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Israeli bombs kills mother, 4 children in Gaza

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.‏

2008-04-28