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Man Returns Israeli Medal over Gaza Man returns Israeli Medal over Gaza BBC Online A Dutchman honoured by Israel for hiding a Jewish during World War Two has handed back his medal after six of his relatives were killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza. Henk Zanoli, 91, wrote to the Israeli embassy in The Hague to say he could no longer hold the honour. He said an Israeli F-16 had destroyed his great-niece's home in Gaza, killing all inside, in the recent offensive. Zanoli and his mother were awarded the "Righteous Among the Nations" honour by Israel in 2011 for helping to shelter a Jewish from the Nazis in their family home from 1943-45. The award is accorded to non-Jews who risked their lives to protect and save Jews during the Holocaust. Zanoli's great-niece is a Dutch diplomat who is married to Palestinian economist Ismail Ziadah, who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza. Zanoli, a retired lawyer, offered sharp criticism of Israel's Operation Protective Edge offensive, warning that such actions could lead to possible convictions of "war crimes and crimes against humanity". "Against this background it is particularly shocking and tragic that today, four generations on, our family is faced with the murder of our kin in Gaza. Murder carried out by the State of Israel," he wrote in the letter addressed to Israeli ambassador Haim Davon. Below : The body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, is seen on a beach in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters 
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8/17/2014 3:53 am |
Hi Look: It's a terrible situation what's happening in Gaza, but what's Israel supposed to do when rockets are continually being fired at them from Gaza? Nothing? If they lift the blockades, will this be over? I don't know the answers, but hope something happens soon. What a heartbreaking photo.
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Hi Look: It's a terrible situation what's happening in Gaza, but what's Israel supposed to do when rockets are continually being fired at them from Gaza? Nothing? If they lift the blockades, will this be over? I don't know the answers, but hope something happens soon. What a heartbreaking photo.
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Roxy, Ask Reuters, and you will no doubt get the answers of all your questions I guess. I do not think that Reuters could be forced or bribed to take any stage managed photo as assumed by you !! Roxy, may I request you to kindly read the BBC online news item again please?
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Maisie. You are entitled to your idea. No problem with that. But you have failed to comment on the BBC online news item quoted above. Hope, sanity will return one day and the senseless killings will be stopped!
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Yes Roxy, you should ask Reuters and also put up your findings for us to read. It will surely help me at-least to correct myself if I am wrong in anyway!
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