Hamas Calls Off Truce, Fires Rockets At Israel
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-Attack After Artillery Strike Killed 7-

Courtesy Of: MSNBC
Updated: 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip--The ruling Hamas group fired a barrage of homemade rockets at Israel on Saturday, hours after calling off a truce with Israel in anger over an artillery attack that killed seven civilians at a beachside picnic in the Gaza Strip....


SCENES OF HORROR ON GAZA BEACH:
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Kamal Ghobn said he had Just arrived at the beach on a bus with about 50 relatives when the attack took place.

"I was still parking the bus and everyone got out to go to the beach. As I locked the door I felt the thud of the shells and felt a sting in my side;" said Ghobn, who was slightly wounded by shrapnel. He said he saw four shells land.

The artillery fire scattered body parts, destroyed a tent and sent bloody sheets flying into the air. A panicked crowd quickly gathered, screaming and running around hysterically.

A sobbing girl lay in the sand, crying for her father. "Father! Father!" she screamed.

A man's body lay motionless in the sand nearby.

Palestinian officials said seven people were killed and more than 30 were wounded at the beach.

Hardest hit was the Ghalia family, which lost six members, among them the father, one of his two wives, an infant boy and an 18-month-old girl.

"This was his first day at the beach this summer. He was taking his kids to play. It's destiny," said Nasreen Ghalia, the dead father's sister-in-law.

She said one of the survivors was a 7-year-old girl, Hadeel, who had not been told she had lost her parents and siblings.

Source:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13223303/