13 November

During a funeral, sad moments when 18 civilans were killed at once

Palestinian children, Rima Athamneh , 1, and Ala Athamneh , 1, were killed by the Israeli tank shells in gaza togather with most of their family

Palestinian woman walking by a wall riddled with bullets and tank shells in Beit Hanoun

Mosque demolished by the Israeli bullodozers

“How long will Israel be allowed to continue to kill our women, children and old men inside their houses, villages and camps? How long should we continue to be slaughtered while the world watches?” asked Ms. Al Atamneh, one of the survivors of a family recently killed by Israeli Occupation Forces. Through a veil of tears, she then showed the damage to her house caused by Israeli tank shells. “Where is the world, God? Why are we getting killed? My little nephew, Amjad, while sleeping, was killed by the Israelis right here,” she said crying and pointing to where his bed was.

“The child was simply sleeping, possibly having a nice dream. But he never woke up. Neither were ambulance workers allowed to reach him even if there was any hope of saving him. Amjad’s arm was missing. No one could find it.”

Amjad’s younger sister was murdered by Israeli soldiers using rockets as well. Unites States made and paid tank shells splattered her little body all over the house. Her brains were all over her bed. Fingers, arms, legs and pieces of human flesh were all over the place.

"No one can believe the image—I tried to help, but I was also injured in my leg, but everyone is dead by the tank shells which hit all the child and every body, even my mother who's 70 years old woman, a woman who lived peacefully and have nothing to do with the army, she got killed, she did nothing, nothing, nothing, but she got killed by the Israeli tank shell" she added.

Even the animals, cows and goats were killed by the attack when the Israeli bulldozers demolished a small animal farm of the family. The Israeli soldiers also destroyed the van of her father which cost 11 Jordanian Deinar. She said even that would be fine as long as our children and we survive.

"I can believe it, my own mother who raise me, there was a moment where I was not able to see even look at her before she got buried" the young woman said crying. She was obviously angry. " It's not only the tanks shells, but also the drone planes which hit our house from all over see here, look here and there and see our lives—see the wholes and the damaged furniture, look at the blood in the walls, see even the Palestinian flag is a witness on the crimes"

She continued talking with a tone of anger and stress. What really angered her is the fact that the Israelis knew there were children in the house. “It was one day when the soldiers were inside our home and they imposed siege on us, they didn’t let us go out and they kept telling us to shut up or they were going to shoot us. The soldiers purposely kept scaring the children by pointing their weapons at them. The children were not even allowed to go to the bathroom while the soldiers were there.” Holding a Palestinian flag in her hands she said, “This is the reason we are being killed, we are Palestinians. The soldiers are angry because we have the flag of our country.” The Israeli soldiers told her they did not want Palestinians to live. While crying, she put the bullet-ridden Palestinian flag back on the wall saying, “But Israel who kills innocents will not kill the spirit of the Palestinians who remain alive. Shame on America which provides Israel with weapons. Shame on America for remaining silent while their Israeli allies murder innocent civilians and commit crimes against humanity. She then prepared to go to another one of many funerals in occupied Palestine.

In the early morning, many who were getting support from relief organizations gathered and demonstrated in Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza. Those demonstrations were not organized, but all the families were asking the international organization not to stop supporting the poor families in the refugee camps..



The demonstrations are because the IDF had been killing people and because the PA closed all the relief organizations even the internationals.

Many people have been jailed in the checkpoints.. They divided Gaza into three areas.

The new US Apache is now in the Rafah sky.

Today in Rafah three people will be buried, as they were killed yesterday. With sorrow and sadness, thousands of Palestinians in Rafah and Gaza carry the bodies of the killed people during a funeral procession..



No one slept last night. No one. It is very hard because of the shelling and shooting everywhere.

The body of 21 year old Wahed al Hums —



Wahed was an engineering student and was also a writer in newspapers, books, and on the internet about the plight of his people.

His mother didn’t sleep yesterday from the shelling, and weeping.

His father is one of the first people in UNRWA who worked as an ambulance driver since the UNRWA was founded in Palestine.

No one believes what is happening.

Yesterday the IDF shot three people in Rafah, (Tal Al Sultan area), one of whom was seriously injured. He was 70 years old.

Every night in Rafah there is shelling and shooting towards the houses.

Most of the people who were living on the borderline left their houses because of the daily shelling and shooting. It is very hard to find a wall has no bullet-shots and shelling.



In the summer the people in Rafah have no water, and they have continuous blackouts. This causes many health problems.

Three houses were demolished in Rafah and the homeless families held demonstrations in front of the UNRWA office and the government office..

Also, very big demonstrations will held in Rafah, Gaza, and in all Gaza strip because the Palestinian Authority began to close and block the relief organizations which helped the orphans and the poor families.

The killings and demolitions go on in Rafah, every day and every night. It does not stop.

Since yesterday, another 10 houses demolished and 4 people injured, while in Gaza many people were shot.

Shoe and milk bottle of a killed baby child —