Gaza Beach deaths/Investigations

This is the real Israel - a statelet ruled by child-murdering terrorists!

**Palestinians killed on Gaza beach **

Six people, including three children, have been killed by Israeli shells which hit a beach in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials say. They say at least 25 people were wounded in the shelling. The Israeli military says it has halted all shelling of Gaza and has launched an inquiry into whether ground-based artillery could have been involved. Three other people were also killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza on Friday, Palestinians said. The incidents come a day after senior Palestinian official Jamal Abu Samhadana was killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, the southern Gaza. Samhadana - the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) - was buried in Rafah on Friday, with thousands of mourners pledging to avenge his death. Samhadana was one of Israel’s most wanted men in Gaza, and his group has been blamed for a series of missile attacks on Israel.

Devastation

**Palestinian officials say the six people killed on the Gaza Strip beach included two women as well as the three children. The first television pictures revealed a terrible scene, the BBC’s Alan Johnston says. At least four figures lay unconscious on the ground, possibly dead, our correspondent says. One of victims is a middle-aged woman, another is a child. A little further away, a man was lying on a sand dune, perhaps fatally injured, while a child stood looking on in utter horror, our correspondent says. He says that it looks very much as if this was a family enjoying their Friday afternoon off on the beach when disaster struck. **

Israeli reaction

An Israeli army spokesman said Chief of Staff Dan Halutz had ordered an immediate stop to all artillery shelling of Gaza while an investigation was carried out into the beach shelling. The spokesman told the BBC initial findings suggested the shell which killed the six people could not have been fired from an Israeli naval vessel or from the air. He said the army was investigating the possibility that it may have been fired by ground-based artillery. For many months, the Israelis have been pounding away at open areas such as fields and orchards in an effort to prevent Palestinian militants using them to fire their home-made missile into crudely made missiles into nearby Israeli territory.

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And the violence will go on.

Thoughts with the children and their families.

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must be a pre-emptive strike, Israel only attacks either pre-emptively or in defense. sad for the loss of deaths.

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Pathetic action by Israel, but it will be forgotten and justified like so many others.

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For those who only view muslims as “terrorists”.

Israeli shelling kills nine Palestinians
09/06/2006 - 16:18:01

Israeli artillery shells struck a group of civilians during a family picnic at a Gaza beach, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding more than 25 others, Palestinian medical officials said today.

The artillery shells were fired by Israeli gunboats stationed just off the Mediterranean coast.

The barrage scattered body parts along the beach. A tent was destroyed, and bloody sheets were scattered about. A crowd quickly flocked to the are, screaming and running around in confusion. One tearful man held the limp body of what appeared to be a girl or young woman. “Muslims, look at this,” he shouted.

Medical officials said the dead included a woman and three children, as well as a man and two teenagers.

Israel has been targeting sites used by Palestinian militants to fire rockets toward Israel.

The army confirmed that naval boats had been firing artillery. It had no further details.

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this is a tragic event and unfortunate reality of living in a conflict zone.

but what is interesting is the western media’s handling of israeli grief vs. palestinian grief.

below are screen captures from the front pages of all major U.S. news outlets.

this is from yahoo.com. there is no mention of the beach massacres, only the fact that hamas has called off the cease-fire.

this is from foxnews.com. notice that the calling off of the cease-fire is the story being highlighted. the picture shows a crowd of irrate arabs. the subtitle underlines the calling off the cease-fire. the beach massacre is mentioned almost in passing, just below the bolded headline.

this is from msnbc.com. the beach massacre is not mentioned at all in the headline. only the calling off the of the cease-fire.

this is from cbsnews.com. this headline paints a more human picture of today’s tragic story, with a picture of an injured child. however, the headline focuses on the repercussions of the event, again, highlighting the calling off of the cease-fire, rather than the actual event itself and the actual human lives lost. it’s as if the beach massacre was only significant in that it meant there was a possibility of future attacks against israel. the lives lost in the beach massacre are only significant because it could mean that ISRAELI lives could be lost.

and last but not least, cnn.com. this is surprising because cnn.com was the ONLY news outlet to focus entirely on the beach massacre in the headline. the cease-fire is of course mentioned in the story, because it is certainly a relevant news story, but it is mentioned secondary to the beach massacre.

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I do in the strongest possible terms..

I really dont know why the Israelis did this.....

But if they did, the guilty troops need to be brought to justice...

but, if you start a new topic in this board about the latest israeli attack, why dont you start one for every insurgent attack in iraq...

just yesterday, those insurgent beasts killed 40 iraqis, 10 heads with bullet holes in their brains were found, 10 people died today in drive by shootings......

and on and on and on.....

if you want to be fair and balanced, create a new threat for each new atrocity in iraq

but if you choose only to create new threads for any israeli attack...

that means you are just using the palestinans as a stepping stone for anti-israeli rants

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^ Must be mullahs who must have done this. They have got to be Islamic terrorists, no Israeli can every do that. It has got to be the Islamic terrorists. Israel only retaliates they never kill deliberately. Killing like this has to be the work of Islamic terrorists. This was all an Alqaeda plot to defame the israelis. I tell you these beasts did it. What say Mer2

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Captaan saab, aajkal aap dikhayi nahi deh rahe hain? yeh kya type kar diya apney? How else can one attack/be attacked? pre-emtive or in defense.. what else apart from these two? attacking for masti or painduness :hehe: ? It is like saying the result can be possibly pass or fail among many…

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Shezade Abbas pai, gussa na karien.. tussi lassi piyo ji janaab.. assi m2K pra naal gallan kar lawanga. o tay nawa munda si, onou ai pataa nahin tussi shehzade tay future badshah ho!

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Your signature says it all :) They shall never believe.

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no man, mein na shehzada te na hi badshaah aan. lassi te roti kha li he.

CAIR’s statement on this incidence:

"We condemn this brutal act and call on our elected officials to take
concrete actions to protect Palestinian civilians from attacks using
weapons that are paid for with American tax dollars. America’s image,
interests and credibility are harmed each time our nation’s leaders remain
silent, or even offer support, when Israel treats Palestinian civilian
areas as ‘free fire zones’ and usurps Palestinian land and rights.
We call on President Bush to speak out against Israeli attacks on
Palestinian civilians just as strongly as he has condemned acts of violence
committed by Palestinians.

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ji janab durust farmaya, apnay pind (Karachi) gaya howa thaa :slight_smile: … what I said was in sarcasm.

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Welcome back bhaijaan. O, menu yaad aya- u told me u were going to Khi. Aur khairiyat tu hai, janab? Hope your trip was nice :) How is Karachi now? Could they nail down the culprit behind the Nishar park tragedy yet? I had guessed it that you said about Israel in a sarcastic way.

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6 months old and 18 months old kids killed. In total 3 kids are dead.

You guys should listen to the little girl who was hysterically crying "baba baba baba" on the dead body of her father.

May Allah swt give them sabr.

May they have comfort after sorrow.

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i wish you would this much sympathy to israeli and iraqi victims....

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^is there anything that makes you think I don't?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060611/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_destroyed_lives

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Pounding on the sand, Houda Ghalia shrieked for her father after he was killed with five of her siblings at a seaside picnic by what Palestinians said was an Israeli shell.

Footage of the 10-year-old screaming “Father! Father!” has played over and over again on television, driving home the devastating impact of what Palestinian leaders are calling “genocidal” and “a war crime.”

One of the only members of her family to emerge unscathed, Houda was left questioning her fate.

“What have I done wrong that I should have to live without my parents?” the girl asked AP Television News, surrounded by teary-eyed female relatives dressed in black.

Israel expressed regret Saturday for the killing of eight civilians, but stopped short of taking responsibility, saying an investigation was under way.

Israel’s military chief said the killings may have resulted from a misfired Palestinian rocket. Palestinians insisted they were caused by an Israeli artillery shell.

Houda and her 11 brothers and sisters were enjoying a day in the sun with their father, who had promised them a picnic if they passed their end-of-year exams. Hearing Israeli warning fire, the family quickly packed up. They were waiting for a taxi when the explosive landed, she said.

Houda’s father, Ali, was killed with five of her brothers and sisters her father’s second wife and one other person who was not related to them. Her mother and five other children from the family were wounded. Three of the children are being treated in Israeli hospitals.

Six members of Houda’s family died instantly in the attack, and a seventh died from injuries soon after.

Israel often fires artillery at Gaza, responding to Palestinian militants who launch homemade rockets at Israeli towns and villages.

Moderate President Mahmoud Abbas opened a speech on Saturday by paying tribute to Houda’s ordeal.

“What is the crime that she committed while she was watching her family being killed on the beach and screaming?” Abbas said. “Who is responsible for such acts and why are such acts being committed against innocent people?”

There is no end to shamelessness of Israeli regime. They are now trying to shift the blame of this killing as well on Palestinians themselves.
Why are we not surpirsed?

Another statement of a representative of Israeli terror regime:
(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”-- Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

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Americans are ok with Israeli attacks on Palestinians, but “advice” Israelis to try not to hurt and kill women and children. (*sarcastic mode on) You know, it’s ok if some by-standers are killed here and there, but it looks bad in the media. (*sarcastic mode off).

According the Jerusalem Post, America has issued a statement supporting Israel’s latest war crime against Palestinian civilians.

The US expressed support for Israel Friday night after apparent Israeli artillery fire caused the death of at least 12 Palestinians on a Gaza coast beach.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that Israel had the right to defend itself, especially while terrorists were attacking it.

However, McCormack added that Israel must consider the results well and do what was necessary to prevent harming innocent civilians.

And if Israel doesn’t “prevent harming innocent civilians?” He didn’t say.

DEATH TO ZIONIST TERRORISM!

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I am searching for the response from Chimp, The US President.