Death Of Rawan Abu Zaed
By Mohammad
23 May 2004
Rafah Today
8.30 p.m.: She went to buy some sweets from the grocer's. Her mother just gave her pocket money - a half shekel - (10% of 1 dollar) to buy some sweets from the neighboring grocer in Al Brazil Camp. She didn’t know that going to the grocer's would cost her her life. But that was what had happened to 3 year old Rawan Abu Zaed. Two bullets:one in her neck and the other right through her head.
I interviewed a man standing close to me. He seemed in great pain ss he said: "I saw her get shot with my own two eyes. Yes I saw that innocent child wearing a blue blouse and trouser and no shoes. My legs could not carry me towards her because of the blood which was pouring out like a fountain."
Rawan is one of hundreds of children slaughtered by Israelis snipers and her only sin is that she is Palestinian.
Thousands of children in Rafah were calling on the whole world during Rawan's funeral to all free nations to put pressure on Israel to leave Rafah, stop demolishing houses, and to leave Palestinian children live like the rest of the world's children.
Still a large number of tanks and bulldozers are demolishing homes in Tal Al Sultan, Al Brazil and Hay Al Salam area, and other forces are coming towards other different areas in Rafah, in addition to that, the Israeli Apaches are shelling civilian houses with heavy missiles, and ambulances still could not reach the injured and dead.
Many people who were killed were not burried because their families are under siege and have been unable to take them to the cemeteries. Their bodies and body parts were gathered and saved in a Tomato refrigerator in North Rafah.
Mohammad runs the website RafahToday