GAZA CITY: Israel yesterday bombed the crammed Sheikh Radwan cemetery, sending body parts flying onto neighboring houses and blasting craters into the graveyard.
After the bombing, Palestinians were seen collecting charred body parts in plastic bags and placing them back into the crater that was all that remained of the graveyard. Scores of tombstones were smashed in the bombing on Day 19 of the war on Gaza
he area smelled of rotting and charred flesh. Passersby covered their faces with cloths as they walked around.
“There was flesh on the roofs, there were small bits of intestines. My neighbor found a hand of a woman. We put it all into a plastic bag,” said resident Ahmad Abu Jarbou. “One man who buried his cousin yesterday couldn’t find the body at all.
In a predictable response, Maj. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman, said the fighter jets targeted a weapons cache next to the cemetery and a nearby rocket-launching site. She claimed the heavy damage was the result of secondary explosions.
The bloodshed has highlighted fault lines in the Middle East, with the Bush administration in its final week standing solidly behind Israel, Europe pressing Israel to call off its attacks and Arab leaders speaking out against the Zionist state.
Source: Middle East Agencies