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15 year-old Ayman al-Najar is sitting up
in his hospital bed at the Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. His
back is covered with thick dressings. His doctor explains that he is
suffering from severe chemical burns. Ayman is from Khoza'a, the
rural community east of Khan Younis which endured a brutal incursion
by Israeli ground forces on 13th
January.
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Monday,
January 19, 2009 Counting the cost...
15 year-old Ayman
al-Najar is sitting up in his hospital bed at the Al-Nasser Hospital
in Khan Younis. His back is covered with thick dressings. His doctor
explains that he is suffering from severe chemical burns. Ayman is
from Khoza'a, the rural community east of Khan Younis which endured
a brutal incursion by Israeli ground forces on 13th January. He and
his sister were sitting together under the stairs when a missile
struck. Their grandfather was in the garden. His body was severed
into two parts.
His sister, Alaa', 16, had been playing a
game on her mobile phone. A third of her face was blown off, leaving
part of her mouth, jaw and cheekbone missing. A massive part of her
waist and pelvic area was destroyed with tissue loss exposing the
bone. She was also badly burned. Medical staff at the Al-Nasser
Hospital battled to save her and she pulled through 10 hours of
surgery. She regained consciousness after the operation and wept
when she heard about the death of her grandfather. However, five
hours later she died suddenly.
It is time for Ayman's
dressing to be changed. He cries out as the bandages are removed. A
scarlet red wad of gauze is teased out of a deep hole in his back
which it is filling in order to stem the bleeding. Five days after
the attack, his wounds are still bleeding profusely. These are not
normal burns. The wounds cover his upper back and right arm and his
ankle has a deep wound down to the bone. He will need extensive
plastic surgery. Shrapnel which entered Ayman's back penetrated one
of his lungs and he has undergone surgery to repair several tears.
He screams as iodine solution is applied. It is unbearable to watch
his suffering.
Ayman is a civilian, a minor. He was at home
with his family when they were attacked. Israel claims its bloody
war has been on Hamas. Ayman, Alaa' and their grandfather were not
Hamas operatives, neither were the thousands of other civilians
killed and injured. Israel would call them "collateral damage".
However, the atrocities committed against them amount to war crimes,
especially if weapons have been used illegally. What exactly is the
substance which has inflicted such wounds ? not on Ayman alone but
countless others also? Israel won't admit to the nature or
composition of some of the less conventional weapons its military
has been using on the population of Gaza.
Last night Israel
declared a unilateral ceasefire. Following the ceasefire
announcement, internally displaced people throughout the Gaza Strip
went back to their neighbourhoods and homes to survey the damage.
This was no different in Ayman's village, Khoza'a. Maher Abu Rejila,
22, a local farmer had gone to check on his home and his
greenhouses. He was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on the Green
Line and his body was brought to the Al-Nasser Hospital today.
This is the true face of Israel's ceasefire. Now, under the
shadow of Israeli troops on the border, F-16's still in the sky and
gunboats still in the sea, Khoza'a, along with the rest of the Gaza
Strip, is reeling from the Israeli onslaught. So many homes have
been destroyed, leaving thousands with nowhere to go.
So
many breadwinners killed or injured so badly they'll never work
again. How will people survive? How will they re-build their
lives?
Footage from Al-Nasser Hospital on 18th Jan https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batc【URL短縮表記:C-BOARD】
Photos
from Al-Nasser Hospital on 18th Jan http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafahkid/
(Warning:
the above links contain graphic images)
Footage of
unidentified incendiary substance found in Khoza'a https://rcpt.yousendit.com/643285652/5f731f671d2c8cf24a2c67b856ac068c
This
footage was filmed in Khoza'a on 14th January. It shows an
unidentified incendiary substance found on the ground next to a
burnt-out home. It was still flaming from the previous day's
incursion. It had to be buried to be extinguished, yet instantly
re-ignited when it was uncovered again. These characteristics are
consistent with those of white phosphorous. Posted by RafahKid
at 6:20 AM 0 comments:
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