This story, reported on The World is truly horrifying if it is confirmed. The reporter, Quil Lawrence, did say that on several key points, the stories of the Grandmother, who survived, the father, who carried both his grandmother and one remaining 4-year old daughter a mile to a hospital during the 3 hour "humanitarian" lull, all match. And the 4 year old girl, shot in the spin and crippled, is in Europe so there isn't a lot of opportunity to get her story to "match" her father's and grandmother's story.
Basically, they lived in an area in Gaza under Israeli control, the entire area was leveled. They were told to get out. And so the grandmother, mother and three little girls, 2, 4 and 7 years of age, came out with white flags.
An Israeli soldier purposefully shot them. The 2 and 7 year olds died almost instantly. The mother, father, injured grandmother and daughter hid inside their home for over an hour and a half, waiting for relief or instructions. None came. Israeli soldiers were joking and evidently drinking soda outside.
During the "humanitarian lull"--which is such an offensive term because who gave the Israelis the right to dictate what happens to other people in their own country?--the father took the grandmother not fatally shot, and his one remaining daughter to the hospital and mile and a half away. The daughter was later flown somewhere in Europe for treatment. She will be crippled for life.
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