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January 21, 2009 at 14:14:33     Permalink Children of Gaza Diary Entry by Aurora (about the author)

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Video (2min 37sec), A freelance filmmaker shot this material for Save the Children at a UN-supported school in Gaza for displaced pupils

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About half way down this page:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gaza 

 

There is another video at this HuffPo link, included in their article:
"Gaza:  The War on Children"
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/gaza-the-war-on-children_b_157249.html

 

Excerpt from that article:

In the American media, images from Gaza have been sanitized and when partially shown, they are portrayed as incidental casualties of war. This past Sunday, CNN tried to show "balance" between Palestinian children suffering in Gaza and Israeli families bidding farewell to their sons heading to the front. I'm sorry, but I could not see the balance between the maimed children in Gaza and those shooting at them.

Meanwhile, mounting evidence is emerging that Israel is experimenting with new non-conventional weapons on the civilian population in Gaza. "It is happening again, what we saw in Lebanon two years ago", says Paola Manduca, a genetics teacher and researcher at the University of Genoa and member of New Weapons Research Committee (NWRC), "where Israel used white phosphorus, dense inert metal explosive (DIME), thermobaric bombs, cluster bombs and uranium ammunitions, and experimented with novel weapons and delivery modalities."

 

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