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6 dead in Nablus, 30 injured - Israelis kill 10 year old girl

Free Palestine | 15.09.2004 16:11 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | Oxford | World

In the early hours of this morning there was a major invasion in the centre of Nablus, not far from Al Najah university. Six people were killed, one of them a girl of ten years old. Around thirty were injured, nearly all of them children. At least two of the injured are still in critical condition.


We went to the hospital just as the casualties were arriving. Passing several Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles on the way. The bodies carried in were a mess. Some of the victims had chunks of their heads missing. Ambulances had not been allowed by the Israelis to collect the injured or the bodies of those killed until several hours later. Crowds waited at the hospital to see if their loved ones were amongst the casualties. Many people were breaking down in tears, and many relatives were carried in unable to walk such was their grief. We have heard many stories of Israeli murders whilst in Nablus, but the reality of seeing mangled bodies and the grief of relatives really brings home what the headlines really mean.

This is the reality of occupation. Noone ever gets used to death. Though the Palestinians have seen many people killed during the occupation, the pain of losing a close relative or friend never diminishes. To the Israeli soldiers who shot them, the victim`s deaths are just another six `X`s (the IDF term for a kill) for their unit. For the families and friends of those killed, the deaths are a life of lost memories and sorrow. What did the ten year old girl do to deserve to be killed?

I went in the afternoon to teach my English class at a friend`s house (actually my closest Palestinian friend). When I arrived he told me that one of the murdered was his 22 year old nephew, who was like a brother to him. His grief was overwhelming. He told me that before his nephew was killed, he had called his mother to tell her that he had been shot in the knee and wanted to die. The Israelis came in shortly after and shot him in cold blood.

Photos and a short video clip (of the girl being carried in) at the hospital, the streets of Nablus, and the destroyed house where five of the murders took place will be uploaded shortly. Better quality footage of the casualties is also coming soon.

Free Palestine

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Palestinian suicide bombers kill 16

15.09.2004 16:44

Palestinian suicide bombers kill 16
By Steven Gutkin
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEERSHEBA, Israel - Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses in this Israeli desert city yesterday, killing 16 passengers and wounding more than 80 in the deadliest attack in nearly a year.

The blasts ended a six-month lull in violence that Israel had attributed to its separation barrier, arrests and a widespread network of informers.

The buses exploded into flames seconds apart and about 100 yards away from each other near a busy intersection in the center of Beersheba.

The Hamas terrorist group claimed responsibility, issuing a leaflet in Hebron -- the closest Palestinian city to Beersheba -- saying it was avenging Israel's assassinations of two of its leaders this year.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with his security advisers to plan a response, expected to include a military operation in Hebron.

Hours before the attack, Sharon presented his Likud Party with the most detailed timetable yet for Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Despite the bombings, Sharon promised to push forward with the Gaza pullout. He insisted that Israel would keep fighting terrorism "with all its might."

Israeli officials said the bombings proved the need for the barrier now under construction between Israel and the West Bank.

The section between Hebron and Beersheba has not been built.

 http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/9550150.htm

SXB


... "ended a six month lull" ...

15.09.2004 17:56

... where only 400 Palestinians, many of them children, had been killed!

Reap what you sow, or if you treat people as sub human, some of them are going to act like it.

Get a grip and put the same energy into love and reconciliation.

jackslucid
mail e-mail: jackslucid@hotmail.com


I Am So Tired Of These Anti-Israelis Slurs

16.09.2004 05:32

The killed Palestinian girl was 11, not 10 years old.

Balanced MiddleEastern Reporting


I am so tired of unbending support for Israel illegal occupation

16.09.2004 09:57

Oh 11 years old - well that changes everything then

Haidar


erm, haidar

16.09.2004 12:32

The previous comment was clearly sarcastic.

But anyway, in all likelihood the 'girl' only ever existed in the mind of a Palestinian propagandist, seeing that there is no independent confirmation of any of this - we only have the word of the Palestinian authorities and terrorist infrastructure.

quod


they're all in your heads

16.09.2004 13:52

Where is the evidence that there are any people in the so-called Occupied Territories at all? If you ask me these 'Palestinians' are just paranoid delusions fantasised by anti-semitic Euro-Leftists. After all, Israel is a democracy (sort of) and everyone knows democratic bombs + bullets only kill cartoon terrorists.

;-)


sharon likes his pies

17.09.2004 10:51

I'm sensing sarcasm here but regardless...
why is it when certain prats drivel on about anti semetism and the evil of terrorism they always excuse state terrroism?
Israeli kids killed, up in arms, shaemful etc.
palestinian kids? nothing. probably terrorists.
their hypocrisy is sickening.
zionists have got a lot to teach the nf about racism.
gits.

daniel gurney


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