Israel deliberately attacking medical workers in Gaza, Amnesty says

[Galraedia]

“We were on our way back to Nasser hospital, driving with the lights and sirens on as always. The ambulance was clearly marked as such. The doctor, nurse and I were all wearing medical uniforms. When we reached the Islamic University I heard an explosion right next to us and the front and back windows of the car fell out,” Gaza ambulance driver Mohammad Abu Jumiza, told Amnesty International about a terrifying 24 July chase between him and Israeli artillery as he was transferring injured people in Khan Younis to the hospital.

“As I was turning another missile hit next to us, and then a third one. When the fourth missile hit, I lost control and we crashed, so we ran out of the car and found shelter in a building. Then there were two more missiles fired and some people were injured.”

His case is not unique. The firing on and striking of clearly marked ambulance vehicles with flashing lights and medical workers wearing fluorescent vests while tending to the injured has been documented repeatedly throughout Israel’s offensive on Gaza.

After collecting and releasing harrowing testimonies by Palestinian medical workers, Amnesty International has accused the Israeli military of deliberately attacking medical workers and hospitals in Gaza.

Read more: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-deliberately-attacking-medical-workers-gaza-amnesty-says

[Divernan]

1. "Israelis Bomb First, Weep Later" to quote Irish Senator Norris

[8_Point]

2. In the modern era...

... If they were targeting you, you would be dead.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Welcome to DU. You might be interested in this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/students-offered-grants-if-they-tweet-proisraeli-propaganda-8760142.html

Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Israeli propaganda


BEN LYNFIELD JERUSALEM Tuesday 13 August 2013

In a campaign to improve its image abroad, the Israeli government plans to provide scholarships to hundreds of students at its seven universities in exchange for their making pro-Israel Facebook posts and tweets to foreign audiences.

The students making the posts will not reveal online that they are funded by the Israeli government, according to correspondence about the plan revealed in the Haaretz newspaper.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, which will oversee the programme, confirmed its launch and wrote that its aim was to “strengthen Israeli public diplomacy and make it fit the changes in the means of information consumption”.

The government’s hand is to be invisible to the foreign audiences. Daniel Seaman, the official who has been planning the effort, wrote in a letter on 5 August to a body authorising government projects that “the idea requires not making the role of the state stand out and therefore it is necessary to adhere to great involvement of the students themselves, without political linkage or affiliation”.

According to the plan, students are to be organised into units at each university, with a chief co-ordinator who receives a full scholarship, three desk co-ordinators for language, graphics and research who receive lesser scholarships and students termed “activists” who will receive a “minimal scholarship”.

Mr Netanyahu’s aides said the main topics the units would address related to political and security issues, combating calls to boycott Israel and combating efforts to question Israel’s legitimacy. The officials said the students would stress Israeli democratic values, freedom of religion and pluralism.

But Alon Liel, the doveish former director-general of the Israeli foreign ministry, criticised the plan as “quite disgusting”. “University students should be educated to think freely. When you buy the mind of a student, he becomes a puppet of the Israeli government grant,” he said. “You can give a grant to do social work or teach but not to do propaganda on controversial issues for the government.”

[8_Point]

4. Marketing in the modern Era...

[DeSwiss]

8. This is worst than despicable. n/t

[Duval]

10. I could not agree more,DeSwiss. n/t

[Divernan]

6. So Israelis can't claim any dead Palestinians were collateral damage.

[8_Point]

7. I think you've got that one backwards friend...

If the target is X then it most certainly will be destroyed. There may be additional damage and the severity of that may vary. X is gone though...

Nothing about what I said related anything to negate the concept of collateral damage.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Unfortunate incident, we regret, collateral damage, human shields, etc, etc.

No doubt, Obama will call for sanctions for the killers and establish a no-fly-zone over Gaza.......well....maybe not...vital interests and all that.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. We once hit a hospital, waited until they dug out survivors and set up outside and hit them again.

[m-lekktor]

12. people often die and women give birth at checkpoints

because the 19 year old IDF assholes at the checkpoints fuck with them or won't let them through during a medical emergency.

[seveneyes]

13. So says electronic intifada

Sort of sounds like another episode of Hamas propaganda.

[woo me with science]

14. We are funding the slaughter.

Meanwhile, we can't even get a transportation bill without "pension smoothing."

Even the basics can't get done in this country without hurting ordinary Americans, yet we have billions for ammo and bombs.

[4now]

15. Even more Israeli war crimes

End Israeli apartheid and stop the war crimes.
Boycott, Divest, Sanction.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/

[kentuck]

16. A totally unbiased eye might think....

...they were trying to drive all the people out of Gaza?

And if people in America are angry at Israel, just think how the rest of the world might feel? Nothing good is going to come from this killing of so many innocents, including many, many children...