ارشيف من : 2005-2008
Israeli bombs kills mother, 4 children in Gaza
their mother, residents and medical officials said.
"They have wiped out my family," said the children`s father, Ahmed Abu Meateq, putting his hands on his head in despair and weeping as the bodies were prepared for burial.
Medical officials and residents of Beit Hanoun, said an Israeli projectile smashed through the ceiling of a one-storey house where a family was having breakfast.
They said four children -- siblings whose ages ranged from 1-1/2 to 5 years old -- and their mother were killed in the house.
"They were eating and they were hit," a neighbor said at the site, where chickens pecked at a bloodstained floor and cooked potatoes grew cold in a pot.
A 17-year-old Palestinian civilian who was passing by the home was also killed, medical workers said.