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The trauma of life in Gaza

Women for Palestine today put out this email bulletin:

Dr. Mona Elfaraa
Al Awda Hospital
Jabalya, Gaza:

"No-one is safe. This morning little five and six-year old children,
wounded in a missile attack, were brought to our hospital. They were
shaking and crying with fear. Their teacher Najwa Kholeef had been
wounded in the head. A sixteen-year old boy and twenty-year old man had
been killed.

I have seen some of the shrapnel that was recovered from the previous
day's injuries , marked clearly with USA, the shrapnel and the kinds of
wounds are unusual , surgeons have not come across them before , some
of the bodies with totally burnt, limbs are missing and one of the
bodies was covered with hundreds of pieces of small shrapnel. We do
not have the time and facilities to investigate the causes.

Tanks and armored vehicles have been surrounding the Beit Hanoun
hospital for the last six days and preventing medical volunteers and
victims of violence from reaching it.

On Sunday our colleagues, 21 year old ambulance driver Ahmad Madhun and
medical volunteer Mustafa Habib were murdered and Dannielle Abu Samra
was wounded while trying to tend to the wounded.

BREAKING NEWS: A 12 year old who was at the computer typing was killed on
the spot when a bullet came through the window, went in the left side of his
neck and came out the right side."

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