Here's how it happened:

The most gut-wrenching moment was 8-year-old Maria caressing the forehead of her older brother, Yossi, while he was lying wounded on the floor of the supermarket. There was no screaming, no panic, and no crying. Just like any other 10-year-old boy who wants his mother at his side during tough times, he asked where she was, but realized that at that moment mom is not around. And Yossi, despite the Qassam shrapnel that was lodged in his shoulder, the blood around him, and the incredible pain, maintained incomprehensible restraint. He merely muttered that his shoulder hurts, and his little sister, just like a kind nurse, kept on caressing him. He realized that only his little sister is near him, and as always he must protect her, so he drew on some incredible strength, chocked back the tears, and kept the pain inside him.

And here's the lede from the execrable LA Times article about yesterday's atrocities. Two reporters - Rushdi abu Alouf and Richard Boudreaux - are on the byline of this special submission:

As Israelis watched nervously from across the border, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip staged parallel protests Monday against the Jewish state, placing a few thousand placard-waving demonstrators along the main highway and firing 11 rockets into Israel. One of the rockets injured 10-year-old Yossi Haimov in the town of Sderot as an air-raid siren sent him and his 8-year-old sister, who were playing near their home, rushing for cover against a wall. Surgeons removed shrapnel from his right shoulder, saving his arm.

Could be worse. They could have gone with the the Toronto Star's headline: "Gaza Protests Unfold Peacefully". Guess what paragraph you have to reach before they mention the rocket that hit Yossi and Maria. Come on, guess.

References:
* Sderot’s war children [YNet]
* Palestinians protest blockade of Gaza [LAT]
* Gaza protests unfold peacefully [Toronto Star]

Previously:
* CNN: Poor Hamas Victims Being Mourned Right This Moment By Long-Suffering Palestinians
* Sderot Media Center Documenting Horror Of Palestinian Rocket Attacks On Israeli Schools And Hospitals (Plus: Dozens Of Children Treated After Qassam Hits Near Daycare)
* BREAKING: Major Injuries In Sderot Rocket Barrage. Children Wounded As Rockets Score Direct Hits On School and Home.