Al Jazeera - War on Gaza - Day-25 - Gaza Family

Al Jazeera - War on Gaza - Gaza Family Date: 01/20/2009 | War on Gaza: Day 25 Language: English Duration: 3:49 minutes File Size: 121.83 MB License: Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License # Video Description Rushed Transcript: Khaled’s eldest daughter Souad was 7 years old, Summar was 4 years old. On the 12th day of the war, according to Khaled, both his children were shot dead by an Israeli soldier as the family left their home on the Army's command with their hands up and waving a white flag. While looking through the rubble once his home, Khaled found the bear Summar was holding when she was SOT KHALED ABED RABBO "It was 12.50 on the 7th january, the Israeli tanks came right to the door of my house. They ordered us on loudspeakers to leave the house. My mother went out and then me and the children. My mother was holding up a white flag and the distance between us and the tanks could not have been more than 10 metres so they could see us clearly. Suddenly I saw one of the soldiers stick his head out of the tank, raise his gun and shoot at my children and mother. My eldest, Souad, was shot 12 times in her chest." Khaled then ran back inside the house and later escaped by foot with his wounded mother and youngest child- 2 year old Amal. She was also shot in the chest and has now been taken abroad for treatment. He says he is not Hamas and nobody was firing rockets in the area. He wants to know why Israeli soldiers killed his children and spared him. SOT KHALED ABED RABBO "There is no life after this..I t even have a single picture left of my children, everything is gone. Nothing to remember my babies by." Abed Rabbo is 2 km from the Israeli border..this area saw some of the worst bombardment and fighting of the war. 500 homes have been destroyed..thousands are homeless with no place to and the community is in mourning. And this is s left of the homes Israel spared .this family found their personal belongings buried, their bedrooms trashed..and s not the only thing Israeli soldiers left behind PTC Sherine ve seen around a dozen houses here and its pretty much the same story, not just did they demolish s homes but the soldiers also left messages on the walls and furniture peopleWeTadros we want and on this join the Israeli Army I translated the messages for the " SOT AZZET FARAJ ABED We want to live in peace. We are simple people, we used to work in Israel, my son worked for the Palestinian Authority..why would they write these things? And do this to our home? We t deserve to be (PIX: writings on the wall 'i love israel' and family looking at it) The Israeli PM has apologized to the Palestinian people, telling them this war was not meant to make them ..but actions speak louder than words, and in Gaza both show s true intention. ST, AJ Abbed Rabbo, northern Gaza. # Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository http://cc.aljazeera.net/