here one of the zionists great achievements;

I reached Hussam Abu Ajwa on his phone.

What do you ask a man who has just lost a child?

What does a bereaved father say?

Abu Ajwa, whose daughter Tala, 10, was killed on 5 September, reached for the words of Mahmoud Darwish, a reply the late poet, while ailing and waiting to die, gave to a reporter’s question about how he felt.

“Bruised feelings and broken thoughts, and some scratched up memories. The doctor says nothing is fatal, just a little loss to the soul.”

Tala had been playing with her friends when a bomb struck a downstairs apartment in Gaza City, killing her on the spot and adding her name to the list of the nearly 17,000 children Israel has killed in Gaza since October last year.

A photograph of Tala under a white shroud wearing her pink roller skates subsequently went viral on social media.

She had asked her father if she could go out to play. Fearing for her safety, he first refused to give her permission.

But she was persistent, Abu Ajwa recalled, saying he reluctantly agreed to let her go play as long as she did not go too far away.

She had been bored, her mother, Hadeel, told The Electronic Intifada.

“She wanted to go to the amusement park. She wanted to go to the beach. She wanted to go to school. She wanted to see her friends, and she craved a lot of food, but she was deprived of everything because of the war,” Hadeel said before returning to what over the phone sounded like quietly crying........more.........