you’ll get a much clearer picture.
Better yet, read “By Way of Deception, the Making and Unmasking of a MOSSAD Officer,” written by former MOSSAD officer, Victor Ostrovsky. It will blow your mind as to what Israel is capable of doing and how it has helped shape many political events. Such as witholding critical knowledge from the US regarding a planned suicide mission in Beirut. The Result? Hundreds of US and French troops killed. Or how they knew about the location of the Iran hostages but wouldn’t tell Washington. The result? The Iran-Contra Affair. The book also talks about Israel’s manipulation of the drug trade to help pay for their operations and how they formed Jewish “defense units” in the US, South America and Europe.
Israel’s cry of foul play is akin to the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor conveniently allowing the US to pick a fight with Spain, or the Gulf of Tonkin incident (which has now been exposed as a US lie), which conveniently allowed the US to pick a fight with Vietnam.