Ramadan resumes at dawn) for her family, but she never thought that Israel's "death missiles" were watching.
"The Israeli death missiles have stolen my only child while sleeping in her bed," father Ahmed Hamad told IslamOnline.net Friday, September 29, bursting into tears.
Dam el-Ezz, 14, was killed on Wednesday, September 27, in an Israeli air raid in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
"I rushed to her room following the Israeli attack to find that her little body was torn into pieces," he added.
Ten people, most of them children and women, were also injured in the Israeli attack.
Israel has killed up to 240 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in a large-scale offensive in Gaza launched on the pretext of seeking the release of a captured Israeli soldier, leaving hundreds of Palestinians killed and injured.
On Friday, two teenage Palestinian brothers were killed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza.
They were killed while walking in Beit Hanun when an Israeli missile struck them.
Friday's deaths bring to 5,403 the number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian Intifada in September 2000, most of them Palestinians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count.
Last Meal
The slain child was used to wake up every night to prepare suhur for her family during Ramadan.
"What had the young child done to be torn into pieces?" lamented her father.
"What had my wife and I done to be deprived from our own child who was the only joy of our life."
Dam al-Ezz was the only child of Ahmed's two marriages.
"I had no children from my first marriage," he said.
"I got married for the second time and I had Dam el-Ezz. She was all my life," he added, venting anger at the Israelis.
"May Allah punish our enemy (Israelis) for their grisly crimes."
The UN has described the Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories as amounting to "ethnic cleansing", describing life in Gaza as "intolerable, appalling and tragic" because of the Israeli closures that have turned the strip into a big prison.
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/29/05.shtml
"The Israeli death missiles have stolen my only child while sleeping in her bed," father Ahmed Hamad told IslamOnline.net Friday, September 29, bursting into tears.
Dam el-Ezz, 14, was killed on Wednesday, September 27, in an Israeli air raid in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
"I rushed to her room following the Israeli attack to find that her little body was torn into pieces," he added.
Ten people, most of them children and women, were also injured in the Israeli attack.
Israel has killed up to 240 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in a large-scale offensive in Gaza launched on the pretext of seeking the release of a captured Israeli soldier, leaving hundreds of Palestinians killed and injured.
On Friday, two teenage Palestinian brothers were killed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza.
They were killed while walking in Beit Hanun when an Israeli missile struck them.
Friday's deaths bring to 5,403 the number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian Intifada in September 2000, most of them Palestinians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count.
Last Meal
The slain child was used to wake up every night to prepare suhur for her family during Ramadan.
"What had the young child done to be torn into pieces?" lamented her father.
"What had my wife and I done to be deprived from our own child who was the only joy of our life."
Dam al-Ezz was the only child of Ahmed's two marriages.
"I had no children from my first marriage," he said.
"I got married for the second time and I had Dam el-Ezz. She was all my life," he added, venting anger at the Israelis.
"May Allah punish our enemy (Israelis) for their grisly crimes."
The UN has described the Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories as amounting to "ethnic cleansing", describing life in Gaza as "intolerable, appalling and tragic" because of the Israeli closures that have turned the strip into a big prison.
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/29/05.shtml
