Palestinian Doctor’s Daughters killed while he is interviewed on Israeli TV – ‘Pleas for help from a Palestinian doctor on Friday after his children were killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip and troops later helped surviving members of the family.

The telephone call created extraordinary scenes during evening news broadcasts as the doctor, a Hebrew-speaking physician who spoke regularly on Israeli television, said three of his children were killed in a tank strike and others were wounded.

“My girls were sitting at home planning their futures, talking, then suddenly they are being shelled,” he said in a voice shaking with emotion. “I want to know why they were killed, who gave the order?”

Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish is a 55 yr old gynaecologist who worked in one of Israel’s main hospitals before Gazans were effectively sealed off behind an Israeli-led blockade on the Hamas-controlled enclave. He often gave interviews to Channel 10 television.

With Israeli journalists unable to report from the Gaza Strip independently, Aboul Aish acted as a Hebrew-speaking witness who told of the Palestinian civilians’ suffering under fire during Israel’s three-week-old offensive there.

The deaths of more than 1,150 Palestinians, some 700 of them civilians by one independent count, have left the Israeli public largely unmoved. An overwhelming majority backs a war to end Hamas rocket fire that, before the offensive, had killed 18 people and disrupted life in southern towns over recent years.

Channel 10 correspondent Shlomi Eldar, who said he had planned a live on-air interview with Aboul Aish on Friday evening, produced a mobile phone in the studio, letting viewers here the voice of Aboul Aish: “My God, my girls, Shlomi,” he said. “Can’t anybody get to us, please?”

Eldar told his audience: “They have killed his family.”

He said three of Aboul Aish’s children were killed and two were seriously wounded. Building up the sense of drama, cameras followed him as left the studio, saying he would try to help arrange for their transfer for treatment, and safety, in Israel.

Surviving members of the family were later shown being transferred to Israeli ambulances and taken out of Gaza. Aid agencies have complained that Israel has not done enough to help Gaza’s hospitals and allow the transfer of some wounded people.

Aboul Aish’s brother was also wounded and Eldar said two of his brother’s children had also been killed in the incident.

The Israeli army said troops fired on Aboul Aish’s house because a sniper had fired on soldiers from the building.

Aboul Aish responded: “All that was ever fired out of our house was love, hugs and acts of peace, nothing else, ever.”
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If you can bear it, there is a You Tube of the poor man’s anguish with this rough translation (not mine).
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUJ4fF2HN4

“Dr. Ezz-El-Din Abu El-Eish (I hope I am transliterating correctly) is a Palestinian gynecologist from Beit Lahiya, in the NE corner of the Gaza Strip. He works at Israel’s largest hospital, Tel Hashomer near Tel Aviv.

This impressive and peaceful man has been stranded at home during the war. Israel’s Channel 10 TV has regularly interviewed him by phone about the situation. On one occasion, a tank gun aimed at his home – and Israeli media intervention saved him…

What we see in the clip [above] is Israeli anchor Shlomi Eldar holding a cellphone with Dr. Abu El-Eish on the other side, howling with misery. A tank shell has just hit his home and immediately killed three of his children (apparently they cut off the first seconds when the shell actually hit).”
Assaf provides a transcript of the first two minutes:

“Eldar: …we have on the line Dr. Abu El-Eish, we have been talking with him over the past period… he [his home] was just shelled, his family is wounded, maybe I can replay…

Dr. Abu El-Eish: No one can get to us… (unclear)… Ya Rabi, Ya Rabi (my god).. [he continues to cry throughout while Eldar talks to the audience]

Eldar: They killed his family, over the past few days we have been… I think I’m a bit overwhelmed too because,… (tearing up) Dr. Abu El-Eish is a Tel Hashomer physician, [to the doctor] Abu El-Eish we are now in the studio, [back to the audience] and he kept fearing his family would get hurt, once this week he went on air to Gabi Gazit [another anchor], because this was the only way [apparently referring to the previous near-miss incident]…. In short, he was now hit, who was hurt Abu El-Eish?

Dr. Abu El-Eish: My girls, Ya Allah, Ya Allah

[around 1:00 into clip]

Eldar: He has eight children whom he has protected throughout the war, at his home in Beit Lahiya, maybe the only thing we can do is to ask someone who can, maybe in the IDF, Abu El-Eish can you tell me where your house is, maybe they will enable ambulances to get there

Dr. Abu El-Eish: (unclear) …to save them, to save them, but they are dead already they were hit in the head, it was in their heads [died] on the spot, on the spot, Shlomi, Ya Allah, … what have we done, what have we done [repeatedly]… they killed the family… [more screams in the background]”
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A news report here http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5geza1LWQmc-pkr-KAmGa0DDpFTtAD95OI1HG1

A mother and her five children killed in an airstrike an Al-Bureij home – Friday dead at 34 – Israeli strikes continue
Date: 16 / 01 / 2009 Time: 18:09

Gaza – Ma’an – A mother and her five children from the Al-Batran family were killed Friday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on their home in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources identified the dead as 30-year-old Manal, and her children 12-year-old Wala, 8-year-old Izz- Ad-Din, 10-year-old, Bilal, 11-year-old Islam, and seven-year-old Ihsan.

The death toll for Friday is at 34; the total death toll since Israel launched its first airstrikes on Gaza on 27 December is 1,155 including 370 children, and 85 women. There have been 5,015 injured in the attacks including 1,745 children.

5:00 A man was killed while riding his motorcycle in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

4:00pmThree members of one family were killed and a fourth injured as an Israeli missile hit Rafah.

12:00 An Israeli airstrike on a car near the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City killed two and injured a third at noon.

11:30am An Israeli artillery shell killed a six-year-old girl according to officials at Kamal Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza. Medics said the shell landed on a group of children in the town of Jabaliya.

11:00am Medical officials said that 14-year-old Issa Ermelat was killed when Israeli forces shelled the area near the near An-Nejma market in Ash-Shaboura refugee camp in the city of Rafah. Another person was injured in the attack.

9:30 Medics At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that 22-year-old Mamdouh Abdel Latif Abu Ruk died of wounds he sustained two-days ago in the town of Abassan.

***Updated 19:41 Bethlehem time
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Meanwhile, the two female war criminals, Livni and Rice, are enacting a carve-up of the Rafah crossing area preliminary to a ceasefire because as Ms Livni says it is ‘a vital component for the cessation of hostilities’. It is just a device to tighten the Gaza siege. Words fail – they have no hearts. Sweep the dead and injured away out of sight just in time for the Inauguration so that the next lot of killers have a clean run. Who said that Obama wasn’t black or brown – just gunmetal grey?

Our state broadcaster (the BBC) have not mentioned any of the details of today’s killings nor the continuing attacks. Instead, all day long, we have had coverage of the Miracle on the Hudson and the brave pilot. Anything to divert attention from the atrocity – ‘Get me a timeline on that’ screams the editor.

so, barack, calls for a weeklong truce because his soldiers are not ready for war; only crimes, i may emend his ‘explanation’.
isr had been stopped. thnx