Red Cross critical of Israel + Paramedics risking their lives amid war in Gaza

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Red Cross critical of Israel

By: Jonathan Rugman
Channel 4 – News
08 Jan 2009

As a UN aid worker is killed in Gaza, the International Red Cross accuses Israel of breaching humanitarian law. Jonathan Rugman reports.

Conditions for the residents of Gaza worsened still further this afternoon when a United Nations aid agency suspended its operations after one of its workers was killed.

And in unusually strong terms the International Red Cross today criticised Israel after finding four emaciated children among a group of corpses in a house just metres from an Israeli military position.

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via Channel 4 – News – Red Cross critical of Israel.

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Paramedics risking their lives amid war in Gaza – 08 Jan 09

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It’s a tough job as it is, but for the paramedics and ambulance drivers of Gaza right now it’s impossible.

Hundreds of health workers are risking their lives on a daily basis in order to save others.

Sherine Tadros has spent a day with some of them. This is her exclusive report. AlJazeeraEnglish

see

Mosaic News – 1/7/09: War on Gaza – Day 12

Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict? By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields by Michel Chossudovsky