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03/02/08

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Letter from Gaza: Sorry, Amjad, that we could do nothing to help you

Amjad Al Shawa


Palestine News Network (PNN)

Dear friends all over the world,

I'm calling on you in this moment while the Gaza Strip where I'm living is under attack by the Israeli occupation forces. They are showing no mercy; killing children, our beautiful youth and women. Sixty Palestinians were killed since Wednesday, the youngest of whom was six months old. Tens have been injured.

One of the people killed by an Israeli air strike was one of the PNGO staff in Gaza. Amjad Almrety was 26 years old. That young man was smiling all of the time, and was energetic and looking for the future with big dreams. There are no words to express our sad feelings towards our loss of Amjad, and of course the loss of all of the others.

Sorry, Amjad, that we could do nothing to help you. Our hands are cuffed with nothing to do except just carrying some hope that people who hold the value of justice will act to end the Israeli genocidal crimes against our people.

This morning another three children were killed while they were in their beds. What kind of crime did they commit, what kind of guilt did they possess, to be killed in such a way?

Our PNGO office was partially destroyed and also the Medical Relief Society Headquarters and its ambulance were destroyed as result of an Israeli air strike.

My children couldn't go to school this morning; they couldn't sleep all the night because of the continual air strikes. It has become too dangerous to move in the city of Gaza.

Israel is still imposing the siege and closure on the Gaza Strip, preventing people and goods to move. At least 105 patients have died suffering from a shortage of medicines while awaiting Israeli “permission” to gain access out of the Gaza Strip to be treated abroad since Gaza hospitals suffer from a shortage of basic medical supplies and medicines.

Israel continues to decrease the amount of fuel allowed to enter Gaza. Thousands of cars stopped moving in the Gaza Strip. And also due to the fuel cuts, four sewage pumping stations in Gaza City and the north of Gaza have flooded. The pumps failed because of the lack of fuel, and also due to a lack of parts to keep up with repairs as nothing is allowed in. The people of Gaza are also suffering from hours of electricity cuts.

All of this is in addition to the water situation. Israel is preventing chlorine from entering the Strip which is needed to treat the drinking water as the sewage and water mains are damaged.

People are loosing hope day by day. Eighty percent live under the line of poverty, with the full meaning and implications of such.

Please, it is time to act to end the silence towards these crimes. Say your words. Our people are building their only hope on your actions to end the siege and to bring back any semblance of hope to our lives.

Act for justice.

¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤

© 2008 Amjad Al Shawa

SOURCE: http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2478&Itemid=29

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Comment from: BERTIZ BENHAMID [Member]
The Zionist entity is continuing with genocide against the Palestinian Arabs since its creation on Arab land. Where are the Arab leaders when help for the indigenous is most needed. Shame on all the corrupt Arab puppet Governments. The Bush Administration is supporting the insane butchers in Tel Aviv since the US is committing the same crimes in an illegal war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The USA and Israel have become identical twins since both are warmongering countries big time...one of them is killing for profit and the other for expulsion and expansion. It is time for a change in leadership on both sides and the sooner the better.
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Comment from: eileen fleming [Member] · http://www.wearewideawake.org/
"The fierce urgency of now" [Rev. MLK] should compell all people of good will to get VERY SERIOUS and DO SOMETHING!

If you are USA taxpayer you are culpable in this crime against humanity and just imagine the TERROR all these children are enduring.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Do Something for the sake of the little ones, the ill, the innocent!!!

PLEASE call and write your local newspaper editors, TV stations, radio talk show hosts, and contact your elected representatives in Washington, DC. to


STOP THE MADNESS! DEMAND A BILATERAL CEASEFIRE AND AN END TO THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA!!!

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1414
White House Comment Line: (202) 456-1111
Fax: (202) 456-2461
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov

E-mail Vice President Dick Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Department of State
Washington, DC 20520
State Department Public Information Line:
(202) 647-6575

Any Senator
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3121

Any Representative
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3121
E-mail Congress: visit the Web site for contact information:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

The Israeli Embassy, Washington, DC
(202) 364-5500

The Israeli Embassy, Canada
(613) 567 6450
Permalink 03/02/08 @ 09:25
Comment from: jameslakes [Member]
BERTIZ BENHAMID, & Eileen Fleming. A brief response: Are you surprised at the up-tick in violence? Didn't you realize that children and non-combatants would be killed? Did you think the Israeli side was bluffing when they demanded the halt to the rockets coming into the Western Negev; or when the improved rockets started hitting Ashkalon?

There was a wonderful post here last week by a remarkable writer. Mohamed Khodr wrote in uncompromising language (with plenty of anti-Israel vitriol) about a plan to stop the violence. Like similar plans that call for the cessation of rocket attacks against a sovereign state, it seems to have been ignored.

So what are we left with? More suffering and death. Poignant tales like the one above that leaves the reader crying in sympathy for the loses.

Finally, to answer your question Bertiz: "Where are the Arab leaders when help for the indigenous is most needed."? The answer is they are all home shaking their collective heads in disbelief at the stupidity of Hamas in attacking Ashkalon, thereby begging the Israel's to kill and increase suffering in Gaza. Idiots.
Permalink 03/02/08 @ 09:43
Comment from: eileen fleming [Member] · http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Dear James,

I read AND commented on Khodr's article!

WAKE UP to the true facts on the ground when it comes to state terrorism far surpassing what Hamas has inflicted upon innocent ones courtesy of IF AMERICAN KNEW!

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

119 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and
982 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000.

1,031 Israelis and at least
4,528 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000.

6,845 Israelis and
31,815 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000.

During Fiscal Year 2007, the U.S. gave more than
$6.8 million per day to Israel and
$0.3 million per day to the Palestinians.


Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by none.

1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while
10,756 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel.

0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and
18,147 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967

The Israeli unemployment rate is 9%, while the Palestinian unemployment is estimated at 40%.

Israel currently has 223 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land.

LEARN MORE:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
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