Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-08-03.
By Mohammed Omer, from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Rafah Today via BBSNews 2006-08-04 -- Here in the Gaza Strip, the only taste is of fear under the Israeli occupation. As a mother, you would, of course, worry what to feed your family for the next day. As a father, one might wonder what to do with the school and university tuitions. A child might think about where to go to play that would be safe. As a student one might look for the safest way to get to school without being killed or injured. But even the “safest” route may bring death or injury.
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Fatima Jadallah, 55, killed by Israeli bullets while in her own home in Rafah Refugee Camp.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-08-03. |
Life in Palestine is full of troubles wherever one goes, and here the Palestinians are paying the cost by being hit by Israeli helicopters and US-made rockets and artillery shells. If you would ask any child who got injured or even paralyzed by a US made rocket how they felt, what do you expect the answer to be … complaining? Appealing to Americans to stop the war? Or even crying and begging them to put pressure on Israel or what?
It's enough to say, "THANK YOU AMERICA!"
This is the most simple thing that a Palestinian child can say, who, a few hours before went to buy some falafels for his mom but failed to bring them home. Instead of falafels, she heard a voice on the phone from the hospital saying, "Your 8 year old child, Samer, got injured and is in the hospital now." Then the mother would have to run to the hospital and all she would find was her child lying down in a comma with a critical injury to his leg. Shall we ask her what she thinks? Or how she feels when she knows that her son got injured by a US made rocket? I guess that would not be the right time to ask her these questions, even though we all know what her answers would be!
Over the past few hours, north of Beit Hanoun, two civilians were killed and four others wounded as Israeli F16 fighters hit a civilian car northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun area.
Medical sources at Kamal Adwan hospital said that Ahmed Abu Qoaideh 15, and Mervat Abu Sharkh 24, were killed and four others were wounded in the bombarding of the car.
The war is still going on. Large numbers of people and casualties are being hospitalized as a result of the daily attacks on Gaza Strip by the Israeli Occupation Troops!
Right now in Rafah, I have seen people and children who had been bleeding for 12 hours, laying on the ground, while ambulances are no longer able to evacuate their bodies. The attack is still ongoing in the last 15 hours and so far more than 12 people were killed and over 40 were injured. The attack is still going on up till now, and the number of victims is increasing minute by minute. People in Rafah are appealing to the world and all humans who have hearts and minds to stop Israeli from killing and targeting people inside their houses.
Rafah has turned into a hell as a result of the incursion which seems to be a very heavy with a number of 70 tanks and bulldozers as well as the Israeli helicopters and F16s hovering allover the night and bombing all related to humans.
No water, no electricity in most of the areas in Rafah, as most of the families have evacuated to the schools runs by UNRWA in Rafah refugee camp, but so far and the number of the victims is increasing and many of the people whom injured and killed where very close to Abu Yousef Al Najjar hospital, which is the only hospital and when it comes not to be safe for a medical worker to get into the area or a journalist to get into the spot, then here we can say that this is the end of the most democratic country in the world!
Life is just awful here, no means for living and it seems that Palestinians are born to get killed by the Israeli Army and to be more specific by a US-made weapons and with international and European green light to Israel to carry [out] more attacks against humanity in Gaza Strip!
Mohammed Omer is a young journalist/photographer in the Gaza Strip. He and his family have a very rough time in living day to day and they have lost much. In October of 2003, one of Mohammed's younger bothers, Issam, was injured and had to have a leg amputated. Later in the same month another younger brother, Hussam Al-Mouhagir, was killed in his home; shot to death by the Israeli Army that occupies and regularly devastates Palestine. These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. Visit Mohammed's Web site to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience.
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