Gaza ***GRAPHIC PICS***

Annafalk said:

The insanity of humankind, how can this be solved so no more revenges comes one after the other..

Maybe enough pressure can be brought upon the U.S government so that they quit annually vetoing the peaceful settlement that the whole World agrees upon and supports, and which Israel and the U.S stand alone in the World in rejecting?

How was Apartheid South Africa brought to an end? It began with a small group of people protesting in Trafalgar Square, and ended as a mass international movement that involved boycotts, and sanctions, e.t.c. And it was eventually defeated, despite U.S and Israel supporting that racist regime right up to the end.

PhillyCrownOfThorns said:

And al Jezerra reports ambulances can't get to a war zone because intense fighting.

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/07/article55334637
'Paramedics told Asharq Al-Awsat that they were “working in hell” because the Israeli army was “deliberately targeting ambulance crews and paramedics” who rushed to bombed areas to recover bodies and tend to the injured.

One paramedic, Ahmad Madhoun, 31, said that he and his colleagues had been targeted directly on three occasions by the Israeli military in the area east of Shejaia, where they were sent by the emergency control center to rescue the injured and take them to a hospital.

He also accused Israeli forces of preventing them from entering many areas which have come under attack.

Madhoun said that on one occasion gunfire prevented his ambulance crew from reaching seven injured people for several hours, before finally being able to get to them after coordinating with the Red Cross. They found that only two were still alive, while the others had bled to death. One of the survivors died in hospital a couple of days later.

Madhoun, who was speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat during a three-hour break, said: “The war does not exclude anyone. We work in very difficult conditions and we have not seen our families since the start of hostilities, and although [the Israeli military] knows who we are, they still target us deliberately.”

Madhoun said the destruction of the infrastructure made it difficult for ambulances to reach some areas, but that the ambulance crews’ knowledge of the area helped find alternative routes to locate the injured and get them to hospitals.

According to Palestinian Health Ministry figures, one paramedic, Fouad Jaber, was killed during the ongoing fighting, while 16 had been injured in Israeli air raids. The hostilities also killed pharmacist Anas Abu Al-Kas and two Ministry staff, Ata Habib and Mohammad Al-Areer.

The Ministry also accused Israeli forces of deliberately striking five hospitals on the Gaza Strip, and destroying 11 ambulances.

http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2014/07/thursday-updates-on-gaza-israel-tragedy.html
Al Jazeera reports up to 30 killed, 100 injured, just now in UN school designated as "safe haven" and with no warning from Israelis. UN says Israel given full info on school and knew it was used as shelter and with no military activity there. AP story. Survivor: "We were sitting in the school, because we were told it is safe." Awaiting NYT defense (see below).

Richard Engel of NBC just tweeted: "Ambulances under attack again tdy. Was in one that came under fire in shejaia market." And: "UN school attacked in north gaza.. 13 at least killed. Bloody desks. Blood on ground. Terrified children."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/jeremy-scahill-media-has-failed-to-cover-massive-massacre-in-gaza/

Jeremy Scahill: Media Has Failed to Cover ‘Massive Massacre’ in Gaza
by Matt Wilstein - July 23rd, 2014

According to The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill, “We’ve hit all time lows with media coverage in this country.” The journalist appeared on HuffPost Live Wednesday to discuss media coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and issued some sharp criticism to U.S. press outlets that he says are producing nearly one-sided coverage.

“When you look at what’s happening right now in Gaza, this is a massive massacre and one epic series of war crime after war crime, child after child being killed,” Scahill told host Alyona Minkovski. “And most news organizations are forced to acknowledge that the Palestinians and its children and whole families are being killed. They’re forced to because cameras are there; they’re forced to because there are reporters on the ground reporting on that.”

But, he added, “if you step back and you look at the way that this is always framed over these weeks of Israel’s constant bombardment of Gaza, it’s as though Hamas and Israel are sort of two equal military powers fighting one another.” Considering Israel has its Iron Dome missile-defense system in place to protect its citizens, Scahill said this was a fundamentally incorrect assumption.

Scahill described Israel as “a nuclear-powered nation that has a history of systematically killing Palestinians, indiscriminately targeting civilians and civilian institutions.” But if you listen to American media, he said you would think that it is just a “battle between two military powers.” He added, “Israel is gratuitous in its disproportionate use of force against the Palestinians.”

The reporter singled out the “great” NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin as one of the few examples of someone who has shed light on the disproportionality. But when he did, he was quickly removed by the network from Gaza (he has since been reinstated there).

“Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli propagandists are largely given carte blanche to say what they want on American television with very little push back,” Scahill said.

Watch video below, via HuffPost Live: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/archive/segment/53d0258efe3444760d00015a

PhillyCrownOfThorns said:

So you really think Hamas has not been consulted or contacted regarding a cease fire?

It has nothing to do with what I think. It's a fact that Hamas were not in on the ceasefire discussions. Those discussions were conducted between Israel and Egypt.

I can see that you're trying really hard to be a smart ass, but you're not doing a very good job of it.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/gaza-crisis-israeli-shells-kill-15-un-school-compound

Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside.

It was the fourth time a UN facility has been hit in fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, since the Israeli operation began on 8 July.

...Six members of the same family and an 18-month-old boy were killed when an Israeli air strike hit the Jebaliya refugee camp in the early morning hours, according to Gaza police and health officials. Twenty others were injured in the strike, they said, and rescuers were digging through the rubble of flattened homes, looking for survivors.

An air strike on a home in the southern Gaza town of Abassan killed five members of another family, said Kidra, the Gaza health official. Abassan is near Khan Younis, in an area that saw intense fighting on Wednesday.

The 16-day conflict has claimed the lives of more than 700 Palestinians, most of them civilians