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Gaza: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls'
Grieving Palestinian father says children were killed after family obeyed order
from troops to leave Gaza home
By Donald Macintyre in Gaza City
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Khaled Abed Rabbo in the remains of his family house, destroyed during the
three-week Israeli offensive
AP
Khaled Abed Rabbo in the remains of his family house, destroyed during the
three-week Israeli offensive
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A Palestinian father has claimed that he saw two of his young daughters shot
dead and another critically injured by an Israeli soldier who emerged from a
stationary tank and opened fire as the family obeyed an order from the Israeli
forces to leave their home.
Khaled Abed Rabbo said Amal, aged two and Suad, seven, were killed by fire from
the soldier's semi-automatic rifle. His third daughter, Samer, four, has been
evacuated to intensive care in a Belgian hospital after suffering critical
spinal injuries which he said were inflicted in the attack early in Israel's
ground offensive.
Mr Abed Rabbo stood near the wreckage off his subsequently destroyed home on
the eastern edge of the northern Gaza town of Jabalya yesterday and described
how a tank had parked outside the building at 12.50pm on 7 January and ordered
the family in Arabic through a megaphone to leave building. He said his
60-year-old mother had also been shot at as she left waving her white headscarf
with her son, daughter in law and her three grandchildren.
"Two soldiers were on the tank eating chips, then one man came out of the tank
with a rifle and started shooting the kids," Mr Abed Rabbo, who receives a
salary as a policeman from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in
Ramallah said. The family say they think the weapon used by the soldier was an
M16 and that the first to be shot was Amal. Mr Abed Rabbo said that Suad was
then shot with what he claimed were 12 bullets, and then Samer.
The soldier who fired the rifle had what Mr Abed Rabbo thought were ringlets
visible below his helmet, he said. The small minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews
who serve in the army are in a unit which did not take part in the Gaza
offensive and only a very small number of settlers who also favour that
hairstyle serve in other units.
It has so far been impossible independently to verify Mr Abed Rabbo's claim and
the military said last night Israeli Defence Forces "does not target civilians,
only Hamas terrorists and infrastructure". It added: "The IDF is investigating
various claims made with regard to Operation Cast Lead and at the end of its
investigation will respond accordingly."
The district is named Abed Rabbo after the clan who live in most of it. The
dense concrete roof of the house now hangs at more at more than a 45-degree
angle, and at least three other substantial buildings have been flattened in
the agricultural, semi-rural immediate neighbourhood. Khaled Abed Rabbo said
that there had been a delay before the ambulance could reach the building
because the road from the west had been made impassable by the churning of the
tanks.
The soldiers had in the end let the family leave on foot, he said. He added
that they walked two kilometres before finding a vehicle to take them to Kamal
Adwan Hospital. He said: "I carried Suad, who was dead, my wife carried Amal
and my brother Ibrahim carried Samer."
He added: "We are not Hamas. My children were not Hamas. And if they were going
to shoot anyone it should have been me." He added: "I want the international
community and the International Red Cross to ask Israel why it has done this to
us. They talk about democracy but is it democracy to kill children? What did
the kids do to them? What did my house do to them? They destroyed my life?
Gaza City is showing signs of returning to a form of normality as more shops
reopen. The offices of the main Palestinian telephone company Jawwal reopened
though this has not eased severe problems of connectivity on the Palestinian
mobile network.
Some Hamas policemen were back directing traffic, though in smaller numbers
than before the offensive. Unconfirmed figures are that 270 Hamas policemen
were killed, mainly in the air attacks during the first week. In a victory
rally in Gaza city yesterday, Hamas supporters converged on a square near the
remains of the bombed parliament building..
'Heartbreaking': The ugly face of war
The UN secretary general, looking distressed, described the devastation of Gaza
as "heartbreaking" on a visit to the area yesterday after the 22-day Israeli
assault.
"I have seen only a fraction of the destruction," said Ban Ki-moon, as he stood
in front of a UN warehouse set on fire by Israeli shells last Thursday. "This
is shocking and alarming. These are heartbreaking scenes I have seen and I am
deeply grieved by what I have seen today." he said.
Mr Ban demanded a full investigation into the Israeli shelling of the UN Relief
and Works Agency compound. UN officials say the compound, still smouldering
yesterday, was targeted by white phosphorus munitions which are not supposed to
be used in densely populated areas because of the harm to civilians. Mr Ban
said the Israeli attacks on UNRWA headquarters and two UN schools in Gaza, one
of which killed 40 sheltering Palestinians, were "outrageous".
Amnesty International said Israel's repeated use of the munitions despite
evidence of their indiscriminate effects and harm to civilians "is a war
crime". The Israeli army has launched an investigation but says Hamas fighters
operate from densely populated areas, and used UN buildings as cover for
attacks.
Mr Ban said: "It has been especially troubling and heartbreaking for me as
secretary general that I couldn't end this faster," he said. He urged Israel
and Hamas to "exercise maximum restraint and nurture the ceasefire".
Anne Penketh
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