Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Hanady Salman (editor at As-Safir in Beirut) sent this:
"We just learnt that the mother of our senior reporter, Hussein Ayoub , was killed in her village Aynata in the south. She had been missing for five days now. She was staying with the rest of her neighbors at a house they figured was safe in the village. Five days ago , she left them and said she was going to visit her sister who lives one block away. Hussein managed to call his aunt two days later, and she told him his mom never came to her house.Today, the red cross confirmed they have found her body along with two other people in the woods near Aynata. They were trying to flee the village on feet. Hussein’s father was killed by the Israelis too, in 1978."