On this day 25 years ago, the world watched, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach- whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
Israel killed Amal in South Lebanon.
She was only 6 years old.
But her murder didn’t make any headlines.
Because the world has decided Lebanese children aren’t newsworthy.
BREAKING: IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER OFFICIAL STATEMENT
ON UK HYPOCRISY
"It is surprising that while several thousand tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza in six months, England is worried about Iran defending ourselves after Israel’s brutal attack against our diplomats.”
Israeli air strikes have hit Al Ahli hospital in Gaza. More than 500 people - patients, doctors & those sheltering - have been killed.
What unspeakable horror. We will mourn their loss forever.
Our leaders could have spoken up for peace. They chose to cheer on war instead.
When will they demand an end to these atrocious war crimes? How many Palestinian lives will it take to call for these indiscriminate killings to stop?
Please, for the sake of humanity, raise your voice for an immediate ceasefire. The existence of the Palestinian people is at stake.
WHO statement on attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital and reported large-scale casualties
WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.
The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced.
WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. Evacuation orders must be reversed. International humanitarian law must be abided by, which means health care must be actively protected and never targeted.
If Israel was so against the abduction of children, it wouldn’t abduct Palestinian children on a daily basis
It wouldn’t throw them in dungeons & torture them as human rights reports confirm
The occupier wants to target and abuse kids, then pretend its own policies don’t exist
Sickening. @EU_Commission president criminally giving Israel carte blanche for the spectacle of shocking violence it will now unleash against desperate civilians caged in Gaza, dressed up as "self-defence." Endorsing a massacre. Unforgiveable thuggery. She does not speak for us.
A billionaire who is missing at sea viewing the Titanic is front page news.
300 migrants die in a boat off the coast of Greece and the British media talks about them like they aren’t human.