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At Cairo Hospital, Injured Palestinians Increasingly Voice Support for Hamas
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His father smiled.
"Yes, I would like to see him go and fight. The Jews are the killers of prophets," Mustafa said. "At the end of the day, Israel does not differentiate between fighters of Hamas and an innocent child."
Yet Mustafa partly blames Hamas for his sons' injuries. He said Hamas lacked the tactical ability to take on Israel and to protect Gazans. "But blaming Hamas does not mean I am against Hamas," he said.
Hanni Mohammed, 38, spoke up from the next bed. "Why don't you blame the Americans?" he demanded. "Why is America not stopping the war?"
He had fought in the previous Palestinian intifidas, or uprisings, but had stayed on the sidelines in the current conflict, Mohammed said. No longer.
Mohammed's wife and six children are locked in their house. "My family is over there being killed, slaughtered," he said, clutching a transistor radio that blared the news. "There's no water, no electricity. There's nothing I can do. All I can tell them is not to leave the house."
When he goes back, he said, he plans to fire rockets at Israel.
"After everything I have seen, I will carry a weapon again," Mohammed said. "I went to fight before, and now I will fight harder."
