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US: ‘Appalled’ by Shelling of UN School in Gaza (Rips Israel)
AP via PBS ^ | Sunday, August 3, 2014 | Tom Raum and Matthew Lee

Posted on 08/03/2014 11:54:03 AM PDT by kristinn

The United States said Sunday it is “appalled” by the “disgraceful” shelling by Israel of a United Nations school sheltering some 3,000 displaced people in southern Gaza.

In language that was rare in its directness and severity, the U.S. denounced in a statement issued Sunday the attack earlier in the day that killed 10 people, noting that the school had been designated a protected location.

“The coordinates of the school, like all UN facilities in Gaza, have been repeatedly communicated to the Israel Defense Forces,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the statement. “We once again stress that Israel must do more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties.”

The U.S. condemnation follows one by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who depicted the shelling near the Rafah school as both “a moral outrage and a criminal act.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; psaki
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1 posted on 08/03/2014 11:54:04 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

How many schools were there in Hiroshima?


2 posted on 08/03/2014 11:55:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: kristinn

The Obamunists may be “l” by it — but the Americans are not.

The Americans are appalled that Hamas uses schools and hospitals as fire bases.


3 posted on 08/03/2014 11:55:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: kristinn

Hamas does its fighting right next to a school on PURPOSE so that Israel shells right back, hits the school, and Hamas can play victim..and it works every single time..Israel shouldn’t even bother listening to these morons, just keep on doing what your doing Israel, I will always have your back!


4 posted on 08/03/2014 11:56:17 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: kristinn

they speak of suspicions of rocket launches as if the Israelis are simply shooting willy nilly.


5 posted on 08/03/2014 11:56:40 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: kristinn

The State Dept. supports terrorists. Not surprising when the Sec. State is a traitor to his own country


6 posted on 08/03/2014 11:57:35 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Jim Noble

Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hamburg...


7 posted on 08/03/2014 11:58:45 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: TigersEye
Maria Harf, airhead extraordinaire, is outraged.
8 posted on 08/03/2014 11:58:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: kristinn

Gee, maybe Hamas should quit using schools and hospitals as staging areas and munitions dumps. Unlike US leadership, Israel is not run by idiots.


9 posted on 08/03/2014 11:59:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: kristinn

Who is ‘Appalled’ ? The lights are off in the white House ,it must be the Pro-Hamas people at the White House front gate


10 posted on 08/03/2014 11:59:21 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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11 posted on 08/03/2014 12:00:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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White House, MSM...

The U. S. was not appalled.

You asses were appalled.


12 posted on 08/03/2014 12:03:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of the populace is worse than that.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Three thousand people were in the school and only ten
were killed? So if half of them were civilians, (the
going average) then five of them were terrorists shooting
from the vicinity Got it.


13 posted on 08/03/2014 12:04:20 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kristinn

Hey Psaki, Hamas is well aware of Israel’s coordinates, that’s the cause of this mess.


14 posted on 08/03/2014 12:08:46 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: tet68

Israel believes and stated today the rockets that hit the school were in fact Hamas fired rockets that went off target thus it was self inflicted.


15 posted on 08/03/2014 12:08:51 PM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: kristinn

Cum’on! Those kids blow up pretty fast.

They can just make some more...


16 posted on 08/03/2014 12:10:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: DoughtyOne
Absolutely!

Hey Valerie, real Americans by an overwhelming majority don't buy the crap you are selling. Go back to Iran, and take your Indonesian boss with you.
17 posted on 08/03/2014 12:11:28 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: tet68

I’m not much concerned, but please see post #15 - if the Israelis had been targeting the school, they’d have done a much better job.


18 posted on 08/03/2014 12:12:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: kristinn

It was either an actual school hit by a HAMAS rocket, or a Munitions Dump with desks in it.


19 posted on 08/03/2014 12:14:13 PM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: Tzfat

Valerie is mad because Hamas is running out of rockets and their tunnels are being demolished. It’s almost over and Hamas is losing.


20 posted on 08/03/2014 12:18:47 PM PDT by jimbo123
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