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Israeli Missiles Silence Palestinian Baby's Laughs in Gaza

 

By Sami Abu Salem

 

Gaza, March 8, 2008, (RNA)-

 

The innocent laughs of the 6-month-old baby, Mohammed Al-Boraiy, were stopped for ever on Wednesday night when shrapnel of an Israeli missile and rubble hit him in the head, minutes after he has sucked his last "meal".

"The baby sucked milk, he was playing with his mother, I was reading a book when a rocket hit Ministry of Interior," the father, Nasser Al-Bori, said. 

With the first rocket, the electric power was cut off; darkness filled the fainted-to-fall house.

 
Stones and pieces of the asbestos ceiling poured on the head of the laughing baby. The explosions continued as two other rockets hit the building.

 

"I looked for my baby in darkness between the ruble, I did not realize where is he, when he cried a once, I followed the direction of his voice," the father said.

 

"My hands touched my baby who was breathing hard, I felt a warm liquid on my two hands to realize that he is wounded," Naser Al-Boraiy.

 

The father carried his baby to the nearby Shifa Hospital; blood was streaming from his tiny head. In the hospital, the father went in a panic of hysteria to realize that his sole baby was killed.

 

The tears showered the face of the father when he saw the shoes of the baby. "After five years of treatment from sterility, I had a baby; I do not imagine that I lost him in a second."

 

Toys, plastic bike, baby bed and clothes were covered with heap of rubble inside the bedroom. Magazine pictures of laughing babies stuck on the walls as the only baby faces in the house.  

 

The mother of the baby was shocked when she realized that she lost her baby, she fall unconscious, she laid on the bed at the reception department while her baby was in the morgue.

On Thursday morning, she strongly cried when she saw the "empty" bed of her baby, after arrived in the house from the hospital.

Mohammed Al-Boraiy is not the sole child who was killed in the Israeli series of air rids across the Gaza strip, three others were also killed on Wednesday evening in the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya.

 

Medics reported that Anas Al-Manama, 10, Bilal Hijazi, 11, and Mohammed Hamada, 11, were killed in Jabalia last night in an Israeli Air Strike.

 

At least 19 Palestinian civilians and militants were killed and dozens wounded on the running Israeli air strikes on Gaza in the last two days.

 

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