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Related: About this forumIsraeli Airstrike Collapses 12-Story Gaza Apartment Tower
Published on Aug 23, 2014
Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a 12-story apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.
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Israeli Airstrike Collapses 12-Story Gaza Apartment Tower (Original Post)
Purveyor
Aug 2014
OP
Another humanitarian act of the worlds most humane army.....believe it.....or else.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#5
That's just a surgical strike.. kind of like if the surgeon is using a chainsaw.
Uncle Joe
Aug 2014
#6
The Israeli Army And Israeli Political Leadership Have Become Their Own Nightmares
cantbeserious
Aug 2014
#7
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)1. Porn for the ghouls n/t
blackspade
(10,056 posts)2. WTF?
Are the Israelis insane?
4b5f940728b232b034e4
(120 posts)3. Their version of 9/11
Now this will never end.
EEO
(1,620 posts)4. Every room on every floor must have had Hamas terrorists in it...
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Another humanitarian act of the worlds most humane army.....believe it.....or else.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)6. That's just a surgical strike.. kind of like if the surgeon is using a chainsaw.
Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)7. The Israeli Army And Israeli Political Leadership Have Become Their Own Nightmares
eom
onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)8. This horror is being downplayed in the media
The BBC, for example, describe it this way:
"A 12-storey apartment block in Gaza City has collapsed, following renewed airstrikes by Israel.
Palestinian health officials say at least 22 people were injured in the attack. Israel said Hamas militants were using the building as a command centre.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to step up attacks following the killing of a four-year-old Israeli boy on Friday, in a village near the Gaza border"
Notice that it sounds as though the apartment block collapsed by itself, somehow, "following renewed airstrikes by Israel".
They also mention that "22 people were injured in the attack". Just a few injuries ... that's all!
Then the "justification": "Israel said that Hamas militants were using the building as a command centre". Oh, okay, it must be alright, then -- as long as "militants" were there.
A clear war crime, airbrushed through the corporate media lens ...
adf
drynberg
(1,648 posts)9. As Chomsky recently quoted, "Sadism posing as compassion" is the essesence of Israeli Policies
Cruel beyond measure...the seeds of the endless war are sewn...