Itemad Ismail Abu Mo'ammar

was my age. In a week when I've been celebrating my sister's wedding, she was struggling to feed her 11 children in Gaza, a strip of land where 1.5 million people are being systematically eliminated, through starvation and massacre, by Israel.

She was the latest casualty. Alison Weir, of If Americans Knew, reports in Counterpunch:

Neighbors report that Israeli soldiers had been beating her husband because he wasn't answering their questions. Foolishly or valiantly, how is one to say, the 35-year-old woman had interfered. She tried to explain that her husband was deaf, screamed at the soldiers that her husband couldn't hear them and attempted to stop them from hitting him. So they shot her. Several times.

She bled for 5 hours before the Israeli soldiers allowed an ambulance to take her to hospital. She was pronounced dead on arrival.