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01 A-C
11-year-old
Hebah was burried in rubble when an appartment block next to her
house was dynamited by Israeli army engineers. She was asleep in
her bed when the outer wall of her bedroom came down on her. Looking
for her, her father, who was in a room facing away from the explosion,
located her as he spotted some black hair protuding from the debris.
Hebah was lucky. She only sustained superficial injuries. |
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Photo 01 D:
Hebah's mattress under rubble. |
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02 A-D: Most of Hebah's family's house was destroyed
when the neighbouring appartment block was blown up by the Israeli
army. The family, ten people, now lives the only room that was not
destroyed in the explosion (groundfloor, behind the bedroom). |
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07 A - 08 C: At 2 AM on the night of the attack,
Israeli soldiers ordered the thirty residents of this ex-appartment
block to leave the building. Minutes later, it was blown up with
dynamite. The residents were not allowed to take anything with them,
including money and personal documents. The soldiers said they were
looking for a certain Aiman Shasniyeh, whom they hold responsible
for a bomb attack on an Israeli tank in March 2002. |
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08 E-F: Some of the residents of the demolished appartment
block now live with relatives whereas others live in this and similar
tents. |
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09 A-B: Seven unarmed men were killed here when an
Israeli helicopter fired a missile at them. The men had gone outside
to see what was happening as tank and gun fire could be heard from
app. 500 meters away (in the area in pictures 01 A - 09 E) when
the missile struck. The Israeli army claimed that the men were armed
Hamas militants. The mentioned UN inquiry found that this was untrue. |
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09 D: The explosion threw one man's leg to this point
from where the people in the background are standing. |
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09 E: A shoe belonging to one of those killed by
the missile. |
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11 A-C: Unexploded shells like this one, fired from
an Israeli helicopter gunship, can be found all over in the aftermath
of military raids like the one that hit Bureij on 6 December 2002. |
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12 A-B: The Israeli army has its own equivalent of
the infamous nail-packed bombs used by Palestinian suicide bombers:
tank shells filled with app. one thousand so-called flachettes -
miniature metal darts, each app. 4 cm long. On impact the flachettes
are propelled and spread at high speed over a large area. They are
capable of penetrating concrete walls. These were found in the city
of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip |
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