A single rifle bullet, another victim – but no hope of a doctor
Rory McCarthy in Jabalia The Guardian, Monday March 3 2008
- First came an explosion in the street outside. Then the sound of a single rifle bullet…
Abu Saif hurried upstairs and found, lying on the floor of the front room, Safa, aged 12. There was a hole in her chest where the bullet had entered
…he fetched bandages, closed the wounds as best he could and held her in his arms as she bled.
The roofs of nearby buildings were still dotted with Israeli soldiers. It was from there the bullet that killed Safa was fired, the family believe… - …the Israeli military operations mounted over the past five days have left more than 100 Palestinians dead, among them many civilians. For Saturday alone the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights put the number of dead civilians at 49; Reuters news agency said Palestinian medical officials put it at about 60. West Bank – riots in support of Gaza in Ramallah and Hebron – where Israeli troops shot dead a 14-year-old boy.
- mourners carried through the streets the body of a young infant girl, Salsabeel Abu Jalhoum, 21 months.
- Mustafa Banna, 20 – both his legs blown off by an Israeli shell which struck near his home
- Eyad and Jacqueline Abu Shabak, brother and sister aged 16 and 17, shot dead around midnight on Friday in the front room of their home
