Fort McMurray Today · Fort McMurray, Alberta · 5 January 2009
CP-2009-005
Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City
Transcribed from the clipping
“Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City today.” Photo by HATEM MOUSSA, The Associated Press.
Context added by this archive
Three children carried in three pairs of arms, in three white shrouds, and the caption gives all three of them their names. That is unusual in this archive and worth saying plainly. What the caption also does is put the cause at one remove — according to Palestinian medical sources — a qualification attached to how they died and not to who they were.
Cite this item
"Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City," Fort McMurray Today, 5 January 2009. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2009-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2009-005
More from Fort McMurray Today
- Diplomats converge on Israel in push for truce as Gaza death toll mountsFort McMurray Today · 5 January 2009
More from the 2000s
- Stop genocide in PalestineArgus Leader · 1 January 2009
- Re: Stop genocide in PalestineArgus Leader · 3 January 2009
- Israeli ground operation cuts Gaza Strip in twoThe Philadelphia Inquirer · 5 January 2009
- Israeli troops and tanks slice deep into GazaDayton Daily News · 5 January 2009
- CASUALTIES: A Palestinian man carries a girl killed in an Israeli strike into Shifa Hospital in Gaza City; a wounded Israeli soldier arrives at a hospital in BeershebaLos Angeles Times · 6 January 2009
- Civilian deaths soar in GazaThe Courier · 7 January 2009
- All 134 clippings from the 2000s →
In these collections
This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
The clipping belongs to the newspaper that printed it, or to the news agency that supplied the copy. It is reproduced here for research, criticism and commentary. The city is derived from the masthead, not read off the clipping.
Something wrong here, or something you know about this clipping? The archive is still being built and corrections are wanted: maria@rozumstudio.com, quoting CP-2009-005.
See it in the archive reel · Full text of every clipping · Dataset