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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
Israel have had no problem in the past taking out a member of Hamas in a crowded environement, say a mosque or a market place or a building, knowing full well that there will be children there. They say these deaths as acceptable casualties on their war on Hamas. Its all very well saying Hamas deliberatly stay in highly populated areas and use civilians as human shields but can someone please explain to me where they are supposed to go. Gaza is their home. Do people here actually appreciate how densely populated Gaza is
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Those deaths are acceptable sadly, it's even recognised under international law, on the other hand presumably
a lot of Israeli civilians are also legitimate targets because most are military reservists, and no I don't think people do appreciate how densely populated Gaza is, more people in one place there than anywhere else in the world.
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I dont remember supporters of Nelson Mandela being described as terrorists when they were burning tyres around the necks of supporters of the old White South Africa
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Actually I do, I even remember Maggie Thatcher standing up and saying they were so, the US had the ANC on their terrorist watch list to
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Originally Posted by Damien
Israel try to avoid Civilian causalities, shows a lot about Hamas that they would deliberately target children..
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Why is it then that they wouldn't allow critically ill cancer patients out of the country for treatment that would have saved their lives? Why is it the New York Times reported that Israeli soldiers routinely shoot Palestinian children for sport?
Even patients in need of medical treatment unavailable in Gaza, are often denied passage out of Gaza. Scores of people have died in the past year when they could have been saved if only they had been allowed to travel.
Karima Abu Dalal, a 34-year-old mother of five young children, died on 25 November. She suffered from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands that is curable in more than 90 per cent of cases. She was denied access to the treatment she desperately needed as Israel refused her a permit to travel to the hospital in Nablus in the West Bank in November 2007.
In a medical report accompanying her permit request an Israeli cancer specialist had written: `This is a young woman who will die in the absence of treatment and with treatment her chances of recovery are excellent` (underlined in the original).
The Israeli authorities nonetheless refused to let her leave Gaza and the Israeli High Court of Justice refused to intervene. Earlier this year, she eventually managed to leave Gaza to Egypt as an exceptional case, but by then her condition had deteriorated irreparably and she returned to Gaza to be with her family. Subsequent requests for her to travel to Israel to receive at least palliative care to relieve her pain were in vain.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=30394