[antiwar-van] FW: Two Palestinian School Girls Shot in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Forces

[hanna]

The Right Honourable Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada

Dear Prime Minister:

Would the following story deserve the indignation of the Honourable Pierre
Pettigrew, Minister of Foreign Affairs, perhaps as much as his indignation
at the UNRWA hiring Palestinians from Hamas?
For your information, according to human right groups, from September 28,
2004 until Oct.12, 2004, the Israeli Occupation Forces have killed 115
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom 29 were children. Another 127
children have been reported injured.
If this is not terrorism, then what is?

May we suggest that you ask the Attorney General to put the Israeli army and
its supporters in Canada on the Canadian Government's TERROR LIST, or do you
practice double standards?

Hanna Kawas
Chairperson, Canada Palestine Association
www.cpavancouver.org

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Two Palestinian School Girls Shot in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Forces
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/new_web/October_update_archive.htm#two
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Imam Al-Hams, age 13, was shot on her way to school by Israeli snipers
at a distance of 70 meters in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah near
Gaza's border with Egypt.  Israeli occupation soldiers were ordered to
fire on anyone walking within 300 meters of the tower.  Israeli soldiers
who witnessed the shooting from the tower later reported that they had
seen the small girl and told the commander that it was only a child.  A
soldier shot her anyway, and she fell to the ground after being struck
by 20 bullets!

While Iman was lying in the street, wounded or dead, an Israeli platoon
commander approached her and fired two bullets from close range,
creating a 5 cm hole in her head.  He then went back a second time, put
his weapon on the automatic setting and emptied his entire magazine into
her little body, mutilating it.

Palestinian witnesses say it was more than an hour before the Israeli
troops would let medics get to the body in an ambulance.

Today a girl named Ghadeer Mukhemar, 10 years old, was shot in the chest
while she was sitting at her desk in an elementary school in Al-Gharbi
camp in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip.  In Nasser hospital,
doctors said the girl was hit with heavy ammunition and is in critical
condition.   (The girl, Ghadeer Mokheimer, died Wednesday October 13,
2004 of her injuries )

Teachers at the school said that the Israeli occupation forces deployed
in the Neve Dekalim settlement fired toward the area without any reason.
The other students were extremely frightened by the incident.  They left
their classes out of fear of being shot as well.

More on Gaza :
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/new_web/gaza_horrors_cover.htm

For more information contact: The Palestine Monitor
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