"Palestinian doctor's three daughters killed on live TV "

[Goosemaster]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/...lled_live_on_0117.html

Palestinian doctor's daughters killed during live Israeli TV report
01/17/2009 @ 4:05 pm
Filed by Stephen C. Webster

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War is cruel. But sometimes, a story comes along that redefines what cruel really means.

Saturday morning, a Palestinian doctor who reports for Israel's channel 10 television witnessed three of his daughters killed by Israeli bombs, even as his first moments of insane panic and grief were broadcast live.

Israeli officials said shells were dropped in response to sniper fire in the area.

Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Ashi is an uncommon man. A Palestinian who works for an Israeli hospital, Dr. Ashi has been giving Israelis daily reports on the military campaign in Gaza.

"No one can get to us," he screamed in Arabic on a live phone call with a channel 10 anchor. "My God ... My God ..."

Dr. Ashi told the anchor his family had just been killed, and that he was "overwhelmed."

"My God ... My girls ..." he cried. "Shiomi ... Can't anybody help us please?"

The news anchor asked Dr. Ashi where his house is, and cameras followed as the journalist frantically tried to employ his network of contacts to send help to the doctor. Shortly thereafter, the Israeli Army allowed a Palestinian ambulance to speed to his location.

Only one of al-Ashi's daughters survived.

"Everybody in Israel knows that I was talking on television and on the radio," said Dr. Ashi. "That we are home, that we are innocent people.

"Suddenly, today, when there was hope for ceasefire, on the last day I was talking to my children ... Suddenly, they bombed us; a doctor who takes care of Israeli patients. Is that what's done? Is that peace?"

Eyewitnesses denied Israeli claims of sniper fire in the area.

"But over 90 percent of Israelis still support the war on Gaza, while hundreds of other tragedies remain just a number in a rising Palestinian death toll," reported Al Jazeera's Roza Ibragimova.

The following video was published by Al Jazeera English on Jan. 17.

Doctor holds press conference, confronted by angry Isareli-soldier mothers

Partial video of press conference (last one got taken down)


Regardless of the unknown details and speculation with anything reported in the middle east, one statement was very profound:

"I turn to all of you, to the entire world, so you know that my children were the ultimate price, and I don't want anyone to taste what I suffered. I want them to be the ultimate price for a ceasefire, that's what I want. The Israeli government should tell the truth. I want my children to be the victims of peace?I am armed with love and peace; this is what I'm armed with. My children were armed with love and peace."

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I am confused on that you would not use the threads that were setup for this
Until the situation dies down, there is not a need for the complete page to be full of incidents

Please come back in a week when things have stabilized.

Senior Anandtech Moderator
Common Courtesy

 

[Arkaign]

Live by the sword .....

Israel continues to lose international support. Their gov't is just as bad as the assholes in Hamas. Fuck 'em all.

 

[fallout man]

My God... the poor man.

The folks heckling him at this place and time remind of the many rabid and frothy posters we know and love here at P&N.

"There was sniper fire!!!! The got what they deserved for being palestinian!"

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: fallout man
My God... the poor man.

The folks heckling him at this place and time remind of the many rabid and frothy posters we know and love here at P&N.

"There was sniper fire!!!! The got what they deserved for being palestinian!"

Yep. Seems to be a region full of assholes with a few decent human beings here and there peppered about. If I had to think of a nice place to turn into a several-hundred-mile diameter of burning slag and ash, that would be the place. People have proven that they can't do anything but be assholes about being there, fuck everyone.

 

[Zebo]

Blame lays squarely on Hamas.

If I were doing a 'drive by' on your house with my child in the back seat and you shot back killing him, is it your fault or mine?

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Blame lays squarely on Hamas.

If I were doing a 'drive by' on your house with my child in the back seat and you shot back killing him, is it your fault or mine?

that was the most pathetic oversimplification i think i've ever seen

its nice how you to try take the scenario and put it in a bubble where none of the past has occurred

 

[Jaskalas]

Anyone who wishes to preserve their life and the lives of their families should abandon Hamas controlled territories. They will not be forced to surrender, and so blood will continue to spill around them indefinitely.

 

[StageLeft]

Well that sucks. A lot.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: LumbergTech

Originally posted by: Zebo
Blame lays squarely on Hamas.

If I were doing a 'drive by' on your house with my child in the back seat and you shot back killing him, is it your fault or mine?

that was the most pathetic oversimplification i think i've ever seen

its nice how you to try take the scenario and put it in a bubble where none of the past has occurred

When Hamas can't kill Jews, it's perfectly happy to heard Palestinian civilians into the line of fire to gain Western sympathy as the headline-greedy media cheer them on.. Sorry that is just evil and wrong.

 

[alchemize]

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Anyone who wishes to preserve their life and the lives of their families should abandon Hamas controlled territories.

And where do you suggest they go? The borders are closed, they have no food or transport, many have children and elderly relatives...

 

[fallout man]

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Anyone who wishes to preserve their life and the lives of their families should abandon Hamas controlled territories.

And where do you suggest they go? The borders are closed, they have no food or transport, many have children and elderly relatives...

Into the sea, apparently.

I find the ironing bitterly delicious.

 

[brownzilla786]

Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

Even Reinhard Heydrich would be beaming at this quality of macabre, murderous chaos. What is Israel to do though? Both they and Hamas have painted themselves into corners from where there can be only death, death, and more death.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

It's astonishing how little regard the IDF has for innocent civilians. By the numbers, they've killed far more women and children than Hamas.

 

[alchemize]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

It's astonishing how little regard the IDF has for innocent civilians. By the numbers, they've killed far more women and children than Hamas.

:laugh: Yah, Hamas has MUCH higher regard for innocent civilians :laugh:

The Hamas propaganda machine and it's useful idiots such as yourself are in full swing...

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

It's astonishing how little regard the IDF has for innocent civilians. By the numbers, they've killed far more women and children than Hamas.

:laugh: Yah, Hamas has MUCH higher regard for innocent civilians :laugh:

The Hamas propaganda machine and it's useful idiots such as yourself are in full swing...

Israel is evil != Hamas is good. They can both be evil you know...

 

[fallout man]

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

It's astonishing how little regard the IDF has for innocent civilians. By the numbers, they've killed far more women and children than Hamas.

:laugh: Yah, Hamas has MUCH higher regard for innocent civilians :laugh:

The Hamas propaganda machine and it's useful idiots such as yourself are in full swing...

quoted for the hilarity that will ensue when reporters are finally able to get into Gaza to document IDF savagery.

 

[JohnnyGage]

The IDF is so savage that they take a 3 hour siesta everyday to allow food and medical supplies in. Bastards.

 

[fallout man]

Originally posted by: JohnnyGage
The IDF is so savage that they take a 3 hour siesta everyday to allow food and medical supplies in. Bastards.

Yeah, it's a wicked pissah.

They should really cut that out, so that the women and children are too weak to call for help after they're bombed. Humanitarian aid only enables the terrists!

 

[alchemize]

Originally posted by: fallout man

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

It's astonishing how little regard the IDF has for innocent civilians. By the numbers, they've killed far more women and children than Hamas.

:laugh: Yah, Hamas has MUCH higher regard for innocent civilians :laugh:

The Hamas propaganda machine and it's useful idiots such as yourself are in full swing...

quoted for the hilarity that will ensue when reporters are finally able to get into Gaza to document IDF savagery.

Hiding behind the skirts of their wives and the toys of their children, and you're in love with them. :laugh: What a man you are :thumbsup:

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

I think it's time for the US to withdraw their support towards anyone in that region.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: fallout man

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
Butchers. Even at the press conference retards were continuing to be ignorant because Israel can do no wrong...

It's astonishing how little regard the IDF has for innocent civilians. By the numbers, they've killed far more women and children than Hamas.

:laugh: Yah, Hamas has MUCH higher regard for innocent civilians :laugh:

The Hamas propaganda machine and it's useful idiots such as yourself are in full swing...

quoted for the hilarity that will ensue when reporters are finally able to get into Gaza to document IDF savagery.

Hiding behind the skirts of their wives and the toys of their children, and you're in love with them. :laugh: What a man you are :thumbsup:

Yes! And these scumbags in here don't understand is THEY are partially responsible for these deaths by giving credence this propaganda. Hamas will continue to use these human shields until it's universally condemned for the war crime it is. But so long as they demonize Israel, who won't stop defending herself nor should she, these dead kids are the coins that keep the propaganda meter ticking.:thumbsdown:

 

[Duwelon]

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
I think it's time for the US to withdraw their support towards anyone in that region.

The Bible predicts that one day the whole world will turn their back against Israel. They will have nobody but themselves to defend themselves from capable, hateful, motivated murderers like extremists Muslims.

Until a few years ago, I could never really see how it could happen in my lifetime. But now, judging from the left's outrage at the Iraq war, with their argument that we weren't morally justified in liberating Iraqi's from their ruthless dictator, shows how far our society has slipped. If you want us to withdraw our support of Israel, you've already got a political party that is approaching the cliff where it will have no ability to recognize anything evil in this world with enough conviction to do what is right to stop it.

 

[fallout man]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Yes! And these scumbags in here don't understand is THEY are partially responsible for these deaths

Excuse me, fucker: I'm only responsible for these deaths because I indirectly fund the Israeli bombs with my taxes. It breaks my heart--every day.

By the way, did you ever figure out whether those were Hamas guys executing Fatah guys in that video you posted? If you can't find any proof, I think that P&N deserves an apology and a retraction.