List of families targeted by Israeli shellings, airstrikes

[Jefferson23]

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces have repeatedly struck family homes throughout its assault on Gaza, and the Ministry of Health calculates that over 50 families have been targeted.

Airstrikes and shellings have targeted 52 families and killed 285 members of those families since the beginning of the offensive, according to the ministry.

Human Rights Watch said in a July 20 report that various Israeli attacks on civilian targets throughout the conflict were "apparent violations of the laws of war."

HRW found during an investigation that Israel had targeted one family who had relatives active in the Islamic Jihad movement, even though no one living in the house was a part of the movement. The rights group found no evidence the home was being used for military purposes.

snip* Below is a list of family's the Ministry of Health says were targeted by Israeli shellings or airstrikes:



1. Hamad family in Beit Hanoun, 6 killed.
2. Kaware family in Khan Younis, 8 killed.
3. Al-Manasrah family in central Gaza Strip, 4 killed.
4. Al-Hajj family in Khan Younis, 8 killed.
5. Abu Jame family in Khan Younis, 2 killed.
6. Abdulghafour family in Khan Younis, 2 killed.
7. Ghannam family in Rafah, 4 killed.
8. Al-Arja family in Rafah, 2 killed.
9. Al-Astal family in Khan Younis, 15 killed.
10. Al-Sawali family in Khan Younis, 2 killed.
11. Al-Batsh family in Gaza City, 17 killed.
12. Al-Sheikh Eid family in Rafah, 3 killed.
13. Abu Daqqa family in Khan Younis, 3 killed.
14. Baker family in Gaza City, 4 children killed.
15. Zurub family in Khan Younis, 3 killed, 1 of them child.
16. Shuheiber family in al-Sabra, 3 children killed.
17. Abu Snineh family, 3 killed.
18. Abu Jarad family in northern Gaza, 8 killed.
19. Shat family in Khan Younis, 4 children killed.
20. Nuteiz family in Gaza City, 3 killed, 2 of them children.
21. Radwan family in Khan Younis, 4 killed.
22. Abu Musallam family in northern Gaza, 3 children killed.
23. Al- Zuweidi family in Beit Hanoun, 5 killed.
24. Zubut family in al-Zaytoun, 2 killed.
25. Salihiyeh family in Khan Younis, 4 killed.
26. Al-Rahal family in Beit Lahiya, 2 killed.
27. Abu Muammar family in Khanh Younis and Rafah, 6 killed.
28. Hammudeh family in Beit Lahiya, 2 killed
29. Isleim family in al-Shujaiyeh, 4 killed.
30. Al-Shair family in Khan Younis, 4 killed.
31. Al-Hayya family in al-Shujaiyeh, 4 killed.
32. Ziyada family in al-Breij, 3 killed.
33. Ayyad family in al-Shujaiyeh, 10 killed.
34. Siyam family in Rafah, 11 killed.
35. Abu Jame family, 26 killed.
36. Breim family in Deir al-Balah, 3 killed.
37. Al-Bazji family in northern Gaza, 5 killed.
38. Al-Hallaq family in Gaza City, 7 killed.
39. Hmdiyeh family in Gaza City, 4 killed.
40. Al-Kilani family in Gaza City, 7 killed.
41. Al-Hajjaj family in Gaza City, 4 killed.
42. Al-Radee family in northern Gaza, 4 killed.
43. Al-Muqataa family in central Gaza, 2 killed.
44. Al-Skafi family in al-Shujaiyeh, 4 killed.
45. Al-Shanbari family in Beit Hanoun, 7 killed.
46. Abdulnabi family in northern Gaza, 3 killed.
47. Abu Aita family in northern Gaza, 4 killed.
48. Abu Jazar family in Khan Younis, 3 killed.
49. Abu Hasanein family in Rafah, 4 killed.
50. Al-Hilw family in al-Shujaiyeh, 11 killed.
51. Abu Shahla family in Khan Younis, 4 killed.
52. Al-Najjar family in Khan Younis, 13 killed.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716669

[azurnoir]

1. Thank you for posting this

real people not just numbers

[Jefferson23]

2. I feel that is important too, it is riveting to see the break down by family names. n/t

[bemildred]

3. KnR. nt

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4. 13 members of extended family killed in Gaza strikes ( Published yesterday (updated) 30/07/2014 16:5

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Over a dozen members of a single family were killed in Israel strikes on Tuesday, as three homes belonging to the extended family in southern Gaza were leveled.

Thirteen family members of the al-Agha family were killed early in the day in Israeli airstrikes targeting three houses in Khan Younis belonging to the al-Agha family.

Muhammad Fadel al-Agha, 25, and Abd al-Hamid Atta al-Agha, 24, were killed in the strikes

Additionally, 45-year-old Nader Atta al-Agha was killed along with his children -- Ahmad, 21, Iyad, 16, Fadel, 11, Daliah, 18, and Dina, 14.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716836

[Jefferson23]

5. In Gaza, no one knows who will survive

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — No one feels the suffering of Gaza’s people except the actual victims. It seems that only the person who has been injured feels injury. Only the dead suffer in death. Only those who lose their homes experience the loss.

The images of children being killed by tons of iron and gunpowder has become a political goal. No matter the size of our grief, it remains small compared to that of the actual victims who have been injured, have lost loved ones or no longer have a home.

What Israel is doing to the civilians of Gaza is shocking — indiscriminate shelling and killing, destruction of entire residential buildings with occupants inside. They say that death by bombing is painless, but no one knows from where death will come. There is no safe place for you or your family. You wonder why planes and shells are trying to kill you as you sit with your family. Why are they killing your children in front of you? Killing you in front of them? Killing all of you, leaving no witness to your final moments?

Israel's intent to destroy the Dawud building, which is next to my family's house and has been bombed several times, was conveyed in a phone call to a building resident. Then the Israelis fired a warning rocket on the afternoon of July 21. Everyone in the neighborhood began screaming — nearby residents, the people in our house (from which the building can be seen), the owner of a nearby restaurant and shop.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/human-suffering-gaza-religious-war.html#ixzz38yxp2Buz

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6. Documenting death: The man who counts the bodies in Gaza

GAZA CITY (AFP) -- Inside Ashraf al-Qidra's cramped office in Shifa hospital, the phone never stops ringing, with news flooding in of the latest victims of Israel's devastating 20-day military operation.




With over 1,060 people killed and more than 6,000 wounded, counting the dead is a full-time occupation for the 41-year-old spokesman for Gaza's emergency services.

Since the operation began on July 8, Qidra has been sleeping just two hours a night on a mattress in his office, his staff updating him round the clock on the latest victims of the Israeli offensive, his phone constantly ringing with journalists seeking details of the latest toll.

He lies down for a rest, but his much-needed siesta is swiftly interrupted as an aide rushes in.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716622

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7. ISM volunteer recounts death of Salem Khalil Salameh, 23,

killed by shots from unknown source while searching for casualties in a-Shuja'iyeh, Gaza City

Testimony of Muhammad 'Abdallah, 27

I work in the international department of the Communications Ministry and live with my parents and nine siblings in a-Nasser neighborhood in Gaza City. I volunteer with several youth and international organizations, including the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

On Sunday, 20 July 2014, at around 3:30 P.M., when I heard about a temporary ceasefire to evacuate wounded people and bodies from a-Shuja'iyeh neighborhood, I went there with four foreign volunteers. We wore fluorescent yellow vests. We reached the eastern part of the neighborhood. I’m not that familiar with the area. We met Civil Defense personnel there. They were removing victims. They asked us to go to a certain area where there were casualties and told us how to get there.

We started walking and soon after, we met a young man who lived in the neighborhood. He wanted to reach his home to check on his family. He was about 20-22 years old, and wore jeans and a green shirt. He didn’t tell us is name. He asked us to help him and accompany him. He said he'd been out of the neighborhood when it was bombed and didn't know if his family had managed to leave it. He told us where the house was. As it turned out, the house was in the same area we were supposed to go to. We walked together. Suddenly I heard massive firing, maybe of shells. It sounded very close. I heard some other firing in the area, too, so I was sure there must be soldiers very close by. I didn't give it much thought because there was a "ceasefire" and there were ambulances, medical teams, journalists and local residents in the neighborhood.

We were shocked by what we saw. A-Shuja'iyeh had become a real ghost town: a city of ruins, completely destroyed. Everything was completely destroyed: houses, shops, everything. Death and destruction had replaced life, movement, hope, commerce and market life.

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http://www.btselem.org/testimonies/20140722_gaza_muhammad_abdallah

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8. Shayma Sheikh Khalil ( July 23- July 29, 2014 )

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9. UNICEF: At least 296 children, teenagers killed in Gaza op

At least 296 Palestinian children and teenagers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of Israel's offensive against the Palestinian Hamas movement on July 8, UNICEF announced Saturday.


"Children account for 30% of civilian casualties," said UNICEF.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4553654,00.html

[Jefferson23]

10. Gaza: As Ceasefire Ends, Misery Resumes

August 01, 2014

Michele Beck, a medical referent with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is in Gaza City, explains what MSF teams have and have not been able to do in the last few days.

A 72-hour truce began this morning, but it did not last long. During the truce we had planned to go to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, to see if they needed any additional supplies or staff. But we couldn’t—we had to turn around as the fighting resumed.

The truce would have given people here a bit of time to breathe and to bury their dead. It would have also allowed us to move. But it didn’t happen that way.

MSF staff living near Rafah called us: they were forced to stay in their homes. They described scenes of chaos, with lots of dead and wounded people in the streets.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/voice-field/gaza-ceasefire-ends-misery-resumes

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11. 70 bodies found in Rafah as death toll hits 1,830

GAZA CITY -- The death toll on the 27th day of Israel's offensive on Gaza hit at least 120 on Sunday as health officials reported that over 70 bodies had been recovered in Rafah, a day after the city came under fierce, prolonged bombardment by Israeli forces.

Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma'an that the bodies of 70 Palestinians had been recovered from the city in the southern Gaza city, while 55 other Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip Sunday.

The continuing attacks brought the total death toll in the assault to 1,830 with nearly 10,000 injured.

Israel began targeting Rafah with airstrikes and shelling Friday, killing dozens in the city hours before a 72-hour ceasefire was to come into place. When the ceasefire collapsed, Israel continued its bombardment on Rafah throughout Friday and into Saturday, killing more than hundred Palestinians.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=717887

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12. Israeli missile kills one of two identical Gaza twins born during war ( Graphic Warning )

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- One of two twin baby boys born less than three weeks ago at the beginning of the Israeli assault on Gaza was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, while the other was left fighting for his life.

The al-Ghoul twins were hit after an Israeli missile struck their home in Rafah, killing nine other members of their family and injuring twenty more.

Asmaa al-Ghoul, a journalist from the family based in Gaza City, said in a post on Facebook that her uncle Ismail and his sons Muhammad and Wael were killed this morning along with Wael's three children Malak, Mustafa, and Ismail.

Two of Wael's sons were identical twins born during the Israeli military offensive.

One of them was killed Sunday morning during the strike, while the other survived. The surviving twin, was seriously injured and was "fighting for his life," she said.

When the twins were born, she had written in a post on Facebook: "In Gaza, there is always hope and new life. A door of light and happiness in the middle of this war."

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=717802