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Khalil Madi Muhammad al-Hasnat,19Zaher Muhammad Mahmoud A'bed, 19
Iyad Jaber Ibrahim Aman, 20
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Muhammad Ramadan Hamad a-Debs, 20
Fidaa Farid Salameh Abu Sh'ar, 20
Thair Jihad Ahmad a-Najar, 20
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Basel Faraj, 21 journalist
Director-General deplores attacks on media installations in Gaza and condemns killing of journalist Basel Faraj.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, deplored attacks on media installations in Gaza and condemned the killing of Palestinian journalist Basel Faraj who died on the line of duty on 6 January.
The Director-General recalled UN Security Council resolution 1738 of 23 December 2006, which forbids attacks against journalists and media installations. Referring to the General Assembly resolution 63/100 A-B of 5 December 2008, which calls upon Member States to reaffirm their commitment to the principles of freedom of the press and freedom of information and emphasizes the importance of ensuring diversity of sources and free access to information, Mr Matsuura called on the Israeli authorities to allow local and international media professionals to report on events in the area.
Condemning the killing of journalist Basel Faraj, the Director-General stated: “Basel Faraj has paid for his dedication to his profession with his life.” He further highlighted the importance of respecting the right of journalists to exercise their professional duties and keep the world informed about what is taking place in Gaza.
Basel Faraj worked as a cameraman for the Algerian TV network ENTV and for the Palestine Broadcast Production Company. He died on 6 January from wounds sustained during an Israeli air strike on 27 December.
UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom. Article 1 of its Constitution requires the Organization to “further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.” To realize this purpose the Organization is required to “collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication and to that end recommend such international agreements as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image…”
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Naji Ramzi Yousef Mustafa Amit 21Husam Fathi Abu a-Subuh, 21
Jaber Muhammad Muhammad a-Dawawseh, 21
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'Abd a-Rahman Saleh 'Abd al-Hamid Yasin, 21Muhammad Hashem Isma'il 'Afaneh, 22Ihab 'Issam Rajab al-Harazin, 22
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Hassan Ahmad Mesmeh, 22'Alaa Isma'il Jaber Isma'il, 22
Amin 'Abed Muhammad Khader, 23
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Muhammad Bashir Muhammad Khader, 24
'Abd a-Rahim Yusef Musa a-Debs, 24
Muhammad 'Aish Mansur Abu Nasser, 24
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Muhammad Muhammad Abu Sha'ira, 24
Muhammad Rizeq al-Bana,25
Ziad Sa'id Hassan Nassar, 25
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'Abed Muhammad 'Abed Qadas, 25
Islam Isma'il Suliman 'Abd a-Jawad, 26
Mahmoud 'Abdallah 'Atewah Abu Sh'ar, 26
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Muhammad Marwan Mahmoud A'bed, 26Adham Na'im Muhammad 'Abd al-Malek (Mteir) 28Ahmad Musa Ahmad 'Arafat, 29
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'Afaf Muhammad al-'Abed Dmeidah, 29Muhammad Farid Muhammad 'Abdallah, 30
Ahmad A'bed Hamad al-Hasnat, 33
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Hamdi Yusef Ibrahim Hammad, 33Ziad 'Atiyyah Hassan al-Madhun, 34Aladdin Toufic Ghattas Fayoumi 35
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Sa'id Mahmoud Hassan al-'Umari, 34Musa Muhammad Suliman al-Jattali, 34
Mufid Fathi 'Abdallah Abu S'adeh, 37
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Khadrah 'Abd al-'Aziz 'Abd al-'Aziz 'Awad, 40Basil Abdul-Hamid Mahmoud Abu Ghaben 40Khader Ahmad Ibrahim Zidan, 40
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David Fathi 42Rihab 'Abd al-Men'em Ramadan 'Awad, 47Fayez Yousef Hassan 50
Fayez
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'Abd al-Wahab Ahmad Hussein Hasanein, 51
Anwar Hassan Muhammad Lubad, 52Isma'il Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Nasser, 54
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Abdullah Ahmad Kaddoura 56
'Abd a-Rahim Hassan Mustafa al-Madhun, 58Heijar Isma'il Yusef Nseiwi, 60
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Halima Mohamed Hassan Badwan 60Shteiwi Sa'ed Musharaf a-Sheikh Mana', 62Mesbah Ayub Ibrahim Ayub, 63
Ibrahim Ayub
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No name 53Atiya Hassan Madhoun 62Hussein Abdel-Wahab Ahmed Hassanein 63
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Hussein Khalil Hassan 'Arafat, 63
'Imad Muhammad 'Abd a-Rahman Sha'aluk, 63
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"Not the conduct of a democratic state"
(0:48) Israel censors the Media: What have they got to hide? 2 x viewed A report on the restrictions faced by the Media on the reporting of Israeli actions inside the Gaza Strip.
What have Israel got to hide if what they are doing is what they SAY they are doing?
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(3:16) Gaza father finds daughter thanks to reporter 1 x viewed
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Amal Khaled Muhammad Munib 'Abd Rabo, 2Su'ad Khaled Muhammad Munib 'Abd Rabo, 9
Amal Abed Rabbo: Details of the last hours:
Shortly after midday, soldiers from an Israeli tank ordered the family out of the house, according to her father, Khalid, 30. There was gunfire from the tank and Amal and her sister Souad, seven, were killed immediately. Another sister, Samar, four, was severely injured – she is now paralyzed in hospital in Belgium. Later, the soldiers demolished the house.
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When she was shot, Amal was carrying her favourite toy, a brown bear, which still lay in the ruins.
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Suad Khaled Muhammad Abed-Rabo of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with her sister, by IDF tankfire to her chest after her family, waving white flags, left their home in Izbat Beit Hanoun to search for water.
Shortly after midday, soldiers from an Israeli tank ordered the family out of the house, according to her father, Khalid, 30.
There was gunfire from the tank and Amal and her sister Souad, seven, were killed immediately.
Another sister, Samar, four, was severely injured – she is now paralyzed in hospital in Belgium. Later, the soldiers demolished the house.
Other Information: When she was shot, Amal was carrying her favourite toy, a brown bear, which still lay in
the ruins.
Nothing was ‘surgical’ about Israel’s strikes except the 100s of amputations that followed.
The sordid case of Khaled Abed Rabbo is among the numerous instances of clearly unarmed civilians –who by all accounts of survivors were not in an area of ‘crossfire’ or ‘clashes’ –being shot point-blank by invading Israeli soldiers. In this case 3 out of 4 of the civilians were children: Amal, a 2 year old girl and Souad, a 7 year old girl, both shot dead; and Samar, a 4 year old girl, now paralyzed from her multiple shots. Abed Rabbo’s mother, also named Souad, was targeted, also at close range. All were denied medical aid.
Neighbour Samiah Al Sheekh had taken his ambulance only metres down the track between his home and that of Abed Rabbo’s when Israeli soldiers ordered him out, beat him, and using a bulldozer rammed the ambulance into Al Sheekh’s home.
“They put explosives by my home and destroyed the ambulance and my house,” he recounted.
Abed Rabbo has told whoever will listen about the murder of his children: “I tried to protect my children, to go back inside. They didn’t stop shooting,” he said, referring to the 3 Israeli soldiers by a tank outside his home who had ordered the family out then gunned them down. Particularly poignant in Khaled Abed Rabbo’s recollection of the moment is that the soldiers displayed a calm, leisurely snacking on junk food while ordering the residents of his home outside. Clearly, these armed soldiers felt no threat.
Hours after the shootings occurred and Khaled Abed Rabbo and family had carried the injured girls and grandmother over a mile to the main crossroads, Dawwar Zimmo, under still more Israeli soldier fire, he was finally able to flag down a car to take them to Kamal Adwan hospital, in Jabaliya. Amal and Souad arrived dead at the hospital.
Khaled Abed Rabbo, like 10s of other families throughout his neighbourhood, returned home to find his house destroyed, leveled by the explosives demolition that Israeli soldiers applied to the majority of the demolished homes in the area.
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Dima Sa'id Ahmad a-Rahel, 5
Ibrahim Kamal Subhi 'Awajah, 8
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Gaza medics in the line of fire
(3:05) Gaza medics in the line of fire 2 x viewed
Palestinian medical sources say 21 of their staff have been killed during Israels military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Victims of one strike in Gaza City were forced to wait four hours for assistance after medics were forced to abandon their vehicles and walk 2km to reach them.
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Anas Aref Baraka, 8
'Abdallah Muhammad Shafiq 'Abdallah, 10
Anas of Wadi al-Salqa, near Deir al-Balah, Gaza, died in an Egyptian hospital of head wounds sustained Jan 4. from IDF gunfire in Deir al-Balah.
Abdullah of Beit Lahya, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Jan 6. from IDF shelling near al-Fakhoura school in Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza.
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'Abd a-Rahman Muhammad Radwan 'Ashur, 10Radwan Muhammad Radwan 'Ashur, 11Abd El Rahman Muhammed Ashour: Details of the last hours:
Abd El Rahman had a very kind heart; he went early to feed the sheep of his father in spite of Israeli shelling. He did not care though he had heard reports that Israel is targeting the civilians; the only thing he was worried about was the hungry sheep. He was thinking that sheep could die starving, but unfortunately he was the one who died, not because of hunger, but because of an Israel missile which tore his body into parts.
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Abd El Rahman‘s mother remembered the day or the two days before he died. She will never forget every single word he was saying to her as if he felt that he was going to die. He asked his mother, "Mum, if I died, would you be sad?" She answered in tears: "Of course, this is something that could break any mum's heart ".
Before he died he asked his mother a lot of alerting questions such as if he died what she would do with his candy which he was selling, would she sell it or give it to his brothers and friends. He did not calm down, until his mother told him that she would give them to his friends and brothers. At that moment he felt that it could be a charity which God will reward him for it!
Abd El Rahman used to start his day with Fajr prayer and end it with a religious lecture.
His Dream: His dreams were not so big: he only dreamt of finishing his education and getting an appropriate job. So he could provide for his family.
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Radwan and Muhammed Ashour: Details of the last hours:
As the first rays of sun broke the dawn on January 7, 2009, young Radwan was filled with worry. As he lay in bed, he was thinking about the sheep that his family left behind when they ran away from their home in the Zietoun neighborhood – escaping the hell of the war in Gaza Strip.
The 13-year-old boy was lost in , thought wondering how they were coping all alone So, after dawn, Radwan took his young brother Abd El-Rahman to rescue the poor animals from hunger. But as they ran into the fields, Israeli fighter planes launched rockets at them, ripping the two brother’s bodies to pieces Radwan’s younger brother, who did not turn 5 yet, remembers his brother fondly. Whenever he hears his older brother’s name his eyes flood with tears for a loss that cannot be replaced And so ended Radwan’s dreams of becoming a doctor or an engineer. And all that he left is a memory. A memory of a young boy who cared for his animals and lost his life for that.
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Tawfiq Khaled Isma'il el-Kahlut, 11
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Habib Khaled Isma'il el-Kahlut, 13Muhammad Khaled Isma'il el-Kahlut, 14of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed, with a brother, an older brother, father and distant cousin, by an IDF missile while riding in a car through the Beit Lahya Housing Project.
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Hassan Khalil Ahmad el-Kahlut, 19Khaled Isma'il Muhammad el-Kahlut, 43Details of Last Hours:
Due to the Israeli offensive and the sever blockade imposed on the densely-populated Gaza Strip, Gaza children were forcibly confined to their houses. One of these children was Habib Kahloot. Habib’s mother never let him go out because she did not want to be worried about him.
Feeling bored, Habib nagged to catch up with his brother, Mohammed, who went to stroll into streets. Mohammed pitied his little brother and asked his mother to allow him take him for a walk around the house and the mother finally accepted.
Few minutes later, the father was going to have their bread baked at a bakery in Al-Alamy district. Habib cried a lot to join them to the bakery. Not wanting to break his heart, Habib father let him go along. It was the Israeli war that broke his little heart. On their way back from the bakery, an Israeli aircraft shelled the car which Habib, his father, and his two brothers; Mohammed and Twfiq, were in. They were killed at once and the fragments of their bodies scattered everywhere and some of them were burnt down as the shelling set their car on fire.
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Habib fulfilled his name, which means “the loved one”. Mohammed’s slight mental retard endeared him to all his family members, but most of all, by his mother, who understood that he needed extra love and care more than any of his five siblings. Although of his health problems, Habib was clever, sensible and sensitive.
His mother tried to enroll him at any private school, state school, or one of the schools of the UNRWA (United Nations Refugees and Works Agency) but in vain. She wished that he would learn as much knowledge as he could and be taught proper social behaviors, but all of those schools would not accept him because of his special needs.
As for special education schools, they found that he was far more intelligent than their other students so if they let him join their school, that would be a step backwards for him. In the end, his mother and his brother Mohammed gave him home schooling.
Habib grew so attached to Mohammed, who would look after him all the time; he would sleep next to Mohammed and follow him everywhere. His mother’s tears fall down her cheeks as she described how he loved his brother Mohammed. “I would wake up in the middle of the night and he is not there in his bed. I’d panic and look for him to find him sleeping next to Mohammed,” said the mother.
“Noting how attached Habib was to him, Mohammed used to say, ‘It seems Habib will be there with me when I die’,” related the mother, “and that’s what happened and I stand alone now without my husband and three children.”
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