34-year-old Tali Khotel and her daughters Hadar (9), Roni (7), Hila (11) and Merav (2), were killed by Palestinian gunmen on 2 May 2004 near the Gush Khatif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo)
Left - Athena Roy visits the field of chairs at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, pausing to stop at the chair dedicated to her mother, Diane Althouse, killed in the Oklahoma City bombing of 19 April 1995. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Right - Raffaele Cataldi is greeted by his mother Lara as he arrives at Rome's Ciampino military airport. Cataldi is among the 12 Italians wounded during recent attacks in Nasiriyah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Left - The mother and older brother of Ayman Faris weep as his body is taken for burial. Five-year-old Ayman was struck by an Israeli tank shell outside his home in the Khan Younis Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip. (Photo: Reinhard Krause)
Right - The mother of nineteen-year-old Zahara holds her hand while she lies in her hospital bed in Herat, Afghanistan. Zahara, trapped in an unhappy marriage, attempted to commit suicide by burning herself with petrol. (REUTERS/Farzana Wahidy)
Left - Jacqueline Todacheene with her sons Dylan and Cody, and her husband Lee, of the Navajo Nation in Lukachukai, Arizona. Lee Todacheene, a U.S. Army medic, was the first Navajo killed in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Navajo Nation)
Right - The mother of Rashid Hussein Alwan cries during the funeral of her son at a cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq. Rashid was killed in a bombing raid by American forces.
Left - Relatives console the mother of Sanae Ben Salah, a Moroccan victim of the Madrid train bombings, during an ecumenical service of commemoration at Achoa Station. (Reuters/Andrea Comas)
Right - Monsignor Fabio Colindres consoles Erminia Ramos, center, during the arrival of her son's body at the air force base in Comalapa, El Salvador. Natividad Mendez Ramos was the first Salvadoran to be killed in Iraq since the country sent troops there. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)
Left - Hagar Jawad, 14, is comforted by her mother at the hospital in al-Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood. Hagar and two of her sisters were severely burned by an explosion during clashes between US troops and followers of Moqtada al-Sadr. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Right - Debra Dunham embraces her son, Jason. US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham died without regaining consciousness on 22 April 2004, one week after sustaining a head injury from a shrapnel wound, in the Iraqi city of Karbala. (AP Photo/The Wellsville Daily Reporter, courtesy Dunham Family)
Left - Israeli police keep a group of Jewish settlers from heckling a Palestinian mother and her children as they walk near the West Bank city of Hebron. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
Right - Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe (R) pledges to Fanny Gutierrez (L) that he will personally oversee an investigation into the killing of five members of her family - including three youths and a baby - who were shot by army soldiers hunting leftist rebels. (AP Photo/Miguel Solano, SNE)
Left - The brother and mother of Israeli soldier Tomer Ron mourn during his funeral in the northern Israeli village of Moledet. Ron was killed by a Palestinian gunman in Hebron.
Right - The mother and father (front row) of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Anthony S. Lagman, watch with other relatives as his body is carried from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Yonkers, New York. Lagman was killed while fighting in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
Left - Alane Howard (centre) , marches to protest the violence that has taken the lives of more than 20 students in the Philadelphia School District since the start of the academic year, including Howard's son, Tyree. (AP Photo/Jessica Griffin)
Right - Moniah Abu Kaber, the wife of Mohammed Abu Kaber, holds their son Dorgham as he bursts into tears, during the funeral procession of his father in the northern West Bank village of Akraba, near the city of Nablus. (AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Left - Helga Gerhardt, mother of World Trade Center collapse victim Ralph Gerhardt, holds a picture of her son as she listens to the testimony of U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice before the 9-11 commission. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)
Right - Chinese human rights activist Ding Zilin, head of the Chinese human rights group "Tiananmen Mothers", which represents families of people killed when Chinese troops crushed the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989. Ding was arrested by Chinese security agents along with two other prominent relatives of victims of the Tiananmen Square protests, on 28 March 2004. (Reuters/Guang Niu)
Left - Police officer Aziz Tursunov, who was killed in fighting with alleged terrorists in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is mourned by his father, Bokhodir, sisters Zulaikho and Zyoda, and mother Vazifa. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)
Right - A Bangladeshi mother faints on learning her child is missing after a devastating slum fire near Dhaka; at least four people including three children were killed. (REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman)
Left - Maha abu Shatat sits with her baby Zyad in their home in Rafah, Gaza Strip. It is 3:00am and her house is under fire from the Israeli "security zone" 40 metres away. (Photo: Electronic Intifada)
Right - An Iraqi mother carries her son, burned after a coalition bomb caused a house fire, to Umm Qasr for medical help.
Left - Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
Right - North Korean Choi Jong-hoon enjoys a temporary reunion with his South Korean mother, from whom he has been separated since the Korean War of 1950-53. (REUTERS/Korea Pool)
Forty-one day-old Ali Sami Saad lies in arms of his Iraqi mother (not named), 28 March 2004. (REUTERS/Ananthakrishnan)
Very nice post.
Posted by: harry | 10 May 2004 at 02:35 PM
Very moving post ...
Posted by: Mohsan | 11 May 2004 at 12:31 AM
A wonderful post, let me mention it in my blog.
Ciao, Gianna
Posted by: Gianna | 28 May 2004 at 06:09 AM