Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Gaza attacks: Five sisters killed in their sleep...

The five Palestinian sisters were fast asleep when a night-time Israeli airstrike hit the next-door mosque in Gaza. One of the walls collapsed on to their small asbestos-roofed home and they were all killed in their beds. The eldest sister, Tahrir, was 17 years old, the youngest, Jawaher, just four. 

"They grow up day after day and night after night. Within a second, I have lost them," the girls' father, Anwar Balousha, said yesterday. The 37-year-old, along with another three of his children, was himself injured in the attack on the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp. More...

See also:

  1. Gaza: Israeli strike kills 5 sisters...
  2. Massacre in Gaza...
  3. Gaza, the don't-give-a-fuck syndrome...

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