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Monday, May 12, 2008

Strings of Sadness

...For the past two days, Gaza has been without electricity, fuel or bread.Palestinian infants have already died in the only Pediatric hospital in Gaza. Infants relying on machines to breathe...to live. Today across the Rafah border, a little Palestinian girl, not more than 6 years old, was waiting to receive treatment in an Egyptian hospital, for kidney dialysis. She spoke on TV. She looked 60 years old. Her eyes were puffed and she had huge brown bags underneath her lovely eyes. She explained to the spectator which is you, that she's been without dialysis for over 3 days, due to the embargo imposed on Gaza by the criminal called Israel. She said, it was important for any patient to have treatment otherwise he/she would die. She is only 6. Another woman had a retina detached, and she was hoping to get some treatment as she was going blind... A third had severe burns and wounds from Israeli jet explosives... And so it went... This reminded me of the sanction years, this reminded me of today's Iraq. This reminded me of the half a million Iraqi babies in mass graves from 13 years of sanctions. A huge cemetery...little white tombs placed next to one another, thousands of them...and the Silence whistled...

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