Update - Israel - 9:37 P.M. The death toll in the IDF attack on a house in the northern Gaza Strip rises to 12, including four children and five women, all of the same family.
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By Al Jazeera
November 18, 2012
Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Gaza,
has said that the search continues for survivors of an Israeli air strike that
killed nine members of the same family in Gaza.
Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from "the massive crater where the residential building stood".
Five children were among the nine members of the extended family that died in the attack.
With darkness quickly falling, Al Jazeera's Baba said "a frantic search ... at top speed" has been conducted to see if anyone else is still alive under the rubble.
Though such tactics are a risk to anyone that may still be buried under the wreckage, our correspondent said the situation is "far from ideal [and] ... time is of the essence".
The deaths in the well-known extended family have left many in Gaza wondering if "anybody is safe ... people really are very worried about their own safety" as a result.
The report comes as medical sources tell Al Jazeera that they have found another body from the rubble of a destroyed house in Gaza City. This brings the death toll since Wednesday to 66.
Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from "the massive crater where the residential building stood".
Five children were among the nine members of the extended family that died in the attack.
With darkness quickly falling, Al Jazeera's Baba said "a frantic search ... at top speed" has been conducted to see if anyone else is still alive under the rubble.
Though such tactics are a risk to anyone that may still be buried under the wreckage, our correspondent said the situation is "far from ideal [and] ... time is of the essence".
The deaths in the well-known extended family have left many in Gaza wondering if "anybody is safe ... people really are very worried about their own safety" as a result.
The report comes as medical sources tell Al Jazeera that they have found another body from the rubble of a destroyed house in Gaza City. This brings the death toll since Wednesday to 66.
See also - 10 Killed; Hamas HQ destroyed
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PHOTOS: ISRAEL RELENTLESSLY BOMBS GAZA, WEST BANK PROTESTS REPRESSED
November 18, 2012
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The mother of 10-month-old Hanen Tafesh, killed the day before
in an Israeli air strike, mourns over her daughter’s body before her funeral in
Gaza City, 16 November. (Majdi Fathi / APA images)
Israel has shown no mercy in its bombing of
the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip, as airstrikes and shelling entered into
the fifth day on Sunday (see previous photostory documenting the run-up to and
first days of the assault). Israel has reportedly approved the drafting
of 75,000 reservists, though so far there has been no ground invasion.
With nearly 50 fatalities in Gaza since
Israel’s breaking of a tenuous ceasefire on Wednesday, the World Health
Organization warned on Saturday that Gaza’s hospitals “are overwhelmed with
casualties from Israel’s bombings and face critical shortages of drugs and
medical supplies,” according to the Reuters news agency (“Gaza hospitals stretched, need supplies to treat wounded:
WHO”).
Reuters adds: “the WHO, quoting Health
Ministry officials in Gaza, said 382 people have been injured - 245 adults and
137 children.” Gaza’s health facilities were already “severely over stretched
mainly as a result of the siege of Gaza,” the UN organization said.
Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance groups fired
more long-rage rockets towards Tel Aviv, and sirens were heard in Jerusalem for
the first time. Gaza groups also fired short-range rockets, many of them
intercepted by the Iron Dome system, according to Israeli media. Rockets were
also reported to have been fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Three Israeli
civilians were killed by a rocket fired from Gaza on Thursday.
Protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza
erupted across the West Bank, where protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers.
According to the Ma’an News Agency, five Palestinian citizens of Israel were
detained at a protest in Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood and ten persons
were detained by Israel at protests in Gaza across the West Bank yesterday.
Israeli forces also arrested protesters outside Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday.
Ma’an also reports that “dozens have been
injured in clashes with Israeli forces, several seriously.” On Saturday two
protesters were hit in the head with tear gas canisters at a protest at Ofer
military jail near Ramallah, and a head injury was reported at a protest at
Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus. A protester in the central West Bank village of
Kafr Qaddum was seriously injured when a tear gas hit him in the head on
Friday, and another protester was arrested at the same demonstration.
Solidarity demonstrations continue to be held
in dozens of cities worldwide (a continuously updated list can be found here).
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Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of Tahrir Salman and Mohammed Salman in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, 16 November. The two civilians were killed when an Israeli warplane attacked a number of civilians who were in the garden of a house belonging to Ghazi Abed Salman, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. (Ashraf Amra / APA images)
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Palestinian women mourn four-year-old Mahmoud Raed Sadallah, who was killed following an explosion in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, 16 November. (Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
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Emergency workers dig out a wounded man buried under sand after
an Israeli air strike took place near his car in the northern Gaza Strip, 15
November. (Mohammed Salem / Reuters)
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A damaged UN-run school next to the Civil Department of the
Ministry of Interior building, bombed earlier in the day in Gaza City’s Tal
al-Hawa neighborhood, 17 November. The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA)
announced that one of its teachers, Marwan Abu El Qumsan, was killed Wednesday
by a nearby airstrike. (Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
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A damaged home near the Council of Ministers building in Gaza
City, which was completely destroyed during an Israeli airstrike earlier in the
day, 17 November. (Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
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Palestinians inspect a destroyed mosque after an Israeli air
strike in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, 17 November. (Ashraf Amra / APA
images)
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A Palestinian man carries bones from a grave after an Israeli
airstrike on a cemetery in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, 16 November. (Eyad
Al Baba / APA images)
"I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle). ~ Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman
"I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle). ~ Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman
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A policeman looks at an unexploded missile fired by an Israeli
aircraft in Gaza City, 17 November. (Majdi Fathi / APA images)
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Palestinian Prime Minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh and
Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Kandil observe the treatment of a patient who was
wounded during an Israeli strike, Gaza City, 16 November. (Mohammed Ostaz / APA
images)
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Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem visits the Gaza City
office building of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh which was destroyed by an
Israeli air strike, 17 November. (Majdi Fathi / APA images)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a
meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of
Ramallah, 16 November. Abbas said in a televised speech that day that he has
urged the US and European countries to pressure Israel to halt the offensive. (Issam
Rimawi / APA images)
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A tank on a flat-bed truck sits at an Israeli gas station on its
way to the boundary with Gaza, 17 November. (ActiveStills)
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An explosion and smoke are seen after Israeli air strikes in
Gaza City, 17 November. (Yasser Gdeeh / Reuters)
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Two rockets are launched from Gaza City towards Israel, 16
November. (Naaman Omar / APA images)
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Israelis take cover as the Israeli military launches a missile
from the Iron Dome defense missile system designed to intercept and destroy
incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, south Tel Aviv, 17 November.
(Oren Ziv / ActiveStills)
ED Noor: Is it just me or do these folks seem to be having a bit of a giggle at the same time?
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ED Noor: Is it just me or do these folks seem to be having a bit of a giggle at the same time?
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Palestinians react to the sound of an Israeli F-16 warplane
flying at low attitude above the ruins of the Civil Department of the Ministry
of Interior building, which was completely destroyed in the morning in the Gaza
City neighborhood of Tal al-Hawa, 17 November. (Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
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Palestinians shop at a central Gaza City market while Israeli
aircraft continue to bomb the Gaza Strip, 17 November. (Majdi Fathi / APA
images)
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Palestinian youth throw stones at an Israeli military tower
during clashes near Aida refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem in
protest of Israeli military strikes on Gaza, 15 November. (ActiveStills)
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Palestinians protest next to Israeli police on horses during a protest in solidarity with Gaza outside Jerusalem’s Old City, 16 November. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills)
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Hamas supporters in the West Bank city of Hebron protest against
Israel’s attacks on Gaza Strip, 16 November. (Mamoun Wazwazi / APA images)
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A Palestinian protester runs for cover from tear gas during a
protest against Israel’s operations in Gaza Strip outside Ofer military prison
near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 17 November. (Issam Rimawi / APA images)
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Hamas supporters in the West Bank city of Hebron protest against
Israel’s attacks on Gaza Strip, 16 November. (Mamoun Wazwazi / APA images)
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Palestinian youths attend a Gaza solidarity rally in the
Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh on the outskirts of the southern
Lebanese city of Sidon, 16 November. (Mahmoud Zayyata / AFP/GettyImages)
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Israelis protesting in Tel Aviv carrying signs reading “In Gaza
and Sderot the children want to Live,” 15 November. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills)
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Hundreds gather in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest Israel’s
attacks on the Gaza Strip, 16 November. (Rob Stothard / Polaris)
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Demonstrators protest the attacks on Gaza outside Israel’s
embassy in central London, 15 November. (Stefan Wermuth / Reuters)
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Hundreds march in solidarity with Gaza in Edinburgh, Scotland,
17 November. (Jalal Abukhater)
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Demonstrators marched through downtown Boston and rallied
outside the Israeli consulate to protest Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip, 15
November. (Tess Scheflan / ActiveStills)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch:
Meanwhile, back at the ranch:
the resistance fighters in Gaza will bow their head and bend their knees ony to Allmighty God.
ReplyDeleteAs you correctlyt referred to IsraHell monster and war crimimal,Satanyahoo, he now who hase two choices only: a) End the seige on Gaza. b) Stop targetted assassniation. Both of which are war crimes under international laws. Otherwise Hamas and Jihad will continue showering Israelis in occupied Palestine and illegal jewish settlements with missiles. Wait for the resistance surprises when the ground invasion takes place. Mahmoud El-Yousseph