The Israelis killed a Palestinian girl Saturday in the Gaza Strip, but because the victim wasn’t Jewish and the target of a knife attack, or was killed by an Israeli with a guitar, no one cares. The only victims the mainstream news media and the Israelis care about are Israelis killed or injured by knife attacks. Then it’s okay to kill a Palestinian girl
By Mohammed Asad
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A six-year-old Palestinian girl on Saturday succumbed to wounds sustained earlier in the day when her home was hit during Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip.
Spokesperson for Gaza’s Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra confirmed that Israa Abu Khussa had died from critical injuries. Her death came hours after her 10-year-old brother,Yasin, was killed in the strike and buried in the al-Salatin cemetery.
The Israeli air force had reportedly targeted four Hamas sites in the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday after four rockets were fired from the besieged enclave the evening before.
A Ma’an reporter based in Gaza said the children were in their house at the time of the airstrike, located in northwestern Beit Lahiya, adding that the family was still living in their home that was partially destroyed during the most recent Israeli offensive on the strip in 2014.
The Israeli army said the rockets fired from Gaza had landed in open areas in southern Israel, without reporting damage or injuries.
Head Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner called the rocket attack an “example of extremist incessant efforts to threaten the security and safety of the people of southern Israel.”
Lerner, citing a total of seven rockets fired from the strip since the start of the year, said the military would “continue to protect against those who threaten innocent lives and Israel’s sovereignty.”
Over 190 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed since violence increased in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel in October, nearly 30 of whom were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
A two-year-old Palestinian and her pregnant mother were killed in October when an Israeli air strike caused their home to collapse in southern Gaza City, a five-year-old was killed by unexploded ordnance last month, and a number of others were shot dead during demonstrations near the borderline.
Several rockets were fired from the blockaded coastal territory into southern Israel last year, with the Israeli military launching retaliatory air strikes in nearly every case.
Although much of last years’ rocket fire was claimed by small militant groups operating in Gaza, Israel consistently holds the territory’s de facto leaders Hamas responsible, and generally targets the group’s military infrastructure in response.
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photographer Mohammed Asad's photo of Dalia Khalifa won an award in March 2015 at a competition organised by the UN.
'Unbreakable' - is the photo of 9yr old Dalia Khalifa, taken at Al-Shifa Hospital on Aug 9th, 2014. Dalia was badly injured in an Israeli air strike during Operation 'Protective Edge'.
'Unbreakable' is the Grand Jury Winner in the photography competition, organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Middle East and North Africa (UN OCHA).
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Mohammed Asad's home in Shujaiyya was destroyed by Israeli missiles, mortars and tank fire on Friday August 1, 2014 while he was documenting the Israeli massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip. He is now living in temporary housing as he scrambles to find Internet access to share his photographs when possible.]
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“The Israeli air force had reportedly targeted four Hamas sites in the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday after four rockets were fired from the besieged enclave the evening before.” Sorry if that detail doesn’t fit your narrative of murderous Israeli aggression.
You should try to get your facts right when you “hasbara” — now a verb to describe extremist Israeli propaganda and lies
I am from Vancouver,Canada and I wanted to say that it is true that the news media in Canada and the USA don’t report on people getting killed in Gaza by the barbaric Israeli gov’t.Although the majority of people in Canada and the USA support the people of Gaza in their fight against Israeli Apartheid.That support will continue until Israeli apartheid is overthrown.
The people in Gaza and the West Bank are putting up an heroic fight against the barbaric Israeli forces.The reactionary gov’ts of Canada and the USA support Israeli apartheid and are making the problems worse.Despite this the Palestinian People will win this battle with action like the BDS Campaign against Israel which is doing good and rallies in support of Palestine like the one that is coming up in Washington,USA on March 20th.There can be no peace with Israeli Apartheid.