At dawn, the time between the minor and major death of the Swarka family, while they were sleeping in their home in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, were surprised by Israeli helicopter gunships, to destroy it over their heads, without leaving them a single chance to escape.
In the last hour of the Israeli aggression, before the cease-fire agreement entered into force between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, at 5 am on Thursday, November 14, Israel ended its war as it began with a painful tragedy, when it bombed the house of Sawarka, killing eight family members. Among them were two women and five children, the oldest of whom was 13 years old. Israel has violated their innocence, without allowing them the chance to live to realize their pink dreams that accompanied them inside their modest home.
Inside the refrigerator of the dead in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir city, the smell of death was smelling.The family members met for the first time on one bed, battered with their blood, to join the brothers Moaz, Wassim, Salem and Fares with their mother Mary, beside them their uncle Rasmi, his wife and his child Muhannad.
The last hour massacre
After the funerals of the eight martyrs from the Swarka family, and the establishment of a consolation house next to their destroyed house, sadness prevailed over the faces of family members, following the tragedy that cried their hearts before their eyes, and will continue to accompany them for many years.
"I woke up at dawn Thursday to the sounds of the rockets that targeted my relatives' house," said Talib al-Sawarka, a relative of the targeted family. "One hour before the ceasefire was agreed, it was indescribably terrifying, so I rushed to the target. The scene of the destruction of the house completely, on all its sleepy residents, and leveled it to the ground, and the great shock, even the greatest tragedy, when the family members were steeped in blood, and their bodies were buried under the rubble of the house.
He pointed out that the Israeli aircraft targeted the house of Al-Swarka family with four missiles, without warning, pointing out that the house is inhabited by two families, numbering about 20 people, mostly children and women.
The surviving girl
In addition to the eight martyrs, 12 other family members were injured. Ambulance crews spent several hours recovering the wounded from the rubble. Among the wounded, 35-day-old Marah, whose baby brother Muhannad was found lying under the rubble of her house, was faint. The rubble had covered her body.
Among the wounded was Yousef al-Sawarka, who was wounded in the head by the destruction of his family's house.
Among the survivors of the massacre was Merah (35 days), who was found in the bosom of her martyr brother, the child Muhannad, under the rubble of the house, and she is in a faint state.The dust of the rubble covered her lean body.