Miraculous Survival: A Palestinian Woman’s Tale Amidst Israeli Sniper’s Deadly Assault
Watan-An Israeli sniper, during the war in Gaza, invaded the home of a Palestinian family in the besieged territory and executed three women in a “field execution.” Meanwhile, an elderly woman miraculously survived the massacre, adding to the list of Israeli occupation crimes. She shares her testimony about the incident.
Fatima Ahmed Hassani Oweidah, a resident of Towers of Tel al-Hawa, recounted that after the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Islamic University and the surrounding areas, the towers trembled from the bombardment as if experiencing an earthquake.
In a recorded statement, the Palestinian survivor continued, explaining that she remained in her home with her daughter and husband to protect their residence, even though Israeli forces were closing in on them.
Palestinian Elderly Woman Exposes a Side of Brutal Occupation Crimes
She disclosed that her brother had moved to the south and contacted her, urging her to relocate to his house in Tel al-Hawa, where her two sisters, Saad Ahmed Oweidah and Widad Ahmed Oweidah, resided.
According to her account, she, along with her daughter Amira Naif, went to the house located on a street branching off from Street 8, near Bab al-Dalou door, in search of greater safety. However, the bombardment did not cease.
After several days, the ground invasion by the occupation forces took place. On November 23 at 2:15 am, a sniper named “Lobi Tam” positioned himself on the Dalou Tower opposite the house she had moved to. She described how the Israeli forces’ bulldozers were clearing lands and streets around the house. They demolished the wall of her brother’s house, while the regime’s forces were securing the area for tanks with gunfire, sound bombs, and gas grenades.
At that moment, the sniper, “Lobi Tam,” started firing at the house wall and forcibly entered despite her sister and daughter holding up a white cloth, speaking in Hebrew, indicating the presence of women. However, he paid no heed, stormed into the house, and began shooting. Her two sisters and daughter were injured, and she herself was shot in the right arm.
She continued, stating that the sniper left after a few minutes but returned shortly to resume shooting, claiming in Hebrew that there were four families in the house while there were only three women. She stood behind her sister, and he did not notice her.
After the killer left, she began screaming at her sisters and daughter, asking if any of them were awake to respond, but in the darkness, none of them replied. By dawn, she discovered that her two sisters and her daughter had all been martyred, their bodies covered in blood.
