'Shells Kept Falling' On Gaza Apartment, Killing 17 in Family - washingtonpost.com: "'Shells Kept Falling' On Gaza Apartment, Killing 17 in Family
Israeli Leader Expresses Regret; Palestinians Say U.S. Shares Blame
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 9, 2006; A03
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip, Nov. 8 -- Islam al-Athamnah was asleep on a foam mattress next to her brothers and sisters, crowded together like puzzle pieces on the floor of their top-story apartment. Uncles and cousins slept in the levels beneath, her mother and father in an adjoining room.
'Then something hit us,' Islam, 14, recalled from a hospital room with sky-blue walls. 'The windows shattered, and then a second shell hit the house. It was all smoky. We were using our hands to find the kids.'"
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