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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-21-07 12:10 AM
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Gaza Voices: Where are we headed?
This is an excerpt from a piece in Al-Jazeerah where they speak to several Gaza residents:

Hadeel Abo Dayya, 17 , high school student

We've witnessed a lot, but we've never experienced something like this. They've lost their sense of humanity.

My four siblings, my parents, and myself stayed holed up in the basement of our high-rise tower with 35 other residents - some on wheelchairs, some of them elderly, for over six hours without food or water as gunmen took over the building and others on the outside began to attack and exchange fire with them.

Members of the Hamas Executive Force were in our building, and so Fatah security forces on the outside, in another building, were firing at them, with machine guns and RPGs, and mortars.

A few of the RPGs landed in some of the apartments; they hit the curtains, which lit on fire, and eventually entire apartments burned to the floor.

Fatah doesn't care about Hamas and Hamas doesn't care about Fatah, they both only care about who wins. Who is in control became more important than the lives of human beings. Both sides lost their sense of humanity and understanding.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3D75EC48-471F-47EE-9E22-02CE7EE7BF7F.htm
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