I got this news release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations today, citing news reports:
AUDIO: ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS IN COLD BLOOD
Quil Lawrence, The World, PRI, 1/21/09
days into the Israeli ground offensive. Artillery shells hammered his
neighborhood east of the Jabaliya refugee camp. Three tanks parked
outside his front door, and loudspeakers announced that civilians
should leave the area.
Khaled says that’s when his wife, mother and three daughters stepped
outside the front door waving white flags. They stood on the front
steps for five minutes waiting for instructions from the Israeli
soldiers only 10 yards away. But instead, Khaled says, a soldier
appeared on one of the tank turrets, raised his rifle and began
shooting. All three of the girls fell.
Khaled’s mother was shot in the upper left arm and abdomen. Recovering
at her brother’s house, she tells the same story. “The soldier shot us
slowly aiming at each one.” The women fled back into the house dragging
the bleeding little girls. Suad, 7 years old, died immediately from
bullets to her chest. 2-year-old Amal survied a few moments longer.
“She was asking her mother for candy and chips. Then her mother asked
her: ‘Do you love me?’ She said: ‘Yes.’ Then she died.”
SEE ALSO:
ISRAEL ACCUSED OF EXECUTING PARENTS IN FRONT OF CHILDREN IN GAZA –
Palestinian children described how their parents had been "executed" by
Israeli troops.
Murray Wardrop, Telegraph, 1/21/09
One nine-year-old boy said his father had been shot dead in front of
him despite surrendering to Israeli soldiers with his hands in the air.
Another youngster described witnessing the deaths of his mother,
three brothers and uncle after the house they were in was shelled.
He said his mother and one of his siblings had been killed instantly, while the others bled to death over a period of days.
A psychiatrist treating children in the village of Zeitoun on the
outskirts of Gaza City, where the alleged incidents took place,
described the deaths as a "massacre".
Rawya Borno, a Jordanian doctor, said civilians, including children, were rounded up and killed by Israeli troops. . .
A boy named Ahmed said he was trapped for days in the wreckage of the shelled Samouni family's house.
He said: "My mother was dead beside me, she was clutching my brother
Nasser and they were dead. My brother Itzaq was bleeding for two days
and then he died. My brother Izmael bled to death in one day. My uncle
Talal was bleeding for two hours and he died. God bless them."
Dr Borno said: "It's a massacre. They collected them from their
houses. They knew that they were civilians. They were children."
FATHER WATCHED SON
BLEED TO DEATH AFTER ISRAELI TROOPS BLOCKED AMBULANCES
Democracy Now, 1/22/09
We return to the heart-wrenching tale of Amer Shurrab, who lost two of
his brothers on the same day in an Israeli attack in Gaza. Amer is a
Palestinian from Khan Yunis living in the United States. He recently
graduated from Middlebury College. On Friday, his father and two
brothers were fleeing their village when their vehicle came under
Israeli fire. Twenty-eight-year-old Kassab died in a hail of bullets
trying to flee the vehicle. Eighteen-year-old Ibrahim survived the
initial attack, but Israeli troops refused to allow an ambulance to
reach them until twenty hours later.
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