Mother of five killed by Israeli artillery fire close to Gaza buffer zone

[ConsAreLiars]

A mother of five was killed by Israeli artillery fire when she went to fetch her two-year-old son from outside her village home close to the “buffer zone” created by Israel along its border with Gaza.

Three of her relatives were wounded in the shelling earlier this week, but Red Crescent ambulances were not permitted to reach the family for several hours.
According to the woman’s husband, Nasser Abu Said, 37, the attack began without warning at about 8.30pm on Tuesday with two shells being fired as the family of 17 sat outside their house in the village of Johar a-Deek. Apart from Nasser and his 65-year-old father, the entire group was women and children.

“It was completely quiet, there were no rockets being fired or we wouldn’t have been sitting outside,” he said, referring to Qassam missiles launched by militants into Israel.

His sister and his brother’s wife were injured by shrapnel. The family moved indoors and called an ambulance. “About 10 minutes later the ambulance called back to say the Israelis had refused them permission to come to the house,” said Nasser.

His wife Ne’ema, 33, soon realised their youngest son, Jaber, was not among the children she was attempting to calm down, and was probably asleep on a mattress outside that he often shared with his grandfather.

As she went to fetch the toddler, another shell landed. “I called to my wife three times,” said Nasser, who realised his father had also been badly injured in his leg and stomach. “I could hear small noises coming from her. I knew she was dying.”

Via Palestinian co-ordinators, the IDF told the family that anyone going outside the house would be shot dead. Nasser began to tend to his injured father, knowing he could not reach his dying wife.

More at: http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/mother-of-five-killed-by-israeli-artillery-fire-close-to-gaza-buffer-zone/

Just to state the obvious, as has been obviously the case whenever any Palestinian or supporter is murdered, Everyone knows what the Craporatist media coverage would have been like if their amoral counterparts on the other side had murdered Israelis.

[Grey]

1. It's just not right. nt

[secondwind]

2. too revolting for words............when WILL this end??????

[hayu_lol]

3. Almost no mention of the rockets fired at Israel...

at least not in the article/OP. This is one side of the story, what is the other side?

[shira]

4. Any news coming out of Gaza must be filtered through Hamas censors first. Anything critical...

...of Hamas that doesn't further Hamas' goals (which can be found in their disgusting charter) can likely result in kidnapping or worse.

Hence, you can't expect to get both sides of the story from reports out of Gaza.

[azurnoir]

6. Perhaps this will be more to your liking

IDF shelling kills Palestinian woman in Gaza

Israeli army shelling killed a Palestinian woman and wounded two of her relatives in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, hospital officials said.

Asked about the incident in the village of Johar a-Deek, which is near Gaza's border with Israel, the IDF Spokesperson's Office confirmed that soldiers had opened fire on two suspicious figures who were seen approaching the border fence.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-shelling-kills-palestinian-woman-in-gaza-1.301778

[ConsAreLiars]

10. What a bunch of (as usual) delusional and, uh, counter-factual "facts" you are carrying around.

While the IDF wewre slaughtering 1400 Gazans after they broke the cease fire by murdering 6 and used the harmless rocket firings they provoked as an "justification," AJE reported freely from there. It was the IDF who refused to allow reporters in, not anyone in Gaza who kept kept those potential reporters from doing their jobs.

It was the Israeli's chosen government which stole all the recording devices from the passengers and crew and reporters on the aid ship they raided after murdering nine of the passengers. I think that is censorship of the most vicious and extreme kind. Your delusional inventions about reporting from within Gaza are simply symptoms of a condition that is not likely treatable short of very heavy medication.

How many reporters or peace advocates have been jailed by Hamas? How many by the Israelis? How many killed? How many denied passage?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. How often to articles about Israelis killed by Palestinians mention the other side? N.T.

[Ken Burch]

8. That mother had nothing to do with the rockets.

n/t.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Self Delete

[Recursion]

11. When the last of one side or the other is dead, I fear. NT

[azurnoir]

7. more- Medics prevented from treating dying Palestinian mother

A MOTHER of five was killed by Israeli artillery fire when she went to fetch her two-year-old son from outside her village home close to the “buffer zone” created by Israel along its border with Gaza.

Three of her relatives were wounded in the shelling earlier this week, but Red Crescent ambulances were not permitted to reach the family for several hours.

According to the woman’s husband, Nasser Abu Said (37) the attack began without warning at about 8.30pm on Tuesday with two shells being fired as the family of 17 sat outside their house in the village of Johar a-Deek. Apart from Nasser and his 65-year-old father, the entire group was women and children.

“It was completely quiet, there were no rockets being fired or we wouldn’t have been sitting outside,” he said, referring to Qassam missiles launched by militants into Israel.

His sister and his brother’s wife were injured by shrapnel. The family moved indoors and called an ambulance. “About 10 minutes later the ambulance called back to say the Israelis had refused them permission to come to the house,” said Nasser.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0717/1224274901113.html