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Gaza father: I want to address soldier who killed teen daughter
Published Tuesday 10/01/2012 (updated) 19/01/2012 15:02
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Itidal and Ahmed Abu Oda with a picture of their daughter Nariman.
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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The family of a 16-year-old girl killed in Israel's Operation Cast Lead remain plagued by questions three years after her death, as a criminal complaint to Israeli authorities goes unanswered.

"Why my daughter? What were their motives? What were their reasons?" asks Ahmed Abu Oda.

"The Israeli military say they are the most moral army in the world, but they killed my daughter, they didn’t respect her right to live."

Nariman Abu Oda was killed on Jan. 9, 2009 by Israeli fire on her home in Beit Hanoun, and the house remains riddled with bullet holes, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which submitted the complaint in August that year, reports.

"It is clear the shooting was completely indiscriminate," her mother Itidal explains.

Her husband says he knows the legal compliant will not change the fact of his daughter's death, but "the only thing I want is to address the soldier who killed my daughter."

"But I hope one day that we can reach peace with the Israelis and end the war and the killing," he says.

The family, whose citrus grove and poultry farm was also destroyed in the three-week offensive, are struggling to move from their home. "We do not want to live in the house that Nariman was killed in," Ahmed says.

All three of their children have since had daughters who they named Nariman, in memory of their sister.
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1 ) JohnWV / USA
11/01/2012 12:21
“NEVER AGAIN” is an Israeli mantra of determination to disrupt the Jew's long history of persecution. Yet behavior of the supremacis?t theocracy/ethnocracy the Jewish State has made of itself is so repugnant that repetition is certain unless it is able to conquer the whole planet.

2 ) Mel / USA
22/01/2012 18:40
'Never again' to Zionists meant "never again to Zionists only" & all else can rot!The world sees that Israel-which could've been a beacon of pluralistic light,linking history(ancient & modern)with the present with a great future of mutual respect,tolerance&acceptance- turned instead to Zionism, the Jewish version of Protestant absolutism.So Israel,under Zionist control,is destined to reflect all the unconscionable side of man!Abu Oda,take your case to the ICC,with ALL Palestinians, 4 justice!
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