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May. 19, 2021 10:59 AM
Fifteen Palestinian nuclear and extended families lost at least three, and in general more, of their members, in the Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip during the week from May 10 through to Monday afternoon. Parents and children, babies, grandparents, siblings and nephews and nieces died together when Israel bombed their homes, which collapsed over them. Insofar as is known, no advance warning was given so that they could evacuate the targeted houses.
On Saturday, a representative of the Palestinian Health Ministry brought listed the names of 12 families who were killed, each one at its home, each one in a single bombing. Since then, in one air raid before dawn on Sunday, which lasted 70 minutes and was directed at three houses on Al Wehda Street in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza, three families numbering 38 people in total were killed. Some of the bodies were found on Sunday morning. Palestinian
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Why Can’t the News Media Write ‘Terrorist’? By Mitchell Bard/JNS.org | May 13, 2021
Americans can’t imagine the panic of people who may have no more than 15 seconds to find shelter for themselves, their children, their elderly parents and the disabled. How can this be described as anything but “terror”?
While the American media has been focused on domestic issues, the escalation of violence in Israel has reached the level where it cannot be ignored or buried behind other stories. What remains remarkable, however, is the allergy nearly every major outlet has to accurately describing the bombardment of Israeli civilian areas with rockets as “terrorism” or labeling the parties responsible Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as terrorist organizations.
Biden Confers With Netanyahu as Israeli-Palestinian Crisis Broadens
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Dozens have been killed in airstrikes and rocket barrages, and violent protests have erupted in mixed Jewish-Arab towns.
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President Biden condemned the rocket attacks on Israel and said the United States’ position was that Jerusalem should be “a place of peace.”Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
President Biden said that he had spoken with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel “for a while” on Wednesday amid escalating fighting between Israelis and Palestinians, and asserted his “unwavering support” for Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
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