HOSSAM MADHOUN’S MESSAGES ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA IN 2014
1 August 2014
We asked Hossam and Jamal via email this morning how the truce was holding up. Hossam sent me this message:
What so called truce? It collapsed. Another soldier captured by the Palestinian resistance and the Israelis went crazy; they are shelling and bombing and attacking and striking randomly everywhere.
More that 50 persons killed during the last hour, more than 300 injured and still going on.
Again the fear and panic parameter raised up .
Attached something I wrote last night…..
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I never believed that I will have such conversation with my daughter.
Salma, my 13 years old daughter (the three wars old), is finding her way to escape as much as possible from the war noise; she stays most of the night awake and sleeps most of the day.
– Hi dear,
– Hi
– It is 2 after midnight
– So??!!
– Go to sleep
– Oh, please no I don’t want to sleep
– But tomorrow’s the feast
– What feast?!! You want to celebrate the feast??!!
– No, not celebrating, but visiting your grandma at least, we did not see her since the start of the war
– We could not see her because it is dangerous to move
– Yes, but it is the feast, most probably there will be a cease fire, the United Nation called for a one day cease fire for the sake of the feast and Hamas accepted it
– Yes and what if the Israeli refuse the cease fire?!
– Hopefully they will
– Ok.
Well, here we are, day 24 of the war, nothing special, nothing new.
War, as you know it, bombing, people killed in pieces, not easy to find a complete body, not easy to farewell or give a kiss to a dead son or daughter or father or mother or brother or sister.
Normal. As you know it, war
Sounds of explosions every single moment, people, and I say people in general not only children, getting panic with every sound, normal
400.000 people displaced into schools, into hospitals, into empty factories, into the homes of relatives, friends, incomplete buildings, normal,
Schools, hospitals, homes, factories, incomplete buildings are bombed and destroyed, normal, it is war, and you know what I mean
Lines of hundreds of people at the bakeries looking for some bread, waiting for hours and hours to get some bread for one day or two, a crowd that could be an attractive target for a pilot in his IF16 military airplane to bomb, normal
Crowds fighting over some water to drink, that also happens in wars, you know that
Garbage accumulated in the streets, everywhere, every place, who can think of collecting garbage, especially because the land-fill is at the border line (which means in the battle field). This might cause health hazard?? Who cares about health, environment and hygiene now, it is war! No time for these little things
What? Pregnant women give early birth because of the stress of the fetus, so what? Give me a break; it is war time, that’s normal
What did you say? So far 1440 people killed, and 8700 people injured? That’s not an issue in a war; it is not even a big number, that’s even less than normal.
Oh, you want to say that most of them are civilians, and at least 350 children under 15 years old among the killed, and more than 2500 children among the injured?! Never mind, we can call that collateral killing, that’s normal in wars.
You know what? Listen: Arabs have too many children, that they can’t feed, believe me we are doing them a favor by killing some of their kind.
What do you mean after what? What after? War will finish and everyone will go home?
Oh, yes, those 40.000 families who lost their homes! Europe and US will rebuild their homes, don’t worry, they always do, they are always ready to pay the bill for the destruction made by the Israelis.
By the way:
The Israelis refused the cease-fire, the bombing continues….. Destruction continues…… killing people continues….. Killing children continues ….. suffering continues…. Agony continues …..
Gaza bleeding.
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