A Palestinian man carried a wounded girl to a Gaza City hospital yesterday. (Khalil Hamra/ Associated Press)
JERUSALEM - Israeli ground forces backed by air and naval power fought their way into urban areas deep inside the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip yesterday, striking at the Palestinian group's hideouts and rocket-launching sites, but also inflicting a heavy toll in civilian lives.
Medical authorities in Gaza said 16 children were killed by air strikes, naval shelling, and artillery fire Israel said it is aiming at Hamas's 15,000-man paramilitary force.
Really?
Ah, what's one more piece of propaganda and lies, 'eh, readers?
Late in the day, Israeli troops entered densely populated areas just north and east of Gaza City, the territorial capital. Witnesses said they took up rooftop positions on several six-story buildings on the outskirts of the city, which has a population of 400,000.
Israel continued to resist diplomatic efforts for an immediate halt to the assault, now in its 11th day. Israeli leaders said the fighting was inconclusive and could go on for days, if not weeks....
Early today, the military said three more of its soldiers were killed, and 20 wounded, by "friendly fire" when an Israeli tank fired on a building that the soldiers had occupied in the northern Gaza Strip, Reuters reported....
Good.
Related: Gaza, booby-trap or "friendly fire" blast spin?
So the damn Israelis have to LIE about EVERYTHING, don't they?
Either way, I'm happy: we have some dead NaZionist scum, so WhoTF cares?
Not me.
"Hospital overwhelmed with dead and wounded as violence rages" by Ibrahim Barzak and Diaa Hadid, Associated Press | January 6, 2009
GAZA CITY - Weeping in grief, Salah Samouni banged his head against a wall inside the hospital morgue where the bodies of his three young nephews lay on the floor yesterday.
After 10 days of a relentless Israeli assault, Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest, is overwhelmed. Bodies were crowded two to a morgue drawer, and some - like 3-year-old Issa, 4-year-old Mohammed, and 5-year-old Ahmad - were on the floor.
Shifa's shabby halls echoed yesterday with the sounds of people screaming and the wail of ambulance sirens. Many of the wounded were being treated in hallways by harried doctors and nurses running on little sleep. The hospital was powered by emergency generators after shelling damaged power lines.
Since Israel began a ground offensive Saturday, most of the dead and wounded arriving at Shifa are civilians, as Israel's offensive shifts from airstrikes to artillery shelling and fighting close to densely populated areas.
Yesterday, 20 children ages 2 to 15 were killed, said Dr. Moaiya Hassanein of the Gaza Health Ministry.
Nurse Ahmad Abdul Salam, 34, red-eyed and smelling of sweat, his clothes stained with blood, said he couldn't sleep. "When my shift ends, I help my colleagues. These are our brothers and friends who are being harmed," he said.
The hospital's most gruesome scene was in its morgue, where blood pooled on the floor and refrigerators meant to hold 35 bodies were crammed with 70, laid side by side in drawers.
Lying on a gray mat on the floor, the three Samouni brothers appeared baby-faced and almost as though they were asleep, except for a large bandage wrapped around Issa's head.
The children's father was also killed in what relatives said was an Israeli strike on a house in eastern Gaza City, where the family had fled to escape fighting nearby.
So much for the NaZionists leaflets and advice -- another piece of evidence that proves they are baby-killing monsters!
Relatives wept yesterday and one man screamed for help for other family members he said were buried under the rubble of the house. "For God's sake, rescue them!" he pleaded.
No militants were seen at Shifa. Israel said its forces have killed dozens of Palestinian gunmen, but Hamas has not listed its casualties and it is unclear where militants are being treated or where their bodies were taken.
Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!
Shifa has been powered by generators since power completely cut out in Gaza City three days ago. Israel has not replenished Gaza's power station with industrial fuel since fighting began, and airstrikes have badly damaged power lines.
UN health official Mahmoud Daher said the generators were meant only as an emergency backup and he feared they would break down with the constant use, imperiling some 70 people hooked up to lifesaving equipment.
Throughout the day, exhausted medics rushed in with the wounded and the bodies of the dead.
Mohammed Salman, 26, a volunteer medic washing blood from the inside of an ambulance, said he had treated people with horrific injuries, including headless children and a woman whose stomach had been torn open.
The woman screamed, "Leave me and save my children," he said, and burst into tears.
And so did I!
WAR CRIMES and yet the WORLD is SILENT!!!!
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