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Blasts hit major Gaza hospital; 7 children reported killed in urban street
Los Angeles Times ^ | 07/28/2014 | By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS, BATSHEVA SOBELMAN

Posted on 07/28/2014 8:42:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Palestinian officials and witnesses said Israeli airstrikes slammed an urban street and a major hospital in the Gaza Strip on Monday, causing deaths and injuries. At least seven children playing in the street were reported killed, and casualties were reported near clinic facilities of Shifa hospital, the most sophisticated medical facility in Gaza.

Earlier, a fragile holiday lull in fighting in the Gaza Strip had been punctuated by Israeli airstrikes and rocket launches by Palestinian militants in the wake of a call by the U.N. Security Council for an unconditional humanitarian truce.

On the 21st day of the conflict, Israel’s Cabinet was meeting to weigh the next military and political moves. In Gaza, the relative calm lasting most of the day coincided with the start of the Eid al-Fitr, one of the most important festivals of the Muslim calendar, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

The United States and other mediators had hoped to forge a durable cease-fire prior to the three-day holiday, but efforts over the past week failed to bring the two sides together. Hamas has insisted on a lifting of a years-long blockade on Gaza enforced by Israel and Egypt; Israel demands that its troops be allowed to continue destroying Hamas-dug tunnels while a truce is in effect.

Across Gaza, Eid commemorations were muted by the death and destruction visited on the crowded coastal strip during the last three weeks. With more than 1,000 people, mainly civilians, dead and entire neighborhoods lying in ruins, a normally festive time was marked by fear and anxiety.

At a school-turned-refugee center in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, displaced Palestinian families overflowed classrooms and open-air corridors. Clothes hung from window sills and railings; bedding and mattresses were stacked high.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; israelgroundop
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To: SeekAndFind; lacrew; All

another not to self: don’t put Hammas (Pali-Arab) Headquarters in bsm’t. of Hospital.


21 posted on 07/28/2014 9:02:12 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Mullah / "Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: SeekAndFind
It's not official until we see a picture of Green Helmet Guy.


22 posted on 07/28/2014 9:02:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sickoflibs

They blow up so fast.


23 posted on 07/28/2014 9:03:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: defconw

“Raheem, take your rocket launcher and go PLAY OUTSIDE!”


24 posted on 07/28/2014 9:03:40 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

USA gave Palestinian govts $5billion USD since 1995 and they did not even build one BOMB SHELTER for KIDS!!

Yet Hamas goes to war with NO BOMB SHELTERS against a foe that has plenty of bombs and hundreds of bomb shelters [Tel Aviv has 214]. Hamas wants to exterminate its own people by genocidal neglect not to protect its own children.Hamas places everyone be in harm`s way except for the hamas who hide in 60 feet deep weapons tunnels.

viz:

“Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the
mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed approximately $5 billion in bilateral assistance to
the Palestinians,”
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf

and they haven`t built ONE bomb shelter for kids??/ wow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83hqufxrXj

Hamas shoots from Waifa hospital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQSha1aMSys
Hamas rockets launched from Gaza school


25 posted on 07/28/2014 9:06:58 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits n firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: SeekAndFind

They blow up now or later on an Israeli bus.


26 posted on 07/28/2014 9:08:17 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: gattaca
I heard Hamas did this and blamed it on Israel.

"The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. It was caused by the premature detonation of a bomb that was being assembled by members of the Weather Underground, an American radical left group. The bomb was under construction in the basement of 18 West 11th Street, when it accidentally exploded; the blast reduced the four-story townhouse to a burning, rubble-strewn ruin. The two persons preparing the bomb were killed instantly (Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins), as was a third "Weatherman" who happened to be walking into the townhouse (Ted Gold); two others were injured but were helped from the scene and later escaped (Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion

27 posted on 07/28/2014 9:09:01 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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To: tet68
I feel a little bit bad about laughing at that. But just a little bit mind you. Kind of reminds me of the TV news. You see some Ginormous black woman with gold teeth talking about her baby got shot down in the street, he was a good boy, he be turning his life around..... Same mentality!

Can't fix stupid!

28 posted on 07/28/2014 9:10:34 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: BwanaNdege

Thanks, I confess I didn’t know that.


29 posted on 07/28/2014 9:17:50 AM PDT by gattaca ("To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJ))
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To: SeekAndFind

30 posted on 07/28/2014 9:19:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

What is the source for this picture?


31 posted on 07/28/2014 9:21:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: lacrew
Don't put military installations next to schools.


32 posted on 07/28/2014 9:24:08 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Source for the picture:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/16/idf-says-at-least-100-hamas-rockets-hit-within-gaza/


33 posted on 07/28/2014 9:26:47 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unfortunately we have to endure CNN 24x7.

They pretty much said that Israeli needs to be taken to the Hague for this.


34 posted on 07/28/2014 9:27:38 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The LA Times, whores of obama, are hoping to turn this into Israel’s “war on children,” much like the phony GOP “war on women.”


35 posted on 07/28/2014 9:29:44 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: SeekAndFind

Right click on the picture, drill down to “properties” and left click. A window will open with the URL in it.


36 posted on 07/28/2014 9:31:59 AM PDT by VMI70
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To: VMI70

Thanks, but I already got the answer. See post #33


37 posted on 07/28/2014 9:36:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: dfwgator

I am waiting for Mrs.Bombing Magnet to show up


38 posted on 07/28/2014 9:38:51 AM PDT by mware
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To: mware

39 posted on 07/28/2014 9:40:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

These Pali scum are sending their children to be killed for propaganda reasons! Were I to find myself in a war zone, I would either dig in somewhere that is as safe as possible or bug out to protect my family. Not the Palis. They sacrifice their children to their anti-God cause just as their ancestors sacrificed their children to Moloch.


40 posted on 07/28/2014 9:42:36 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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