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Palestinian toddler shot in head Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01563728.htm http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01563728.htm 01 May 2003 10:02:01 GMT Palestinian toddler shot dead in Israeli Gaza raid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, May 1 (Reuters) - Two-year-old Amir toddled over to the window of his house during an Israeli army raid in Gaza City on Thursday, his curiosity apparently piqued by the noise outside. By the time his father could reach him, the Palestinian boy was dead. A bullet had pierced his skull. "I could not help him," Ahmed Ayyad said, choking back tears at the local morgue, where his son's tiny body drew a steady stream of people offering their condolences. Ayyad, a grey-haired blacksmith, said Amir and his three other children had huddled, trembling, in the house as the sound of automatic weapons fire and tank shell explosions echoed outside. "My two-year-old, Amir, walked away suddenly towards the window facing the Israeli troops. A bullet hit him in the head," he said. At the time, Ayyad said, the soldiers and Palestinian gunmen were locked in a battle several dozen metres (yards) away. Israeli tanks backed by helicopter gunships raided the Shijaia neighbourhood before dawn, besieging the family home of a wanted militant from the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas. Loudspeakers from mosques called on gunmen to rush towards Shijaia to confront Israeli forces. Gunmen armed with rifles, anti-tank rockets and explosive charges tried to fight off the incursion. The Israeli military fired tank shells and heavy machine guns during the operation and helicopters launched four missiles at the gunmen. Sirens wailed throughout the night and morning as ambulances rushed dozens of Palestinian casualties to Gaza's main hospital, where hundreds of volunteers gathered to help emergency crews. Relatives flocked to the local morgue to identify the dead. "This is not the road map to peace," Ayyad said referring to a plan that international mediators presented to Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday in a new bid to end 31 months of bloodshed. "It is the road to death."

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