Photo: The bodies of four Palestinian siblings are seen at a morgue in Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip. The children and their mother where killed as they sat down for breakfast when an Israeli tank shell slammed their tiny house in Gaza.(AFP photo)


In another crime, Israeli tank shell slammed into a tiny Gaza home and kills a Palestinian woman and her four children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast. This repeated indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in a blockaded Gaza gives much credibility to the claim that the situation is Gaza is worse than Nazi Camps.

Palestinian medics identified the dead children as sisters Rudina and Hana Abu Meatak, ages 6 and 3; and their brothers 4-year-old Saleh and 15-month-old Mousad. Their mother, Miyasar, was in her late 30s. Her two older children were critically wounded in the strike, the officials said.

The force of the blast scattered clothes and other household items outside the two-room home. A single white children's shoe, flattened by the explosion, lay on the ground near a blue pair of shorts covered in sand. A green baby chair also sat outside, one end bent by the force of the blast, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

A large crowd of people gathered outside, milling about as rescue crews cleaned up the debris and washed away bloodstains in the sand.
Two more Palestinians were also killed at the same time by Israeli forces in Beith Hanoun town.

"What a black day. They killed my family," said Ahmad Abu Meatak, father of the children, wailing outside the local hospital where the bodies were taken. Abu Meatak, dressed in a traditional Arab white robe and headcovering, said he was on his way to a nearby market to shop when the tank shell hit, reported the Associated Press.

Beit Hanoun farmer Omar Abdel Nabi said he was driving his tractor in a nearby field when two or three explosions shook the ground.

"People were screaming that a tank shell landed in the next street," he told The Associated Press. "I carried two people covered in blood out of a house."

The children were taken to a local hospital morgue, where family members stood over the bodies, wailing and flailing their hands in the air.

"I feel sick. I want to throw up the blood that is boiling inside me, into the face of the occupation," said Ibrahim Abu Meatak, the children's 24-year-old half-brother. He said Miyasar Meatak was fixing breakfast for the family when the tank shell struck.

Also on Saturday 26 April, a Palestinian teenage daughter of a Hamas chief was killed and eight people wounded in a dawn Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip. Maryam Talaat Maruf, 14, died when a missile hit her house in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza City and the eight others wounded, the sources said. Witnesses said Maruf and his brother Hassan were detained by Israeli soldiers who entered the area supported by tanks.

Last Thursday 24 April 2008, the Libyan Deputy Permanent UN Representative who compared Wednesday the situation in Gaza with Nazi concentration camps as a result of Israeli oppressive Israeli policy, has said Thursday the situation is even worse than in Nazi concentration camps because of regular Israeli bomb attacks.

"It is more than what happened in the concentration camps," Libya's deputy permanent U.N. representative, Ibrahim Dabbashi, told reporters. "There is the bombing, daily bombing (by Israel) ... in Gaza. It was not in the concentration camps."

"It is worse than that," said Dabbashi, who holds the rank of ambassador.

Earlier on Wednesday, immediately after Mr. Dabbashi mentioned the concentration camps, French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, U.S. deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff, Britain's deputy ambassador Karen Pierce, Belgian Ambassador Johan Verbeke and Costa Rica's deputy ambassador walked out of the council's consultation room.

The United Nations has warned that closing Gaza's borders has resulted in a humanitarian crisis for the territory's 1.5 million people, most of whom depend on foreign aid.