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2014-08-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gazans back in UN schools as Israel resumes blitz

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 No mention, whatsoever, of
Residents of southern Israel awoke early Saturday morning to the piercing sound of code red rocket ALERTS, as a barrage of rockets from Gaza targeted their neighborhoods.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-09 02:14|| 2014-08-09 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Grom, funny how Israelis taking shelter doesn't matter. Only the Paleostinians and their UN enablers - and never is it mentioned the UN "Schools" are unsafe because Hamas uses them to store munitions and fires weaponry from them as well.

How long can this outright lie by western media go on without consequence to said media? Do we have to start taking direct action against reporters and editors for lying to us?

Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-09 06:51|| 2014-08-09 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Heartwrenching. Most deliberately heartwrenching. And yet the bit

Laundry was hanging from the rooms overlooking the courtyard, where there was a strong smell of sweat and waste.

makes me wonder why the first order of business was not to organize toilet facilities, with regular dumping of waste into the outside rubble pits between bombardments. While the Palestinian refugees might arguably be too frightened to think beyond their immediate need to take a dump, as 'tis said, the UN personnel are supposed to be made of considerably sterner stuff.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-09 10:22|| 2014-08-09 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Yet another dark and stormy night wind blew through the bleak Gaza tenement. Laundry was hanging from the rooms overlooking the courtyard, where there was a strong smell of sweat and waste. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks.

Posted by Hupolush Grundy1293 2014-08-09 13:36|| 2014-08-09 13:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The continuing cycle in Gaza summed up in about 1 minute. The Gaza-UN cycle.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-09 16:10|| 2014-08-09 16:10|| Front Page Top

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