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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Gaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead

Unsurprisingly, this story does not seem to have appeared in the U.S. edition of Newsweek.

Gaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead

Gaza cover
In a house in Rafah in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border, Nabil Siyam, aged 34, slowly lays out pictures of his family. He only has one arm, the other was blown off by an Israeli bomb during the summer war. The pictures show his wife, Shireen, and their children – Mustafa, 9, Ghaida, a girl aged 8, Abdul Rahman, 6, Badruddin, 5 and Dalal, also a girl, aged nine months. All but Badruddin were killed by the same bomb; the little boy lost a kidney and now plays on his father’s lap. Also killed were two of Nabil’s brothers, two of his brothers’ wives and three of their children, who lived in this house.

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/19/gaza-one-war-one-family-five-children-four-dead-290987.html

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