Sunday, June 18, 2006

Who really killed Huda Ghalia's family?


Huda Ghalia cries beside the body of her father, who was killed in an explosion on a Gaza beach on June 9. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Guardian investigation undermines military claim that Israeli shells could not have been responsible for death of girl's family.

Heartrending pictures of 10-year-old Huda Ghalia running wildly along a Gaza beach crying "father, father, father" and then falling weeping beside his body turned the distraught girl into an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle even before she fully grasped that much of her family was dead.

But the images of the young girl who lost her father, step-mother and five of her siblings as picnicking families fled a barrage of Israeli shells a week ago have become their own battleground.

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