January 2009

by B’Tselem

From B’Tselem, the Israeli

Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

I have a metal workshop on Salah a-Din Street, near Zamu Square, nor far from the Palestinian Red Crescent.

On Monday [Dec. 29] my daughter Hibah, who is 22, told me that she heard on the radio that a metal workshop had been bombed in the area of my shop. I immediately called my sons to go with me and see what happened to the workshop, which is my only source of income. Relatives and neighborhoods joined us, and we all went there in our Mercedes truck. My son ‘Alaa drove.