<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Trauma of Israeli airstrike haunts Gaza&nbsp;family]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><div data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_82075" style="width: 325px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-82075" data-attachment-id="82075" data-permalink="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/trauma-of-israeli-airstrike-haunts-gaza-family/attachment/1687521/" data-orig-file="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/1687521.jpg" data-orig-size="315,400" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="168752[1]" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/1687521.jpg?w=315" data-large-file="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/1687521.jpg?w=315" class="size-full wp-image-82075" title="168752[1]" src="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/1687521.jpg?w=315&#038;h=400" alt="" width="315" height="400" /><p id="caption-attachment-82075" class="wp-caption-text">Ayoub Asalia, 12, was killed by an Israeli <br />airstrike on Gaza on March 11.<br />(MaanImages/PCHR, HO)</p>
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<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=469991" target="_blank"><strong>Maan News Agency | March 22, 2012</strong></a></p>
<p>BETHLEHEM (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; The traumatized relatives of a 12-year-old boy killed by an Israeli airstrike say they are scared to leave their homes since his death.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are scared to go out, and find a part of Ayoub&#8217;s body on a tree, in the street, in the garden. Since the attack, we all sleep in the same room, with all the children because we are afraid.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ayoub Asalia was struck by an Israeli drone as he chased a puppy on his way to school in Gaza on March 11.</p>
<p>Ayoub&#8217;s relative, Kalthum Asalia, told the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that she was watching him play with his 5-year-old cousin when she heard a drone buzz overhead followed by a huge explosion.</p>
<p>She moved away from the window, and then returned to see half Ayoub&#8217;s body &#8212; his upper torso &#8212; face down in he ground.</p>
<p>Neighbors called for Ayoub&#8217;s mother, Adila, but she did not recognize his clothes and continued to search for her son, eventually assuming he had gone to school. A paramedic later found Ayoub&#8217;s lower torso in trees and bushes nearby.</p>
<p>Adila told PCHR she hasn&#8217;t been able to make breakfast for her children since Ayoub&#8217;s death, since she &#8220;faces a hole&#8221; when she looks at the table.</p>
<p>He was her sixth son, and a helpful child, she said. &#8220;He was funny, always telling jokes and everybody loved him.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How can a child face a rocket?&#8221;</p>
<p>PCHR said there were no fighters in the area at the time of Ayoub&#8217;s killing. The targeting and killing of a child is a war crime, it said in a statement.</p>
<p>On March 9, Israel assassinated the secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees and a former prisoner in Gaza City, and four days of heavy shelling followed. Militants in Gaza responded with a barrage of cross-border rocket fire.</p>
<p>Some 26 Palestinians were killed, including two children, and 20 children were injured, PCHR says.</p>
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