Thursday, April 14, 2011

Killings (slaughter is more appropriate a word) haunt Gaza City graveyard families

GAZA CITY: Bloodstains can still be seen on the graves in Sheja‘iya cemetery just days after a deadly Israeli raid, showing that even the dead cannot rest in peace in the war-torn Gaza district. Israel says the raid, which killed two people at dusk on Friday, targeted Palestinians firing rockets ... Shortly after the graveyard was struck, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad announced that Raeir was one of their activists who had been killed after he fired a missile at an Israeli position. The Israeli military subsequently posted air force footage of the graveyard showing shadows moving around the cemetery with a tubular object -- what they said was a rocket launcher ... "We have a housing crisis here," said Jaru. "When we need to build, we look at the date on the graves, and if they are very old and all that’s inside is dust, we clear them." Signs of life among the dead are all around, with rubbish littering the ground around the graves, and washing lines strung between the headstones.
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