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 Tuesday July 23, 2002 03:17 by Joe Young
 Body of Young Palestinian Girl Killed in Gaza Attack GAZA CITY: 12 Palestinians were killed and over 100, mostly women and children, wounded Monday evening when Israeli warplanes attacked a residential area in the Gaza City. Tens of Thousands of Gazens rushed to the street protesting the Israeli cruelty, and a state of shock has engulfed the occupied Palestinian territories. The attack came one day after the Palestinian group Hamas announced it’s willingness to stop bombing Israeli targets, in exchange for the withdrawal of the Israeli army from recently occupied West Bank cities, and the end of the assassination policy carried out by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The offer was made by Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas during an interview with Al Jazeera satellite television. The Israeli response however came in a different form than expected. Witnesses to Monday's killings said that an Israeli F-16 warplane fired several missiles at Palestinian homes, apparently targeting the house of Saleh Shehade, a Hamas activist in Gaza, reducing his home and several others around it to rubble. Officials at a local hospital say as many as 140 people have been wounded. “They (the Israelis) are so cruel, so merciless. Why don’t they just leave us alone. Leave our land, get out of our lives,” a Palestinian man wept as he tried to help in the rescue efforts. Another lamented as he gazed at a body of a little girl being dragged, crushed and clearly dead, from under the rubble: “what crime did that little girl commit. I don’t think she is even old enough to understand that her crime was being a Palestinian.” Hundreds of people crowded the area, leveled to the ground and chants of “god is great,” were heard every time a dead civilian is brought out from under the rubble. Many of the dead and wounded were children. Earlier, a Hamas spokesman said that Salah Shehade, a leading activist, was among those killed in the attack. But the spokesman confirmed later that Shehade is still alive. The attack comes as officials from both sides held a somewhat successful meeting to reduce the tension created by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Israel’s attack on Gaza however worsened the situation. “This exactly what Sharon wants,” a Palestinian political analyst from the West Bank told the Palestine Chronicle in condition of anonymity. “Every time you have some progress and calm, Sharon provokes Palestinians to retaliate. It’s his policy and ever-successful agenda.” “The fact that the attack targeted a Hamas leader was a response to the offer made by Sheik Yassin to end hostility and occupation. Sharon doesn't want to give Hamas the chance to appear reasonable before the world media. Now, what else do you expect from Hamas but to hit back, and when they do, the Israelis will scream foul and say that they are fighting a war on terror.” A Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr. Abdul Aziz Rantisi was quoted by Al Jazeera as saying, in response to the attack: “there shall be no calm, no rest. We will retaliate to the Israeli attack and will reach Israelis even in their own homes.”
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8This outrageous attack is more proof, if it were needed, that there can be no two State solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Zionist expansionism will not rest until it has ground the Palestinians into the ground, all those on the so called left and other so called democrats should not for a moment tolerate the notion of an Israeli State as it only lends succor to and legitimizes the actions of the war criminal Sharon and his cronies. Israel acts with the complete support of the U.S. and they are an important component part in the U.S. industrial military complex. So, all of those high minded democrats who appeal to America to broker a peace in the region need to wake up. May god rest those poor children and help their families through this difficult time, “it is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will be victorious”.
Victory to the Intifada
What a brutal and unjust country who can try to justify murdering children in their beds as part of a defence strategy.
Cheer up everyone, even George Bush is critical of Ariels latest contribution. The offical U.S. view is that Ariel was "heavy handed", what exactly this means I am not sure, perhaps if he only killed six children, it would only be semi heavy handed. I bet when George sent them the F-16's that he thought Ariel would never use them.
Israel's F-16s are totally refitted and avionics changed when they recieve them. The missiles and other weapons used are also mostly Israeli made, and so people cannot blame the US for what happens over there. This website is also extemely pro palestinian and will hardly listen to the Isreali side. Their are two sides to this conflict and both are at fault and are right at the same time and until they and everyone else understands this, the problems there will never be solved. the two sides will have to except each other and forget the past, but I doubt this will happen anytime soon.
Sounds like you work refitting the damned F-16's yourself.
Now, just imagine Iran were to send a couple of MiG's to the PA, who then give them a lick of paint and some new flags before attacking Tel-Aviv surburbs to pre-emptively 'eliminate' prominent IDF-officers with all and any family/neighbours who happend to be within a 300m radius - would you be singing the same tune-of-tolerance? Telling us you cannot blame Iran?
This website is not 'extemely' pro palestinian and websites cannot 'listen to the Isreali side' as you so illiterately put it.
What you will have noticed is that people here are in general much better informed than yourself, and are therefore well able to repudiate your floundering logic with a few well-aimed scuds of factual argument.
Rather than accepting your suggestion of a permanent status-quo whereby Israel has an open licence to illegaly occupy and oppress the Palestinians, most people here, in common with the larger part of the world population, would favour a solution based on the framework of International Law - something Israel and the US have consistently rejected!
Schalom, BlackPope
Zionism = Racism
It would be easier to credit outrage over "US Made F-16s" killing Palestinian children, if there was anything approaching an equal measure of disgust on this site any time a Palestinian detonated an Iranian or Syrian supplied bomb in a Tel Aviv cafe or Jerusalem bus station. Palestinians die and there is a chorus of denunciation; Jews die and everyone shrugs their shoulders.
Palestinians are being killed at a ratio of approx. 4:1 over Israelis, and seriously injured at ratio 16:1, since the start of Intifada II.
Israel is a very powerful nuclear-armed State supposedly subjet to the rule of International Law, whereas the PA is a non-entity struggling on the edge of oblivion.
Palestinians are being collectively starved into submission in the monsterous concentration-camps which Gaza and the West-Bank have become. Their resistance to occupation, robbery and outright murder is in TOTAL CONFORMITY with the law laid down by the UN.
So, do not compare apples with oranges, Mr. Healy.
And the onus for relieving the current demented state of affairs lies with fun-loving fat-head war-criminal Jabba Scharon, no-one else!
Schalom, BP