In photos: Gaza buries its children as Israeli attacks intensify
The Electronic Intifada
20 November 2012
A
Palestinian policeman bids farewell to 28-year-old Palestinian Rushdi
Tamimi, a fellow officer, who died at a Ramallah hospital two days after
Israeli forces shot him during a Gaza solidarity protest in the West
Bank village of Nabi Saleh, 19 November.
(Issam Rimawi / APA images)
Palestinians
carry the bodies of Jumana and Tamer Eseifan, both under the age of
four, who were killed when an Israeli warplane fired a missile at an
agricultural plot near their home in the Tal al-Zatar area of Jabaliya
town, 18 November.
(Majdi Fathi / APA images)
A
Palestinian man sits next to the body of his one-year-old son Iyad Abu
Khoussa during the baby’s funeral in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza
Strip, 18 November. The child was killed when an Israeli warplane fired a
missile at the fence of his family’s home; two other small children
were wounded in the strike.
(Ashraf Amra / APA images)
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 November.
(Eyad Al Baba / APA images)
Palestinians
search through the debris of the destroyed home of the al-Dalu family
following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, 18 November.
(Yasser Qudih / APA images)
Palestinians
rescuers carry out the body of Nawal Faraj Abdul Aal, 53, who was found
under the ruins of her home which was destroyed when Israeli warplanes
fired a missile at a nearby police station in the al-Tuffah neighborhood
of Gaza City, 18 November.
(Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
The
daughters and mother of Nawal Faraj Abdul Aal, 53, mourn after the
woman was asphyxiated under the rubble of her home. The home was
destroyed when Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a nearby police
station in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, 18 November.
(Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
Al-Quds
TV cameraman Khader al-Zahhar at the intensive care unit of al-Shifa
hospital after he was seriously injured in an Israeli air strike on a
media building.
(Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
Smoke rises as an Israeli air strike hits a media center in Gaza, 18 November.
(Majdi Fathi / APA images)
A
Palestinian firefighter tries to extinguish a fire after an Israeli air
strike on a Gaza City building that houses media offices, 19 November.
(Yasser Qudih / APA images)
Palestinians
survey the remains of a destroyed a house after an Israeli air strike
in al-Shojaiya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, 18 November.
(Ashraf Amra / APA images)
Palestinians
survey the remains of a destroyed a house after Israeli air strike in
Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza Strip, 18 November.
(Majdi Fathi / APA images)
A Palestinian inspects the damage to a football stadium after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, 19 November.
(Ahmed Zakot / Reuters)
Palestinian medics wheel a wounded boy on a stretcher to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, 18 November.
(Ashraf Amra / APA images)
A
Palestinian woman looks at her destroyed home following Israeli air
strikes on the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, 18 November.
(Eyad Al Baba / APA images)
Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on a Palestinian house in al-Shojaya in the east of Gaza City, 18 November.
(Ashraf Amra / APA images)
Palestinians walk amongst the debris of destroyed homes following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, 19 November.
(Ashraf Amra / APA images)
Palestinians gather around a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 November.
(Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters)
Israeli
soldiers take part in a drill simulating a possible ground invasion
into the Gaza Strip at a base south of the occupied West Bank city of
Hebron, 17 November.
(Amir Cohen / Reuters)
An
Israeli border policeman shoots a tear gas canister at Palestinian
protesters during clashes outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of
Ramallah, 18 November. The clashes broke out following a protest
against Israel’s military attacks on the Gaza Strip.
(Issam Rimawi / APA images)
A
Palestinian protester throws stones at Israeli soldiers at Huwwara
checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus during clashes
following a protest against Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, 18
November.
(Nedal Eshtayah / APA images)
Israeli
soldiers arrest a Palestinian protester at Huwwara checkpoint near the
occupied West Bank city of Nablus during clashes following a protest
against Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, 18 November.
(Nedal Eshtayah / APA images)
Abdallah
Abu Rahmeh lies in the road after he was purposefully hit by a car
driven by an Israeli settler (pictured) during a peaceful protest
against Israel’s attacks on Gaza on Route 60 outside Ofra settlement, 19
November.
(Issam Rimawi / APA images)
Bishop
William Shomali leads a mass to pray for the children of Gaza in the
Church of the Annunciation in the occupied West Bank city of Beit Jala,
18 November.
(Mamoun Wazwaz / APA images)
A
girl holds a candle next to a photo of three-year-old Ranan Yousef
Arafat, who was killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, as Palestinians
gathered in the West Bank city of Bethlehem’s Manger Square to mourn the
victims of Israeli military strikes and to call for an end to the
escalation of violence, 17 November.
(Ryan Rodrick Beiler / ActiveStills)
Israeli
attacks on Gaza killed 33 on the sixth day of an ongoing military
campaign that has so far claimed 117 lives, according to the Ma’an News
Agency. At least two dozen of the dead are children.
In
the latest attack, four-year-old twin boys Suhaib and Muhammad were
killed instantly when their home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit
Lahiya was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Their parents Fuad Hijazi and
Amna Hijazi died in hospital. Eighteen people were reported injured in
the attack (“Family killed in new Israeli airstrike,” Ma’an News Agency).
No
ceasefire has yet been reached as Israel continued to pound Gaza
overnight Monday; three Israeli civilians were killed when a rocket
fired from Gaza hit an apartment building in Kiryat Malachi last week,
the only deaths in Israel.
Israel has amassed ground forces along its boundary with Gaza and has threatened to invade.
Israeli forces targeted buildings housing journalists both
on Sunday and Monday; Islamic Jihad operative Ramiz Harb and
53-year-old civilian Salem Bulus Swelim were killed in today’s attack.
Eight were injured yesterday when an Israeli missile hit another Gaza
City building, including a cameraman whose leg was amputated; an Israeli spokesperson admitted that the military was aware that the building housed journalists.
On
Sunday, 12 Palestinian civilians, including 10 members of the al-Dalu
family, were killed in an Israeli strike that totally leveled a
three-story home in Gaza City. The victims include four children; rescue
crews searched for the remains of two eenagers from the al-Dalu family
on Monday (“Israel ‘still investigation’ al-Dalou family killing,” Reuters).
Meanwhile
in the West Bank, hundreds of injuries, several of them critical, have
been reported as Israel violently represses protests against the Gaza
attacks. Today 28-year-old Rushdi Tamimi died in a Ramallah hospital after he was shot by the Israeli army two days ago during a protest in the village of Nabi Saleh.
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