Friday, January 09, 2009

That Red Cross Blood Libel? How Many Days Led to "Emaciation"?

A Red Cross spokeswoman, Anne-Sophie Bonefeld, said that when the children and others were rescued in Gaza on Wednesday, workers had to leave behind a number of bodies. On Thursday, she said, 100 civilians were rescued from the same Gaza City neighborhood. They were not wounded, but they were weakened because of being without food or water for two days.


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The statement said a team of four Palestine Red Crescent ambulances accompanied by Red Cross representatives made its way to Zeitoun Wednesday where it “found four small children next to their dead mothers in one of the houses. They were too weak to stand up on their own. One man was also found alive, too weak to stand up. In all, there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses.”

In another house, the statement said, the rescue team “found 15 other survivors of this attack including several wounded. In yet another house, they found an additional three corpses. Israeli soldiers posted at a military position some 80 meters away from this house ordered the rescue team to leave the area which they refused to do. There were several other positions of the Israeli Defense Forces nearby as well as two tanks.”

Because of berms built by Israeli forces, the ambulances could not enter the area so “the children and the wounded had to be taken to the ambulances on a donkey cart,” the statement said.


Half of Gaza moves on donkey carts.

Half of Hamas arms moves in ambulances.

More than half of Hamas bases are in UNRWA facilities.

1 comment:

Peter Drubetskoy said...

You are in denial. Go on.
Where the hell do you get, quote,

Half of Hamas arms moves in ambulances.
More than half of Hamas bases are in UNRWA facilities.

from?
What is this, wishful thinking? Last time Israel claimed that UN ambulances carried Qassams, you know what happened?
What short-sided propagandists like you don't understand, is that by lying today, you may forestall the criticism and backlash for a moment, but you hurt your long term credibility. That's why so many people don't believe a word Israel is saying anymore.
Same myopic vision that drives the support for this "war".