Seventh Day
T
uesday
, N
ovember
20, 2012
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destroyed, we received another call. That time they
wanted to make sure no one was inside so that they
could fire another F16 missile to destroy the house!
41 people lived in our 7-storey house. We
were still waiting and it was still dark. Five minutes
later, two drone missiles were fired at the apartments
while we were watching. It seemed like a scary
movie to me in front of our eyes. Five minutes later,
a very huge explosion resulting from an F16 missile
was heard, and in a blink of an eye, the whole house
was gone.
Three hours later, at around 6:00 am, they
fired three other missiles at the house. We were still
in the street, watching. You know how it feels when
you stand opposite to your house, never feeling
safe, and watch it being destroyed.
Ambulances, civil defence forces, and
policemen were in the area in case someone gets
hurt. As we made sure Israel finished destroying
our house, we went to see it. We lost everything,
even feelings. You know what nothing means! We
lost 40-year old memories, my certificates, our
7-storey-house, our money, the memories in every
room of the house with my wife, kids and siblings,
all vanished.
On the next day of the announcement of
ceasefire, I went to a lawyer to sue Israel for the
crime of bombing our house in that horrible way.
I hired a lawyer in Gaza, another one from the
occupied territories of 1948, and a third one from
Israel, for we wanted to know why they did that
terrible thing to our house. It was strange that the
house got bombed though it did not belong to any
faction of the Gazan freedom fighters nor was there
any fighter launching rockets near the house so that
Israel could have a justification to target and hit
