Israel says troops were fired on before shelling home where Gaza doctor's girls died

Source: Chicago Tribune/Associated Press
Israel says troops were fired on before shelling home where Gaza doctor's girls died
By Associated Press
1:29 PM CST, February 4, 2009
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian doctor became a symbol of the Gaza offensive after he captivated Israeli TV viewers with a sobbing live report on the death of his three daughters in Israeli shelling. On Wednesday, Israel's military said its troops were fired on from nearby and called the mistaken identification of people in his house as combatants "reasonable."
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The 55-year-old gynecologist is a rarity among Palestinians, a Hebrew speaker who trained in Israeli hospitals.
Throughout the war, he brought accounts of war's tragedy to Israeli living rooms through TV interviews, making him for many the voice of Palestinian suffering. He often spoke of his fears for his eight children.
But on Jan. 16, he answered his cell phone, crying, and told Channel 10 that his house in the northern Gaza strip town of Jebalia had been hit by Israeli shells and his daughters, ages 22, 15 and 14, were killed.
Abu al-Aish is a known peace activist and an academic who studied the affects of war on Gazan and Israeli children.
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