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NEWS & LETTERS,
August-September 2002
OUR LIFE AND TIMES by Kevin A. Barry
New war crimes of Sharon and Hamas
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon carried out another
war crime, on July 23. Under his orders, a U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter jet fired
a missile into an apartment building in the crowded Gaza Strip. They did so in
order to assassinate a Hamas leader, Sheik Salah Shehada, who had been linked to
numerous attacks on Israeli civilians. When the dust cleared, besides Shehada,
15 civilians were killed, among them eight children and a two-month-old baby.
Most did not even live in the same building as Shehada. Sharon called the attack
“one of our major successes.” In a response that showed an equally ghoulish disregard for
human life, the fundamentalist Hamas set off a bomb in the cafeteria of Hebrew
University, killing seven young students. Another Hamas bomb killed nine people
on a commuter bus, most of them also civilians. As Hamas and Sharon continued their grisly competition in terror, a new study revealed that malnutrition has become rampant among Palestinian children suffering under Sharon’s lockdown of nearly one million people on the West Bank. |
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