Friday, January 23, 2009

No home to return to in Gaza...

When members of the Sultan family ran from their home as an Israeli tank shelled its northern wall, there was no time to shut the front door. There was also no need.

The house, which family patriarch Samir al-Sultan began building at the age of 15, was all but destroyed as Israeli forces advanced into the Gaza Strip in early January, turning the house's contents into a mangled mess of glass and mortar. 

With no home to return to and no prospects for rebuilding, the Sultans on Thursday were among the thousands of Palestinians in Gaza searching for somewhere to go. More...

See also:

  1. BBC refuses to air Gaza charity appeal...
  2. Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza...
  3. Israel "wins" in Gaza, but it's image and its soul have been shattered...
  4. Syria's First Lady talks about Gaza...

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