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Thursday, July 17, 2014
20 Facts You’re Not Being Told About Israel and Gaza on TV
The Pontiac Tribune
1) 4 Palestinian boys playing soccer on a beach
were killed yesterday
when an
Israeli airstrike suddenly took their lives
. Dozens of international journalists were stationed at the Al-Deira Hotel
as they watched in horror
while Israeli airstrikes fired upon the Palestinian civilians for a second time, chasing the children across the beach as they screamed for someone to help.
Since July 7th the death toll in Gaza has swelled to
well over 200 Palestinians
. A whopping
80% of the victims have been confirmed as civilians
, including several dozen Palestinian children.
One Israeli has been killed in the conflict.
2) The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, recently called the Israeli oppression of Palestinians “
one of the worst examples of
human rights abuse
in the world
“.
3) 1,562 Palestinian children and 131 Israeli children
have been killed
in Gaza since September 29, 2000. This does not include deaths caused by the ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israel.
To this day,
200 Palestinian children are kept in Israeli prisons
.
4) Last year
AIPAC sent 13,000 lobbyists to warn Congress
not to touch the annual $3 billion in aid the U.S. provides Israel.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a
lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch
of the United States.
Cynthia McKinney
5) Former U.S. lawmaker and
Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney
, along with several other activists,
were detained and sent to an Israeli prison
in 2009 for more than a week.
What were they guilty of? Nothing but attempting to deliver medical aid to the victims of Israeli aggression towards Gaza.
“
We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship,
” – Cynthia McKinney
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