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Meet Tarek Loubani, the Canadian Doctor Shot by Israeli Forces Monday While Treating Gaza's Wounded (Transcript)
As Palestinians vow to continue protesting against the Israeli occupation of Gaza, we speak to a Canadian doctor who was shot by Israeli forces in both legs Monday [May 14] while he was helping injured Palestinians. Israeli forces shot dead at least 61 unarmed Palestinian protesters taking part in the Great March of Return Monday, including one doctor. Canada, Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Belgium have called for an investigation into the killings. The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced that it will hold a special session Friday to discuss escalating violence in Gaza. We speak with Dr. Tarek Loubani, an emergency room medical doctor, one of 19 medical personnel shot in Gaza on Monday.
Audio and video links at the top of the page.
Pacifica Radio KPFK has a partial audio file, available till mid-July, ~7MB for the story. (KPFK is in fund drive mode.)
Gaza coverage begins at 13:25. The doctor's story is from 15:15 - 31:30.
He notes that the doctor who treated him was subsequently shot, resulting in his death--this, while he was wearing high-visibility clothing to denote his first-responder status.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 18 2018, @03:03PM (1 child)
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by urza9814 on Friday May 18 2018, @03:52PM
Gaza is literally a prison. Israel guards all of their borders, land and sea, and tightly regulates things like food and medicine to ensure they never have enough. Hard to blame the prisoners for trying to escape, especially when they're subjected to such abuses. You don't blame prisoners for rioting, you blame the guards for not keeping them under control. And that's in situations where the prisoners have actually been tried and convicted of a crime in a legitimate court, not just subjected to those conditions because they happened to be born in the prison. And the "rockets" they're launching are not much different than the ones I launched back in elementary school -- no guidance, no explosives, just an empty shell and an engine. Weapons of terror, sure, but compared to the high tech US-made fighter jets that Israel is using to lob thousand dollar smart missiles at them, it's a rather small response.