September 26, 2007
For Gaza’s Young at Play, Fields Can Be Deadly
By STEVEN ERLANGER
GAZA — The three Abu Ghazala fathers were in mourning, in the Palestinian way, sitting with their relatives recently in a shaded courtyard, open to the fields of watermelon and eggplant in which their children had died.
The children — Yehiya, 12, Mahmoud, 9, and Sara, 9 — were tending goats and playing tag on Aug. 29 when an Israeli shell or rocket blew them apart. “They went up to that palm tree,” said Ramadan Abu Ghazala, Yehiya’s father, pointing 300 yards away. “They went there every day.”
As the fathers, all farmers, talked, an Israeli blimp, with cameras, hovered in the sky above Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of Gaza, an Israeli drone buzzed in the air and an Israeli watchtower loomed over the nearby border. It was the blimp or the drone, presumably, that first identified the target.
And there's more.
Like this contradiction:
The Abu Ghazalas do not defend the rocket fire from their fields...Suleiman Abu Ghazala, Sara’s father, said the launcher in question had been sitting in the same field for three months; the others agreed.
Hmmm. Three months they didn't think to remove the launcher?
They crazy or perhaps they really do support Arab terror against Israeli civilians?
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