In Shallow Graves Lies Fathers and Sons Victims of an Israeli Massacre

In Shallow Graves in Al-Qarrara Village - Lies Fathers and Sons - Victims of an Israeli Massacre
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice



Jan 11, 2009


GAZA - On Saturday Israeli F16 warplanes bombarded with phosphor canisters the Block 2 section, in the Jabalya Refuge Camp.Many residents of Jabalya are escaping the area,searching for a safe shelter in the home of relatives in the neighboring Beit Lahia project.

In the dark night the terrifying sound of Drones ( unmanned recognition planes) circling in the skies above, a Drone can take photos of the number plates on the cars thousands of meters below on the ground,also recognise and track location of the signals from mobile phones.

Nearby the Beit Lahia project, was ones not long ago,full of life and people,a thriving Palestinian village.Al-Qarrara,now partly destroyed by artillery shelling and air strikes.The Israelis have attacked this village many times, also prior to their "Cast Lead Massacre" aimed to kill the "terrorists" in Gaza, a genocide that led off,in the early morning of the 27th of December.

In the first weeks of November, throughout the six month of the so called ceasefire between the Israelis and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza,which from the very beginning,was breached by the Israelis many times. Among other criminal "operations",the Israelis murdered in Al- Qarrara; Wajed Muhareb 19,Mahmoud Taha Ba'lousha 21,Mohamad Abdallah Awad 26,Omar Salim El Alami 20 and Ammar Salhiya 21, all of them were just young political activists,members of the popular Hamas organisation.

Yesterday the people in Beit Lahia was told,by villagers walking together towards Beit Lahia project,across the lands and the fields,escaping from Al- Qarrara village, to what they hoped safety among friends,they said that a genocide is unfolding in their home village.Below is the accounts of the events,told by surviving family members and relatives;

Amid heavy fire,Israeli death squads, including snipers were trespassing into the Al-Qarrara village, not meeting any hostility from terrified residents,and no armed resistance.The Israeli perpetrators kicked in the doors and smashed the windows, assaulting the residents while rummaging trough their homes, turning everything upside down, destroying or plundering its content of furniture,framed photos of family members,children's toys, computers,small battery radios, mobile phones,TV and video electronics and small savings.

The villagers would than be separated into two groups, the women and the children were demanded to go outside,leave their home village, or stay in the house. The men, including the young adults and teenage boys were forced outside in the cold weather, kicked and hit in the head with rifle butts.They are then taken to an empty building, or a field nearby,shot in the back in cold blood.After the killings, the bodies of the dead or the deadly wounded are dumped into shallow graves.

Back to Beit Lahia project nearby, people are fearing for their lives, about 1 kilometer from the city, Israeli troops are stationed,snipers on the rooftops near by, waiting to attack meanwhile Israeli warships are covering above.Many homes,schools,Mosques and food markets have been bombed in Beit Lahia,on Saturday the food market in the Beit Lahia project was shelled.

All the banks and Western Union money transfer offices across Gaza are closed.In the northern parts of Gaza though,the people are suffering the most ,from all kind of obstacles,being killed in an air strike, by artillery shelling, or by sniper fire.Since six days here,the electricity has been cut off,people are starving,there is no food to be found, and no drinkable water.Because of the lacking of electricity,the batteries that is used for water filters to make the water clean,can not be used without electric power.


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