Journalist and student Hamzi Shaheen lies in his hospital bed in Gaza City after losing both of his legs in an Israeli air strike. (Eva Bartlett)
Misschien kunnen mijn Nederlandse collega's in Israel deze collega van ons eens bezoeken en zijn verhaal noteren. Als tegenwicht tegen de propaganda die ze nu produceren.
'More missile strikes, more victims
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada,
22 December 2008
Salah Oukal, 46 years old, had gone outside to collect herbs for dinner, harvesting in the dark as the power was out again. It was just before 9pm and he was watering the trees next to his home in Jabaliya, when the missile struck, killing him instantly. A second missile followed immediately but did not explode. Oukal's family spent the next hour searching without success for the father of seven and the family's sole provider. Only with the headlights of an ambulance was Oukal's dismembered body finally retrieved.The ground-to-ground missile fired from the Israeli side of Gaza's eastern border injured an additional three residents, including Oukal's son Ahmed, seven years old, who suffered rocket shrapnel wounds to his hand and head. Israeli authorities claimed that the missile was a response to rockets being fired from the area. However, Oukal's family and neighbors report all had been quiet."He wasn't one of the resistance fighters," his teenage daughter explained. "And there weren't any rockets being fired before he was hit. It was quiet, and the shelling was sudden," she said.On 7 December, a legal adviser to Israel's ministry of defense, Ahaz Benari, told Defense Minister Ehud Barak that "Artillery fire is permissible only in relatively open areas," adding that "artillery fire at urban areas is problematic, if the assessment is that the chance that the shell will hit the launchers is relatively low, while the risk that many civilians will be hurt is substantial.""His arm landed here in front of our window," said Oukal's neighbor, Abu Ashraf Salha. "He initially ricocheted off the house upon impact of the missile," he explained further, detailing how parts of Oukal's severed body flew in various directions. His house, along with Oukal's and another neighbor, sustained significant damage from the missile's impact just meters away. "It shattered our roof," Salha explained, pointing to the pieces of asbestos tile littering the living room floor. "Everything in here was damaged, the furniture, the TV, the lights."Salha's sister was sitting in the living room when the light fixture fell down, but escaped injury. He added that "Three of my kids were lying [in the bedroom] when the roof caved in. Thank God they were not seriously hurt."Two boysSari al-Sanana, eight years old, and his friend Safi, nine years old, lie gravely wounded in the intensive care unit at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital. Their life-threatening injuries came amid the days of rocket attacks around northern Gaza. On 20 December at 2:45pm, the two friends were bicycling in a area near Beit Hanoun, not far from the Israeli border. An Israeli missile landed between the youths, throwing them from their bikes and riddling their bodies with shrapnel. Both boys sustained head trauma. According to witnesses in the area, no rockets were fired by Palestinian resistance groups before the boys were hit.'
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