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November 17, 2023

L.A. Times Calls for Gaza Ceasefire to End Israel's "Indiscriminate Killing of Palestinian Civilians"
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The Los Angeles Times has become the first major U.S. newspaper to call
for a ceasefire. On Thursday, the paper's editorial board wrote, "It has
become impossible to distinguish between Israel's decidedly non-surgical
operation against Hamas militants in Gaza and the indiscriminate killing
of Palestinian civilians. When so-called humanitarian pauses in the
bombardment and ground operations are too brief to realistically permit
innocents to flee, or when there is no place for non-combatants to go
that is not also in the line of fire, such pauses are so deficient as to
be meaningless."


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