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Senior Israeli pilot condemns air strikes that hit civilians

Mark Willacy
21 October 2003

Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters have been busy over the skies of Gaza, launching four separate strikes against Hamas targets in the space of a few hours. The attacks have killed at least six people, including two Hamas militants and a civilian bystander, and wounded more than 30 others, including a baby and several young children. In an interview with AM, one of Israel’s most decorated fighter pilots has condemned air strikes which hit innocent civilians as “immoral” and “unlawful”. Mark Willacy reports for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Israeli censor bans Palestinian film on Jenin assault

11 December 2002

Israel has banned the Palestinian documentary Jenin, Jenin on the grounds it distorted the facts of an April assault on the city’s refugee camp. Numerous human rights group accused Israel of committing war crimes in the attack on the refugee camp in April 2002, which killed an unknown number of people.

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on Australian TV's "Lateline"

Lateline
13 October 2000

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on Australian televisions “Lateline” programme, just two weeks into the second Palestini5{ dismisses the violence as “a lot of attention being paid to very few deaths,” even as Abunimah points out that over one hundred Palestinians had already been killed and three thousand injured by the Israeli army, mostly unarmed demonstrators.

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