The Republican · 13 July 2014

CP-2014-025

Security Council urges Gaza truce; no sign of lull

By Khaled Khazziha, Associated Press, Gaza City

Transcribed from the clipping

“One of the Israeli strikes hit a center for the disabled where Palestinians said two patients were killed and four people seriously hurt… Before dawn Saturday, an Israeli missile hit the Palestine Charity, a center for the physically and mentally disabled in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, said its director, Jamila Alaiweh. The center is home to nine patients, including four who were spending the weekend with their families away from the center, said Alaiweh. Of the remaining five, two were killed in the strike and three suffered serious burns and other injuries, the director said. A caregiver was also injured, she added. The director said one of the women killed had cerebral palsy and the other suffered had severe mental handicaps. Among the three wounded patients were a quadriplegic, one with cerebral palsy and one with mental disabilities, she said. The missile destroyed the bottom floor of the two-story building. Rescuers sifted through the pile of rubble, pulling out a folded-up wheelchair and a children’s workbook. An Israeli military spokesman, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, said he was looking into the incident… ‘Am I a terrorist? Do I make rockets and artillery?’ screamed Umm Omar, a woman in the southern town of Rafah whose home was destroyed in an airstrike… At Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, 4-year-old Shayma al-Masri was in stable condition Saturday with shrapnel injuries to her upper body. Her mother, a 17-year-old brother and a 14-year-old sister were killed earlier this week… ‘You can hide your children in the bomb shelters when you need them, but where do I hide her (Shayma)?’ she said. ‘When the child comes to hide in my arms and I find the entire house falling on top of us what do I do then? Just like you fear for yourselves we fear for ourselves too. Just like you fear for your children we fear for our children too.’”

Photograph caption

Elderly Israeli women sleep in a bomb shelter in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, Saturday. While there have been no fatalities in Israel, Palestinian officials said overnight attacks raised the death toll there to over 120, with more than 920 wounded.

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The director of the center is a named woman and the source for the whole account. Nine residents, four of them away with their families for the weekend, two of the remaining five killed. The sentence that stays is the one about the rubble: a folded-up wheelchair and a children’s workbook. The bottom half of the page is three advertisements, one of which reads Get Instantly Accepted.

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"Security Council urges Gaza truce; no sign of lull," The Republican, 13 July 2014. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-025

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