[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 162 (Thursday, December 9, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8267]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         STOP SHOOTING CHILDREN

  (Mr. BAIRD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BAIRD. My colleagues, it is time to call on our allies in the 
State of Israel to stop shooting children.
  Since March of this year, 17 children have been shot by Israeli 
snipers near the border of Gaza, shot for the crime of picking up small 
pieces of rock to use for aggregate because the Israeli blockade is 
preventing construction materials from coming into Gaza. Seventy 
percent of these children were shot while doing this activity beyond 
the 300-meter unilaterally imposed security zone. Young children and 
adults are picking up small pieces of gravel because they cannot import 
concrete to rebuild schools, hospitals, clinics and water treatment 
facilities without it.
  Let us call upon our allies in the State of Israel to stop shooting 
children, to prosecute those who have shot children, and to lift the 
blockade to allow raw materials in and economic prosperity to succeed.
  On this Human Rights Day it's the least we can do.

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