Under gray skies on Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two boys, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, killed in the attack at Kibbutz Metzer.
Medics quoted in Israeli news reports on Tuesday said they had found Ms. Ohayon slumped over one of her children after she tried to shield the boys from the gunman who had burst into their bedroom.
Avi Ohayon, Ms. Ohayon's former husband, threw himself on the wreath-covered graves. "I wish I could also be with you," he sobbed in a eulogy. "I'm left with nothing."
In the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, thousands of Palestinians marched on Tuesday in the funerals of two local children killed by Israeli Army gunfire.
Nafez Mashal, 2, was struck by a bullet on Monday outside his house in Rafah as he chased a balloon, his father reported.
Residents said the shots from an Israeli Army watchtower near the border with Egypt were unprovoked. The army said soldiers were returning fire.
Another local boy, Muhammad Abu Naja, 8, died on Monday of wounds sustained on Oct. 17 when an Israeli tank fired shells into a densely populated refugee neighborhood, killing six other people and wounding dozens more.
The army said the shelling was in response to the firing of an antitank rocket at an army bulldozer working nearby.
Something strange and evil is going on here. Both sides are taking “eye for an eye” to insane lengths. A few months ago, after a similar attack that killed israeli children, tankfire killed palestinian children who were out because they believed the curfew had been lifted. The army made almost exactly the same excuses it's making today, but there was a videotape to prove the lie. It's no coincidence. It's no accident. Looking back, it's the tip of an iceberg. Moreover, written or unwritten, it's israeli policy.
AI
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/international/middleeast/13MIDE.html
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