Six year old Wigdan woke up to bullets and shrapnel close to her bed.

Four year old Sahir was already dead, with half his head blown away by an Israeli shrapnel.

For infantry, the breastplate gained renewed importance with the development of shrapnel in the late 18th century.

Aboud s husband was wounded in the head by shrapnel, so she took him to the hospital in Damascus.

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He heard her voice calling him, and took her to a field hospital. She was wounded on her left foot and suffered shrapnel wounds to her hands.

SP It just looked like, you know, someone had thrown a quarter through a guy, and it was just like there was no blood coming from the shrapnel wounds.

During the war both sides experimented with shrapnel armour and some soldiers used their own but dedicated ballistic armour such as the American Brewster Body Shield, although not widely produced.

Israeli soldiers sprayed the boat with bullets, the 'dum dum' exploding bullets hitting Rafiq in the back and exploding into numerous tiny shrapnel pieces which pierced his lungs and remain dangerously close to his spine, impossible to remove.

Twelve Israelis are now known to have been wounded in the incidents, including a civilian resident of the border village of Ghajar, who was hit by mortar shrapnel, and a number of Israeli soldiers who have sustained serious injuries.

Most of the patients at the clinic were children, many of whom have witnessed violence. Some had experienced it themselves. One boy getting treatment had been struck with shrapnel on a cheekbone and could no longer close his right eye.

I decided to open all the doors and windows. All that I could think that moment was that catching influenza from the cold would be less painful than the shrapnel of broken glass. I gathered all the blankets I could find, crawled under them and dozed off.