Amina Hasan Mohsen
We were at home the Thursday when the shelling started. I didn’t know what was going on outside. When the shelling intensified, I tried to leave the house to save myself and the children. When we went out, we saw dead bodies spread out all over the street. My children were scared. An Israeli told us to go out. Then we saw someone speaking Lebanese. When we went out under cover of the Israelis, they started shouting at us. At that moment I counted my children and I saw that Samir was missing; when he saw the dead people on the ground he got scared and ran away. At that moment I didn’t have the fortitude to go looking for him because the whole area was full of Israeli and Lebanese troops. We escaped, and when the massacre was over I looked for Samir, but the corpses were so mutilated I couldn’t recognise him among them.
Mrs Mohsen lost her 16-year-old son.
The above text is an extract from the Complaint lodged in Belgium against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Amos Yaron and other Israelis and Lebanese responsible for the massacre. The full text of the Complaint can be found in the section of this website titled The Case Against The Accused.
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