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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

(58,724 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2013, 04:12 AM Dec 2013

17 'attempt suicide' over unpaid Gaza war compensation

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Seventeen members of families who lost relatives in Israel's 2008 war on Gaza staged a mass suicide attempt in protest over unpaid compensations from the Hamas government, a representative said.

Alaa al-Barawi, speaking on behalf of the families, told Ma’an that 17 people related to those who died in the fighting attempted to hang themselves after a 39-day sit-in went unanswered.

Witnesses said ambulances arrived at the scene and took a number of the family members to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=653805

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17 'attempt suicide' over unpaid Gaza war compensation (Original Post) oberliner Dec 2013 OP

That is horrifying. n/t Jefferson23 Dec 2013 #1

Jefferson23

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1. That is horrifying. n/t

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Wed Dec 4, 2013, 02:34 PM

Dec 2013

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