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A Palestinian woman carries belongings salvaged from the rubble of her demolished house in Jabaliya (AFP)
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By
Mohammad Yassin, IOL Correspondent
GAZA
CITY, October 17 (IslamOnline.net) - It was just another gloomy day
for Um Abdul Rahman, a Palestinian mother who, like hundreds others,
was left homeless by a deadly Israeli raid into the Gaza Strip.
She
takes cover from the elements under a shabby tent fixed loosely at
branches of a tree that survived the sweeping Israeli devastation of
acres of fertile land.
No
wonder that she nicknamed her second child born during the Israeli
incursion Al-Shareed (Arabic for the displaced man).
"I
named my child Abdul Rahman, but nicknamed him Al-Shareed as a living
example of our untold plight," tearful Um Abdul Rahman told
IslamOnline.net.
"Now
we are left homeless without a livelihood after Israeli military
bulldozers uprooted olive and palm trees while chickens and cattle
were buried under the debris of our home."
Israel
ended Friday, October 15, one of its
bloodiest raids into the Gaza Strip, killing 133
Palestinians, including 30 children, demolishing 70 houses and
displacing hundreds of families.
Israeli
tanks and bulldozers churning through Jabaliya alleyways destroyed at
least fifty workshops and shops along the Gaza Strip's main road.
Lamp
posts and electricity cables lay uprooted along roads mangled by
Israeli tanks around Jabaliya and Beit Lahya.
Puddles
of stagnant drain water permeated refugee camp streets with a fetid
smell.
Whole
districts were still without water and electricity on Sunday, October
17.
Missing
Ramadan
Adel
Salem, 13, and his brothers missed fasting the first day of the holy
month of Ramadan.
They
were exhausted after spending a sleepless night sifting through the
wreckage of their home.
"They
[Israeli occupation troops] ordered us at gunpoint to leave our home
and we saw it crumble right before our very eyes," Salem told
IOL.
"We
were panicked by the merciless occupation soldiers, who don’t balk
at killing anyone even children."
Iman
Al-Hams, 13, was
riddled with 20 bullets by an Israeli officer while on
her way to school in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
Another
10-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl died
of her wounds after Israeli snipers shot her in the
chest while she was sitting inside a UN-run school in a Gaza refugee
camp.
