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Cinque voci, otto assassinii e una bomba

The exact spot where he died Yasser Qudaih

Khuza'a is a village in the southern Gaza Strip, in the governorate of Khan Younis. There are about 12 thousand inhabitants, the center is just over a kilometer from the Israeli border and the movement restrictions created by the occupation forces are considerable. The fact that I'm about to tell takes place in Khuza'a, il 13 gennaio 2009, durante l'attacco genocida e terrorista di Israele detto “piombo fuso”. Non è l'unico episodio riferito a questo villaggio, e certamente non è nemmeno il più tremendo di quel periodo, ma vale la pena raccontarlo.

I personaggi narranti sono cinque diversi abitanti, tre donne e due uomini, che direttamente o indirettamente hanno vissuto quel momento.

Nada Aburoch

Nada Aburoch, 53 year old woman

" During the invasion two years ago, during the genocidal attack that lasted three weeks, Israel used white phosphorus against us and other terrible weapons, my Mamdouh two eldest sons (22y.o.) and Medhat Aburok (17 years) helped the neighborhood administering first aid, even though they had no certificate or particular expertise, was horrible, people were dying and ambulances could not get the time because the snipers were still to shoot ... My oldest son, Mamdouh, was studying computer science at university, while working in a restaurant to pay for studies. After the Israeli attack with white phosphorus in Khuza'a (around January 10th) we went there with his family, and my two older sons were there. They wanted to guard the house because it was not torn down and continue to help the neighborhood. I was very worried, and what has happened since has confirmed my worst nightmares "

Qudaih Sabrin, 35 years, women:

" My husband Yasser Qudaih traded fruit and vegetables also grow anything here before. During the war we have strayed from Khuza'a because it was dangerous, we had refugees to Abusan (neighboring village) to my sister's house, because they were safer. My husband had returned during the cease-fire to see how the situation was: we were told that the Israelis were destroying all the empty houses, so he wanted to go see what was going on. Thought to be safe during the cease-fire, but it was not so. "

Gada Quiah, 34 years, women:

" Qudaih Mohammed was 15 years old, was my eldest son. He was a football fan, played in a small local team and loved it. A school was first class, the teacher remembers him with affection, came here to visit me once.

Since the invasion, you know, we had no electricity, recharge cell phones shop opposite the house that had the generator. It was the cease-fire and my baby was going to take ... when the disaster happened was right in front of the house, right here in front. "

Salem Mohammed Odeh

Salem Mohammed Odeh , 31 anni, uomo:

“ Tutto è successo durante il cessate il fuoco. Le forze israeliane avevano concesso 3 ore di cessate il fuoco al giorno, ed in quelle 3 ore i tanti che erano scappati nei villaggi vicini approfittavano per venire a controllare le proprie case e prendere cose che servivano. Anche chi non era scappato sfruttava il momento per uscire a comperare i beni di prima necessità nei pochi negozi che aprivano.

Qui siamo al primo piano e giusto sotto casa c'è un negozio di alimentari. Sono sceso un time to buy something, there was a small group of people who had gathered in front of the shop. I remember they were talking about a guy who was running away from his home because he was too close to the border and panic had knocked at the wrong door, I do not remember exactly ... I was telling these people not to gather, not being all together, to disperse because even if they declared a cease-fire not to be trusted ... the Israelis were in heaven zannana a (drone) and two apache (helicopters) of the occupation forces.

I was struck by the explosion in the left leg, I lost a lot of blood, and they took me to the hospital with the same ambulance which carried the bodies of the dead. While waiting at the hospital I saw so many people get that I was afraid that all were dead or wounded Khuza'a "

Sabrin Qudaih :" My husband Yasser had just gone to see that had been our home, and to make children's clothing. When I heard the explosion I called Khuza'a to hear if my husband was well, and at the beginning I have said yes, they told me that my brother was dead. When I discovered that my husband had been killed during the explosion, was a tremendous trauma. The bomb caught him discharged dall'Apache right outside the door of his house as he spoke with a group of kids was outside the supermarket. It was just leaning against the wall, one meter away from the gate ... "

Nadra Aburoch :" My two eldest children, after three days away from the family that made sure that nothing happened to our house and were providing relief to the neighborhood in which they had finally decided to join us in Khan Younis. The eldest, Mamadouh, had found a car and stopped a moment to the area to predict Medhat shop and buy a snack. After the explosion they found part of the snack in the mouth of the corpse and hand in your pocket pants "

Quiah Gada" in front of the shop opposite the house where my baby was going to charge the phone battery had gathered a little 'people, and I heard a big bang. The street was full of blood and pieces of dead bodies, it was terrible, there was glass everywhere because all the windows of the building where there was the shop were too high, even those on the first floor of the dwelling. My son did not die immediately, he died an hour later, they had brought into the store where they were all waiting for the ambulance ... I still wore the jeans at the time.

Store Naji Qudaih

Qudaih Naji, 49, is the owner of a small supermarket opposite which occurred the explosion. He moved the store a few hundred meters on the same street, the shop is very small, the size of a closet, when we interviewed him there was no current and the little light came through the metal door open.

" I opened the store during the cease-fire, also to provide a service to villagers who needed to stock up on essential goods and electricity to charge the batteries of mobile phones, in fact I had the generator running. Someone had gathered, and the Apache dropped a bomb right where the people had stopped talking. After the explosion we brought the wounded inside the store to provide first aid, because it was a dangerous area and they put a lot of ambulances to arrive. The ambulance arrived after 45 minutes ... not all the victims died at the time, 3 we have put in more time, I particularly remember a boy of 15 years (Mohammed Qudaih), was shot in the head, but when he entered the shop was still alive. If the ambulance was arrivata in tempo forse si sarebbe salvato.”

Otto palestinesi, padri di famiglia e ragazzini con delle vite “normali”, uccisi mentre chiacchieravano davanti ad un supermercato, da una bomba lanciata da un elicottero Apache israeliano:

YASSER QUDAIH, 34 anni, sposato, 5 figli

MOHAMMED QUDAIH, 15 anni

MAMDOUH ABUROUK, 22 anni

GASSON ABUZER, 23 anni

Alaa ABURIDA

Suliman QUDAIH

Mamdouh MOUSAID QUDAIH

Salem Mohammed Odeh 'C' were pieces of bodies of people murdered across the street, some pieces have also reached my terrace, including a portion of an arm ... other pieces of flesh were found the next day near the tree opposite, a scene I will never forget! If I think that the Israeli media have come to argue that they were militants resistance ... as you may think this is true? In this village is all flat, the border can see everything, is not the place for action of armed resistance, were all civilians, were dressed in civilian clothes ... Yasser was right opposite the entrance to the house, had been part of the resistance would not have been there! I remember at least 3 others wounded in addition to me: Hamdam Qudaih had a bad wound with a piece that was entered into head, but managed to have an operation in Egypt and is now healed, Idah Qudaih had shrapnel and debris all over the body , the company does have just entered the hospital, and was saved. Medath I remember that was 17 years and a large splinter in the stomach "

Nadra Aburoch : “il mio figlio secondogenito, Medath, aveva ferite e frammenti nelle gambe e nello stomaco, lo hanno operato ma non sono riusciti ad estrarre tutti i frammenti, talvolta se ne sentono ancora al tatto sotto la pelle e gli fanno molto male soprattutto quando fa freddo..un paio di mesi fa ne è stato estratto uno dal piede e giusto ieri se ne poteva sentire uno sottopelle vicino al ginocchio. Credo che col passare del tempo si muovano naturalmente verso la pelle, dopo si possono estrarre, ma provocano molto dolore. Oggi Medath ha problemi psicologici, è molto nervoso, fa fatica a sostenere una conversazione rimanendo calmo; io I have diabetes and high blood pressure, another 11 years of my son cries often and needed psychological support, which was provided by a local association. "

Gada Quiah "They killed my baby for no reason 14 years, my firstborn. I cried so much. I could not recover ... the door initially opened on our street where the massacre happened, today I opened another on a side street, because every time I went out I was sick of them, before the eyes of mind the blood and bits of bodies in the street, I see my son with the broken head, review my baby died. I took a psychological treatment to overcome the trauma, I have to take my 8 year old daughter who wakes up at night and comes looking for mom and dad crying and shaking as he hears the sound of airplanes or helicopters. all my four children have seen the horror in that way, the shreds of meat after the explosion, and they are all smaller than what has been assassinated: they bring in the nightmare forever ... We were just thinking of leaving the house when it happened the massacre "

Four of the sons of Sabri Qudaih

Sabrin Qudaih : "now that my husband is dead, that was what worked at home, we live aid. The shock for me lasted a year, and I have to raise five children alone, I loved my husband. We Palestinians want our rights are respected, Israel must be punished for all crimes he committed during the genocidal attack two years ago and that makes every day. The Israeli media are liars, my husband was not in the resistance, was a civilian! What do you think that he would be killed in front of the house had been in the resistance? Children were massacred, nobody had weapons, had gathered because there was a shop next door, and, above all, everything has happened during the cease-fire! "

Naji Qudaih :" I am sure that none of the injuries that led to my shop had clothing that can be traced back to the uniforms of the resistance. No one 'among the wounded there' among the people that had gathered was armed. All the West talk about human rights, but it is a filling his mouth with words unnecessary, because when it comes to our human rights will not move a finger when it comes to Israeli crimes against our people in the West takes no position . When Israel is violating human rights are routinely ignored the facts. "

The coffee Gada Quidah

Gada Quiah : "Israel has hit just because those people had gathered, it makes absolutely no distinction between civilians and resistance, between adults and children. No more will I bring back my child. The Israelis are the barbarians. Why kill Palestinian children in this way? Why our children can not have a life like any other children? "

Salem Mohammed Odeh : "Although Israel has bombed Lebanon in kindergartens, it behaves the same way in all countries, wherever they kill unarmed civilians. And you know why? Why in the world does not matter, because all do not care, because when these crimes does all look the other way. States, institutions, the UN, everyone is silent. No one tells him to stop. None. "

marks left on the road by the bomb

Poptropica Trainer/hacking Device?

Essere contadini a Gaza

Bulldozer israeliano

“Chi semina buon grano, ha poi buon pane”, recita il proverbio. Ma per avere un buon pane, cioè un buon raccolto, è necessario prima di tutto poter accedere alla propria terra, è necessario che le forze di occupazione non lo impediscano sparandoti contro. È necessario poter irrigare, è necessario che l'esercito israeliano non bombardi il pozzo che usi per raccogliere l'acqua. È necessario, inoltre, che non arrivino bulldozer, scortati da carri armati, a distruggere quanto è stato seminato.

Jaber is thin and not very tall, has a tanned complexion, prominent cheekbones and calloused hands. He talks little, Jaber is patient, but also very determined. He comes from a farming family, has 45 years, and since he was six he helped his father to take care of almond trees. The land is cultivated between 300 and 500 meters from the border, and works in the uncertainty of being able to see the fruits of his land. Five years ago, the occupation forces set fire to his field of corn at harvest, sending smoke in the work and investments of one year. Firefighters were unable to arrive on time, because, due to the proximity of the field to no-go areas declared unilaterally by the occupation forces, requiring coordination with the Israeli army, and this coordination has not arrived. About a year ago, the bulldozers have destroyed most of his home, which was located about 400 meters from the border, the small farm of chickens, 40 dunams of wheat, 3 dunams of olive trees, and 3 dunams of vegetables. He says that if it was not released in time from his home with his family would have demolished them inside. Today Jaber grow onions in the ground where his old home.

Israel unilaterally declared "no-go zone" the strip of land that runs close the border to a distance of 300 meters. This area is completely inaccessible for Palestinians, even those who had their lands and crops. But according to a UN report says the area where access is "high risk" comes up to a kilometer and a half, sometimes two miles from the border. 35% of the arable land of Gaza are in this area as "high risk", and for farmers it is difficult or impossible to collect fruits from their land in this area. Israel's policy in this regard has every appearance of wanting to simply prevent farmers from cultivating their land, and to be able to reach some form of food self-sufficiency.

Always Jaber said: "Before we grew almonds, then Israel began to fill up our markets for almonds, by artificially calarne price, so those who cultivated the almond crop was converted into something else, then withdrew their almonds and the price is increased again, but we had no more almonds. The same thing happened with oranges. During the first intifada, closing the borders have prevented us from exporting vegetables, and at the same time, have prevented the fertilizer to enter ... and then things got worse and worse. "

Area north, the wall is visible in the right background, the buildings are those of the Erez crossing

Ibrahim lives in Khuza 'To the south of the strip. His house was destroyed during the war, and can not access the land they cultivate. He has a tractor to plow, but even with this there is little work, because where he lives most of the arable land is a few hundred meters from the border, and farmers without access. Yusef is also Khuza'a, and has two properties, one of 8 dunums and the other 24, both of them cultivated with wheat per fare il pane. Il terreno di 8 dunam non è più accessibile, si trova a 200 metri dal confine, mentre l'altro, a 300 mettri dal confine, non viene coltivato da 2 anni perchè quando prova a recarvisi le forze di occupazione iniziano a sparare.

Abu Taima, anch'egli al sud, racconta come all'inizio le forze di occupazione abbiano distrutto gli aranci, e poi non abbiano permesso la coltivazione nemmeno di grano ed altri vegetali, sebbene molto più bassi degli alberi. Nel 2008, nel 2009 e nel 2010 ha coltivato la sua terra, ma i bulldozer israeliani la hanno distrutta prima del raccolto. Sparano ai contadini che vanno a coltivare, e poi sradicano crops. They shoot and kill even the cattle and sheep to graze, the last sheep was killed just 700 meters from the border. The Zionist soldiers shoot when there is fog, without seeing clearly what hit. "I had 50 dunams of land, now they can no longer grow. There were ten people working for me, and each had a family of ten. Today, all these workers are unemployed, and depend on welfare programs or humanitarian assistance. "

The last farmer killed by Israel was 65 years old and his name Kharmoot Shaban, was shot Beit Hannoun, the north, with three bullets: one in the neck, one in the chest and one abdomen because he was cultivating his land as he had done over the past 40 years, and had no other alternative to support his family.

holes caused by bullets on the cloth of a greenhouse

The numbers of land for at least one year and not have borne fruit due to contamination from used white phosphorus during the Israeli invasion "lead time" : leaves from trees destroyed, contaminated land that gave poisoned fruit. Are been so poisoned the groundwater, wells were bombed, and access to water has become one of the main problems of the peasants. In particular, in the El Kharrara a well located more than 2 km from the border and provides water for drinking and irrigation of 700 dunams of land on which they depend 5,000 people, was bombed in molten lead, and since only few families can afford the transport tanks to large amounts of water for irrigation, this has caused problems for agriculture very strong. The bullet holes in the sheets that make up the greenhouses have allowed the pests to enter, and because of the siege can not import illegal pesticides and fertilizers. In the Faraheen soldiers shooting at farmers and land mines left on preventing workers to cultivate it. Also in frequent incursions are only or mainly affected the plants ready to bear fruit, which required effort and money to reach maturity : for example is an olive tree of life left in three years and a six-rooted.

In a region already devastated by a siege which prevents the import of many essential goods, which creates poverty and unemployment in one of the most populated areas of the world, this explicit policy to attack farmers and agriculture in general is another crime that can be summed to the long list of which Israel is guilty. UNRWA, the UN refugee agency, provides for some families with food donations quarterly, but is extremely cynical provide care in cases where the occupation forces, against every international agreement to prevent a nation of cultivate his bread and providing the same support.

Saber says:

"He was calm and quiet area near the border, seven in the morning Friday. I went with my tractor from 300 to 350 meters from the border. I wanted to grow because it was all quiet: if I heard shots and I was afraid I would have never gone. When I reached my floor, they opened fire, they destroyed the tractor. The medical report says that this has caused me psychological problems and psychosomatic disorders: panic in the mental and physical tension, heart rate changed, and I started taking medication. It happened in December 2007. "

" Obviously knew I was a farmer! I was wearing work clothes, was driving a tractor. A tractor to plow, not a tank: do not recognize it when they see it, perhaps? They binoculars with which we can monitor dozens of miles away, I have recognized. They knew that I was a farmer, and the proof is that after an apology saying it was an accident. I can count the hairs of the beard, how could they not know that I am a farmer? No, I knew I was a farmer, and I got shot on purpose, because I am a farmer and did not want me to stay here in my country. "

Yusef, a farmer in Khuza'a