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[quote=Anonymous]So many horrifying stories.  This refugee lost her home, her country in 1948, and then was killed 66 years later unable to escape the shelling http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/gaza/11011898/Gaza-grandmother-found-dead-in-bombarded-farming-town.html:

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Incapacitated by a stroke, Mrs Qodaih - who had trekked all the way by donkey as a refugee from her home town of Jaffa to Gaza in the 1948 war that established Israel's existence - was incapable of feeing.
Instead, her family arranged with the Red Cross and Red Crescent to have her collected in an ambulance while 20 relatives escaped on foot, seeking refuge in UN schools, hospitals and friends' houses. Mrs Qodaih encouraged the family to leave while she waited for an ambulance, a relative said.

It never arrived. Three times an ambulance tried to reach the family home in Radwan Street only to be force to retreat under a hail of fire - the last time from just outside the front door, according to Tariq Ahmad Qodaih, Mrs Qodeih's grandson.

When the family finally returned on Sunday after the Israeli army's withdrawal, they found the old woman dead - lying on the bed on the ground floor where they had left her.
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And then this from Human Rights Watch:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/04/gaza-israeli-soldiers-shoot-and-kill-fleeing-civilians

[quote](Gaza) – Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.

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Human Rights Watch investigated several incidents between July 23 and 25 when, local residents said, Israeli forces opened fire on civilians trying to flee Khuza’a, but no Palestinian fighters were present at the time and no firefights were taking place.

On the morning of July 23, Israeli forces ordered a group of about 100 Palestinians in Khuza’a to leave a home in which they had gathered to take shelter, family members said. The first member to leave the house, Shahid al-Najjar, had his hands up but an Israeli soldier shot him in the jaw, seriously injuring him.

Israeli soldiers detained the men and boys over age 15 in an area close to the Gaza perimeter fence. Based on statements from witnesses and news reports, some were taken to Israel for questioning. Israeli forces released others that day, in small separate groups. As one group walked unarmed to Khan Younis, Israeli soldiers fired on them, killing one and wounding two others.[/quote]

It sounds like something out of a horrible movie.  But it doesn't stop there http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/world/middleeast/gaza-strip-israel-psychologist-trauma.html
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An Israeli airstrike demolished Dr. Zeyada’s family home on July 20, killing six close relatives, including his mother and three of his brothers.

“You try to help the people with their suffering,” the doctor said recently in his Gaza City living room, lined with psychology textbooks. “It’s totally different when you have the same experience. You lose six from your family — three brothers, your mom, one of your nephews, your sister-in-law. It’s really” — he paused, red-eyed — “unexpected."

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Dr. Zeyada is not the only Palestinian caregiver to become a trauma victim. In the three weeks of attacks that Israel has said are meant to root out militant rocket fire and destroy clandestine tunnels into Israel, one of Dr. Zeyada’s colleagues at the program lost a brother, and their boss, Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, lost 26 members of his extended family, including 19 children, in a single bombing.
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