Eman Waleed, a 9-year-old girl who survived the massacre told the told Time: "First, they went into my father's room, where he was reading the Koran, and we heard shots. Then, the soldiers came back into the living room. I couldn't see their faces very well -- only their guns sticking into the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny."
Safa Younis Salim, a 13-year old girl, who in an interview said she lived by faking her death. "I pretended that I was dead when my brother's body fell on me and he was bleeding like a faucet," she said. She said that she saw American troops kick her family members and that one American shouted in the face of one relative before he was killed.