Brian McDonald
Tel Aviv — Since this weekend, when Israeli special forces carried out the mission to rescue four hostages — Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir and Noa Argamani — A dramatic video of the attack shared by the Israeli military was seen around the world. What has been less visible, however, are the consequences of that operation and the Palestinian civilians who survived it.
The CBS News Gaza team met with eyewitness Abedelraof Meqdad, 60, who walked us through his shot-up home, across the street from where one of the Israeli military vehicles broke down under heavy Hamas gunfire.
The commandos broke into his family’s apartment, he says, and blindfolded and tied the men’s hands before interrogating them.
“There were sound grenades. Women and children screamed. I told them, ‘Why are you shouting? You are scaring the children.’ He said, ‘shut up or I’ll shoot you and them.'”
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Meqdad told CBS News that Israeli forces dragged him into the living room, demanding to know if there were fighters or weapons in his home.
“I told them there are no fighters here and no weapons, I am just a trader,” he said.
When it was all over, two of Meqdad’s grandchildren were shot.
CBS News met one of them, 16-year-old Moamen Mattar, as doctors reconstructed his mangled arm at a hospital.
He told us his brother didn’t survive.
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“He was shot very close to me, in the stomach and leg,” Mattar said. “He was 12.”
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says 274 people were killed in the rescue operation and many hundreds were injured. Israel disputes this number and claims that the victims are the fault of Hamas for surrounding the hostages with civilians.
James Elder, a spokesman for the UN children’s charity UNICEF, is in Gaza this week and told CBS News he personally saw the horrific scenes following the hospital attack.
“Walking around this hospital, absolutely packed with people, 3-year-old and 7-year-old children with these grotesque war wounds – head injuries and burns,” he said. “It’s the smell of burning flesh – it’s very hard to get out of your head.”
According to most recently reported dataaround 47% of Gaza’s total population is under the age of 18, which is responsible for the high proportion of child deaths reported in this conflict.
The prospect of a ceasefire in the war remains in limbo, however. A frustrated Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Wednesday that Hamas “waited two weeks and proposed changes” to the current U.S.-backed proposal on the table — which he said Israel also accepted. “As a result, the war started by Hamas will continue.”
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