Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family's House

Democracy Now by Suleiman Barak, Amy Goodman | Jan. 16, 2009 (Special Report)

As the Palestinian death toll in Israel’s assault on Gaza climbs above 1,100, we take a look behind the statistics. Suleiman Baraka is a Palestinian astrophysicist working at Virgnia Tech with NASA. His eleven-year-old son Ibrahim was killed in an Israeli air strike on his house. His wife and three other children are now homeless in Gaza, along with seventeen members of his family. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 17, 2009

This is a detailed telling of the story of one man working as an Astrophysicist in the U.S. as his home is destroyed in Gaza and his son Ibrahim is killed. The interview shows his humanity facing the inhumanity of the assaults. One of eleven hundred stories.

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