“Is it controversial that the children [aren’t] alive? That they’re children? That those are their names? These are facts that we wish to bring to the public’s knowledge.”
--Israeli human rights organization, B'tselem, asks the Israel Broadcasting Authority why broadcasting on the radio the names of the Palestinian children killed in Gaza was 'politically controversial.'**

"Sometimes it seems like there are two wars taking place here. On one front, the IDF is hunting Hamas terrorists and on the other front, members of government are shoulder-to-shoulder with gangs of hooligans hunting down the "internal enemy": those that speak differently."
-Israeli author Etgar Keret on the increasing incitement and violence by right-wingers against left-wingers in Israel.**

1,062.
--Number of Gazans, mostly civilians, who have been killed in Israel's Operation Protective Edge as of last night. the Israeli papers told no stories about the individuals.

Over 1000.
--The number of Palestinians killed in 19 days of Operation Protective Edge. The majority are civilians. One Israeli civilian and one Thai worker were killed by Palestinian rockets and another 42 Israeli soldiers were killed inside Gaza.**

 “I was shocked to learn of the email sent to you by Professor Sheinman. It was a hurtful letter..."
--Dean of the law faculty at Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, apologizes to students for letter written by law professor Hanoch Sheinman, in which he expressed empathy for all of those affected by Gaza-Israel crisis.**