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Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gazas population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere. It has also vowed to expand its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group to the city on the border with Egypt despite international calls for restraint, including from the U.S.
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The first Israeli strike in Rafah killed a man, his wife and their 3-year-old child, according to the nearby Kuwaiti Hospital, which received the bodies. The woman was pregnant and the doctors saved the baby, the hospital said. The second strike killed 17 children and two women from an extended family.
These children were sleeping. What did they do? What was their fault? asked one relative, Umm Kareem. Another relative, Umm Mohammad, said the oldest killed, an 80-year-old aunt, was taken out in pieces. Small children were zipped into body bags.
Mohammed al-Beheiri said his daughter, Rasha, and her six children, the youngest 18 months old, were among those killed. A woman and three children were still under the rubble.
Read whole article: [link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-rafah-strikes-children-us-aid-package_n_6624c60ee4b0167f7bf53d1d|]
And thank you to the brave 37 Democrats who tried to end this slaughter by voting NO on the Israel aid bill:
Becca Balint of Vermont
Don Beyer of Virginia
Earl Blumenauer of Oregon
Jamaal Bowman of New York
Cori Bush of Missouri
Andre Carson of Indiana
Greg Casar of Texas
Joaquin Castro of Texas
Judy Chu of California
Mark DeSaulnier of California
Lloyd Doggett of Texas
Maxwell Frost of Florida
John Garamendi of California
Chuy García of Illinois
Al Green of Texas
Jonathan Jackson of Illinois
Pramila Jayapal of Washington
Hank Johnson of Georgia
Ro Khanna of California
Dan Kildee of Michigan
Barbara Lee of California
Summer Lee of Pennsylvania
Jim McGovern of Massachusetts
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
Chellie Pingree of Maine
Mark Pocan of Wisconsin
Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
Delia Ramirez of Illinois
Jamie Raskin of Maryland
Mark Takano of California
Bennie Thompson of Mississippi
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan
Jill Tokuda of Hawaii
Nydia Velázquez of New York
Maxine Waters of California
Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey
Autumn
(45,120 posts)in the way of aid and weapons.
Sewa
(1,263 posts)They are targeting women and children 🤮💀
Mosby
(16,384 posts)Nt.
Nanjeanne
(5,003 posts)Mosby
(16,384 posts)Nt
Celerity
(43,589 posts)NickB79
(19,276 posts)They never point out that "health officials" in Gaza are Hamas. Always have been. Much like when "health officials" said 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in a hospital parking lot, when it turned out to be an errant Palestinian missile AND the number killed was a fraction of the number reported.
Or when "health officials" swore that Hamas wasn't using their hospitals, only for the IDF to find (and kill) Hamas leaders inside hospitals, along with the remains of hostages.
The default position should NEVER be to believe Hamas spokesmen with no independent corroboration.
JohnSJ
(92,454 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)That is all
ExciteBike66
(2,383 posts)enid602
(8,659 posts)If true, the timing is perfect. What, with the Columbia diversion going on.