Gazan Doctor's children killed while he is speaking to Israeli TV
By Mary Rizzo • Jan 16th, 2009 at 21:20 • Category: Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism
A friend of mine sent something unusual, a link to a blog post talking about a Gazan doctor who normally works near Tel Aviv, who often reports to Channel 10. During one of his reports, the ultimate tragedy strikes. SEE it here (thank you Oskar) and there are subtitles to understand the words spoken. Click on the far right bottom icon where there is a small menu with an arrow pointing up which provides English subtitles.
from Open Salon http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=84825
Dr. Loses Kids to IDF Bomb During Interview to Israeli TV
Israeli public opinion, while still fo the opinion that this operation was a good idea, is moving decidedly to the "OK, we're done here" view, as my good friend and mentor Shai Golden put it in Haaretz's "This Week" supplemnent's main hed today.But as any student of history knows, there sometimes passes an awful long period (at least subjectively) between the realization that an armed conflict has run its course, and when the (now admittedly needless) slaughter of people actually stops.
So, Israel's channel 10 is interviewing its regular "good Palestinian", Dr. Az A-Din Abu al-Ayash, an OB-GYN who actually works at Israel's Tel HaShomer hospital outside Tel Aviv. (In other words, he's an OB_GYN able to practice his love with women across the country).
So Channel 10's Shlomi Eldar is interviewing the good doctor by phone, live on TV, when suddenly there's a boom and the doctor begins to scream "Oh god, they killed my daughters".
Oops! One of our tanks missed its actual target and took out the good Dr's house, killing two of his daughters and injuring a third (who, because Dali had nothing on reality, was airlifted to the same hospital where her dad works).
This, by the way, happened after the doctor complained earlier in the week that a tank with its barrel pointed directly at the his window was making him nervous. So Ronni Daniel, the (traitor to journalism, embedded IDF spokesman) military reporter for Channel 2, reportedly spoke to the commander in question and got him to point that thing someplace else. Only temporarily, as it turns out.
I wish I was making this up.
More later.
My friend sent me the link to the actual show:
Here it is, in Hebrew, between two annoying commercials.
You hear him crying live on the show on the phone, and the smirk of the interviewer, explaining what happened to the viewers and asking him how he feels – is disgusting.
So, see this video (listen to it, especially). It is pretty shocking. Here is another report on it (from the link)
Tel Aviv – A Palestinian doctor from Gaza who was a regular guest on Israeli television Friday called a reporter who had interviewed him many times, screaming frantically that his house had just been bombed by the military.
'My girls, oh god, they've killed my girls,' cried Ezz al-Din Abu al-Aish, the doctor, as the Israeli reporter held his mobile phone to the microphone during a live broadcast.
Abu al-Aish's home in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, had just been hit by a shell, fired by Israeli soldiers.
The doctor works as a gynecologist at both hospitals in Gaza as well as the Tel Hashomer medical center in Israel and speaks fluent Hebrew, making him an ideal guest for the television.
'I hope anyone who can hear us, the military, the red cross, can get there,' the emotional reporter, Shlomi Eldar said, announcing the exact location of the doctor's home, hoping help would arrive quickly.
Eldar then went off-camera to call his numerous contacts in Israel and try and get the family assistance.
Medical teams have reported extreme limitations on their movement during the ongoing Israeli military campaign.
Three girls of the doctor's eight children died in the attack, two others were injured as was he, and they were taken to hospitals in Israel.
The doctor had become a mainstay on Channel 10, giving daily updates to Eldar and other reporters on the unfolding Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, and adding his own moderate political message.
Archive footage from last week, broadcast again after the bombing, showed the doctor condemning both the Israeli military's hard-handed actions in Gaza, as well as Palestinian rocket fire at southern Israel.
The Israeli military told the channel that the shell that hit the house was in response to rockets fired from the home.
'They fired hugs and love and peace, nothing else was fired,' the doctor said about his deceased daughters in later phone interview with the channel.
'Why did they kill them, they were just girls?' Abu al-Aish repeated over and over again to the reporters, on the prime-time Friday night broadcast, considered the most important news show of the week.
The doctor's brother was also killed as were two nephews in the bombing. His wife had died of cancer three years ago.
One of the surviving girls brought to the Israeli hospital was in critical condition.
In the environment of the three-week old campaign in Gaza, the channel itself deemed such intense reporting of the Palestinian story 'rare.'
Channel 10 continued to follow the case throughout the entire broadcast and took credit for getting Abu al-Aish and the girls out through the northern Erez Crossing into Israel, where other ambulances waited and brought them to hospitals.
from Reuters:
JERUSALEM – Israeli television broadcast desperate cries for help from a Palestinian doctor on Friday after his children were killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip and troops later helped surviving members of the family.
The telephone calls created extraordinary scenes during evening news broadcasts as the doctor, a Hebrew-speaking physician who spoke regularly on Israeli television, said three of his children were killed in a tank strike and others were wounded.
"My girls were sitting at home planning their futures, talking, then suddenly they are being shelled," he said in a voice shaking with emotion. "I want to know why they were killed, who gave the order?"
Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish is a gynaecologist who worked in one of Israel's main hospitals before Gazans were effectively sealed off behind an Israeli-led blockade on the Hamas-controlled enclave. He often gave interviews to Channel 10 television.
With Israeli journalists unable to report from the Gaza Strip independently, Aboul Aish acted as a Hebrew-speaking witness who told of the Palestinian civilians' suffering under fire during Israel's three-week-old offensive there.
The deaths of more than 1,150 Palestinians, some 700 of them civilians by one independent count, have left the Israeli public largely unmoved. An overwhelming majority backs a war to end Hamas rocket fire that, before the offensive, had killed 18 people and disrupted life in southern towns over recent years.
Channel 10 correspondent Shlomi Eldar, who said he had planned a live on-air interview with Aboul Aish on Friday evening, produced a mobile phone in the studio, letting viewers here the voice of Aboul Aish: "My God, my girls, Shlomi," he said. "Can't anybody get to us, please?"
Eldar told his audience: "They have killed his family".
He said three of Aboul Aish's children were killed and two were seriously wounded. Building up the sense of drama, cameras followed him as left the studio, saying he would try to help arrange for their transfer for treatment, and safety, in Israel.
Surviving members of the family were later shown being transferred to Israeli ambulances and taken out of Gaza. Aid agencies have complained that Israel has not done enough to help Gaza's hospitals and allow the transfer of some wounded people.
Aboul Aish's brother was also wounded and Eldar said two of his brother's children had also been killed in the incident.
The Israeli army said troops fired on Aboul Aish's house because a sniper had fired on soldiers from the building.
Aboul Aish responded: "All that was ever fired out of our house was love, hugs and acts of peace, nothing else, ever."
(thanks Daniel!)
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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Could you please say where it is exactly on this website? Most of the people dont have any idea about hebrew. if it is any of the two media player files, they dont open.
thanks a lot
Daily Kos has more on this now, with a link to the footage on YouTube (without the annoying commercials) embedded. Mary, maybe you can link to the video directly?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/16/145932/668/542/684934
Thanks very much Oskar (!!!) Will link to it, and note, there are subtitles.
If you click on the video with the man and go to the youtube site. There is a button on the bottom right corner of the video, that looks like a triangle. Turn on CC, closed captioning, and you can read it in English.
Atually, it was Norman Fiinkelstein who was the first person to post the video on his site, that is – after it was posted on YouTube:
May all those who gave the green light – the Chuck Schumers, the Barney Franks, Bloombergs, the Ignatieffs, the Tom Friedmans, Jeffrey Goldbergs, the David Remnicks – may they all burn in hell
Israeli TV airs Gaza doctor's pleas after children killed – ENGLISH SUBTITLES
01.16.2009 |
By fpzzuuulzgaxd
If you cannot see the subtitles do the following:
1. Play the video
2. Click the triangle button at the bottom-right corner of the video
3. Click the Turn on captions button that looks like the letters CC.
Assaf provides some background here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/16/145932/668
Reuters reports on it here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50F6ML20090116
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2523
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What the Jews think
about Gentiles (Non-Jews).
This article appeared in the magazine “Free At Last” under the title
American Law, Fact, Fraud,
and Insidious Insiders
“Galatians, 4:16: Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”–
“We…continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands…naïve Americans…we have TAUGHT them to SUBMIT to our every demand…Americans have not had a presidential choice since 1932. Roosevelt was our man; every president since Roosevelt has been our man. We…have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we PROMOTE BOTH SIDES of the issue as confusion reigns.
“With their eyes fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is BEHIND EVERY scene. We…toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse. The blood of the masses will flow as we wait for our day of WORLD victory…The naïve politicians in WASHINGTON are gullible. Most of them are not too bright…the powerful…lobbyists influenced…years ago (federal funds to aid Israel) and there is no one strong enough to stop it…some of that money is returned to the United States and spent on Zionist propaganda…through B’nai Brith…Conference of Jewish Organizations… World Jewish Congress…tax free so long as we are smart enough to get away with it…
“ANTI-SEMITISM does NOT signify opposition to Semitism. THERE IS NO SUCH THING. It is an expression we…use effectively as a SMEARWORD …used to brand…anyone who brings criticism against (us)…We use it against HATE-mongers… (we) do so. That’s all there is to it.
“…I’d say more than 90% (of us) know what is really happening to our people. We have COMMUNICATION unequalled…It is an established rule to destroy all members of pre-existing government…the Police, State Police, Army officers and their families and relatives…In Russia, there are TWO distinct GOVERNMENTS – one visible and the other invisible…The INVISIBLE rulers in the communist countries have a world CONTROL over the propaganda and the governments in free countries. The cultural and intellectual influence of Judaism is felt throughout the entire world…MONEY is more important than morality.
“We can accomplish anything with money…Israel can now win in any encounter…It will also be the base for World Government Headquarters. We CONTROL EVERY MEDIA of expression…newspaper , magazines, radio, television…even your music! We CENSOR…before long we will have COMPLETE CONTROL of your thinking…
“The richest plum…(we) took over the publication of ALL SCHOOL MATERIALS…could MOLD public opinion to suit OUR PURPOSES. The people are only stupid pigs that grunt and squeal the chants we give them…truth or lies. There is no silent majority…only thing that exists is an UNTHINKING majority and unthinking they will remain…their ESCAPE from our rigorous service is the opiate of our ENTERTAINMENT industry. We have castrated society through FEAR and INTIMIDATION. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine…appearance… being so neutered, the populace has become DOCILE and EASILY RULED…their thoughts…only with the present toil and the next meal…You have become addicted to our MEDICINE through which we have become your absolute masters.
“We pretty much CONTROL the U.N…There will be a forced class warfare here in the United States and many will be liquidated…I’m not boasting…I’m giving you the facts! It is TOO LATE for your Christian followers to put up a DEFENCE …Long, long ago we HAD to become the AGGRESSORS…that is undoubtedly one of our great PURPOSES in life…
“Religion…our CONTROL of the textbook industry…news media…able to hold ourselves up as AUTHORITIES…our rabbis now hold professorships in supposed Christian theological seminaries. We are amazed by the Christian’s stupidity …Judaism is not only the teaching of the synagogue, but also the doctrine of every Christian Church in America. Through our propaganda the church has become our most avid supporter…their believing in the lie that we are the ‘chosen people’ and they, the gentiles.” “These deluded children of the church defend us to the point of DESTROYING their own culture…The ignorant Christians…attack the crusaders even if they are members of their own families…Through our influence of religion we were able to involve the ignorant white Christians in WARS against themselves, which always impoverished both sides while we reaped a financial and political harvest…
“Through religion we have gained CONTROL of society, government and economics. The gullible clergy…instruct their parishioners that we are a special, chosen people…These PULPIT PARROTS extol our goodness for loaning them the MONEY to build their temples, never realizing that their own holy book condemns all USURY… pay our exorbitant INTEREST…they have led society into our CONTROL through the same practice.
“Politically, they hail the blessings of DEMOCRACY and never understand that through DEMOCRACY we have gained CONTROL…DEMOCRACY is mob-rule which we CONTROL through their churches, our news media and economic institutions…These RELIGIOUS PUPPET’S stupidity is only exceeded by their cowardice, for they are ruled easily…”
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *
On Control, you may remember the 8/12/1976 sky-jacking of an Israeli jetliner in Istanbul, Turkey, in which four people were killed and some thirty injured. Aboard was the administrative assistant for then-U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits (a Jew) of New York, 29 year-old Harold W. Rosenthal (a Jew), whose unfortunate murder that day was not from random bullets that killed the others. Evidence indicates that his was pre-planned, making me wonder if it was due to his lengthy, boastful interview with American Christian editor Walter White.
Please read the full interview at the following link. It is titled ”The Hidden Tyranny” and I hope from the brazen words above you will see why.
http://www.rense. com/general66/ rosen.htm
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You hear him crying live on the show on the phone, and the smirk of the interviewer, explaining what happened to the viewers and asking him how he feels – is disgusting.
You know, I don't see this in the video I viewed. The 'interviewer' who is listening to the doctor seems to be shaken (disturbed) by what he's hearing. The English translation doesn't hint at the doctor being asked 'how he feels.'
Reading and listening to this juxtapositioned with watching the Obamas & Bidens travel by train to D.C., readying for the upcoming inauguration – I don't know. Just once I want Israel to made to answer for the sh*t they cause, just as Bush & Cheney should be made accountable for the sh*tstorm they've created.
CNN has this up on their site regarding Dr. Abu al-Aish.
CNN has this up on their site regarding Dr. Abu al-Aish.
_sorry for the Quranic quotes, you know, it's become habit :/
Sorry for the double posting.
The story is in the NYTimes as well. It's in the 'World' section, online edition. I don't know where it lies in the print edition. I do know it was one of the stories in an e-mail I received from the NYT.
I saw it up front last night on MSNBC, but Obama's inauguration is overshadowing a lot of the news and, I don't see it without having to hunt.
Richard Engel is now in Gaza. He's chief foreign correspondent for NBC/MSNBC. He's been a frequent guest on Rachel Maddow's show lately discussing the Gaza crisis.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28707653#28707653
Wow, that being shot at excuse is getting a little tired, how many times can it be used to cover up genocide? I think it was gunfire coming from the UN relief station as a reason to shell the hell out of it, right? Really, all of this is nothing more than Israel taking all the fancy high tech weapons and gear that we, the US, hooked them up with and using Gaza as a nice military war game with live test subjects. Been planning it for a year or more, they broke the 6 month ceasefire knowing it would give them an open door before they go after Iran. Disgusting.
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Why are we so violent? Why does the human race,everywhere resort to what we know contradicts our morality, our apex messages from our spiritual leaders, from G_D? Are we destined to continue our knee-jerk reactions to violence until we kill each other off? We have to break the cycle of viloence someday,one day or we just keep suffering this insanity. My kid was jumped coming home from school and i saw it,broke it up and tried to tell that kid and my kid that violence is wrong. Who am i fooling? At school they are taught to worship a flag no matter where it goes,no matter what it does to whomever. This is done in every nation,at every church,synogoge,mosque and temple. We are good, they are bad and we can kill and it is right,but when our enemy does it is bad. Dispair? Heart-wrenching my soul until its twisted and black. Oh G_D, i can't take this anymore. Hundreds of kids killed by a military machine and the world is silent, my nation condones it and i'm sick to my stomach. Who am i to stem this evil of violence? All my peers, my 'peace hero's' are dead usually from violence. When is enough,enough?
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