Gaza 2009. - Zaytun area - Testimony of Zeynab Samuny

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We were sitting at home at night as usual and were preparing ourselves to go to sleep. We heard the sound of the bombs near us, so believed that Israeli army was near us.
In the morning the bullets hit our water tank on the roof of our house and our relative, Abu Adnan`s family and some of our neighbors came to our home and they told us that the soldiers hit their house with bombs.
The soldiers came to us at seven in the morning and ordered us to leave the house, so left and went to Weal’s house which consists of shops. We stayed there nearly two days. The little babies didn’t have anything to eat at first but the old men and women tried hard to make food for them on the first day.
The next day, two of the young men, my cousins, left the house to bring wood for us to make bread, but the soldiers shot them with some bombs and died.
The first bomb killed the young men, the second one hit the middle of the house where we were hiding, and the third one hit my brother’s wife while the fourth hit the corner of the house where we were sitting.
We thought that we should leave the house so we took white flags and get out of the house. There were soldiers over El Savagery’s house and they started to shout at us with their guns while they were laughing at us. We walked nearly two kilos and we asked one of the soldiers to bring us an ambulance, but he was also laughing and making jokes at us.
My father was shot in his head and the whole body while my mother was hit in her lower body and her chest and they were dead immediately. My brother’s little daughter was killed also with some parts of the bombs.
They all were left to bleed till death and the soldiers were laughing. Many of them were cut into two halves and the others were hit by a missile. The family of my uncle Ishaq, Ismael and their mother left to bleed for two days till death.
I had seen the soldiers coming to us by parachutes.

(non-edited video footage) translated from arabic.