Iyman
Al Hams was on her way to school in the chaotic Rafah refugee camp in the
Gaza Strip. Her country was under occupation by a brutal Zionist military,
the Israeli Defense Force. The nation of Palestine had been under occupation
all her life and the her family had been under attack since they were forced
to leave their homes more than a generation ago when the United Nations
decided to allow Zionist aliens to set up their own nation on the
Palestinian people's land. They did not get to vote on it.
Wearing her school uniform and carrying her book bag, Iyman
and her two classmates took a route past the Zionist command post, the route
they have taken many times before. Only about 400 meters from the school and
relative safety, Israel Defense Forces, fearing that the 13-year old was
carrying explosives in her book bag, fired warning shots in the air.
"When the soldiers fired in the air, the girl threw her
bag and tried to flee," said H., a mechanic of Tel Sultan who witnessed the
shooting. "The bullets hit the bag and then the girl." He said the child was
about 50 meters from the Zionist military posts when the soldiers started
shooting in the air. "She started running and the soldiers started firing
hails of bullets at her. She was hit in the arm and fell on the ground, but
they went on shooting," he said.
Soldiers later told the Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronoth,
that their company commander, who was at the scene, walked up to the girl's
body immediately after the shooting and "emptied his magazine" into her.
Soldiers said the commander had approached the girl, who had already been
shot and possibly killed, and repeatedly shot her as they pleaded with him
to stop.
In disguised voices and without revealing their
identities, the Israeli soldiers told a chilling story to Zionist television
stations of a platoon commander who fired two bullets from close range at
the girl to confirm that she was dead.
Two soldiers then described the Zionist commander going
back a second time and spraying her with automatic weapons fire.
The soldiers said that before the commander shot the girl
they shouted to him over the two-way radio: "Don't shoot. She's a little
girl."
"We saw her from a distance of 70 metres. She was fired at
. from the outpost. She fled and was wounded. I understood that she was
dead. The platoon commander neared her, shot two bullets at her, returned
toward the force, turned back to her, put the weapon on automatic - and
emptied his entire clip," one Israeli soldier told the media.
"He sprayed her. We were in shock. We held our heads. We
couldn't believe what he had done."
"Our hearts ached for her. Just a 13-year-old girl! How do
you spray a girl from close range? He was hot for a long time to take out
terrorists and shot the girl to relieve pressure," the soldier said.
Dr Ali Musa, director of the hospital in Rafah, said Hams
was hit by at least 15 bullets, most in the upper body.
Ihab Samir Hams, the girl's brother, said his sister was
on the way to school when she was shot. He said soldiers didn't allow an
ambulance into the area for 70 minutes. He said she had bullet wounds in her
head, chest, legs and "everywhere".
In
an unusual move, the top military prosecutor, Brigadier General Avichai
Mandelbleet, ordered an inquiry into the incident before the army finished
its own investigation, an army spokeswoman said.
In addition, the battalion and division commanders are
conducting their own investigations and will submit their findings to Army
chief Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, she said.
Brushing off the investigation, Hams asked: "Will this
bring her back to life? Will this bring her back home? Will this heal our
wound? They are murderers and they killed her in cold blood!"
After the troops tore up her body with gunfire, they
checked the book bag. They only found school books. They did not find any
explosives or weapons in her schoolbag.
Iyman al Hams died at the age of 13, the age at which Anne
Frank began writing her novel, Het Achterhuis. Iyman al Hams will
not become a famous author. She has no writings to turn into a novel in
diary format. Most of the world will not hear of Iyman al Hams. And many of
those who do will not realize or accept that the people who made Anne's
novel into allegedly historical literature are also the people who tore up
and discarded the life of Iyman al Hams.
This is probably the last the world will ever hear of
Iyman al Hams, the anonymity of a victim of Zionism in her own land.
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