Reply #14: Gaza family returns home after phosphorus blast [View All]

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"The Abu Halima siblings returned to their home as an edgy cease-fire settled on Gaza, hoping to salvage what belongings weren't burnt and to gather their father's body parts for burial.

Of the 14 family members who huddled in the house on Jan. 3 when Israeli forces entered this farming area in northern Gaza, five have died, two were in a coma and three were seriously wounded.

All were victims of a single white phosphorus shell dropped on their home, survivors and doctors said.

"It's been two weeks and it's still burning," said Mahmoud Abu Halima, 20, picking up a bit of phosphorus shrapnel in the hallway. He rubbed the brownish fragment against the floor and it gave off an eery green glow followed by acrid smoke that sent everyone coughing."

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