Word: shrapnel
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...southern Gaza town of Rafah, where smugglers were trying to tunnel into Egypt under a 25-ft.-high concrete wall built by the Israelis. There had been the usual telephone heads-up, but the blasts were so fierce that flying debris injured 50 neighbors. A spear of shrapnel flew more than 500 yds. away and killed a 14-year-old girl, Damilaz Hamad. According to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Damilaz is among 60 women and children killed in air strikes since June, when Israel launched its assault on the Gaza Strip in response to the abduction...
...humvee on a routine patrol in Baghdad and Michael grabbed it and tried to throw it away, he became a part of the story he had been covering--and a part of the lives of the men whose lives he saved. Michael lost his hand, and Jim suffered shrapnel wounds to his abdomen and legs. For Michael it had been meant to be a four-week job, but it turned out to be a lifetime assignment...
After medic Billie Grimes stopped the bleeding with an elastic cord, I was rushed in the humvee to a nearby brigade clinic and then medevacked to a U.S. Army hospital elsewhere in Baghdad for surgery to clean what was left of my arm and the shrapnel wounds in my right thigh. There, I learned that everyone else in the back of the humvee had survived, though Jenks had serious leg wounds, Beverly had knee and hand injuries and Nachtwey had taken shrapnel in his knees and abdomen. The next morning, a middle-aged nurse with blond highlights approached...
...near destruction of a large part of the village. Houses of two or three stories lie pancaked like decks of cards; the burnt-out wrecks of cars destroyed by missiles are scattered up and down the main street. The simple cinder-block buildings are pitted with holes from flying shrapnel and machine gun bullets. The village will take months if not years to rebuild, but for these stoical residents, the pride of driving away the most powerful army in the Middle East takes precedence over more immediate concerns. "Yes, it looks like Leningrad," concedes Sameeh Srour, 53, a policeman...
...brothers had another close shave when he stopped in a busy neighborhood to buy black-market gas. A car bomb went off 50 yards away, destroying his car. Luckily, he had stepped out of the vehicle to negotiate with the seller; he got away with minor shrapnel wounds. One tiny shard ripped into his shirt pocket in a direct line to his heart. The shrapnel arrowed through a thick wad of Iraqi currency and some loose paper and was finally stopped by his plastic ID card. "At last, I can say money saved my life," he jokes...