It`s Palestine`s Qana massacre

Source: Ynetnews, 11-8-2006
Witnesses describe graphic scenes of horror: Majority of casualties killed in their beds; mother who lost four children: `I am proud to be the mother of the shahids, it is a great honor and we pray to Allah to compensate us`
"We pulled out bodies, all women and children, dismembered, without heads or hands," says Khaled Abu Saada, a Palestinian ambulance driver who evacuated the wounded to hospitals.
Eighteen Palestinians were killed in the northern Gaza town, after an "Israeli" Army artillery shell apparently deviated from its course and hit seven buildings on Hamed Street, where the Utamna family lives.
One of the women standing near the street said she had lost four of her children in the incident: Muhand, Mahadi, Arafat and Saad. "I am proud to be the mother of the Shahids (martyrs), it is a great honor and we pray to Allah to compensate us," the bereaved mother said.
The ambulance driver who arrived at the scene was also the first to treat the Ghalia family in the Gaza beachfront incident several months ago. He said that all of Beit Hanoun "is busy with only one thing, moving the dead and wounded. All this between puddles of blood, lots of blood and body parts, next to some of the bodies were the schoolbags and sandwiches of children preparing to go to school."
Another witness said that the shelled houses had been completely destroyed.
Witnesses reported that the majority of the casualties were killed in their beds. Atef Hamed, 22, told Reuters: "It is the saddest scene and images I have ever seen. We saw legs, we saw heads, we saw hands scattered in the street."
Reuters also reported that the town was filled with cries for help. One man was screaming "Where is my son?". Neighbors did not have the heart to tell him his son was dead.
The incident came just one day after "Israeli" Army forces pulled out of Beit Hanoun after operation Autumn Clouds ended. The operation, aimed at reducing Palestinian rocket fire at "Israel's" south, resulted in the deaths of 63 Palestinians, most of them gunmen.
Ahmad al-Madhoun, a resident of Beit Hanoun told Ynet "We haven`t recovered yet, we rush from one mourning tent to the other because of the operation that only ended yesterday and already we have to deal with a new massacre. Difficult images, dead children, injured children with their faces torn. It`s unbelievable."
There were difficult images in the town`s hospital as well, where mothers cried out as they carried their injured children.
The Arab and Palestinian media are providing broad coverage of the incident, which they are calling `the Palestinian Qana village`, compaing the incident to the "Israeli" Army attack of Qana during the recent war in Lebanon.