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Monday, 3 December, 2001, 18:03 GMT
Eyewitness: The grief of an Israeli family
![]() Moshe's mother can't believe her son will never come home
By Orla Guerin in Jerusalem
Tal says his big brother Moshe had just gone out to have some fun, but everything was destroyed in one bang.
And their mother Anat keeps asking how her son could have just gone for pizza and will now never be coming home. Moshe was one of 10 teenagers killed on Saturday night in two suicide bomb attacks at a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. Trying to help Adam says Moshe survived the first blast, but his friend was wounded and as he rushed to help, he ran straight into the path of the second suicide bomber.
Moshe's father Yanki told me how he remembered his first-born. "Like a friend not like a son, always happy with us," he said, as friends and family do their best to console his mother. "He wasn't even 20. He didn't have a chance to live," she said. "These awful murderers cut off his life. Our whole country is soaked in blood." Calls for revenge To Israelis it seems that way.
One 19-year-old was killed out on a date with a new girlfriend. In their grief Israelis are calling for tough action, saying they want to feel safe on their streets. They want Yasser Arafat to be hit hard and Ariel Sharon believes the United States has given him a free hand to do as he sees fit. Video footage of one of the suicide bombers leaves no doubt as to what Israel is facing. The young militant poses proudly for the camera before issuing a chilling statement - the attacks will not stop until Israel ends its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Innocent civilians once again paying the price for what the extremists have done. Israeli helicopter gunships have now launched air strikes on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip. Few here doubt that a turning point has been reached.
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