From Electronic Intifada…

On a Saturday morning in mid May 2006, Hamdi Aman, aged 30 from Gaza, had his world turned upside down. Four members of his family died in an Israeli air strike aimed at an Islamic Jihad activist in Gaza.
He is concerned that his daughter, Maria, set to celebrate her sixth birthday next week, will be forced to leave the Israeli hospital where she is being treated for serious injuries sustained in the attack. The authorities want her to go to Ramallah, in the West Bank, but medical workers and Hamdi are worried this will harm Maria.
“It was a Saturday morning. There were eight of us in the vehicle going to visit a relative in hospital. We didn’t know about the Israeli plane overhead looking for Ahmed Dahduh [from the Islamic Jihad].
“We were talking and then suddenly something hit us. I didn’t know at first what it was.
“My mother, Hannan, died. My wife, Naima, and my eldest son, Muhanned, died. My youngest son Mo’men, who just turned four last week, got shrapnel wounds and so did I. My uncle died a month and 10 days later from his wounds.
“My daughter Maria was thrown out of the window. She became paralyzed from the neck down from the injuries to her brain and spinal cord.
“She can only breathe through a ventilator hooked up to her wheelchair. She controls the chair with her chin.
“Her injuries are forever, for the rest of her life…”