My son Anees is in Rafah. I woke up this morning to texts from him. Since the information below was written, more than 70 are dead in Rafah and at least 400 are injured. I have nothing left except sorrow, anger and grief. Elleanne Green: JUST IN FROM A FRIEND WHO MUST REMAIN ANONYMOUS ... Gaza Friday morning (1 Aug., 2014) We have been 94 hours without any electricity after the Israelis targeted the Power Plant and its fuel reservoir. This contact goes through a small generator we used to pump up water to a tank over the building for a daily use. There is no water from the mainline service, but we are lucky as we own an underground water well. This is not available to everyone in the city. 5000 displaced people from Shejayah stay in very bad conditions in 4 UNRWA school next block! At Al Azhar University of Gaza two campuses there are other thousands of displaced people! Next block to the university there are 3 UNRWA schools jammed with displaced people. There is an UNRWA school for the blind. Its also occupied by a thousand of displaced. All those I mentioned are within one square kilometer area including our building. In our building there is about 50 people escaped from Shejayah to jam themselves in apartments with their relatives. In the next door building there is also 50 or more of displaced escaped their lives from Beit Hanoun village to stay with their relatives! Those people live in miserable situation with shortages of water sometime, electricity sometimes, peace of mind all the times! There are people who found nowhere to go! Thus, they stay in public gardens and in hospitals yards! This is a snapshot of the humanitarian situation. Meantime, in this period of bloody war, Gaza Strip Palestinian women gave birth to 1400 babies! Israeli annihilation will never succeed! When UN humanitarian ceasefire was declared this morning, ambulances, paramedics, and fire brigades were sent to the border areas! In Khuzaa, they found dead decayed bodies. In one case, medical groups found whole families killed. Of the most heartbreaking is a family shot dead in a bathroom; they all decayed! Blatant war crime to be added to all the crimes that the Israeli army committed. There are whole families that were killed by air bombing on homes of civilians. They also targeted ambulances. One ambulance driver, 62 years of age, was shot dead, 4 paramedics and 10 media reporters were killed! More than 3470 Palestinian have been killed including more or less 50% women and children. More than 8000 have been injured, among them were people amputated or turned into handicapped! More than 3000 homes and building have been destroyed by air raids of F16 bombers. UN claimed ceasefire is fake. In 2 hours, 8 Palestinians have been killed in the first 2 hours of this cease fire. Israeli snipers hunt anyone when they can shoot them! Israel does not respect the whole world! Israel is a state of blood thirsty leader and political parties! I do not expect the ceasefire to hold on for a long time. sporadic Right now, there is a shelling in Rafah and other places. 8 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis in the past 2 hours! Media activists are traced and targeted by Israeli drones. 10 activists and reporters have been killed so far.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 12:43:48 +0000
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