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Fury as Israelis damage war cemetery
By Tim Butcher at the Gaza war cemetery
Last Updated: 2:55am GMT 13/11/2006

Britain has issued a formal complaint after Israeli forces caused significant damage to the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City, the last resting place for thousands of troops who died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.


One of the damaged headstones at the Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City. The cemetery is the resting place for 3,686 Commonwealth servicemen, mostly British infantrymen

The British embassy in Tel Aviv wrote to the Israeli government four months ago after six headstones and a perimeter wall were destroyed by an Israeli army bulldozer but has not yet received an answer.

Mr Fretwell remembers receiving a telephone call from the retired head gardener, Ibrahim Jeradeh, who was hiding under a table at the time because of the weight of Israeli fire.

''The tanks came to the edge of Tufah and then they sent in the bulldozers," said Mr Jeradeh, 69, who still works part time at the cemetery.

"They destroyed all of our olive trees and some citrus trees but the worst thing was that they destroyed part of the perimeter wall, in the Canadian section, making it fall on to some headstones.

''We could not go outside for two days because it was too dangerous. If you opened a window they would have shot you."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/13/nveterans13.xml

[I think this is very sad. All those soldiers who died to suffer such disrespect. I remember visiting Alamein and giving my respects and offering a prayer. I felt sad looking at all the tombstones.]

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Is it just me or is Britain more concerned about this than Beit Hanoun?

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