Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun

And So the killing Continues, I will Avenge, I will Avenge

"God is greater than Israel and America," was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended into the graveyard in grief stricken Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. They congregated in yet another familiar scene to bury their loved ones, killed by Israel’s brutal war against the Palestinians. This time, the loss was too great to bear, even by the standards of the people of Gaza: eighteen ambulances lined up, carrying the mutilated bodies of eighteen members of the same extended family, the majority of whom were women and children; all civilians. "I will avenge; I will avenge," screamed a relative of one of those who died in the Israeli artillery attack on Beit Hanoun, on November 8...

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