This is particularly important, since the press has only asked Obama about this one time.
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer
 A Palestinian boy, Ismael Hamdan, 8, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike, in which his two sisters died. He died Wednesday. Photo by Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Editor's note: This boy, this Ismael, can you imagine him running, laughing, playing football with his friends? I can't, he's dead, His death was caused by Israel, by Hamas, by Americans, by stockholders and profiteers and lunatics everywhere. Happy New Year, it looks a lot like the old year from here. Bob By Taghreed El Khodary The New York Times GAZA — A dentist stood at the bed of a doctor, his good friend Ehab Madhoun, 32, who had just died, his shrapnel-pitted body wrapped in a white shroud. The day before, Dr. Madhoun, a general practitioner, was in an ambulance responding to an Israeli strike at the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Another missile hit the ambulance. The driver, Muhammad Abu Hasira, died instantly. Dr. Madhoun lingered for a day, dying of his wounds on Wednesday in the intensive care unit of Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of people have been brought since Israel began its heaviest assault on Gaza in three decades. The dentist cried. “He was just doing his work,” said the dentist, who would not give his name. “He’s a doctor, and I can’t understand why Israel would hit an ambulance. They can tell from the cameras it’s an ambulance.” It has always been this way, over years of conflict here, that civilians are killed in the densely populated Gaza Strip when Israel stages military operations it says are essential for its security. But five days of Israeli airstrikes have surpassed past operations in scale and intensity; the long-distance bombardment of the Hamas-controlled territory has, however well aimed at those suspected of being militants, splintered families and shattered homes in one of the most densely populated places on Earth. Among the total dead — between 320 and 390, according to the United Nations — Palestinian medical officials say that 38 were children and 25 were women. The United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees said 25 percent of those killed had been civilians. Israel said it knew of 40 civilian deaths but that it was still checking. Read More at The New York Times |
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