Gaza ‘On Point of Explosion’ Warns UN
Najwa Sheikh writing from occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 1 May 2008
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| Mourners gather around the bodies of four Palestinian children and their mother from the Abu Me'teq family during their funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. Earlier that day, the four children, aged one to five, and their mother were killed when an Israeli army shell struck the family's home in Beit Hanoun, 28 April 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) |
In their simple house made of metal sheets, Myassar Abu Me'teq was sitting next to three of her children having breakfast and holding her one-year-old baby in her arms. She listened to their daily complaints and loving quarrels, trying to comfort them and keep them away from the sound of the Israeli shelling close to their home in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
This mother did not know that their clock would soon stop ticking, not by their creator but by their enemy. She did not know that it was the last breakfast she would prepare for her children. She did not know that it was the last time she would hold her baby. She did not know that she would no longer know her children and their future as they also would never know their mother as an old woman. Like any mother, she refused to leave her children alone on their trip. She did not want to let go of her baby and insisted on accompanying them as one family in life and in death.
But like many others before her who were killed by Israel, she did not know that she would be the hero of a horror movie, and that she would be leaving this world with her four children, leaving behind two other girls with the bitter taste of loss and images of their mother and little sisters pigmented in blood and pieces of their bodies. An artillery shell -- "accidentally" as Israel officials said -- hit the family's house and shattered the dreams of the little kids during their peaceful breakfast, ahead of a joyful afternoon. The shell killed them in a brutal way without any mercy for their tiny bodies or their baffled eyes.
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