Israeli TV caught on film the pleas of a Palestinian doctor whose children had just been killed by Israeli attacks, reports Reuters.
The telephone calls created extraordinary scenes during evening news broadcasts as the doctor, a Hebrew-speaking physician who spoke regularly on Israeli television, said three of his children were killed in a tank strike and others were wounded.
"My girls were sitting at home planning their futures, talking, then suddenly they are being shelled," he said in a voice shaking with emotion. "I want to know why they were killed, who gave the order?"
Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that the Channel 10 correspondent who was interviewing the doctor, Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish, had held the microphone to his cell phone to capture the doctor's pleas. It reports that three of the doctor's eight children died in the attack.
'I hope anyone who can hear us, the military, the red cross, can get there,' the emotional reporter, Shlomi Eldar said, announcing the exact location of the doctor's home, hoping help would arrive quickly.
Eldar then went off-camera to call his numerous contacts in Israel and try and get the family assistance.
You can watch it here.