Monday, 4 August 2014

Graphic: Heartbreaking pics from the war between Israel & Palestine



The war between Israel and Palestine has entered Day 28 and what's happening there is sickening. Over half a million people in Gaza city have been rendered homeless with 270,000 crammed into 90 crowded UN shelters, some of which have had no running water and electricity. At least 1,700 Palestinians have been killed while 69 Israelis have been killed. Shelters full of children in Gaza have been bombed, medical supplies have run out, many hospitals damaged and medics are unable to go to work. Many UN facilities sheltering displayed Palestinians, especially women and children have been hit, killing so many little children in the city.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been going on for decades but this particular one started on July 17th after Gaza attacked Israel with rockets following failed peace negotiations. Israel replied with both air and ground invasion of Gaza City....and the world is just watching.

Above is a new born baby - with hospital tags still attached - wounded by shrapnel. The baby who already lost his mother, died two days after this photo was taken...
A medic stands among bodies yesterday which were placed hastily in a walk-in vegetable fridge in Rafah, Gaza.
 
A Palestinian man runs with an injured child after the Israeli military strike on a UN school in Rafah this morning.
 
A wounded boy cries under the rubble of the house in Rafah which was destroyed in a reported airstrike yesterday, killing at least nine members of the same family.
 
Rescue workers search for victims after this home in Rafah was destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
 
The gates of the UN school in Rafah. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said last night: 'The attack is yet another gross violation of international humanitarian law. United Nations shelters must be safe zones not combat zones. The Israel Defence Forces have been repeatedly informed of the location of these sites'


Photo Credit: Daily Mail, Reuters, LindaIkeji and AFP

3 comments:

  1. This is heartbreaking... My prayer for those kids and the lives lost so far. May God help us

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  2. Riri all the way.

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