Donkey cart removes some of 26 bodies from Samouni home massacred by IDF direct hit (Abid Katib/Getty) Death toll: 1,300 Palestinian dead of whom over 500 are women and children; 50-60% civilian.  13 Israeli dead, 3 civilians. It appears that Hamas has agreed to its own ceasefire for a week.  S...

Members of al-Samouni clan mourn their dead (AP) A few days ago I wrote about the shelling of the Gaza home in which the al-Samouni family took refuge after it was evicted by force by the IDF from its own home earlier.  The N.Y. Times reported that 11 family members had been killed.  Apparently, t...