Inside the Fun Time Beach café on Gazas Mediterranean shore, nine friends and siblings gathered around a portable television powered by a generator to watch Argentina take on Holland in the semi finals of the World Cup. At 11.30pm, half an hour into the match, an Israeli missile blasted through the flimsy roof of the tumbledown structure to scatter the social gathering in bloody mayhem. The strike killed Mohammed Fawana along with three sets of brothers – Ahmed and Suleiman Astal, 18 and 16, their cousin Musa, also 16, Mohammed and Ibrahim Ganan, 24, and 25, and Hamdi and Ibrahim Sawaleh, 20 and 28. A third Sawaleh brother, Salim, 23, was still missing on Thursday, with giant earth moving machines upturning huge quantities of sand in a search for his body. They had simply come here to watch the match, said Wael Sobih, standing beside a wrecked beach-scape of broken plastic chairs and upturned palm trees. This is a play area, not a military camp. It was a normal social occasion. Others said the nine often watched football and had been rooting for Argentina. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10960608/Half-of-Gazas-dead-are-women-and-children.html
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:41:33 +0000
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