"The smell of smoke hangs in the air and the scorched walls and blackened floor speak to the depth of the tragedy that occurred here.
Three children - Nadine, 7, Farah, 6, and 3½-year-old Sabre - died in this room when a candle they were using for light started a fire that burnt so fiercely that by the time their mother - asleep in a nearby room - was able to raise the alarm, it was too late.
Five days later, a large group of men gather outside the modest two-storey house in the southern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Deir al-Balah, the children's grieving father, Riad Bashir, among them.
Inside, their 29-year-old mother Nehad is surrounded by close female relatives, holding her surviving seven-month-old daughter, Reema, tightly to her chest.
The Bashir family know that their children fell victim to Gaza's long-running power crisis.
The children's uncle says all parties in this grinding war of attrition, from the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority to its rivals Hamas, who have ruled Gaza since June 2007, to Israel and its military occupation and siege, bear some responsibility for the family's loss."
source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/a-family-pays-the-price-of-gazas-rift-20120413-1wywy.html
Three children - Nadine, 7, Farah, 6, and 3½-year-old Sabre - died in this room when a candle they were using for light started a fire that burnt so fiercely that by the time their mother - asleep in a nearby room - was able to raise the alarm, it was too late.
Five days later, a large group of men gather outside the modest two-storey house in the southern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Deir al-Balah, the children's grieving father, Riad Bashir, among them.
Inside, their 29-year-old mother Nehad is surrounded by close female relatives, holding her surviving seven-month-old daughter, Reema, tightly to her chest.
The Bashir family know that their children fell victim to Gaza's long-running power crisis.
The children's uncle says all parties in this grinding war of attrition, from the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority to its rivals Hamas, who have ruled Gaza since June 2007, to Israel and its military occupation and siege, bear some responsibility for the family's loss."
source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/a-family-pays-the-price-of-gazas-rift-20120413-1wywy.html
"The smell of smoke hangs in the air and the scorched walls and blackened floor speak to the depth of the tragedy that occurred here.
Three children - Nadine, 7, Farah, 6, and 3½-year-old Sabre - died in this room when a candle they were using for light started a fire that burnt so fiercely that by the time their mother - asleep in a nearby room - was able to raise the alarm, it was too late.
Five days later, a large group of men gather outside the modest two-storey house in the southern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Deir al-Balah, the children's grieving father, Riad Bashir, among them.
Inside, their 29-year-old mother Nehad is surrounded by close female relatives, holding her surviving seven-month-old daughter, Reema, tightly to her chest.
The Bashir family know that their children fell victim to Gaza's long-running power crisis.
The children's uncle says all parties in this grinding war of attrition, from the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority to its rivals Hamas, who have ruled Gaza since June 2007, to Israel and its military occupation and siege, bear some responsibility for the family's loss."
source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/a-family-pays-the-price-of-gazas-rift-20120413-1wywy.html
Three children - Nadine, 7, Farah, 6, and 3½-year-old Sabre - died in this room when a candle they were using for light started a fire that burnt so fiercely that by the time their mother - asleep in a nearby room - was able to raise the alarm, it was too late.
Five days later, a large group of men gather outside the modest two-storey house in the southern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Deir al-Balah, the children's grieving father, Riad Bashir, among them.
Inside, their 29-year-old mother Nehad is surrounded by close female relatives, holding her surviving seven-month-old daughter, Reema, tightly to her chest.
The Bashir family know that their children fell victim to Gaza's long-running power crisis.
The children's uncle says all parties in this grinding war of attrition, from the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority to its rivals Hamas, who have ruled Gaza since June 2007, to Israel and its military occupation and siege, bear some responsibility for the family's loss."
source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/a-family-pays-the-price-of-gazas-rift-20120413-1wywy.html
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