The Real Snipers

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17004-2002Mar12.html

Father, Son Dead; Family Wonders Why
During Gaza Raid, Some Civilians Slain Without Apparent Provocation

By Lee Hockstader
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, March 13, 2002; Page A01


GAZA CITY, March 12 -- As Israeli forces rumbled close to his house, 
54-year-old Abdul Rahman Izzadin headed up the stairs and called down to his 
wife, children and grandchildren to stay indoors. Those were the last words 
they heard him say.

At the top of the stairs, as he reached to close the metal door leading to 
the rooftop, he was shot three times -- in the ear, neck and cheek -- and 
killed instantly, apparently by an Israeli sniper on the roof of an adjacent 
house that neighbors said the army had commandeered. Moments later, when 
Izzadin's 36-year-old son Walid rushed to his father's aid, he, too, was 
shot to death. It is not known why they were fired upon.




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