Dr Izzeldeen holds on to his son, Abdullah, having lost three daughters'Bowen diary: Hitting home
BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen's diary of the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
30 JANUARY
Why did it take a long time for Israelis to become aware of the fact that many hundreds of Palestinian civilians were being killed in Gaza by their troops?
The al-Mazen centre for human rights has told the BBC that 1,268 people were killed, among them 288 children and 103 women. It is still investigating some unconfirmed cases.
Thirteen Israelis - 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rockets - were killed before the two sides both announced ceasefires on 18 January.
It took the grief of Dr Izzeldeen Abuelaish, after the deaths of three of his daughters and a niece, to get through to the Israeli consciousness. I have written about the family in my last few diaries.
'Unique factors'
In Tel Aviv today I met the journalists who helped evacuate another Abuelaish daughter and another niece for medical treatment in Israel. They work for Israel's Channel 10 TV.
One of them, Shlomi Eldar, was telephoned by Dr Izzeldeen while he was in the studio. The doctor's anguish was broadcast live, in the fluent Hebrew that he uses with Jewish patients in the Israeli hospital where he works.
Shlomi covers the Palestinians for Channel 10. With his colleague Alon Ben-David, who is the defence correspondent, they started to ring all the influential people they could.
They say that within an hour and a half, the girls were being transferred into an Israeli ambulance at the Erez crossing into Gaza.
As far as they know, the only other Palestinian casualties taken into Israel during what was a very one-sided war, were people who had been picked up by the army.
Other civilians were evacuated via the Rafah crossing into Egypt and then sent to Cairo and other Arab capitals.
Shlomi and Alon say that in this case unique factors came together. The drama happened live on TV. The doctor spoke Hebrew. The channel had already interviewed him on conditions inside Gaza so he was known to the audience.
And that was why the deaths of four young girls in Gaza hit home in Israel's sitting rooms in a way that no others did, and then made some Israelis think about other Palestinian casualties too.'
BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen's diary of the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
30 JANUARY
Why did it take a long time for Israelis to become aware of the fact that many hundreds of Palestinian civilians were being killed in Gaza by their troops?
The al-Mazen centre for human rights has told the BBC that 1,268 people were killed, among them 288 children and 103 women. It is still investigating some unconfirmed cases.
Thirteen Israelis - 10 soldiers and three civilians hit by Hamas rockets - were killed before the two sides both announced ceasefires on 18 January.
It took the grief of Dr Izzeldeen Abuelaish, after the deaths of three of his daughters and a niece, to get through to the Israeli consciousness. I have written about the family in my last few diaries.
'Unique factors'
In Tel Aviv today I met the journalists who helped evacuate another Abuelaish daughter and another niece for medical treatment in Israel. They work for Israel's Channel 10 TV.
One of them, Shlomi Eldar, was telephoned by Dr Izzeldeen while he was in the studio. The doctor's anguish was broadcast live, in the fluent Hebrew that he uses with Jewish patients in the Israeli hospital where he works.
Shlomi covers the Palestinians for Channel 10. With his colleague Alon Ben-David, who is the defence correspondent, they started to ring all the influential people they could.
They say that within an hour and a half, the girls were being transferred into an Israeli ambulance at the Erez crossing into Gaza.
As far as they know, the only other Palestinian casualties taken into Israel during what was a very one-sided war, were people who had been picked up by the army.
Other civilians were evacuated via the Rafah crossing into Egypt and then sent to Cairo and other Arab capitals.
Shlomi and Alon say that in this case unique factors came together. The drama happened live on TV. The doctor spoke Hebrew. The channel had already interviewed him on conditions inside Gaza so he was known to the audience.
And that was why the deaths of four young girls in Gaza hit home in Israel's sitting rooms in a way that no others did, and then made some Israelis think about other Palestinian casualties too.'
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1 opmerking:
Some Israelis think about other Palestinian casualties too! Hoeveel is some?
Altijd en eeuwig weer het excuus "ja maar, de raketten van Hamas"! Alleen hun veiligheid telt, hun land, hun mensen!
Beter samengevat zoals een Israelier zei" Ruim die rotzooi op"! En de uitspraak van "das habe ich nicht gewusst", is al lang achterhaald!
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