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The Guardian - UK
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Julian Borger and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tamra

‘They just see you as an Arab’: Israel’s Palestinian citizens given cursory protection from attack

Municipality workers inspect the home of the Khatib family that received a straight impact of a ballistic missile from Iran in Tambra, a toen of Palestinian citizens of Israel who lost in the attack 4 members of their community. The four victims were identified as Manar Khatib, 45, and her two daughters – Shada, 20, and Hala, 13 – as well as their relative Manal Khatib, 41. Photo by Quique Kierszenbaum
Ruins of the Khatib family home in which Manar Khatib, her two daughter and sister-in-law all died in two ‘safe rooms’ in the blast from an Iranian missile. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

When an Iranian missile bound for the industrial port of Haifa dropped out of the sky on the town of Tamra on Saturday night, it fell on Israel’s most vulnerable, and in one devastating flash, lit up the country’s deepest divide.

The missile demolished a three-storey stone house and killed four members of the same family: Manar Khatib, and her two daughters – Shada, a university student, and Hala, a 13-year-old schoolgirl – as well as Manar’s sister-in-law, Manal.

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