Mazin Qumsiyeh, watching television in Bethlehem before going out to protest at the wall. Remember, these images are being broadcast over and over in the Arab world:
I was then shocked into more horrific scenes and news. In
one house five young sisters killed. In another six family members
including four children killed while eating breakfast. In a scene that
haunted me where four children were killed with their mother, I saw
rescue workers try frantically to pull the remaining surviving girl
whose legs were crushed under a huge boulder from the roof. As some of
them were calming her down and working hard, just next to them other
workers pulled the dead body of her sister (looked like 3-4 year
old). They quickly covered her but I think her sister
noticed. Sometimes the dead are envied for their suffering has ended.
Her suffering is just beginnig. I thought of all the thousands of
relatives of all the victims and how they feel… I thought of my mother who at 76
has seen so much suffering and still she cried at the new images of new
atrocities…
one house five young sisters killed. In another six family members
including four children killed while eating breakfast. In a scene that
haunted me where four children were killed with their mother, I saw
rescue workers try frantically to pull the remaining surviving girl
whose legs were crushed under a huge boulder from the roof. As some of
them were calming her down and working hard, just next to them other
workers pulled the dead body of her sister (looked like 3-4 year
old). They quickly covered her but I think her sister
noticed. Sometimes the dead are envied for their suffering has ended.
Her suffering is just beginnig. I thought of all the thousands of
relatives of all the victims and how they feel… I thought of my mother who at 76
has seen so much suffering and still she cried at the new images of new
atrocities…
[Re rocket fire on southern Israel] And what would they expect from a starving 1.5 million people to
do? Especially when one million of those are refugees or displaced
people denied their rights to return to their homes and lands for 60
years while settlers live across the borders on their lands in areas
like “Sderot” and “Netviot”? Would they not expect some resistance from
some of those? Isn’t that codified in International law for the right
of occupied people to resist including violently? (note that I
personally support civil forms of resistance).
