Entries by Patrick Cleburne

Gaza Friday–and Netanyahu’s claim of a “mistake” in bombing a church.

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News of what actually happened in Gaza on Friday is very difficult to find. Almost the only US MSM report mentioning casualties is from PBS which mixed the news in a story about the Gaza Church strike aftermath https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/christian-patriarchs-make-rare-visit-to-gaza-after-deadly-israeli-strike-on-church “Israeli strikes killed at least 18 Palestinians overnight and into Friday, including a strike on a home in the […]

Thursday in Gaza: Strikes against a church and schools sheltering displaced people

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On Thursday in Gaza the IDF killed 3 in an attack on a Catholic church and wounded the priest,& at least 8 others. Like yesterday’s deadly stampede this managed to disrupt US MSM indifference. The church had been sheltering many people. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/israel-strike-catholic-church-gaza-pope-francis-gabriele-romanelli-rcna219268 In a rare exception, the San Francisco Chronicle https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/parish-priest-and-several-injured-as-airstrikes-20773517.php carried more of AP‘s report “Separately, another person […]

Wednesday in Gaza: More deaths at food distribution point. And another air strike.

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On Wednesday in Gaza, the inevitable occurred: a stampede by Palestinians trying to get food at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution point killed some 20 people. Both sides blame the other but the flat GHF assertion blaming Hamas contrasts badly with the circumstantial Palestinian accounts. Ultimately, of course responsibility lies with those insisting on […]

Saturday in Gaza

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Once again, actual news from Gaza on Saturday is very hard to find. SFGate has posted AP‘s story: Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians including four children in the Gaza Strip, while 24 others were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said Saturday. “The 24 shot dead were […]

Friday in Gaza: “The balance of power in [Netanyahu’s] Cabinet is held by maniacs who want to seize and colonize Gaza”

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Getting Friday news from Gaza has proved almost impossible. Anyone suggest a better news search engine than Google News? Aljazeera which clearly has the best news gathering operation in Gaza reports at least 18 deaths from “Israeli strikes’ today. Israel’s Ynet has a gung-ho report seemingly confirming action today: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byzdmiargl#autoplay But several US MSM outlets have at last picked up […]

Thursday in Gaza: The most moral army in the world to build the most moral concentration camp in the world

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An almost complete shutdown on actual Gaza news Thursday across the anglophone world makes NBC‘s running of a brief video particularly commendable: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/children-killed-in-multiple-israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-242922053718 At least 15 people, including several children, were killed in an Israeli strike near a health clinic in central Gaza. The BBC report on this has a longer video they have verified https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro It adds “They […]

Wednesday in Gaza

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Almost total silence in the US MSM on what happened in Gaza on Wednesday. So PBS deserves praise for carrying the AP story: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli-strike-kills-40-palestinians-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-and-trump-meet-over-a-ceasefire At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Wednesday. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said the dead included 17 women and 10 children. . AlJazeera‘s evening wrap puts […]