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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.
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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: 4, Insightful) by urza9814 on Friday May 18 2018, @03:58PM (1 child)
No, they're in the best position to advise someone else against making the same mistakes that they did. We do want people to learn from their mistakes, not just sit back and watch the same events unfold over and over and over again, right?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 18 2018, @09:14PM
That's the thing, for decades the German government has more or less bitten its tongue when it comes to criticizing Israel. The fact that they're doing so now, is a reflection of how little credibility the Israeli government has. Committing all these crimes against humanity shouldn't be something that Germany has to sit on the sidelines about. That kind of thinking is a large part of how Germany wound up being run by the Nazis and committing all those crimes against humanity.
The standards we had were good, we shouldn't be allowing the Israelis to violate them at the same time that we're tightening the standards on Nazis for things that happened decades ago and where the individuals didn't necessarily have a choice in participating on the periphery.