The other day we did a post on the violent death of a two-year-old girl in Gaza, Hadeel Haddad, which sources attributed to an Israeli air attack– though our postscript mentioned that the official story was in doubt. Well, now the Palestinian Center for Human Rights has investigated and ascribed the child’s death to Palestinian rocket fire. Excerpt:
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is deeply concerned about the killing of Hadeel Haddad, and the wounding of five others, as 5 home-made rockets have landed on 4 houses and an empty area of land in several parts of the Gaza Strip in the past few days. PCHR calls upon the government in Gaza to seriously investigate these incidents, and to take necessary measures to ensure the protection of civilian life and the safety of their property.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR and testimonyfrom eyewitnesses, at approximately 07:30 on Tuesday, 19 June 2012, Hadeel Ahmed Sa’eed al-Haddad (1.5) was struck in the head by shrapnel while she was standing in the entrance of the house of her grandfather, Sa’eed Mohammed al-Haddad, in al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, when a home-made rocket landed on their house.
i am unable to open pchr’s website. is anyone else having that problem?
It works with Mozzila on my PC
thanks, it is coming up for me now too.
just reviewing this from the 19th link to maannews.net
Thanks Phil, and PCHR. Whole-truth-telling is a difficult, largely thankless, but nonetheless critical task. It reminds us who is worthy of belief and/or trust.
This would be the one you were excoriating Israel for and saying what monsters the Israelis were for killing the girl, and now have almost nothing negative to say about the actual killers?
monsters would be your hasbrat wording, i don’t use that kind of terminology.for your edification i said: i think an attack like this warrants a little more than that to be considered set in stone..
I was paraphrasing you, not directly quoting:
Direct quotes below:
“The Israeli missile that fragmented the clock of the night into two halves took the life of Hadeel for no reason but being Palestinian. Or more accurately, a 2-year-old, young, terrorist Palestinian child. ”
Very evocative.
“Israel has been eradicating the Palestinian people, no matter how old they are, ever since it was declared an independent state. Being a Palestinian is more than enough to be slaughtered like a sheep.”
One of your commenters
“This is one of the saddest stories I’ve read in a while. The IDF is the most inhumane army on the planet.”
And after it turns out it was Hamas that did it, are they “the most inhumane army”. Are they “slaughtering” children like sheep? Nope. You’re just on to the next thing.
fred, could you please provide the links to those quotes. if you click on the link above the comment in the time stamp it will appear. thanks. i would like to see the context of these quotes which you allege i made over this incident. thanks
i am not finding those quotes in my archives and since i rarely capitalize nor use the term “idf” it seems quite unlikely you are quoting me directly. do not play games with us.
btw, i will be reporting this comment of yours. i think you are lying attributing these quotes to me.
btw, israel has been eradicating palestinian people since the founding of the state, as far as i know.
here is my archive fred
link to mondoweiss.net
happy hunting
Oh Annie, why this anti-Semitic insistence that quotes attributed to you must say what you actually said? That’s not very witty. Why can’t the quotes indicate what Fredblogs knows you really wanted to say?
Fredfrog
Where does it say “it was Hamas that did it”? Or is that something else you’ve pulled out of the ether for us? Have you decided that any and all resistance groups attempting to fire back against the onslaught of Israeli ordnance are simply using other names to obfuscate Hamas? You know, kinda the way Palestinian seems to equal terrorist?
I was quoting mondoweiss, not you personally.
There is the minor detail that except in the minds of the most demented Israel supporters, there’s no possibility Hamas killed this child intentionally. Indeed, WAS it a Hamas rocket? I don’t see any such claim anywhere above.
I may well run over a two-year old tomorrow. That would be tragic, and quite possibly, there would be some element of negligence on my part.
It’s still quite a different matter than if I spray a pre-school with an AK-47 and let the chips fall where they may.
It’s touching Fredo, that you’re suddenly taking an interest in this child, now that her death cannot be directly laid at the feet of the israelis (although, of course, the zionists are indirectly responsible, as they are the people who started and are perpetuating this conflict). I wonder if you will give a moment’s thought to a Palestinian child whose death doesn’t fit into your zio narrative? Probably not. You seem to only be interested in babies when it helps your cause of defending israeli and your fellow zios.
One reason why peace may never happen here is because people get so locked into claiming a pure story (human history provides none) that they defend, deflect and contextualize the worst of those who are “on the same side.”
What you say is true generally, Woody (I don’t know Fred an cannot say about him) but in this case the post was offered as more proof of Israel’s barbarity and after more info came comments of disbelief trying to tweak something that did not fit into one type of anti-zionist narrative. And then finally the -Israel is still guilty anyway- addendum which is the same.
Meanwhile this innocent girl is still dead.
‘ One reason why peace may never happen here is because people get so locked into claiming a pure story (human history provides none) that they defend, deflect and contextualize the worst of those who are “on the same side.” ‘
Nevertheless, there are causes that are genuinely right, and causes that are genuinely wrong — and individual exceptions and deviations do nothing to alter that.
In the Second World War, there’s evidence that Canadian troops withdrawing from Dieppe threw handcuffed German prisoners into the sea. That doesn’t somehow make Nazi Germany right and the Western Allies wrong.
Peace will never happen in ‘Israel’ because the Zionist cause is fundamentally unjust and can never definitively prevail. People’s tendency to turn everything into a pure morality tale is entirely secondary to that, and has little to do with the essential impossibility of peace on any terms that include the continued existence of an exclusively Jewish state.
It’s OK, Fredo, don’t worry. No one is threatening to break Israel’s monopoly on death and destruction.
Israel slaughtered 329 Palestinian children in its 22-day-assault on Gaza in 2009.
Similar admissions have occurred before.
While Israelis like to claim all and sundry is faked, when there actually WAS an accident, or friendly fire, or whatever, the Palestinians usually seem to readily admit it.
This isn’t to ascribe some especial morality to the Palestinians (as a species, we’re addicted to lying). I think it’s just that they don’t have to. They’ve plenty that is perfectly indisputable to point to.
My heart and my thoughts goes out to the family of this little girl. As a father of a young girl myself, I can barely begin to understand the pain they must go through. Children are so sweet, so innocent, so tender, so full of life, and no cause is worthy of their life.