UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that “all available evidence” suggested that Israeli artillery had hit a United Nations school in Gaza full of civilians who thought they were in a safe zone.
“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children,” the secretary general told reporters…
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Operation Protective Edge (2014) is the current military operation the Israeli government is carrying out against Gaza, the third in the last six years. It began on July 8th.
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Meanwhile, since 2006 Gaza has been under siege by Israel. It is almost completely cut off from the outside world. That is itself an act of war, making Operation Protective Edge merely the latest stage of a long Gazan War. Some call it a genocide.
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At a refugee camp near the beach in Gaza, parents took their children out to play. It’s Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Children need to be children, even during war.
A boy named Mohammed was happy for a moment playing in the street yards from his family’s front door.
Then an explosion, and the ground shook. Holes as large as fists pockmarked a nearby building, and 10 people — eight of them children — were killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
In the chaos, they were rushed to nearby Shifa Hospital A TV news outlet run by Hamas showed live footage of the hospital. The channel blamed the carnage on an Israeli drone.
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Source: www.cnn.com
A New York Times photographer gives his account of explosions and sudden death.
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Why is Israel bombing CHILDREN on the beach of Gaza?