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| Friday Afternoon on Gaza Beach- 2 Wom... |
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Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 11:52 am: | 
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From BBC News -
Palestinians killed on Gaza beach
Seven people, including three children, have been killed by Israeli shells which hit a beach in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials say.
At least 30 people were wounded in the shelling, they say.
Palestinian officials say the seven people killed on the Gaza Strip beach included two women as well as the three children.
A little further away, a man was lying on a sand dune, perhaps fatally injured, while a child stood looking on in utter horror, our correspondent says.
He says around the casualties were tables and chairs, and it looks very much as if this was a family enjoying their Friday afternoon off on the beach when disaster struck.
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Anniecat
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| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 12:16 pm: |
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What can possibly be said to justify or make these atrocities any easier to understand or accept? Nothing...it's horrific beyond description. |
Egantry47
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| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 05:14 pm: |
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I certainly don't understand it, Anniecat. Children with sand pails and shovels really don't pose much of a threat. God rest their souls and comfort their families.
"France's Foreign Ministry expressed regret about the incident, calling the shelling "disproportionate" and urged calm in the region.
"France deplores Israel's bombardments on a beach in the Gaza Strip, whose disproportionate character has cost the lives of several civilians and injured many others," a Foreign Ministry statement said.
France expressed its condolences to relatives of the victims and urged "restraint among the two parties, to put an end to the spiral of violence," the statement said.
Egypt also condemned the IDF artillery fire.
"Israel's disproportionate use of power in a densely populated area contradicts international law," said a statement coming out of Egypt.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit sent his condolences to the victims and dded "Israel's use of strength was unacceptable."
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Egantry47
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| | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 03:53 am: |
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"On June 13, nine civilians were killed in an air raid, and on June 9, eight members of one family were killed while picnicking on a Gaza beach in an attack a rights group blamed on an Israeli shell.
Ryad Mansour, the Palestinian observer at the UN, appealed to the Security Council to demand that Israel, as an occupying power, abide by provisions of the fourth Geneva Convention, which he said were applicable to the occupied Palestinian territories."
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Njaeok
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Username: Njaeok
| | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 04:32 am: |
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Picknicking on the Gaza strip???
Seems more then a little foolish to me.
Isn't that where the Hamas terrorists gather to shoot explosives into Isreal in hope of getting lucky and killing a few Jewish citizens, children and all?
Actually, maybe it isn't all that strange after all considering that the terrorists routinly wrap children in explosives and send them into crowds to blow up as many people as they can.
Night brings darkening, hope is adjourning.
Despair spreading its relentless spawn.
Yet prayer brings harking to hope reforming.
It's always the darkest just before dawn, Jimbo
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Egantry47
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Username: Egantry47
| | Posted on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 07:28 am: |
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Which Israeli terrorists are you referring to in your "routinely wrap children in explosives"? Did you mean the terrorists who killed the family on Gaza beach, those who killed the Palestinian boys playing soccer or those who killed the two little Palestinian children a few days ago? |
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