1.0 link 155247 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zaina-arafat/israels-extensive-pr-camp_b_155247.html On the morning of Saturday, December 27, my mother and I crossed the Allenby Bridge from Jordan into Jericho. In Jerusalem an hour later, we heard that Israel had struck Gaza. Approximately 200 people had been killed by nightfall.

Ten days later, Israel's military operation continues, and has escalated to a ground war. The death toll has risen to over 500 Palestinians, a large portion of them children. The Shifa Hospital is overflowing, dead bodies strewn across...

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