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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Bowen diary: Hitting home

Doctor's answer: Some people in Israel have suggested that the shells came from Hamas.

I climbed onto to an adjoining roof with Marc Garlasco, who is a weapons expert for Human Rights Watch. He found pieces of a high explosive anti-tank round.

From behind the building you can see through the holes the shells made as they passed through the flat and beyond it to a hill where Israeli tanks were deployed. It was a straight shot.

As Dr Izzeldeen stood in the wreckage of his family's life, I asked him if he still believed in peace.

He said he did, and so did his Israeli friends, but their army and those who gave it orders did not. I put to him Israel's argument, that it was a defensive war provoked by Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.

He answered like a doctor. Hamas and the rockets, he said, were the symptoms of a disease caused by a hundred years of conflict and the denial of freedom to Palestinians.

And his diagnosis? The correct treatment is not to kill innocent people in Gaza.

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