This was once a beautiful blooming prosperous orange and olive orchard.
By Radhika Sainath
November 1, 2011
The Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Beit
Hanoun residential neighborhood in north Gaza early
Sunday morning. The missile landed in a grove surrounded by homes, creating a
crater the size of a tennis court and destroying over forty orange and olive
trees. Chunks of shrapnel and oranges lay scattered about the grove.
Local children and area residents interviewed appeared to be in
shock. Ayman Ismail Hamad explained that:
“At 3 a.m. we heard a huge boom. It was so scary for the children and women here and they started to shout and cry ~ such a scary thing for them. When we looked out to see what happened we found everything there totally destroyed … and the windows from the houses in this area ~ totally nothing. The [Israeli] F-16 didn’t leave anything behind.”
The owner of the farmland, Sufyan Musa Muhammad, reported losing
approximately 40 orange and olive trees, not including the uprooted trees at
the periphery of the crater, valued at approximately $200 a tree. “It’s not
just the price,” he added, gazing sadly at the upturned alien landscape. “It’s
that there’s no more fruit.”
According to Muhammad, no journalists had approached him
regarding the Israeli missile attack, which went unreported.
Thirteen-year-old Amer Ayman Hamad, whose house is about 50
meters away from the impacted area said,
“There was boom … I didn’t scream, I just woke up … it was during the night we didn’t hear any plane except for the sound of the drones … after that I went to the bathroom.”
ED: Can you, dear Reader, imagine YOUR child being so casual
about such a thing? Living in a war zone does horrendous things to the
Palestinians’ realities.
Sufyan Musa Muhammad holding up shrapnel in what was once his orchard.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack which
terrorized local residents. No one was injured. Palestinians in the area
believe that Israel used an F-16 to bomb the residential neighborhood due to
the size of the crater and the thickness of the shrapnel.
When asked if he believed Israel should compensate him for his
loss Muhammad replied,
”I don’t want money from the Israelis. Whatever they do to us we are steadfast and strong and we won’t leave our land.”
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