from Common Dreams
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians," former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Video footage of a young girl trying to flee an inferno caused by a
Monday Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of Palestinians including
her mother and siblings sparked global outrage and calls for an
immediate cease-fire in what one former Israeli prime minister called a
"war of extermination."
Medical officials in Gaza said that at least 36 people were killed by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. The Gaza Government Media Office (GMO) said that 18 children were killed in the "brutal massacre."
"The school was supposed to be a place of safety. Instead, it was turned into an inferno," Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told reporters. "We heard desperate cries for help from people trapped alive inside the blaze, but the fire was too intense. We couldn't get to them."...
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