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Thread #150703   Message #3653190
Posted By: Jim Carroll
23-Aug-14 - 04:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
"A mortar bomb fired from Gaza killed a four-year-old Israeli child in a border collective farm on Friday, Israeli security sources said."
Yes - I had missed it and deplore it and any such deaths.
That makes in nearly 20 in twelve years, doesn't it?
Haven't kept up with the death toll in Gaza either - it was 2088, 20 hours ago - the vast majority of them civilians and a large percentage of them women and children

WEDNESDAY

Entire families

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/world-disgrace-gaza-un-shelter-school-israel

470 CHILDREN

Haaretz comment
"How many Palestinian civilians is a single militant worth?
As of Thursday, 76.8 percent of the 2,090 fatalities documented by the Gazan human rights organization Mizan have been civilians."
Jim Carroll