by ALLEN SCHAUFFLER / KING 5 News
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 6:19 PM
SEATTLE – “Israeli War Crimes,” the enormous advertisement reads. “Your tax dollars at work.”
To the right of the image is a group of children — one little boy stares out at the viewer, the others gawk at a demolished building, all rebar and crumbled concrete.
It’s an ad you’ll be seeing soon on a handful of Metro buses in downtown Seattle.
The three-week assault, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, killed over 1,400 people, mainly civilians not engaged in any form of resistance. Over 5,000 Palestinians were injured, and almost 25,000 were made homeless when their houses were destroyed.
•More than 300 Palestinian children were killed during the attack, an indication of Israel’s disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force.