Who killed 11-year-old Dima Asaliah?: Reporter's notebook
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Something was off about this one. The explosion punched a beach ball-sized hole in the wall. In a conflict in which thousand-pound bombs were so routinely used, it was comparably tiny.
On May 19, Dima Asaliah's family said she was doing an errand for her mother -- fetching a large, metallic bread maker from her sister's home about 50 yards down the sandy alleyway. As she was returning with the bread maker, just feet away from home, an explosion ripped her little body apart, perforating the bread maker with dozens of dime-sized holes. The blast shattered her home's windows and blew the sandals right off her feet. The family showed us grisly video of the aftermath.