The most striking of a series of attacks on Gaza City, wrought by two Israeli Abachi planes on 25th May 2006 saw a devastating scene on a civilian car passing through Salah El Din Street, as well as a nearby home.
Crowds surrounding the incident, ambulances rushing to carry away eleven injuries and seven dead bodies, blood lining the wall of a house. Just ten minutes after the attack, the seasoned Palestinian emergency services were clearing the debris from the second attack of the day on the conflict zone commonly known as the main city of the Gaza Strip.
Having stopped my car whilst on my way to the Gaza FM radio station where I worked, it became clear that the Israeli Abachis still in the sky had dropped two missiles, one having hit the blue Volkswagon, the other the gate of the house adjacent.
Three of the inhabitants of the bombed house were killed. Ahmed Al Moghraby, age 7, was the son of Ashraf Al Moghraby, who died along with his brother and elder son. Ahmed saw the whole incident.
“I was playing with my kite on the roof of the house with my brother, we heard a bomb and were so scared. My brother ran downstairs to see what happened, and went with my father outside the house, then the other bomb killed them. Now they are in Paradise and I am sure they are happy, so I am happy for them,” Ahmed says.
I went to El Shifa Hospital, the main hospital in the Gaza Strip, to find out about the injuries and deaths. Four men were in the car, all were aged between 25 and 30- all died. One, Ali El Emary, aged 26, was employed by the Ministry of Health, working as an ambulance officer. The hospital confirmed that Ashraf Al Moghraby died at the age of 32, his brother, 30, and his son, As’ad, just 8 years old.
The eleven people injured were mainly women and children on their way to the children’s hospital near to the site of the occurrence.
An Israeli army spokesman stated that the targeted car was transporting a group of Palestinian resistance members who had reportedly been launching rockets against the Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian government maintain that the area was purely civilian and no resistance groups would have used the neighbourhood as a base for launching rockets against Israelis. A call has been made for the United Nations and the Security Council to protect the Palestinian people from further attacks.
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well done darling ,
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This is clearly a shocking report, but even more shocking because it is told in a matter of fact way, betraying the everyday nature of these horiffic events. I appreciate the detached, journalistic style and the quote gives a real insight into the mindsets of the people involved.
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