ugnet_: DEATHS WE HAVE ALL BUT FORGOTEN ABOUT

[Mulindwa Edward]

Gaza In Shock After Deadly Israeli Attack By Peter Wilson The Telegrah - UK 1-26-3 JAMAL Ed Keter says he did not even see the Israeli Army helicopter that blasted him and a large group of young men in a Gaza City street early yesterday morning. "We were too busy looking at the tanks and I knew there were helicopters but I didn't see anything until it got us," he said as he limped out of Gaza's Shefa Hospital later that morning. Witnesses say the helicopter gunships that went into Gaza City in support of about 50 tanks fired into crowds if anyone in the crowd fired on them, but the 22-year-old insists nobody near him was armed. As he spoke, his face was swollen and riddled with about 20 small wounds, he was still dazed and a chunk of flesh was missing from his right calf. He had joined the crowds when he first heard the tanks rolling down his street near Gaza's largest market. When he got to his feet after the blast three people near him were dead and 15 were injured. Fourteen-year-old Samed Atta Al Sharif lay nearby with shrapnel in his belly and his intestines hanging outside his body. Jomaa Helmi Saqqa, a doctor at the hospital, said the boy had been successfully operated on and would recover. "Two of the martyrs were brought in with their heads missing ... they were shot from above from a helicopter," he said. Eleven of the 12 dead were aged between 20 and 25 but the last victim had not been identified. When I saw his body in a back room the identification problem was obvious. The middle of his face was missing as something had blown out a neat circle from the bottom of his nose to the top of his eyebrows leaving a 5cm deep hole where his nose and eyes should have been. The doctor was sure there would soon be a 13th death as another man had a brain injury that the hospital was not equipped to treat. In the surrounding streets, crowds stood quietly looking at the debris of flattened shops and factories, homes pocked with heavy machine gun bullet holes and four buckled bridges that have left a nearby town cut off from road transport. One large building had lost an entire wall, exposing a row of neat second-floor bedrooms with a middle-aged woman standing bewildered in one looking out at the city through the hole where her wall used to be. Mahmoud Madi, 42, sat shaking his head outside his family's bus company. Israeli tanks and bulldozers had crushed three of the company's best buses together to form a barricade against Palestinian gunfire. "We heard them doing it but what could we do? The children and my wife were on the ground screaming so I stayed inside. "These were the best buses in Gaza. Who's going to pay for them?" In a city where donkeys still pull carts and jostle with beaten-up cars, they were indeed fancy buses. An Israeli army spokesman insisted the incursion was carefully limited to taking out factories that might be used to produce rockets for use against Israel. That does not quite explain what happened at the Ahli Arab Hospital run by the Anglican Church in central Gaza city. One missile scored a direct hit on the hospital's church, which sits in the middle of what is clearly a hospital. The missile destroyed the church roof, leaving a large crater in front of the altar. http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,5895284%255E401,00.html        The Mulindwas communication group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"