[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 118 (Friday, July 25, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H6819]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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            LET'S GET THE CHILDREN OUT OF HARM'S WAY IN GAZA

  (Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, last night, on the national 
news I saw the terrible agony and tears of a man whose children had 
been, according to the report, blown to pieces when a school was hit in 
Gaza.
  Hamas started this war. Israel certainly has a right to defend its 
people.
  In today's Washington Post, Michael Oren, the former Israeli 
Ambassador to the U.S., said it is ``indeed agonizing'' to watch the 
images of the dead and wounded and, I might add, especially the 
children.
  Israel agreed to an Egyptian-sponsored cease-fire. Hamas did not. I 
rise today to plead for both sides in this war to at least let the 
little children get out of the war zone.
  The United Nations has never been very effective, but it should at 
least attempt to lead in an effort to get children out of harm's way.
  If this fighting, unfortunately, has to continue, our President and 
State Department should at least do everything possible to get little 
children out of Gaza and to some safe place away from the bombs and the 
rockets.

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