Palestinian medical technician Mohammed Abu Moussa, 45, who was released from Israeli detention after 20 months, poses for a photo with his children, Jourie and Hamid, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. (AP Photo)
Amid the joy of being released after 20 months of suffering in Israeli prisons, Mohammed Abu Moussa could tell something was wrong.
Descending from the bus that brought him and other released Palestinian detainees to Gaza last week, the 45-year-old medical technician was reunited with his wife and two young children. But when he asked about his mother, his brother wouldn’t look him the eye.
Finally they sat him down and told him: His mother, his younger sister Aya, Aya’s children and his aunt and uncle had all been killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit their shelter in central Gaza in