Monday, January 5, 2009

5 PALESTINE MEDICS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES

INTERNATIONAL BREAKING NEWS(GAZA)

International Human Rights Activists working with Palestinian medical crews today reported that another five Palestinian medics were killed today by Israeli forces.
International Solidarity Movement activists spent the night accompanying ambulances in Gaza. They were, and will continue, working with medical personnel during the Israeli occupation forces ground invasion into northern Gaza.
“In addition to the doctor and medic that the Israeli military murdered on the 31st of December, they have killed five more medics today. One was shot in Jabaliya, one in Al Sheikh Ejleen.
Three have just been killed when a missile directly hit their ambulance in the Tal Hawye neighborhood in Gaza City. The medics are constantly in contact with the Red Cross for them to negotiate passage with the Israelis. The Israelis constantly refuse.” Sharon Lock (Australia) –International Solidarity Movement.
The Israelis dropped a bomb in front of our ambulance to prevent us accessing wounded people. However a donkey cart emerged carrying a wounded family; a mother and father and three teenage brothers. One of the teenagers was attempting to shield the other two with a blanket.
They were both horrifically injured, I could see the lungs of one of them.
As I assisted the medics to move him off the cart I found my hand inside his body.” Alberto Arce (Spain) – International Solidarity Movement.
“I got a call 30 minutes ago, on a poor phone line, saying that Arafat is dead, killed while working, by Israeli fire. He was one of the emergency medics I met two nights ago, compassionate, emotionally strong, and with an unabashedly wacky sense of humour. I’m more saddened by his death than I can express.” Eva Bartlett (Canada) –International Solidarity Movement.
“Israel is claiming that there is no humanitarian crisis because they do not consider us as humans. ” – Natalie Abu Shakra (Lebanon) – International Solidarity Movement.
Human Rights Activists in Gaza
Ewa Jasiewicz - Poland/Britain
Alberto Arce - Spain
Dr. Haider Eid - South Africa
Sharon Lock - Australia
Fida Qishta - Palestine
Jenny Linnel - Britain
Natalie Abu Shakra - Lebanon
Vittorio Arrigoni - Italy
Eva Bartlett - Canada
Source: Scoop.Co.NZ

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