october(emergency issue re. Gaza atrocities)2004

There is nothing that can surprise me any more. The famine which started to become a reality of Palestinian life, the malnutrition, the destruction of health system and infrastructure and tissue of the Palestinian society is going on without any international interference. This is an absurd situation in an absurd world and absurd humanity. It's being done in front of everyone and no one is doing anything about it. A whole people is slowly dying in front of our eyes. It's even hard to gasp a breath now a days in Palestine.I can keep on like this but I won't because its making me sick, sick of Israeli army and government, sick of Arab and international community, sick of life. Sorry about this!  but this is reality here for most people with the exception of those living in bulb like situation and shielding themselves from outside where hopelessness and misery is the daily food of the oppressed population. Now dear Jocelyn you take care and don't get distressed, take a walk for me in the woods, smell some fresh air , flowers and paint a  beautiful thing, or write a poem about beauty of nature because humanity is not worth painting anymore.I declare humanity is dead.







The refugee families in Gaza inside the Jebaliya camp are appealing to all free people throughout the world to stop the blood shedding by the Israeli Occupation Forces. The UN report presently to hand was written prior to the present action by the IDF and although it presents a profoundly serious social catastrophe it has no method of reproduction that enables on-going news to be released to the world. Look up RafahToday.com which is keeping up to date as it can manage. The webmaster is presently working with the wounded, his messages to the internet only speak of a situation that is getting worse and worse. There are 300-odd wounded people and possibly 100 dead. This child above was shot by a sniper and has 20 bullet wounds on her body.
But will those of you who tune in to this special edition dedicated to the people of Palestine respond to these pages with the anger that these crimes deserve? Have you written to your newspapers? Have you written or interviewed your government representatives?

13th Oct .UPDATE : The Judge Advocate General, Brigadier General Avi Mandelblit, has instructed the military police to launch a criminal investigation against the commander in the Givati Brigade's crack Shaked Battalion as a result of the claim. Unusually, the investigation was ordered even though the army inquiry is incomplete. The move follows interviews with soldiers serving in the company published in the Israeli newspaper Yedhiot Ahronot. It quoted them as saying the commander should have been stood down immediately after the incident. One soldier told the newspaper: "The company CO who sprayed the girl with bullets turned us all into vicious animals and besmirched us all ... If he is not dismissed, we will not agree to serve under him." Another said the commander had "desecrated the body".