Looking to take a break, Gazans find beaches a war zone
July 11, 2014
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KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip — A number of Gaza citizens, including youths and children, went to the Waqt al-Marah cafe on the Khan Yunis shore in the southern Gaza Strip to escape from the summer heat and power outages in their homes and to avoid the horrors of the Israeli attacks. Then, a missile fired by an Israeli fighter jet turned the scene in a pile of body parts.
According to Ashraf al-Qadra, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, nine civilians, including a child, were killed immediately after the rest area of the cafe was bombed, and others were critically wounded in the attack. The bodies of those killed and the injured were taken to the government-run Nasser Hospital.
Qadra told Al-Monitor that medical crews and ambulances have pulled some of the wounded from under the sand, after the powerful explosion covered them, while others were pulled from under the rubble.
Two members of Khalil Qanan’s family were killed — Ibrahim, 24, and Mohammed, 26 — when the cafe on the shore was targeted. Qanan said that his relatives and others had been at the rest area watching the World Cup semi-final match between Argentina and the Netherlands when an Israeli aircraft fired a missile directly at them, destroying the place.
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Bomb shelters replace summer camps for Israeli children
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SDEROT, Israel — Former Mayor Eli Moyal still recalls the first time a rocket landed in Sderot. He was almost certainly one of the first Israeli citizens to experience a rocket fired from Gaza landing in his town.
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