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R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 05:48 PM Jul 2014

‘Children killed in their sleep’: Israeli artillery fire hits UN school, killing at least 20

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/children-killed-in-their-sleep-israeli-artillery-fire-hits-un-school-killing-at-least-20.html

Israeli military fire hit a United Nations-run school in Gaza today, killing at least 20 people and injuring an estimated 90 people. The school under attack, called the Abu Hussein girls’ elementary school, is located in the densely-populated Jabaliya refugee camp.

The United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), the group that serves Palestinian refugees, issued a stern statement placing the blame for the attack on the Israeli army.

“Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced,” said UNRWA Secretary General Pierre Krähenbühl. “We have visited the site and gathered evidence. We have analysed fragments, examined craters and other damage. Our initial assessment is that it was Israeli artillery that hit our school, in which 3,300 people had sought refuge.”

Krähenbühl added that the Israeli attack violated international law, and that UNRWA had informed Israel of the location of the school 17 times. The Palestinians who were sheltering there had been told by the Israeli military to flee their Gaza neighborhoods, only to be hit by Israeli shells at the place they thought would be safe. An estimated 240,000 displaced Palestinians are being sheltered in UNRWA facilities.


Fucking baby killers.
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‘Children killed in their sleep’: Israeli artillery fire hits UN school, killing at least 20 (Original Post) R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 OP
In the future those kids who survived will have upaloopa Jul 2014 #1
lather, rinse, repeat frylock Jul 2014 #3
Its disgraceful that US supports Israel murdering children 4now Jul 2014 #2

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. In the future those kids who survived will have
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 05:55 PM
Jul 2014

survivor's guilt and nightmares and be full of rage. And in the future Israel will blame them for their rage and gun them down as adults if they live that long.

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