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A 28-year-old Palestinian doctor in the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya was killed by Israel Defense Forces fire this week while on his way to remove casualties from a building being targeted by Israeli missiles, according to the Mizan human rights group in Gaza.
His death raises the death toll of medical personnel killed by the IDF to seven since December 27, human rights groups said. In addition, three hospitals and four health clinics were damaged by gunfire in the last few days, Palestinian sources said.
Dr. Issa Salah, a member of the Palestinian civil defense services, and his team reached the building where the casualties were located around 4:30 P.M. Monday, a few minutes after it was hit by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter.
The residents ran out, having learned that the first such missile is a warning to residents to evacuate the building, before additional missiles demolish it.
But not everyone made it in time; an 18-year-old girl was killed and four residents, including two children, were wounded in the second missile strike.
Salah was killed, and one of his colleagues wounded, in the third missile strike, while on their way to remove the woman and the four residents from the site and get them medical treatment.
Meanwhile, the dead woman’s 23-year-old sister and another woman, 20, were killed in continued Israeli shelling of the building.
Five others were wounded.
Salah’s death underscores the difficulty Palestinians face in removing casualties from the scene.
As of last night, Palestinian sources said, Palestinian rescue forces have so far been unable to coordinate the evacuation of casualties with the IDF in at least four locations, where the IDF has encountered resistance: Jabalya and the Gaza City neighborhoods of Sajaiyeh, Tufah and Zeitun.
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1 comment:
Dear Editor,
Israel should be persecuted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people.
The international community is demanding that Israel is investigated and held accountable and to stop the aggression.
Those responsible, at the top Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni ought to be brought before an international criminal court
of justice just like those from Yugoslavia.
The corporate fascist media here in America are run by Zionist apologists.
They won't show us the Israeli wanton destruction of Gaza, the images of the thousands of victims,
and the millions around the world protesting this genocide.
The time has come for Israel to STOP once and for all its evil colonial occupation of Palestine.
We have had enough with this domination, this unjust war against the Palestinians.
Israel has engaged in an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, and in a outgoing expansion
of their Jewish colonies on Palestinian land for years now.
Hamas is a consequence of the brutal, abusive and ruthless Israeli occupation.
Plain and simple.
The Palestinian people and Hamas are simply resisting and fighting for their freedom.
Their struggle is a struggle for liberation and for self determination.
For an autonomy and sovereignty that Israel has deny them for way too long now.
As long as Israel continues its heinous crimes against the Palestinians,
there will be no "security for Israel" and no peace in the middle east.
We owe it to the Palestinian people to have autonomy over their territories
without Israeli intervention, occupation and control of their borders.
All the Palestinians want is a sovereign Palestinian state.
Or Palestinian territories -if you will.
And a peaceful coexistence with Israel.
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this,
how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action!
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." (Albert Einstein)
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