"Her blood remains to tell a story of another Israeli military crime"
Blood, destruction, tears and children crying is what the Israeli occupation soldiers left behind after they withdrew from Abasan Al Jadeeda town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The blood of Wafa’ Al Daghma, 37, who was killed when the army shelled her home, remains a testimony which tells a story of the atrocities of the Israeli army.
Soldiers shelled her home and killed the mother while she was among her children, and now, her 12-year old daughter Sameera, became not only the older sister but also a mother for her five younger brothers and sisters.
The misery started when the army surrounded the small home of the family, which is only 700 meters away from the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip. Soldiers then shelled the house and killed the mother in front of her children.
“We were at home, surrounded by the army after the soldiers surrounded the area around midnight”, Sameera explains, “Then we heard shooting , and felt the bullets hitting our home”.
Sameera stood there, steadfast in front of her six brothers as if she was trying to show them that she can take care of them after her mother was killed while trying to protect them.
“It was nearly 4 in the afternoon, my mother went to bring some bread from the kitchen for my brother Qosay”, she said, “Then we heard an explosion shaking the whole house, and we saw what appeared to be lightening, at that moment we all fell unconscious”.
“Shortly afterwards we regained consciousness and left the room to see dozens of soldiers filling our home and then I shouted ‘where is my mother”, the daughter added, “they refused to answer, and ordered me to sit with my brothers in the room until they left, at that moment I knew that something bad happened to my mother”.
She pointed towards the blood of her mother while shedding tears and said; “Here…here I found my mother on the ground, face down, and drowning in her blood, I could not control myself and rushed out of the house screaming and shouting until the neighbors gathered around me and carried the body of mother who did not have her head anymore, but instead the only thing which remained is a head veil which was smeared with blood”.
Soldiers left the area after killing Wafa’ and after demolishing five homes and partially destroying 20 others homes, in addition to uprooting and bulldozing more than 150 Dunams of agricultural lands planted with almonds, olives, palm, and wheat.
Where are you, AmeriKan MSM?!
The fact that they ignore this crap constantly proves they are controlled by Zionists!!
Yet, the family and the residents of the area have to wonder while squeezing their pain; “What did we do wrong to be killed and shelled like that, we are paying the price of being steadfast in our homes which cannot protect us anymore!”
You didn't do anything wrong, Palestinians.
Nothing other than merely exist on land that lying, mass-murdering NaZionists covet.
By Donald Macintyre in Khan Younis
Monday, 12 May 2008
The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children.
Wafer Shaker al Daghma, 34, a teacher at a local UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) elementary school, was killed last Wednesday as she stood preparing to open the wooden door of her home to the troops. According to UNRWA and relatives who found her body, the military used an explosive device on the door which blew most of her head from her body. They then confined the traumatised children – aged from two to 13 – for five hours while the body lay outside the door of the room where they were held.
Monsters! Inhuman, NaZionist monsters!!!!
Although the soldiers finally left the house – in darkness because of a blackout – at around 9pm, Mrs al Daghma's 13-year-old daughter Samira was too terrified to go outside for help for another two hours because of the continued presence of Israeli armoured vehicles outside her home.
Tiles above a washbasin opposite the front door of the house were still heavily spattered with dried blood yesterday. There was a pile of splintered wooden planks from the destroyed door on the floor where Mrs al Daghma's body, which soldiers apparently covered with a rug, had lain as the military incursion continued.
Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, said that the Israeli forces were using the house as a post to monitor "alleged militants". "The children heard many gun shots but do not know where they came from," he said. He said UNRWA had asked Israel in writing for "an impartial investigation, for accountability and allowing the facts to speak for themselves," adding: "We again condemn the killing of innocent civilians."
Mrs al Daghma's widower, Majdi, 34, who was out of the house at the time, said his daughter had told him that her mother, knowing that troops were on a search and arrest operation in the vicinity, had put on a headscarf, told the children to go into a bedroom and said that she would open the door when the troops arrived.
An Israeli tank had parked by the outer, open, metal door and the inner, wooden front door was then blasted open.
"Samira heard a very loud explosion and there was a lot of smoke. She looked for her mother but couldn't see her," he said.
Samira al Daghma said yesterday that after entering the house the soldiers had kept her, her sister Roba, four, and brother Qusay, two, in the room. "They did not let us out. There was one soldier at the door of the room. I asked him: 'Where is my mother?' He was speaking in Hebrew and I didn't understand him."
She said that when the soldiers finally left, she crawled with her siblings to a room on the eastern side of the house. "There were still tanks outside our house and if I had gone out they would have seen me. I tried to call my father on my mother's Jawwal [cellphone] but there was no line. I lifted the carpet and saw a bit of my mother's clothes. She was not moving. I did not see her head."
Mr al Daghma said the family were Fatah rather than Hamas supporters. The funeral was arranged by Fatah and there were Arafat portraits in the house yesterday. The Israeli military said it was looking into the incident.
When is Fatah going to wake up and realize ISRAEL DOES NOT CARE WHICH PARTY you belong to!!!!?
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday promised "strong action" to stop Gaza militants if they continued their attacks after a 48-year-old Israeli father-of-four was killed by a Hamas-claimed mortar on Friday. Oxfam urged Israel to avert a health crisis as Gaza's power station shut down, saying it had run out of fuel."
Yeah, yeah. Fuck the NaZionist Israelis!
God damn them all to hell because that's where they are going to end up!!!!
