‘They started shooting at us’
Following Israel’s siege of a mosque in Gaza, Al Jazeera spoke to two Palestinian women who were wounded after attending the march to protect Palestinian fighters inside.
Asmaa Hamad
I was with the march, seeking to know the latest about those captured… and if we could free them.
The [Israeli] tank was about five metres away, then they started shooting without any warning.
Where is my injury? In my leg. From bullets.
Elham Hamad
Yesterday [Thursday] the Jews spoke on the horn [loudspeaker] and collected all the youths.
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“We were confronted by a tank and we raised a white flag… without any warning they started shooting at us” Elham Hamad, Palestinian woman marcher |
They alleged [they would] bring them back, but they never showed up.
They captured more than 2,000 young men.
At five this morning, we gathered to find out what happened to the captured men.
I have young men captured and so do my neighbours.
[We were] more than 30 or 40 women, we marched for about 40 metres away from our homes.
We were confronted by a tank and we raised a white flag.
Without any warning… they started shooting at us.
Women ran away. A number of women, including me, fell injured and we remained for a long time without any aid or ambulance.
We lay for three hours and we were all bleeding.