Doctor Decries Israeli Attacks

In this CBS video, Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Marsha Iverson - Jan 5, 2009 - 7:59 PM PST
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Marsha Iverson
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by Marsha Iverson - Jan. 9, 2009

Grapic video footage of bombed civilian areas in the Gaza Strip, voice-over narrative is interview between reporter and Norwegian doctor serving in Gaza hospital.

This is a deeply distressing report by a first-hand observer who is treating the wounded and dying. Nearly 98% of the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza are civilians, trying to live in peace and raise their families. They have suffered ruthless sanctions and deprivation under the Israeli government's brutal closures: they are without potable water, flour for bread, oil for cooking or heat, medicines, jobs, or hope for their future. And they cannot even leave. Yet the Israeli ... More »

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 6, 2009

Watching the Doctor's running around trying to save women and children with no medicine, no room, and little or no sleep for 24 hrs. a day was a disgrace. How the International Communities can not be calling for Israel to decease is appalling.

While Hamas started this by lobbing bombs into Israel, the level of retribution is wildly disproportionate. Bush is making the U.S. look like conspirators by not calling on Israel to draw down immediately.

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Jan. 9, 2009

If Americans knew what their money does, I believe that there would be changes in our foreign policy.

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John Seymour
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by John Seymour - Jan. 6, 2009

For a website with a name like NewsTrust, I find the posting of stories like this to cause more harm than good. The good doctor's belief that the death of civilians is deliberate is based on what data? These are the same civilians who voted out the Fatah movement, that was dealing with the Israelis across the table in the hopes of a peace settlement, in favor of a group that refuses to recognize the right os Israel to even exist. And while culpability for the lack of a ... More »

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