LF: Photos: With Gaza Under Attack, Children Pay The Price

A Palestinian man from Al Zeitoun holding his one-year-old son, Omar Jihad Mashrawi, who died from his injuries, at Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

As I write now, I am back in my home. While I was editing pictures, I could hear the frightening sound of the bombs. The street emptied of cars, and there is almost no light. I moved far away from the window, which can get easily smashed by some of the explosions from nearby.In Al Shifa Hospital, there was total chaos, with so many injured people constantly coming in. When I reached the section where they treated burn injuries, some women collapsed in grief. They had just found out that one-year-old Omar Jihad Masharawi had just died of his wounds. One of the women was his mother.

A relative of Omar Jihad Mashrawi, shortly after the announcement of his death, at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

I had arrived with other photographers. I cannot describe in words what I saw, nor can I post the grim pictures of a burned baby. It is just too horrific.

Later, the father carried Omar to the morgue, sobbing. I went home. I feel nervous, with news coming in about more attacks, more injured. There is nowhere to escape in Gaza.

The body of a child in the Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Israel is attacking a civilian population that has committed no crimes other than being Palestinian. Don’t talk to me about rockets. Palestinians have been dispossessed of most of their lands since 1948. The occupation started in 1967. The rockets started in 2001.

Now is the time to act. With major international pressure, Israel might still back down.

I cant sleep and I cant take the image of Omar out of my head. Why did Omar have to die?

The intensive care unit at the Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

A dead Palestinian child is taken away from the intensive care unit, at the Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

A man suffering from burns in an intensive care unit at Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Al Shifa Hospital struggles with casualties following Israeli military attacks all over the Gaza Strip, which killed eight Palestinians and injured over 30, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

A crowd surrounds the morgue at Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, November 14, 2012. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Hope you clean up after yourself and you didn't ruin your keyboard after reviewing this thread.

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Eventually the US Fascist Gov will see Americans thru the digi cam of the Predator or Reaper Drone,...like they do overseas.
Murder 50 innocents to get a certain someone...
When people are reduced to technical military terms..ie..the target...no other distinction matters.

On the TV...the BBC goes on about Militants in Gaza fire Rockets,...and then cuts to Nosferatu [Netanyahu] saying we are targeting terrorists in Gaza.

It's always the innocent men,women,and children who have NOTHING to do with creating the wars that always suffer the most.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

Attacking it's Warsaw ghettoe is Israel's Consolation Prize for being denied it's

Which is the Main reason for teaching your 'innocents' why and what the Top .1% have in mind.....

The difference here though will be that the Americans targeted will know exactly where the drones came from and will 'source' that base.....;}