The American Jewish community must value all life : Stltoday
"We as Jews can do better than allow oppression and violence to continue in our names."
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Earlier this month, after three Israeli teens and one Palestinian teen
were murdered in the occupied West Bank, 500 members of the St. Louis
Jewish community came together to mourn the loss of human life. Since
those horrible events, more than 40 Palestinian children in Gaza have
been killed by the Israeli army from airstrikes and now a ground
invasion — and over 200 adults (at the time this was written). Four
young Palestinian boys were killed while playing on a beach in Gaza,
attempting to run away when an Israeli missile hit them. In the West
Bank, in addition to the torturous murder of 15-year-old Mohammad Abu
Khdair, who was kidnapped, beaten and burned alive by Jewish settlers,
there have been 7 Palestinians killed, mostly youth, and over 320
arrested in the past few weeks.
Palestinian medics carry a man injured in Gaza
City's Shijaiyah neighborhood that came under fire as Israel widened its
ground offensive against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday,
July 20, 2014. Tens of people were killed in Shijaiyah and many more
bodies were believed buried under the rubble of homes, health officials
said. They are the latest casualties in a nearly two-week conflict that
has killed some 380 Palestinians and seven Israelis. (AP Photo/Hatem
Moussa)
