CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES.
HERE IS PAULA HANCOCKS WITH THE 
LATEST.
>> Reporter: TWO MEN, AGE 25 AND
37, COMPLETE STRANGERS, BROUGHT 
TOGETHER BY FORCES MORE POWERFUL
THAN THEY COULD IMAGINE.
HALED 25, A PALESTINIAN 
CAMERAMAN IS FILMING A 
DOCUMENTARY ON THE DANGERS OF 
BEING A MEDIC IN GAZA.
COVERING A STORY THAT HE WOULD 
BECOME A PART OF.
RECENTLY MARRIED, HIS WIFE SIX 
MONTHS' PREGNANT WITH THEIR 
FIRST CHILD.
JULY 20th, HAMAD COMPANIES AN 
AMBULANCE, ONE OF THE 
NEIGHBORHOODS NEAR GAZA CITY HIT
HARDEST BY ISRAELI FIRE.
ON THAT DAY LESS THAN A WEEK 
AGO, MUCH LIKE ANY OVER IN THIS 
BLOODY CONFLICT, HE WAS IN THE 
WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME.
HAMAT AND ONE OF THE MEDICS WERE
KILLED BY AN ISRAELI SHELL.
SEVERAL DAYS EARLIER, DRAW 
HANIN, 37, IS VISITING ISRAELI 
TROOPS ON THE BORDER.
A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER, HE 
DECIDES TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD AND 
GIFTS TO THE MILITARY WAITING TO
GO INTO GAZA.
BUT THIS DAY HANIN WOULD BECOME 
THE VICTIM OF ONE OF THE ALMOST 
2,000 ROCKETS FIRED BY HAMAS IN 
RECENT WEEKS.
HIT BY THE SHELL, HANIN IS 
RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL IN 
ASHKELON, BUT DIES OF HIS 
INJURIES.
HE BECOMES ISRAEL'S FIRST 
CASUALTY OF THE MOST RECENT 
FIGHTING.
HE LEAVES BEHIND A WIFE AND 
THREE CHILDREN.
HANIN AND HAMAT ARE JUST TWO OF 
THE MORE THAN 800 CASUALTIES, 
THE MAJORITY IN GAZA, THE 
MAJORITY CIVILIANS.
IT'S UNLIKELY THEIR PATHS WOULD 
HAVE CROSSED HAD THEY LIVED, BUT
IN DEATH THEY REPRESENT SO MANY 
FATHERS, BROTHERS, MOTHERS, 
CHILDREN KILLED IN THIS ONGOING 
BATTLE.
