Then again, what else would you expect from a Zionist War Daily?
"Gaza youths return to class after war; Obama envoy expected to arrive for talks" by Ben Hubbard, Associated Press | January 25, 2009
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Tens of thousands of children returned to schools across Gaza yesterday after three weeks of war, playing games for some relief from the devastation and telling friends and teachers about the explosions they heard and relatives they lost.
In one classroom, signs with the names of three 14-year-old boys killed in the fighting were set on their desks - and their deskmates sat with stunned expressions next to the empty seats as the teacher encouraged the class to talk about their experiences.
"It's very hard when one used to see 30 students in class, and after what happened, I see 27," their teacher, Bassam Salha told the class at the UN's Fakhoura Elementary school. "We lived three weeks in sadness. I want you students to help me to get out of the sad mood I am in now."
Let's put some FACES to those names, 'eh?
Mohammed Kutkut, 14, covered his face as he sat next to a sign for his slain friend, Ahed Qaddas, in Jebaliya, Gaza Strip. (Anja Niedringhaus/ Associated Press)
Meanwhile, an Israeli foreign office official said President Obama's newly appointed special envoy to the Middle East is expected in Israel on Wednesday for talks on reviving Mideast peace negotiations after the Gaza fighting and on ensuring an arms blockade on the territory's Hamas rulers.
That's the real reason Mitchell is being sent.
George J. Mitchell will meet with Israel's prime minister and other leaders, as well as the Palestinian president and prime minister in the West Bank, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because there has not yet been an announcement from Washington. The White House and State Department declined to comment.
Yeah, he'll meet with USrael's agents, but not with the ELECTED GOVERNMENT!!!
Also yesterday, international aid organizations called for the unfettered entry of humanitarian and building supplies into Gaza. The territory's borders with Israel and Egypt have remained largely closed since a cease-fire took hold earlier this week, though supply convoys have been able to come through.
The border crossings are a central issue in efforts to work out a long-term cease-fire. Israel and Egypt had enforced a border blockade after the Hamas takeover in 2007, and have said they will open the gates only if Hamas accepts the deployment of border monitors, as a way of halting weapons smuggling.
You know, where are the Iranian weapons?
And once again, the MSM MISREPORTS the PAST!!!
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said a Hamas delegation to Cairo would discuss this and other issues with Egyptian leaders to create a detailed agreement. The Israeli army said more than 125 trucks a day - on some days nearly 200 - have entered Gaza since fighting ended on Jan. 17.
The reopening of schools, a week after a tentative cease-fire, marked a small step to normalcy for Gaza's 1.4 million residents. Israel had launched a 22-day air and ground assault aimed at stopping rocket fire by Gaza militants on southern Israel.
They ARE NOT DONE YET, from what I've read!
Some 280 children were among the 1,285 Palestinians killed in the offensive, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, were also killed during the fighting.
Wouldn't the Palestinians have killed more Israelis if they had Iranina weapons?
Or is that just another Israeli lie?
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel has expressed regret over the deaths of civilians, but Israel blamed the deaths on Hamas, saying its fighters used civilians, schools and mosques to shield themselves. Scores of schools run by the United Nations, which 200,000 children attend, reopened along with Gaza's public schools, which Hamas has run since seizing the territory in 2007.
Yup, NOTHING ABOUT ISRAEL SHELLING the SCHOOLS -- and the same shit lie about Hamas!!! Yeah, I AM SICK of this ZIONIST SHIT passing itself off as NEWS!
"Getting these children back to school was our absolute priority," said John Ging, Gaza head of the UN agency that cares for Palestinian refugees. In one school, first-grade girls with white ribbons in their hair swept shattered glass from the courtyard. More than 30 UN schools were damaged in the fighting.
BY WHO, MSM?
The schools were also used as makeshift refuges by tens of thousands of Gazans fleeing clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in border areas, and by others whose homes were destroyed in the fighting. At the Fakhoura Elementary school in the town of Jebaliya, volunteers from an Islamic aid organization led the children through a series of songs and clapping games in the courtyard.
Talking to his students, Salha recalled the three lost classmates, calling one, Ahed al-Quddas a "very naughty student, but he was lighthearted." Another, Bashar Naji, "was always giving the right answers," he added.
Whatever the kid was, he DID NOT DESERVE to be MURDERED by Iz-ray-HELL!
During the fighting, Palestinian militants fired rockets from next to the school, where hundreds of Gazans had huddled, witnesses said.
That is a FLAT-OUT LIE!!!!!
Related: Israel Admits it Lied to U.N.
Israel Lied to the World About School Massacre in Gaza
"Witnesses?" What witnesses, shit rag?
Israeli forces responded with mortar shells that hit near the school and killed 42 people, most civilians. The Israeli Defense Ministry said it would ask the Cabinet at its weekly meeting today to provide legal support to army officers in potential court cases resulting from the war's conduct.
Look they CAN'T EVEN SAY "WAR CRIMES" when it comes to Iz-ray-HELL!
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And why does the Globe stick with the theme when they ignore so much more?
Palestinian children in Jebaliya, on the Gaza Strip, drew fire-spewing tanks and other scenes they witnessed when Israel's war on Hamas came to their neighborhood. (Anja Niedringhaus/ Associated Press)
Oh, they are the MOST PRECIOUS THINGS on the FACE of THIS PLANET!!!
LOOK at 'em!!!!!!
They are BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN who should NOT BE DRAWING SUCH THINGS!!!!
GAZA CITY - One by one, the seventh-graders rose from their old wooden desks and in toneless voices that betrayed neither sadness nor surprise, spoke of horrible things.
"A missile targeted my relatives," said Adhem Abdulal, a tall boy with a bright grin. "My cousin got shrapnel in his leg. Another cousin got shrapnel in his head."
Why does the Post try to imply the kid was happy about it? I'm so sick of the Muslim-hating crap from the AmeriKan MSM!
"The F-16 bombed my uncle's house. His stomach got ripped out, and he died," said Mohammed Abu Hassan, fidgeting with the zipper on his leather jacket.
"Our house was burned by the shelling," said Othman Abu Ghaioon, his dark hair framing a pale, expressionless face. "The top two floors are destroyed, but the ground floor got fixed. There are 20 of us there now."
Looks like young Mr. Ghaioon's house was hit by white phosphorous!!!
When they had finished reciting their experiences during three weeks of war, the teacher dismissed the class and the students tore from the room, giggling and pushing as they began a game of soccer on the school's asphalt courtyard.
In Gaza, where half the population is under the age of 16, the young bear some of the war's deepest scars. At least 280 children were killed, nearly as many as the number who died in Gaza during the entire second intifada, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. More than 1,000 others were wounded.
Even the children who escaped physical injury face the psychological consequences of living under near-constant bombardment for 22 days and nights. A week into a fragile cease-fire, mental health specialists, human rights advocates, and parents say they worry that this generation of Palestinian children will suffer the effects of the war for decades to come.
More than just the bombardment; it is the OCCUPATION that DESTROYS YOUTHFUL MINDS!!!!
"We in Gaza are 1.5 million people in need of immediate psychotherapy," said Issam Younis, director general of the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights. "But the children especially. They have experienced severe trauma. They should cry. They should shout. But the way they are talking about this tragedy, it's not normal."
What's normal in a situation like that? There is NOTHING NORMAL about 60+ years of OPPRESSION and OCCUPATION!!!!
Younis said he reassured his own son early in the war that children were not being targeted by the Israeli war planes and that he was safe from the missiles that crashed down around their soon started seeing images on television of tiny dead bodies and small, bloodied faces that he recognized as children his age.
"You're a liar," Younis said his son told him angrily.
The KIDS KNOW!! They can SENSE TRUTH!!!
Later in the war, when such televised images had become ubiquitous, Younis said he would try to change the channel, but Mohammed would not let him.
"I'm not afraid, Daddy," he said. Each night, there was evidence to the contrary. Mohammed refused to sleep anywhere but his parents' bed, wrapped in his father's arms as the sounds of explosions reverberated through the darkness. "For 22 nights, I slept in a wet bed," Younis recalled. "He had not done this since he was a baby."
I'm surprised the Jewish press isn't hollering sex abuse!'
International law dictates that children receive special protection during times of war. Israel has said it did not target women and children during its Gaza operation and did everything it could to avoid civilian casualties.
Here come the ISREALI LIES!!!!!
Israeli officials have accused the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza, of driving up the civilian toll by employing children as scouts to spy on Israeli forces. In addition, Israel has said, Hamas gunmen would often shoot from open areas and then run into schools or private homes to draw Israeli fire on targets containing innocent people.
Oh, the DESPERATION the ISRAELI LIARS are RESORTING TO!!!
How DISGUSTING that theses SHIT JEW NaZionists are even given print space for their SHIT LIES!!!!
Oh, btw, ISRAEL TORTURES PALESTINIAN KIDS!!!!!!!
"The destruction in Gaza was proportional to the explosives and resistance presented by Hamas," Brigadier General Eyal Eisenberg, Israel's Gaza Division commander, recently told reporters. "In cases where there wasn't resistance, we did our best not to hurt and to cause damage. But in places where there was resistance, we used force."
Have you HAD ENOUGH of the JEWISH LIARS YET? I HAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday, Israel appointed a team of specialists in international law, led by the justice minister, to defend its troops against any war crime charges arising from the Gaza offensive, which human rights groups have said they intend to file.
How much you wanna bet that the JEWS GET OFF? War crimes are only for black Africans and poor whites that defy Zionist plans for world domination!
Although children represent more than half the population in Gaza, they were less than a quarter of the 1,300 dead.
Doesn't that make it sound like those dead children weren't so bad after all?
I mean, if half the population is children, and only a third of the victims were children, then Israel must be telling the truth, huh?
What SHIT JOURNALISM!!! The WHOLE WORLD KNOWS that ISRAEL TARGETED CIVILIANS in the attempt to OVERTHROW Hamas!!!
This may be the LAST MSM PAPER I BUY, folks, because I am SICK of the SHIT LIES!!!!!!
Palestinian medical officials say that overall, about half of the dead were civilians. Israel has said it believes it killed more than 500 Palestinian fighters. Thirteen Israelis died in the war, including three civilians.
Only thirteen dead Israelis, huh?
Despite Israeli denials, there is a widespread perception in Gaza that civilians, not Hamas gunmen, were the real targets of the war.
Oh, this is written with such a BIAS towards Israel it isn't even funny!!
Yup, the PERCEPTION -- not the reality, that must be whatever the jews-only apartheid state says -- IS, blah, blah, blah.
In other words, Israel is telling the truth by implication. Fuck you, jewpress!!!!!!!!!!
Israel's objective, as articulated by a broad cross-section of people interviewed here, was to destroy the broader Palestinian population's will to support Hamas in its campaign of rocket attacks against Israel.
And THAT is TERRORISM!!!
Terrorism, definition:
"[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping."
Residents say children were crucial to that effort, with Israel's massive display of firepower intended to instill in them a fear of Israeli strength that will last a lifetime.
Now THAT is TERRORISM -- as well as EVIL!!!!!!!
But if that was the goal, it does not seem to have worked. In the seventh-grade classroom, when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, 7 out of 15 students immediately responded with the word - "resistance," which is shorthand for the Palestinian groups that do not recognize Israel and that use rockets, small arms, and suicide attacks to battle the Jewish state.
Does ISRAEL RECOGNIZE PALESTINE, prick?
And notice that ONCE AGAIN it is the POOR, POOR JEWS under assault -- NOT the PALESTINIANS or the KIDS, which is what this article was supposed to be concerned with.
See how it works, readers?
Hassan Shaban Zeyada, a psychologist with the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, said the war is likely to make children more inclined toward violence.
No kidding?
"If your parents can't give you safety, kids will look to others who can," he said. "They're going to want to play the role of the fighter. So the Israeli government is really creating its own enemy."
Which is the POINT, no? Then they can ELIMINATE the ENTIRE POPULATION because they are "terrorists," right?
