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ICRC teams reported shocking scenes in the Gaza City's shell-battered Zeitun neighborhood. :bm;

In one house they found four starving children huddling next to the dead bodies of their mothers.

"They were too weak to stand up on their own," said the international relief organization.

"The children and the wounded had to be taken to the ambulances on a donkey cart."

ICRC rescuers also found another survivor.

"One man was also found alive, too weak to stand up. In all there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses."

Fifteen survivors, several of them wounded, were found in one house.

In another house, they found three corpses.

The ICRC accused Israeli soldiers of intimidating relief workers to leave the area, firing warning shots at them.

"Israeli soldiers posted at a military position some 80 meters away from this house ordered the rescue team to leave the area which they refused to do," the ICRC said.

The rescuers evacuated 18 wounded and 12 others "who were extremely exhausted," it added.

The ICRC said it was informed there are more wounded sheltering in destroyed houses in the Zeitun.

"The ICRC believes that in this instance the Israeli military failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded."
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) accused Israel on Thursday, January 8, of blocking medical assistance to wounded Palestinians, amid shocking scenes of starving children and dead bodies in the bombed-out Gaza Strip. "The Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded," Pierre Wettach, ICRC chief for Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, said in a statement on the group's website.

"Neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestinian Red Crescent to assist the wounded."

The ICRC accused Israeli troops of preventing ambulances from evacuating people injured in its air, land and sea bombardment of the coastal enclave, home of 1.6 million.

"We demand the Israeli military to allow the ICRC and the Palestinian Red Crescent access to bombed-out areas to recover people trapped under the rubbles," Hesham Hassan, an ICRC spokesman, told Al-Jazeera television.

More than 765 people have been killed and 3,100 wounded in nearly two weeks of Israeli attacks. :wilder;

Israeli warplanes continued to pound :mad4; targets across the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

One person was killed when two Israeli shells hit a UN truck near Erez crossing :gun2: , said the UN agency for Palestinian Refugees UNRWA.

"Two tank shells impacted near a forklift, and one person was killed," spokesman Chris Gunness said, adding that the convoy had been coordinated with the Israeli military.

UNRWA suspended its aid operations across the Gaza Strip in protest at the Israeli attack.

"Operations will remain suspended until Israeli authorities can guarantee the safety and security of our staff."

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GAZA CITY - "Oh, God! I have never seen such a terrible scene," cried Kayed Abu Aukal. The emergency doctor could not believe himself seeing the remains of what was days back Shahd, a full-fleshed 4-year-old Palestinian girl.

She died when an Israeli shell was fired at the backyard of her home in the Jabalya refugee camp northern Gaza strip, where she was playing.

When her parents attempted to rush to the rescue of their kid, who fell to the ground amid a pool of her blood, rains of Israeli bullets kept them a distance.

For the next five days Shahd's which was left lying in the open left for dogs to tear out.

"The dogs did leave one single part of the poor baby's body intact," said a tearful Abu Aukal.

Gaza... New Sabra and Shatila Israel Blocks Gaza Rescue Efforts: ICRC "We have seen heart-breaking scenes over the past 18 days. We picked up children whose bodies were torn or burnt, but nothing like this."

For five days Shahd's brother, Matar, and cousin, Mohamed, tried in vain to reach her body. They were fired at by the Israeli occupation forces every time.

Seeing the body of the little angel torn to piece by the assaulting dogs, the two made one final attempt, and it was their last.

They were showered by Israeli bullets before they could reach Shahd's body, joining a long list of more than 920 Palestinians killed by Israel since December 27.

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Omran Zayda, a young neighbor, said the Israelis knew very well what they were doing.

"They chased her family and prevented them from reaching to her body, knowing that the dogs would eat it," he said.

"They are not just killing our children, they are intentionally doing so in the most heinous and inhuman ways."

Zayda said words, and even cameras, can not describe the horrific scene.

"You can never imagine what the dogs have done to her innocent body," he said, fighting back his tears.

Many Palestinians insist Shahd was not the first or only such case.

In Jabalya, when Abd Rabu's family was trying to bury three of its dead, the Israeli forces started firing at them, witnesses said.

They then released their dogs at the bodies, deserted by mourners who sought shelter from the Israeli gunfire, they added.

"What happened was awful and unthinkable," Saad Abd Rabu, the deceased uncle, told IOL.

"Our sons died before our eyes and we were even prevented from burying them," he cried.

"The Israelis just released their dogs at their bodies, as even they have not done enough."

Source: IslamOnline