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Gaza Civil Defense Directorate crews remove the wreckage of a car targeted by an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014. The attack killed three men riding in the car who were taken to Kamal Udwan hospital. Two were identified as Mahmoud Waloud and Hazim Balousha. (Photo by Joe Catron)

Nobody should be a number: Names of those killed in Gaza

At the time of writing, Israeli air strikes and shelling had killed dozens of Palestinians since the start of Operation Protective Edge. There had been no deaths on the Israeli side. Some of those killed by Israel were Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, others were civilians, including women and children. The Israeli army has been…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 10, 2014

A Palestinian woman mourns the loss of a loved one, who was killed by the Israeli army in Qalandiya Refugee Camp on August, 26, 2013. See below for more details. (Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

2013 was a deadly year in Israel-Palestine

Regardless of how they were killed, by whom, how it was justified or who mourned them, each person who died in the Israel-Palestine conflict this year has a name. Last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for daring to mourn together in the same breath the killings of Jewish…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man December 31, 2013