Craving for Cookies Cost Gaza Girl Her Life

http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/April/24%20n/Craving%20for%20Cookies%20Cost%20Gaza%20Girl%20Her%20Life.htm

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Mona’s mother said she allowed her daughter to go out to buy biscuits because she believed the danger was further away. “She found the store closed and as she tried to return home they shot her dead,” Shifa said. She said a bullet fired by a soldier pierced her daughter’s stomach.

“My daughter hadn’t even finished her meal, she went out to buy something and just at that moment the Israeli soldiers opened fire on her and killed her,” she cried, her voice choked by her tears.

Mohammad Nassar, a medic at Jabalya Hospital, said the little girl held her hand over her gaping wound before she died, telling him she wanted to go home because her mother would be worried that she was late.

But the last words she uttered was, “Allah, there is only one God,” the tearful medic added. He wondered how such a young child “knew what people are supposed to say before death.”

Many children attended Mona’s funeral yesterday, among them Ghadir Sakr, also aged nine, who had gone to the morgue beforehand to plant a kiss on her slain friend’s forehead. “I used to play with her all the time. I came to see her for the last time before they bury her,” the weeping girl said.

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so I take it with a grain of salt. But if true, this is really sick.

And I wish that for once, someone would explain exactly WHAT Al-Jazeera was lying about. "They're the FOX news of the ME!"

Yeah, ok - but WHY? A list of errors they've made would be nice.

I haven't found their coverage any less unreliable than, than say CNN. CNN won't show bodies of Arab civiians because it may upset the West's delecate notions of what is going on in Iraq. Al-Jazeera shows the bodies on TV to show *what* is going on in Iraq, from an Arab perspective. It is not a question on whether or not the bodies exist.

From a Western perspective Al-Jazeera can be viewed as anti-US, but no less than CNN can be viewed as anti-Arab from an Arab perspective.

News networks in the West are also relying morea and more on Al-Jazeera for a lot of their coverage because A) Western reporters are wisely staying within fortified US military positons or 'embeded' with the US military, and B) Al-Jazeera has a pipeline to the Arab world that the western news sources neglected to build.

Still, the reliability of the source won't keep the US media from mostly ignoring it.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=498470§ion=news

to shoot children & unarmed civilians of all ages.

Such fine work they do protecting the homeland.

There's nothing like getting up early putting on your flack Jacket & heading off to kill some children.

And this will make Israel safer how????

It seems to me that an occupying force in an occupied territory has a responsibility for the safety and well-being for the civilians in the area. Silly me.

country. It's more of a police action. Arafat is supposed to be policing the territories but oops, he's using the policemen as terrorists.

the 'territories' while under house arrest in his bombed out complex. And when the Palestinian security forces are often paraded through the streets by IDF forces (with hands on heads) thus removing any semblance of authority. And BTW - you should check the Geneva Convention. Contrary to your claims, it is COMPLETELY Israel's responsibility to protect civilians in 'occupied territories'.

policing the territories. He won't do it so Israel is stuck doing it. And remember, Israel occupied the territories after arafat and Hamas slaughtered Israelis with a bunch of bombings.

Clinton tried to be an honest peace broker but Arafat walked away from the negotiation table and started intifada.

Middle East for Dummies.

Tanx!

Hamas was founded somewhat later, boy.

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In 1987, the Arabs living in the territories occupied by Israeli in the 6-Day war began a series of riots and violent confrontations known as the Intifadeh, a movement quite independent from PLO leadership. Soon after, Islamic militants founded the Hamas movement, which was at first given some encouragement by Israel, as a means of countering the influence of the PLO, and perhaps because the opposition of the Hamas to an international conference that would adjudicate the problem of Palestine, coincided with the policies of the Shamir government.
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http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

It might be helpful to read some history instead of mis-representing it, boy.

A real chance of policing prior to being put under virtual house arrest at his bombed out complex, but he didn't seem to take much interest in it at that time either. And about that Geneva Convention...isn't that the one that says you aren't supposed to target women and children on buses, at restaurants, in schools, at shopping malls, etc.? Or does it only apply to one side?