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Tue 01 Jan 2009'Under the rubble, we found arms, legs, and half a head'
THE SMALL dead bodies were laid next to one another on the tiled floor of the morgue corridor, the blood drained from their cheeks. One had a bandage still wrapped around his head, another lay with his mouth half-open in his oversized, bloodstained clothes.
For a week, the Samouni family had taken shelter in their small, single-storey home in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza city, and there they survived wave after wave of Israeli bombing and artillery strikes. Then came Israel's ground offensive, the next phase in what Israel argues is a necessary and justified battle against Palestinian militants firing rockets out of Gaza.
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