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Last update - 04:05 02/03/2008 On Arab TV, the images from Gaza are of dead women and children By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Al Jazeera, Gaza, Hamas  Samir, a 35-year-old Gazan journalist, maintains a calm tone in our daily phone calls. He usually even offers a joke at the expense of some Palestinian politician. But on Saturday he sounded agitated. "Have you all gone mad? What happened to you," he asked. "It's one thing if you only hit gunmen. But look at the pictures - they're all children, women. What is this madness? You have turned insanity into an art form." A glance at the Arab television channels makes his comments clear. The images are horrific, so much so that Al Jazeera warned viewers about the content. A shell has hit the kitchen of the Asliyeh family in Jebel Al-Kashf, east of Jabalya. A TV crew bursts into the room, together with the family. When the dust clears we see a small, charred body. Only the hair identifies it as a little girl. The men in the room scream "Samah, Samah." The victim is Samah, 12. Her mother runs in, screaming her name. The men hurry her out to keep her from seeing. The screaming continues. Advertisement Samah's sister, Salwa Asliyeh, 17, was also killed. The medics search for body parts in the rubble. Their brothers and sisters wait outside, wailing. Another Israel Defense Forces missile has landed on a street in Jebal Al-Kashf. The camera focuses on a body with a severed hand that passersby take to the hospital and pans to a young man; who appears to be severely injured, his face covered with blood and dust. A teenager approaches him: "Say 'La Ilaha Illa Allah' [There is no God but Allah]," he demands. Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip: An ambulance stops at the emergency room entrance. The medic rushes a two-month-old baby inside. The infant's clothes are bloody and he seems to be in shock. The doctors place him on a stretcher and begin removing his clothing. He wakes up and begins to cry; he appears to be OK, only his clothes are bloody. The Jabalya refugee camp. From a rooftop, an Al-Jazeera camera covers the events in and around Jebal Al-Kashf. There are explosions almost every minute; smoke billows between the houses. A helicopter fires in bursts. The reporter updates viewers on the numbers of dead. The studio anchorwoman, in Doha, asks angrily whether a residential neighborhood is under fire. The reporter confirms it, not bothering to add that Hamas militants are fighting IDF soldiers in the alleyways. Former Knesset Member Azmi Bishara is on air, in his new role as political commentator. He focuses his criticism on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Saturday in Gaza, everyone spoke the language of Hamas. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Never forget Peres, at Warsaw uprising memorial: Israel will avenge Holocaust through peace. Return to Haifa Provocative new play evokes sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians   1.   On this basis, Israel will never win a PR war 04:08  |  William 02/03/08   2.   Hamas want children to die 04:11  |  Sympathy4Devil 02/03/08   3.   What`s on Israeli TV, comedies? 05:00  |  Ben Plonie 02/03/08   4.   You act like its a lie 05:30  |  M.O. 02/03/08   5.   Dead babies are the stars of the "Hamas 05:38  |  Shloimele 02/03/08   6.   Does Anyone Expect Otherwise? 05:58  |  Josh 02/03/08   7.   Truth Seekers From The ME, even Iran, Dial In Israeli News Too .. 05:59  |  Lavi 02/03/08   8.   All This For... 06:50  |  Yosemite 02/03/08   9.   # 3 to ben plonie in galus 07:16  |  eric 02/03/08   10.   Cecile B. DeMIlle thay ain`t! 07:38  |  Wallace 02/03/08   11.   Sophisticated propaganda 08:09  |  Journalist 02/03/08   12.   The cost of defense may be high... 08:23  |  US CITIZEN 02/03/08   13.   Israeli Terrorists 08:23  |  Sam 02/03/08   14.   Speaking Hamas, even Israel is doing so 10:19  |  Kris 02/03/08   15.   #9 2ND TRY Eric NM 03:29  |  * BEN JABO 03/03/08   16.   Gaza 00:42  |  Joe Kelsall 04/03/08   17.   #16 Joe Kelsall - Liverpool 06:59  |  * BEN JABO 05/03/08   18.   Beating the Qana Strategy 04:10  |  Rick Gross 06/03/08   19.   civilian casualties 02:34  |  Peter 16/04/08

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