JERUSALEM - [Washington Post]
As Israeli forces attacked Gaza by
land, sea and air, residents living in the congested coastal strip
faced a fateful question: Flee the shelling and shooting, or hole up
inside their homes and hope for the best?
The five-member al-Jarou family decided to make a break for it around midday Sunday. They abandoned their home in the Shaaf neighborhood east of Gaza City and dashed by car to a relative's house a mile and a half away, thinking it would be safer, according to interviews with family members and neighbors.
For a little while, it was. Then came a series of explosions. Concrete and debris hammered through the air. Hassan al-Jarou, 10, was struck in the head. "I was in the house, with my uncles, my dad and my grandfather, and I saw stones flying," he said as nurses attended to his injuries at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. "I don't know what happened after that." (WaPo story continured here)
