Fresh Israeli Violence; Bullets and Bulldozers Policy Is Unacceptable
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AHMAD Mughayer and his sister, Asma, were not arms runners or any of the other brand of terrorists the Israeli army had on their most- wanted list on entering the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza yesterday. They were Palestinian teenagers, aged 13 and 16 respectively. She had gone up to the roof of their home to bring in the washing, her brother to feed his pigeons. Moments later they were dead, each killed by a bullet to the head fired by troops opposite. It took almost an hour for the family to recover the bodies because the firing did not stop.
This was not an episode recounted by George W Bush when he addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobby group, in Washington. Had it been, he may not have received the two dozen standing ovations that came his way. While he did acknowledge that violence in the region was "troubling", he said Israel had "every right to defend itself from terror". The US capital and Gaza, several time zones apart, yesterday seemed to be separated by the very planets themselves.See the full content of this document
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Fresh Israeli Violence; Bullets and Bulldozers Policy Is Unacceptable
Israel has three objectives in Rafah: to destroy tunnels it says are used to smuggle arms, hunt militants and widen a patr...
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