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Weaponry used in Gaza war very effective says amputees doctor
Albuquerque Express
Friday 6th March, 2009
(Bilal Badwan - Gulf News)


The number and severity of injuries as a result of the Gaza War were unprecedented and unfamiliar to Gaza's doctors because of the dangerous weapons used.

Chief of Intensive Care at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, Dr Fawzi Al Nabulsiya, said: "Many of these cases we haven't observed before. The weaponry used is very effective, leading to amputation of limbs, especially the lower ones, (damage to the) spinal cord and cases of deep coma. The ICU here received 283 cases, equalling the total of cases we often receive in a period of six or seven months."

Suheir Zemo, a 47-year-old mother of seven, lost her right leg after an Israeli missile crashed into her home in the Tal Al Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City in mid-January, at the height of the attacks.

"I was in my bedroom when a rocket landed in the room. Suddenly my leg started bleeding severely. Then my husband risked his life and took me to hospital as ambulances were not allowed into the area," said Maher, as she sat in a wheelchair at the Al Wafa Rehabilitation Centre in Gaza.
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  • DouginLA
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    • Please stop acting like this is a one sided affair. Your problem and most ignorant overly liberal Americans, is the fact that Israel does not believe in measured response. It is like the line from Swordfish(not trying to trivialize this with a movie quote, but it fits) If they attack a church we blow up 20, if they bomb a town, we destroy a city. This is the Israeli mentality. They do not believe in small example they try to crush their enemies. It is sad that innocents are killed, but that always happens in war. If the Palestinians want this to cease all they have to do is oust Hamas and set up a true peaceful government. Just because Israel doe snot care if they get bad press, does not mean they want it.

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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    • The Monstrosity of War
      Tuesday 06 January 2009
      by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

      "Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence, these massive agonies: no easier to bear."
      -Robinson Jeffers, American poet

      Agence France-Presse reports that the first person killed when the Israeli military began to enter Gaza on Saturday was a Palestinian child.

      On Sunday, a Palestinian woman and her four children were blown to pieces when Israeli warplanes bombed their home. They are among the 521 victims (at the time of this writing) of the ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip by a 9,000 strong force, which the Israeli government has launched on one of the most densely populated tracts of land in the world, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, half of them under 17 years of age.

      "The ground invasion was preceded by large scale artillery shelling from around 4 P.M., intended to 'soften' the targets as artillery batteries deployed along the Strip in recent days began bombarding Hamas targets and open areas near the border," Israel's Haaretz newspaper wrote of the onslaught. "Hundreds of shells were fired, including cluster bombs aimed at open areas."

      Israel began the military assault on Gaza on November 4, breaking the truce that Hamas had observed for many months. It went on to block food supplies to be delivered into Gaza by the UN Relief Works and World Food Program. The next casualty was the crucial fuel delivery service used to run Gaza's power plant. Finally, Israel banned journalists and aid workers from entering Gaza.

      It is important to note that in mid-December, during a visit to Israel, UN Human Rights Investigator Richard Falk called the Israeli blockade of Gaza "a crime against humanity" and a "flagrant and massive violation of international law."

      Falk, a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and United Nations special rapporteur on h

    • 3 years ago
  • clayjj05
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    • Israelis watch the carnage through binoculars and toast one another and cheer. A very large majority of Israel supports this vicious murder of children. They have the most sophisticated weapons on Earth and they prey upon their neighbors relentlessly. They caused the Afghanistan and Iraq wars which they performed with American gentile lives while wiping out over a million people. This is true and I suspect it is also anti-Semitic.

    • 3 years ago
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    • Must Jews Always See Themselves As Victims?
      By Antony Lerman
      One leading Jewish thinker argues that until Jews shake off their persecution complex, there can never be peace in the Middle East.

      Must Jews always see themselves as victims?
      Fierce debate has been raging in 'The Independent' about Israel's conduct in Gaza. Here, one leading Jewish thinker argues that until Jews shake off their persecution complex, there can never be peace in the Middle East

      In the wake of Israel's attack on Gaza, eager voices are telling us that anti-Semitism has returned – yet again. Eight years of Hamas rockets and the world unfairly cries foul when Israel retaliates, they say. Biased media are delegitimising the Jewish state. The Left attacks Israel as uniquely evil, making it the persecuted Jew among the nations. Even theatres keep wheeling out those anti-Semitic stereotypes, Shylock, Fagin and the "chosen people", just to torment us. If this bleak picture were an accurate portrayal of what Jews are experiencing today, who could deny that suffering is the determining feature of the Jewish condition?.................................

    • 3 years ago
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    • http://current.com/items/89737945/boycott_israeli_goods.htm

      SAY NO TO ISRAEL

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    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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    • US Aid: The Facts

      Israel and the US have a long-established special relationship. The US was the first country to recognise the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
      Israel is considered America's closest non-NATO ally in the Middle East, a region that is geopolitically crucial to the US.
      The close relationship between the two states is reflected in the volume of aid Israel receives from the US. Since World War II Israel has been the largest overall recipient of US aid: from 1949-2006 Israel received more than $156 billion of direct US aid.
      Until 2003, Israel received approximately one-third of the annual US foreign aid budget. In 2005, the US gave Israel more than $2.6 billion in aid, a budget exceeded only by US aid to Iraq. By comparison, Jordan received $683.6 million, Rwanda received $77 million, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories received $348.2 million.
      In the past, a majority of the direct US aid to Israel was via US Economic Support Funds (ESF). The US publicly states that ESF are given in order to support stability in areas strategic to the US. However, the recipient government completely controls how it spends these funds.
      The US also lends money to Israel, but these loans are frequently waived before any repayments are made. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs has estimated that from 1974-2003 Israel benefited from more than $45 billion in waived loans from the US.
      Direct US aid to Israel has significantly diminished since 1996 in order to reduce Israeli financial dependence on the US. Speaking to the US Congress in July 1996, Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared, "We will begin the long-term process of gradually reducing the level of your generous economic assistance to Israel--

      quotation by Lawrence Clark Powell - "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.".

    • 3 years ago
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    • continued:

      At the centre, a number of amputees began the rehabilitation process. Al Wafa is the only private rehabilitation centre in Gaza, but that did not count for anything during the attacks, as it was not spared.

      In one of the wards lie two young men in their early twenties - the first had his right leg amputated, while the second had his lower limbs severely injured, to the extent that he lost complete use of them.

      "It was almost 1.15pm, when an Israeli tank shell hit our home in the Shaaf area of Gaza city. Only my father, my friend and myself were inside the home when it was struck," said Maher Al Habashi.

      With agony written all over his face, Maher said: "We ran out of the home and suddenly two rockets fired by a drone hit the three of us. My father and my friend died, while I felt paralysed, realising I was hurt."

      The young man who lost his right leg, Yehya Abu Saif, 20, described how he was injured on January 3, when Israeli warplanes targeted a mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

      "We had just finished the evening prayer and as we got out of the mosque a rocket landed among the worshippers including myself. Later on I realised I was injured and as you see I had my leg amputated."

      "Why do Israelis attack mosques, why?" Yehya asked, "Is this their alleged democracy?"

      As the only facility of its kind in Gaza, Al Wafa is set to receive more people who lost limbs and are interested in beginning a rehabilitation process that can take weeks, months and even years.

      Patients receive physical, functional, psychological and clinical support, and may receive cosmetic or other surgery to prepare them for the use of prosthetics.

    • 3 years ago
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