This morning, Sunday May 5, at around 7:30 AM, I went out with my two daughters 39-year-old Miyassar, 25-year-old Maysun. We went in my son's car to sew zucchini and fava beans in our plot of land, south of Qabatiya in an area called Wadi a-Suah.
 

Shortly after we arrived at the plot adjacent to ours, about 100 meters away from our plot, Muhammad Yusef Abu Samra, his wife Fatma Ibrahim Abu Samra and their two children Basel who is four or five years old and ‘Abir who is three years old arrived at the place. The plot where the Abu Samra family works does not belong to them. They are hired hands. The Abu Samra family is poor and works for a living. Today, they were picking grape leaves. The couple has two more children, one of them is a baby.

When we started working on our land, we didn't see any military presence. We didn't see any suspicious movement or strangers around.

At around 11:30 AM, two armored vehicles arrived. It could have been two tanks or a tank and an armored personnel carrier. We saw them from about 300 meters away. I told my daughters not to be afraid and not to run away, because if the soldiers saw us running, they would think we were suspicious and shoot us. We carried on with our work – sewing zucchini seeds.

The armored vehicles drove along the asphalt road toward the settlements Ganim and Kadim and the Bezek military camp.

When the vehicles were about 30 or 40 meters away from the Abu Samra family, shots were suddenly fired from the tank at the woman and her two children and hit them. The tank kept shooting in all directions. One bullet flew near my head. I felt the bullets hitting around me.

After the tank started shooting, I noticed that it had swerved off the road. It veered from its track and I saw that one of its tracks had come lose and was lying on the road. I heard no explosion, nor did I see smoke coming from the direction of the tank.

When the shooting stopped, the soldiers came out of the tanks and asked us if we had seen any strange or suspect movement in the area, or any kind of vehicle around.

A few minutes later, more army forces began to arrive in the area. The soldiers gathered all the men who were working the fields and body searched them. They checked everyone's identity, and took the men's clothes off. When they did that, my daughters and I looked away.

The soldiers took us to the place where the bodies of the woman and the children were. I was standing two or three meters away from the bodies and could see all three.

The soldiers let us go after four hours. A Red Crescent ambulance arrived at the scene then to take the bodies to the hospital in Jenin.