Fury as Israelis damage war cemetery

[Scurrilous]

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"Britain has issued a formal complaint after Israeli forces caused significant damage to the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City, the last resting place for thousands of troops who died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.

The British embassy in Tel Aviv wrote to the Israeli government four months ago after six headstones and a perimeter wall were destroyed by an Israeli army bulldozer but has not yet received an answer.

More damage was done last week during an Israeli operation in the nearby town of Beit Hanoun, when an attack helicopter used its cannon to fire at one of the cemetery's larger group memorial stones.

Two dozen other headstones have been pockmarked by shrapnel from Israeli artillery and several have been completely destroyed.

British diplomats are understood to be increasingly frustrated at Israel's unwillingness to discuss the issue."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/13/nveterans13.xml

[LynnTheDem]

1. Dear UK; don't bother.

Israel & America uber alles.

Or haven't you noticed?

[silverweb]

2. Way to keep your friends, shitheads.

:eyes:

[madrchsod]

3. the brits were murdered by the israeli terrorists groups

after ww2 and there are still bitter feelings about these deaths. so now the israeli`s desecrate a cemetery that holds the remains of those who liberated their great grandfathers and mothers from the turks. i guess they do not teach history nor manners in the idf these days. arrogance knows no boundaries

[IntiRaymi]

5. The last people you should feel bad for are the brits.

They have pulled some disgusting, racist acts of state policy the world over.

[frylock]

4. same shit, different year..

Israel has been pulling this same shit since the '50s.