This street in Beit Hanoun is very, very quiet indeed. It's just a matter of hours since a number of Israeli shells fell on houses in this area, killing 18 people, including six children and two women.
We counted about eight impacts. The shells appear to have landed roughly in a straight line, starting in the fields at the end of the street and hitting houses on either side of it.
A pen for livestock was struck by one of the explosions and the animals are lying dead on the ground.
There are pools of bloodstained water outside one of the houses, which has had a hole blown through the roof and there are shrapnel marks everywhere from the explosion.
Shock and incomprehension
A woman just walked past me crying, being helped by some of her neighbours.
Most people are shocked and uncomprehending about what happened in their street during the night.
A father of one child who was killed told me: "One missile I believe could have been a mistake, but the number of missiles that were fired, I can't believe that was a mistake."
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neoform
said @ Thu Nov 9, 2006 @ 11:31pm
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