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2009-01-06 Terror Networks

Get me a Massacre: Up next the Kfar Qana of Operation Cast Lead

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Posted by anonymous5089 2009-01-06 13:24|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Right on cue...

A U.N. official in Gaza said a school where dozens of Palestinians were killed by tank shells on Tuesday was clearly marked with a U.N. flag and its location had been reported to Israeli authorities.

John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said the death toll in the Israeli artillery strike near the school in Jabalya refugee camp was 30 dead with another 55 people injured.

Medical officials on the spot have said more than 40 people were killed.

Ging told reporters at U.N. headquarters by videolink from Gaza that three artillery shells landed at the perimeter of the school where 350 people were taking shelter.

He said UNRWA regularly provided the Israeli army with exact geographical coordinates of its facilities and the school was in a built-up area. "Of course it was entirely inevitable if artillery shells landed in that area there would be a high number of casualties," he said.

Casualty numbers were still being assessed but the latest figures were 30 dead and 55 injured, including at least five critically, Ging said.

The Israeli military said it is looking into the incident at al-Fakhora school in Jabalya on the fourth day of a ground assault launched after a week of air strikes failed to end Hamas rocket salvos against Israeli towns.

Posted by Beavis 2009-01-06 13:58|| 2009-01-06 13:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Jerusalem Post...

At least 30 people were reportedly killed and 53 wounded in an explosion in a UN-run school in the town of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians. The IDF issued a statement saying the school grounds were used by terrorists to fire mortar shells at the troops. According to the IDF, among the dead were members of a Hamas launching cell, including operatives Immad Abu Askar and Hassan Abu Askar.

The infantrymen returned mortar shell fire into the school grounds, the army said. Defense officials told The Associated Press that booby-trapped bombs in the school triggered the secondary explosions which killed scores of Palestinians on the site.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-06 14:15|| 2009-01-06 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Hamas uses the University to fabricate rockets and explosives.

Hamas uses mosques to store the above.

Hamas uses UN ambulances to transport gunmen and rockets.

Hamas uses UN hospitals as Command and Control centres.

But UN schools, just flffy kittens and baby ducks. Just a stage for Qana-style paleoganda.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-01-06 15:32|| 2009-01-06 15:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The locals say Hamas was firing mortars from the school.
Ging oughta be hung by his little tiny balls.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-06 17:55|| 2009-01-06 17:55|| Front Page Top

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