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Israel Pounds Gaza as Diplomacy Intensifies

Palestinians remove debris from a building that was damaged in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, Nov. 19, 2012.
Palestinians remove debris from a building that was damaged in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, Nov. 19, 2012.
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by: Anonymous
November 20, 2012 3:34 AM
Hey leaders of Israel, what you are doing to the people of Gaza is disgusting, racist, and illegal. What you are doing to the people of Gaza is no different than what Hitler did to the Jews in ww2.

Quit oppressing others and worry about yourselves, what you are doing is building more and more hatred in the middle east. Taking out the infastructure of the Government there makes more chaos in Gaza, don't you get it??? It will become more and more uncivillized. It's disgusting what you are doing. I think you should have one of your highly paid war professors explain to you what kind of mess you are creating. God bless people of all races, and beliefs. There's a thing called respect. It's a shame most wars are created from religion.

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by: disaptvet from: iraq
November 21, 2012 3:47 AM
translation..."Hey Israel, how dare you shoot back at us when we fire missiles at your people!! Don't you know you're just supposed to take it?"

catch a clue anonymous.


by: matt b from: australia
November 20, 2012 12:27 AM
Notice the size of the explosions in Gaza. Most are 'secondary' - caused when an Israeli missile hits an arms dump or Iranian missile.
Most of the main damage to Hama infrastructure is caused by Iranian munitions - sort of poetic justice.


by: Gar from: Seoul
November 19, 2012 9:11 PM
There isn't a nation on earth that would standby while another nation indiscriminately fired rockets on its citizens at will and do nothing. This is terrorism and terrorism can never be justified.


by: buck mast from: Tennessee
November 19, 2012 8:28 PM
What would happen if Mexico started shooting rockets into Texas.The American people would demand that our military take action to stop the rocket attacks


by: buck mast from: Tennessee
November 19, 2012 8:25 PM
Only Hamas shoots rockets from civilian locations and hope and pray to Allah that Israel will bomb the rocket site and kill Muslim civilians-sick


by: Bob from: Canada
November 19, 2012 7:42 PM
The Arabic peoples are a largely at the mercy of either Dictators or religious zealots who have little appreciation for human life. They will never stop attacking Israel so you can't blame the Israeli's for defending themselves. It doesn't matter if we believe the propaganda, as there are 1 billion muslims and growing. The world could transform into a very evil place in the next 100 years.


by: angelina from: las vegas
November 19, 2012 6:54 PM
TO ALL MY BROTHER SISTERS FRIENDS OVER HERE WHO AGREE WHO DON'T AGREE WHO LIKED WHO DID NOT LIKE NO MATTER BUT PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE AT LEAST THINK SERIOUS ABOUT THE BABIES BATHED IN BLOOD ON BOTH SIDES WHICH HURTS LOT CRUSH OUR HEARTS TS INTO THOUSAND OF PIECES DO SOME THING PRACTICAL AT LEAST EVEN IF 1%HUMANITY INSIDE YOU WE LOVE BOTH NATIONS IF THEY COULD LIVE IN PEACE.


by: Paul from: Seattle, Wa
November 19, 2012 6:16 PM
.........6 days, 60 days or 600 days or make 60000 years, nothing is going change the determinations of Arabs to remove the israel jews from their lands.


by: Maithe from: Paris, France
November 19, 2012 3:27 PM
I'm sorry to tell you that this is very bad journalism VOA. How can you put day after day the same shameful headlines (Israel is always the aggressor for you). How can you show all those undecent pictures ?( the victims are only Palestinians for you) Why do you try so hard to manipulate people ? Why you don't tell the truth ? Do you know what is terrorism? Gaza? Hamas? I doubt...


by: ali baba from: new york
November 19, 2012 3:14 PM
it is sad and painful for people who killed or injury. the questions why hamas fired rockets and they know that isreal will respond excessively. hams thought that isalmist will support them and it is good time to revenge . they are wrong. they believe the mentally ill islamist that they are going to wipe isreal from the map.the consequence a tragdy occured

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