Massacre in Shejaiya | The Nation
"Their parents will not mourn them—because they are dead too."
Gaza City—>Two
small bodies lie on the metal table inside the morgue at Gaza’s Shifa
hospital. Omama is 9 years old. Her right forearm is mangled and charred
and the top half of her skull has been smashed in. Beside her lies her
7-year-old brother. His name is not certain. It might be Hamza or it
might be Khalil. Relatives are having trouble identifying him because
his head has been shorn off. Their parents will not mourn them—because
they are dead too.
All of them were killed in Shejaiya, one of Gaza’s poorest and most
crowded neighborhoods, which came under a brutal and sustained assault
by the Israeli military today.
“They dropped shells on our heads,” says Lotfy al-Banna, a resident
from the neighborhood who fled early Sunday morning. “Everything is
burnt down.”
Palestinian medics carry a stretcher through
the Shejaia neighborhood, where 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by
Israeli shelling during fighting in Gaza City July 20, 2014
(Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)
