This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.On January 7, 2009, Israeli soldiers allegedly killed members of the Abd Rabbo family who were emerging from the house, a locus of reported rocket launches by Hamas.
According to the account provided to official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida by family members in late January 2009, they live on the hill that overlooks Israeli town Sderot.
But only when she got close to the three girls who were on the floor, drowned in their own blood, and a soldier shot and wounded her foot and she also drowned in her blood side to side of the three girls.Later accounts, published in many Western news outlets, describe the occurrence as one of the white flags incidents, in which Israeli soldiers shot at family members, killing two of the daughters and critically wounding the third one, as the family waved white flags in an attempt to leave the premises after receiving orders to do so by IDF.
Su’ad died immediately ...Interviewed separately by HRW, Khaled Abd Rabbo and his brother, who had both remained inside the house, confirmed this version of events.
[11] HRW concluded that ballistic evidence found at the scene, medical records of the victims, and examinations by foreign doctors of the two wounded survivors corroborate the witnesses' account.
[11] Pro-Israeli NGOs CAMERA and Monitor found contradictions between the testimonies of the family members that appear in HRW report and the versions of the incident published in numerous newspapers.
[13] According to the report published in September 2009, the Mission found Khaled and Kawthar Abd Rabbo to be credible and reliable witnesses and it had no reason to doubt the veracity of the main elements of their testimony, which it says is consistent with the accounts it received from other eyewitnesses and NGOs.
The report bases its conclusion on the premise that the family, consisting of a man, a young and an elderly woman and three small girls, some of them waving white flags, stepped out of the house and stood still for several minutes waiting for instructions from the soldiers.
[14] Pro-Israeli group CAMERA said that Khaled Abd Rabbo delivered contradictory testimonies to the Human Rights Watch and Goldstone Report respectively as to whether he was inside the house or outside during the shooting.