Press of Atlantic City · Atlantic City, New Jersey · 19 July 2014
CP-2014-003
Grief, anger for 71 children killed
Karin Laub and Yousur Alhlou, Associated Press
Transcribed from the clipping
“BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — Sobbing and shaking, Ismail Abu Musallam leaned against the wall of a hospital Friday, waiting for three of his children to be prepared for burial. They were killed as they slept when an Israeli tank shell hit their home, burying 11-year-old Ahmed, 14-year-old Walaa and 16-year-old Mohammed under debris in their beds.
His personal tragedy is not unique: the U.N. says minors make up one-fifth of the 299 Palestinians killed in 11 days of intense Israeli bombardment of the densely populated Gaza Strip, where half the 1.7 million people are under age 18.
The Israeli military says it’s doing its utmost to spare civilians by urging residents to leave areas that are about to be [struck].”
Context added by this archive
Karin Laub again — 1987, 2000, 2014. The record had stopped one sentence before the Israeli military’s account of the same bombardment.
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"Grief, anger for 71 children killed," Press of Atlantic City, 19 July 2014, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-003
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