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By Chris McGreal— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
GAZA CITY, OCT. 7. An Israeli tank fired two shells into blocks of flats yesterday, killing a Palestinian father and his son in one home and wounding nine children asleep in another. The most seriously hurt was 18-month-old Wisal Obed Felfel, who doctors fear will not survive brain injuries from shrapnel. Her eight siblings, aged from seven months to 11 years, have shrapnel wounds and burns. The attack came on the seventh day of the army's ``Operation Days of Penitence'' in northern Gaza, which has so far killed more than 80 Palestinians, about a third of them civilians, according to an Israeli human rights group. The injured children's mother, Sumaya, who had wounds on her face and body, said bulldozers had come to tear down the family's citrus trees on the edge of Beit Lahia. ``I saw the bulldozers coming and the tanks,'' she said in her hospital bed surrounded by four of her children. ``My husband said, "Let us sit down and be calm." I went to make some tea. I was just putting it into the cups when I heard this huge bang and the shell hit the living room.'' Sabrin (5) lay asleep next to her mother, cream covering the burns on her face. In the next room, Suha (8) was awake, her face still frozen in terror. Their father, Ghazi Obed Felfel, may lose an arm. ``We were so worried about them destroying our land,'' he said. ``Now the land is destroyed and I do not care. All I want is for my children to get well.'' The military said a Palestinian fired an anti-tank rocket and that soldiers returned fire, ``hitting the house from which the terrorist fired the rocket.''
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