Izzeldin Abuelaish is the Palestinian doctor whose three daughters were killed by Israeli tank fire during the 2009 Gaza War. Through October 6, 2023 the opening reported Israel's own account of the strike: "a day later the Israelis claimed to be targeting militants." Today that sentence is gone and the word is nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now does not learn that Israel's military stated it had been targeting militants in the strike that killed his daughters.
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Izzeldin Abuelaish ( ), OOnt MSC is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor and author.1He was born in Gaza, and was the first Palestinian doctor to work in an Israeli hospital.2He was active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.3His daughters attended a peace camp with Israeli children in the United States.4 During the Gaza War in January 2009, his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli tank fire directed at his home. He had been calling in reports about the effect of the war by phone to a TV station. In his regularly scheduled report, in tears, he described their killing on-air, in a video that was widely circulated in Israel and the world. The Israeli military initially claimed that Dr. Abuelaish's house was targeted because it was the source of sniper fire. A day later the Israelis claimed to be targeting militants. It was further alleged, but unproven, that the dead girls' bodies contained shrapnel from Qassam rockets . He emigrated to Canada and wrote I Shall Not Hate .5 He now resides in Toronto, Canada , with his remaining children. Israeli TV airs telephone call to father after children killed -English .
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Izzeldin Abuelaish , OOnt is a Palestinian medical doctor and author.
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Izzeldin Abuelaish ( ), OOnt MSC is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor and author. He was born in Gaza , and was the first Palestinian doctor to work in an Israeli hospital and has been active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. During the Gaza War in January 2009, his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli tank fire directed at his home. He had been calling in reports about the effect of the war by phone to a TV station. In his regularly scheduled report, in tears, he described their killing on-air, in a video that was widely circulated in Israel and around the world. The Israeli military initially claimed that Dr. Abuelaish's house was targeted because it was the source of sniper fire. A day later the Israelis claimed to be targeting militants. It was further alleged falsely that the dead girls' bodies contained shrapnel from Qassam rockets .He emigrated to Canada and wrote a 2011 memoir entitled I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity . He now resides in Toronto, Canada , with his remaining children. Israeli TV airs telephone call to father after children killed -English .
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Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish ( Arabic : عزالدين أبو العيش ) is a Canadian-Palestinian medical doctor and author.He was born in Gaza , and was a Palestinian doctor who worked in an Israeli hospital and has been active in promoting Israeli- Palestinian reconciliation. During the Gaza War in January 2009, his three daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli tank fire directed at his home. He had been calling in reports about the effect of the war by phone to a TV station. In his regularly scheduled report, in tears, he described their killing on-air, in a video that was widely circulated in Israel and around the world. He moved to Canada where he was recruited by the University of Toronto and wrote a 2011 memoir entitled I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity . He now resides in Toronto, Canada , with his remaining children. Israeli TV airs telephone call to father after children killed -English .
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palestinian medical doctor and author
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canadian-palestinian medical doctor and author
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