Posted on 07/12/2014 4:46:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This baby was injured because she was firing rockets!!!
Commentary
Doctors in Gaza did not need to read a warning from the World Health Organization to know that their health care system was collapsing under Israeli attack.
Hospitals were overwhelmed by hundreds of casualties, including small children.
It was getting worse every day, and Egypt’s refusal to open its border made things worse still.
"The recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip raises concern about the ability of the government and the Ministry of Health of the occupied Palestinian territory to cope with the increased burden of medical emergencies on the health system, given the high levels of shortages of medicines, medical disposables and hospital fuel supplies, and rising healthcare debt," WHO said in a statement.
WHO also said, “A hospital, three clinics and a water desalinization center in a refugee camp have also been damaged. More airstrikes and missile attacks are likely.”
On Thursday evening, Israel fired four bombs at the fourth floor of Al Wafa rehabilitation hospital in al-Shujaiyya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, wrecking the hospital.
"The response and preparedness of the health sector is at very low level, and we are concerned about a possible collapse of health services. We are making an urgent appeal for $40 million to support the Ministry of Health in providing essential supplies for health care sufficient for six months," said Dr. Ala Alwan, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean.
In the same context, the French medical organization Doctors Without Borders also warned on Friday that the response to emergency needs at hospitals in Gaza could worsen quickly "due to already existing chronic shortages of drugs and disposables."
Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates pledged to send at least $25 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continue, AFP reported Thursday.
UAE's state news agency WAM said that the Emirate Red Crescent will supervise the delivery of the aid and will also set up a field hospital in the Palestinian territory "to help the victims of the Israeli aggression."
On his side, Robert Turner, the director of operations in Gaza at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, confirmed that his organization on Thursday declared a state of emergency in all five areas of its operations in the densely populated Gaza Strip.
UNRWA is ready to provide whatever emergency assistance it can, should the situation deteriorate even further, Turner said. He also urged all parties to exercise restraint to prevent further escalation of the situation.
Turner said dozens of Palestinians have been killed and injured "as a result of the apparently deliberate targeting of residences."
That included Dr. Anas Abu al-Kas, who was killed for treating suspected Hamas fighters.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as of 6 p.m. Friday, Israel had killed 114 people and injured 826 since beginning its military operation in Gaza.
The world must be confused. No deaths in Israel and more than 100 in Gaza. Some reports said hundreds of rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza, others said thousands.
But with no deaths in Israel, was this response proportional?
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saleh1966 is based in Gaza, Ġazzah, Palestine, and is an Anchor on Allvoices.
I responded: You should ask, "How many civilians would hamas kill if they had the means." - Answer: All of them.
I’m curious how they responded. My guess would be silence, assuming they can comprehend glaring truth.
I'm all out of Compassion. The MSM and Obama showed me how. Fire with Fire.
I agree with you without reservation,the “children” are raised to be be murdering little scumbags and should be dealt with accordingly.It doesn’t make me proud to have that attitude but reality is what it is.
No, and why should it be? Israel wants to destroy Hamas' capability to launch rockets and a "proportional attack" would fall far short of that. It also wants the attack to serve as a deterrent to future Hamas aggression. With those legitimate goals in mind, the response is eminently appropriate.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.
By far, Hamas bears the most responsibility. It actually goes out of its way to ensure the most civilian casualties possible.
Tuff noogies. That’s what you get when YOU start bombing innocent people, including CHILDREN in Israel. What goes around comes around. Where were your protests for the Jewish children injured and killed?
And I was a witness. I saw the second tower in flames and then fall, from a classroom window. I saw the skies filled with fluttering white bits of xerox paper, which I first thought were birds until they started hitting my windshield. I saw the blackest of black smoke, which could only come from burning jet fuel, form a tilted column across the sky. And on the way home from school, I heard about the Pali-ogres cheering and passing around candy to celebrate. Turn Gaza into glass.
One can only hope Israel does what is nessary to eliminate their enemy...all of them.
“A proportional response is a concept contrived by liberals to try to trick the superior force into using losing tactics. There is no place for proportional responses in warfare. Every response should be devastating and overwhelming.”
A “proportional response” would be for Israel to blindly fire rockets into Palestinian population centers and kill as many civilians as possible.
So, this is not a “proportional response”, it is MUCH LESS than that.
But with no deaths in Israel, was this response proportional?
Because the Israeli government shields its people with Iron Dome, while the Palestinian terrorists use the people to shield themselves.
Yep, until these dip wads love their children, more than they hate Israel, look for this to continue.
Looking at the headline, there’s little chance it’s anyone but 2ndDivisionVet’s post.
This was my newly-created unit insignia at the 102nd Military Intelligence Battalion (2nd Infantry Division) in Korea. Any idea what it means?
We all know (maybe there is one exception - you) the kind of propaganda the hard left pours out without dozens of reposts here of it every week by one person.
When a large group of people who’ve been here longer than me, say years longer, tell me they have a problem, or the site owner says so, then I’ll vary my story selection. You, however, unfortunately for you, fit into neither of those categories. So guess what?
With your love of seniority (it must be so painful that there isn’t any on FR), you’d do well in a union. Losers whine about ‘seniority’ in order to cover up their poor performance.
Lord are you really that stupid?
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