הנאום שלא נישא בהפגנה נגד מלחמת עזה

At Gaza's main hospital today
most victims have been civilians
including a family of seven
killed in an instant

''There are still four or five
bodies under the rubble,''
said a relative 
''and we can't get them out''

ABC News
01/05/2009
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex

9.16am:
A joint Israeli-Palestinian petition calling for a halt to the fighting in Gaza is gaining support. Among the signatories are 500 people from the Israeli town Sderot, the target of many rockets from Gaza.

9.25am:
The Vatican has likened Gaza to a ''big concentration camp''.

The Pope's justice minister, Cardinal Renato Martino, said: ''Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp.''

9:32am:
Al-Jazeera has footage of a medic being shot as he tried to pick up the body of dead civilian in Jabaliya, northern Gaza.

Israel criticised after 'shocking' discovery of exhausted children
• Red Cross finds children next to bodies of their mothers
• UN suspends aid shipments after truck driver is killed

Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 January 2009 19.31 GMT
Four exhausted children have been discovered cowering in a house next to the bodies of their mothers by staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which today accused the Israeli military of ''unacceptable'' delays in allowing medics safe access to injured Gazans.

The Red Cross workers found the small children, who were so weak they could not stand, sheltering next to the bodies of their mothers in a house in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza City. Another man was found alive, but again too weak to stand. At least 12 bodies were lying on mattresses.

In another house nearby they found 15 survivors, several of whom were wounded. There were three more bodies in a third house. On Wednesday, a Palestinian volunteer with the Red Crescent who was in the same convoy described seeing dozens of dead bodies. Among those killed when the houses were shelled on Monday were three small boys, all from the Samouni family.

The Red Cross said Israeli soldiers were posted just 80 metres away and had several positions nearby, including two tanks.

It was a ''shocking incident,'' said Pierre Wettach, head of the Red Cross delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. ''The Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestine Red Crescent to assist the wounded,'' he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/gaza-isr...

http://www.btselem.org/Hebrew/Testimonies/20081227_F...
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http://www.btselem.org/Hebrew/Testimonies/20090106_A...
s_a_Daya_family_house_in_Gaza.asp

Gaza
More, but worse
Editorial
The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2009

''We are very violent,'' Lieutenant Colonel Amir, commander of an Israeli combat engineers unit, admitted as he explained that he will use any method to prevent casualties among his troops. Meysa a-Samuni would not disagree. She is the 19-year-old survivor of the shelling of a house in the Zeitoun district of Gaza in which 30 people died, six of them members of her family. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs would not disagree either. It told us how Israeli soldiers had rounded up 100 Palestinian evacuees and put them in the house, which then was shelled, although the UN stopped short of saying the shelling was deliberate. But it did accuse soldiers of preventing the Red Cross from evacuating the wounded for three days. A few doors away, four children were found cowering next to the body of their dead mother.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/10/...