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March 11, 2009

Gaza Family Sues Israeli Government
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In Israel and the Occupied Territories, a Palestinian family that lost
twenty-nine relatives in the Israeli attack on Gaza has filed a $200
million lawsuit against the Israeli government. The ordeal of the
Samouni family drew international attention after it was revealed
Israeli forces shelled their homes and then blocked medical aid. In
addition to the twenty-nine dead, another forty-five relatives were
injured, most of them children. Family member Naela Samouni described
her family’s ordeal.

Naela Samouni: “My mother-in-law died, my sister-in-law and her daughter
and two more people. The majority of my family died in the home that I
am standing in
now. Of course, we’re going to file a lawsuit against them.”

The surviving members of the Samouni family now live in the rubble of
their destroyed homes.



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