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Written by Dr. Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada Dr. Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada
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Published: 22 January 2009 22 January 2009
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Last Updated: 22 January 2009 22 January 2009
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"Where can I bring him a father from? Where can I bring him a mother from? You tell me!"
These are the desperate words of Subhi Samuni to Al-Jazeera's Gaza
correspondent. Subhi lost 17 members of his immediate family, including
the parents of his seven-year-old grandson. Shockingly, even as I write
this article, corpses of the Samuni family are still being retrieved
from under the rubble -- 15 days after the Israeli occupation forces
shelled the two houses. The Israeli army locked 120 members of the
family in one house for 12 hours before they shelled it.
Subhi's words echo the harsh reality of all Palestinians in Gaza:
alone, abandoned, hunted down, brutalized, and, like Subhi's grandson,
orphaned. Twenty-two days of savage butchery took the lives of more
than 1,300 Palestinians, at least 85 percent of them civilians,
including 434 children, 104 women, 16 medics, four journalists, five
foreigners, and 105 elderly people.
What can one say to comfort a man who has the harrowing task of having
to bury his entire family, including his wife, his sons, his daughters
and his grandchildren? Tell us and we will relay your words to Uncle
Subhi because his loss has made our words of condolences meaningless to
our ears.
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