Amani Ghalya, 22, in Shifa Hospital intensive care unit, Gaza City. She suffered severe abdominal injuries and lost her arm at Gaza beach Friday. Doctors said her prognosis was grim. (photo: Marc Garlasco/Human Rights Watch)
Is the IDF lying when it claims there is no way its artillery could’ve lobbed a shell on a Gaza beach [...]
The latest development in the Gaza beachfront massacre is that the IDF has examined shrapnel removed from the bodies of wounded victims treated at Israeli hospitals. It finds the metal not consistent with what is used in Israeli artillery shells. If this is true, it would bolster the IDF’s contention that it is [...]
Read full post...“I categorically reject all the attempts to impugn the morality of the Israel Defense Forces,” said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opening the cabinet session on Sunday.
“The Israel Defense Forces is the most moral army in the world. It has never conducted a policy of harming civilians, and is not doing so today.”
Olmert, as a character [...]
At funeral, relative holds aloft body of infant murdered in Israeli artillery massacre (photo: Hatem Moussa/AP)
Israel has nothing short of a disaster on its hands with yesterday’s bloody massacre of eight Palestinian beachgoers enjoying a day with their family at the seaside. Yesterday, there were seven victims but the NY Times reports that the [...]
““Hadil [Ghaliya] threw herself on the sand near her dead father and cried: ‘Dad, Dad.’”–note playing cards on sand which they’d been playing with only moments before (photo: Ramatan News Agency)
Those of us who are progressive Zionists believe that Israel can be a light unto the nations; and that at the very least creating a [...]
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