A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
This is
what Israel does not want the outside world to see.
December 30, 2008
PNN -Israeli forces killed two girls in an air attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza
Strip early Tuesday. Local sources report that a missile destroyed a house belonging to Talal Hamdan in Beit Hanoun today,
killing his two daughters of 12 and 4 years old. A son is reported seriously injured. Yesterday Israeli forces killed four
sisters and a four year old boy. Over 40 children have been killed since Saturday.
The bodies of two girls, aged four and 11, who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Beit
Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip Strip December 30, 2008.
Palestinians carry the body of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan during her funeral
in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008.
Palestinians bury the body of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan at Beit Hanoun
cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008.
Palestinians mourn beside the bodies of three children in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
December 29, 2008.
Three Palestinian children from the Balosha family, of five who were all killed in the same
Israeli missile strike, are seen in the morgue before their burial at Kamal Edwan hopsital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip,
Monday, Dec. 29, 2008
Palestinian children from the Balosha family, who were all killed in the same Israeli missile
strike, are seen in the morgue before their burial at Kamal Edwan hopsital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec.
29, 2008.
Palestinian women mourn over the bodies of three Palestinian children from the Balosha family,
of five who were all killed in the same Israeli missile strike, in the morgue before their burial at Kamal Edwan hopsital
in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.
A Palestinian man buries the body of 4-year-old Dena Balosha at Beit Lahiya cemetery in
the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008.
A Palestinian man carries the body of his 4-year-old daughter Dena Balosha
during the funeral for her and her four sisters in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008.
A Palestinian mourner shouts as he lifts the body of a child from the Balosha family, of
which three children and two teenagers, were killed in an Israeli missile strike,durng their funeral in the Jebaliya refugee
camp, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.
A Palestinian man buries the body of 5-year-old Sodqi al-Absi in Rafah cemetery in the southern
Gaza Strip December 29, 2008.
A Palestinian mourner carries the body of 4-year-old Dena Balosha, foreground, one of five
members of the same family including three children and two teenagers who were killed in an Israeli missile strike, during
their funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008
The father of Palestinian Dena Balosha, 4, left, one of five members of the same family
including three children and two teenagers who were killed in an Israeli missile strike, carries her body during their funeral
in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.
Bedroom of 5 girls who died
Samera Baalusha (34) carries her surving child Mohamad (15 months) while she waits to see
the body of her daughter Jawaher Baalusha (aged 4) during the funeral held for her and four of her sisters who were killed
in an Israeli missile strike, on December 29, 2008 in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip
Palestinian mourners bury 8 children killed in Israeli air strikes
Dec 29 - Palestinian mourners on Monday (December 29) buried 8 children who were killed
in Israeli air strikes on Gaza Strip.
In the northern Gaza town of Jabalya, hundreds took to the streets to attend a funeral procession
for five girls of the same family who were killed in one Israeli strike.
In this image taken from APTN video, Palestinian men carry two injured children into hospital
after Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security compounds across Gaza in Gaza City on Saturday Dec. 27, 2008.
A wounded Palestinian boy is carried by his father following an Israel air strike in Gaza
December 28, 2008.
A Palestinian boy is carried to al-Shifa hospital following an Israel air strike in Gaza
December 28, 2008
A Palestinian security force officer carries a wounded girl into the emergency room at Shifa
hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
A Palestinian girl wounded in an Israeli missile strike is carried into the emergency area
at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
A Palestinian man carries his wounded child to the treatment room of
Kamal Edwan hospital following an Israeli missile strike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.
January 04, 2009 Gaza
Civilians continue to be caught up in the Gaza City bombardment - five
died after a shell hit the main shopping area (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
Israeli soldiers suffered their first casualties of the ground war -
30 were injured in the initial incursion (Yehuda Raizner/AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian man sitting on the rubble of a building reads a leaflet
dropped by Israeli Air Force planes over the Gaza Strip. The message reads in Arabic: “To the residents of the area,
due to terrorist actions that some terrorist groups commit from your residential area, the Israeli Defense Forces had to immediately
respond in your area. For your safety you are required to evacuate the area immediately”
(Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian medic carries an injured child into Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern
Gaza Strip Picture: AP
Palestinian doctors carry the bodies of children killed by an Israeli tank shell, to the
morgue at Shifa hospital in Gaza Picture: REUTERS
A Palestinian attempts to help a badly wounded girl following Israeli artillery shelling
in Gaza City Picture: GETTY
A wounded Palestinian woman waits for treatment at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital Picture: GETTY
An Israeli man looks at a classroom, damaged after a rocket landed in the school, in the
southern city of Beersheba Picture: REUTERS
A Palestinian child, wounded in the recent Israeli air strikes, lies in al-Shifa hospital
in Gaza Picture: REUTERS
Smoke billows from a targeted location in the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli air
raid, as seen from the Israeli-Gaza border Picture: GETTY
A Palestinian boy looks up through a hole in the ground of a damaged house, following an
Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip Picture: REUTERS
A Palestinian youth, shot with live ammunition by an Israeli soldier, holds his leg as he
sits on the ground between Ramallah and Jerusalem Picture: AP
(All photos from Rene)
