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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

BBC - July 12, 2024 - By Fergal Keane in Jerusalem, BBC News
<<Death and rubble fill streets of Tal Al-Sultan as rescuers dodge Israeli fire
Rescue workers in Gaza say they often struggle to identify bodies. The things they see. The dead girl lowered by a rope from a ruined building. She sways slightly, then comes to rest, legs folding beneath her on the rubble. They see people and parts of people lying out in the open where the blast or the bullet caught them. Violent death in all of its contortions. Bodies lying in the streets, in the blasted open sitting rooms of houses, under the rubble. Sometimes covered by so much concrete the men will never reach them, and only in the future when the war is over will somebody come and give them a decent burial. The men of the Gaza Civil Defence cannot close their eyes to any of this. There is no shutting out the smell. Every sense is on alert. Death can come from the skies in an instant. When the fighting in places like Shejaiya in eastern Gaza City, or Tal Al-Sultan, near Rafah, in the south, is as fierce as it has been in the last few days, the ambulances of the Civil Defence dare not venture out. <Entering areas close to the Israeli occupation is dangerous, but we try to intervene to save lives and souls,> says Muhammed Al Mughayer, a local Civil Defence official.
He and his men seize any lull in the conflict to recover the dead and the wounded. Families constantly ask about missing relatives. Muhammed Al Mughayer, a Gaza Civil Defence official, says it can take days to reach casualties. <It is very difficult to identify the bodies,> explains Mr Mughayer. <Some remain unidentified due to complete decomposition.> Stray animals also prey on the corpses, tearing off clothes and scattering papers that might be used to identify them. The ambulance crews are short of fuel. Two days ago one broke down in Tal Al-Sultan and had to be towed out, a nerve-wracking experience for the crews. The risk of being fired on by the Israeli forces, says Mr Mughayer, means seriously injured people often cannot be rescued. <There is currently a report of an injured person near Al-Salihin Mosque from two days ago, but we can't reach them due to delays in coordination. It may result in their death.> Refugees are continuing to flee from Gaza city and areas like Shejaiya. Many have been displaced multiple times. For them it is a world without laws or rules. World leaders express concern. But nobody is coming to rescue them. Nothing is more acute for these people than the sense that they can die at any moment.
'A slow death': Gazans live alongside rotting rubbish and rodents
Sharif Abu Shanab stands outside the ruins of his family home in Shejaiya with an expression that is part bewilderment, part grief. <My house had four floors, and I can't enter it,> he says. <I can't take anything out of it, not even a can of tuna. We have nothing, no food or drink. They bulldozed all the houses, and it is not our fault. Why do they hold us accountable for the fault of others? What did we do? We are citizens. Look at the destruction around you...<Where do we go, and to whom? We are thrown in the streets now, we have no home or anything, where do we go? There is only one solution and that is to hit us with a nuclear bomb and relieve us of this life.> There are occasional glimpses of reprieve. The Al-Fayoumi family, arriving close to Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, were relieved to have escaped from Gaza City. This after a warning this week to evacuate from the Israel Defense Forces sent thousands of people onto the road south. In the boiling heat of the asphalt road, without shade, family members were reunited with others who had gone ahead of them. The new arrivals were given water and soft drinks. A boy sucked from a carton of juice, then squeezed it with all his strength to coax out a last few drops. Nobody in the group took their survival for granted. So to see everyone alive, all in the one place, brought smiles and cries of happiness. An aunt reached into a car to hug her young niece. At first the child smiled. Then she turned her head and sobbed. Where will they be tomorrow, next week, next month? They have no way of knowing. It depends on where the fighting moves next, on the next Israeli evacuation order, on the mediators and whether Hamas and Israel can agree a ceasefire. These lines could have been written at any time in the last few months. Civilians dying. Taking to the roads. Hunger. Hospitals struggling. Talks about a ceasefire. Since February, we have been following the story of Nawara al-Najjar whose husband Abed-Alrahman was among more than 70 people killed when Israeli forces launched an operation to rescue two hostages in Rafah. They had fled Khan Younis 9km (6 miles) to the north, and took refuge closer to Rafah when bullets and shrapnel tore through the tented camp where they slept. Nawara was six months pregnant when she was widowed, and taking care of six children, aged from four to 13. When a BBC colleague found her again today, Nawara was nursing her newborn baby, Rahma, just one month old.
She gave birth on a night of heavy airstrikes, rushed to the hospital by her in-laws. <I kept saying: 'Where are you Abed-Alrahman? This is your daughter coming into the world without a father.'> Baby Rahma has red hair like her dead father. The Israeli advance into Rafah last month sent Nawara and her children fleeing again, back to their old home in Khan Younis. She struggled to settle there again. <My husband's things were there, his laugh, his voice. I couldn't open the house. I tried to be strong. Then I took my children and opened the door, and we wandered around the house, but it was hard. I cried for my husband...He was the one who cleaned the house, cooked for us, made sure I was comfortable.> There has been fighting around Khan Younis again in the last week. An Israeli air strike close to a school killed 29 people, local hospital sources say, and wounded dozens more. But Nawara is adamant she will not move again. Here she is close to the memory of the man she loves. She imagines her husband as a still living presence. She sends texts to his phone: <I complain to him, and I cry to him...I try to reassure myself, telling myself that I need to be patient. I imagine he's the one telling me.>
With additional reporting by Haneen Abdeen, Alice Doyard and Nik Millard.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjw6dz8w2eo

Sky News - July 11, 2024 - by Mark Stone | US correspondent
<<Girl, 4, with rare genetic disorder evacuated from Gaza - but suffers huge seizure
Julia Abu Zeiter has finally been evacuated from the warzone - but her parents were denied permission to leave the territory. A four-year-old Gazan girl with an ultra-rare genetic disorder has finally been evacuated from Gaza - but has since suffered a huge seizure in hospital in the United Arab Emirates. Sky News has been following the plight of Julia Abu Zeiter for two months. It has been a story of hope, heartbreak, kindness and cruelty.
Now, the little girl is out of a warzone but in intensive care and without her parents who were denied permission to leave Gaza. In May, we revealed the intense efforts of a family in Washington whose own daughter has the same rare condition called alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC). We also reported how initially permission was denied for Julia to leave Gaza to access life-saving treatment. Over the past eight weeks, Simon and Nina Frost have worked day and night to raise awareness of Julia's case. With remarkable determination, they brought together a network of people - from governments and charities. Two weeks ago, after multiple failed efforts, permission was obtained from the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to grant her permission to leave Gaza along with a few other children in urgent need of medical care. The effort to evacuate Julia has been led by a US-based charity, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). Speaking to Sky News, the head of PCRF's Treatment Abroad Programme, Tareq Hailat, said: <Julia's evacuation was one of my toughest but most rewarding experiences.> He continued: <It took the combined efforts of many, including PCRF, the AHC community, journalists, and members of the USA and UAE governments. PCRF had to achieve the nearly impossible.> But for reasons that remain unclear to the PCRF and all those involved in her evacuation, the Israeli authorities denied permission for her parents, Amjad and Maha, to leave. They remain stuck in Gaza with Julia's older sister. Maha Abu Zeiter, mother of Julia, who has Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) and is trapped in Gaza with her family. From Mark Stone report

Maha Abu Zeiter - Julia's mother
At the eleventh hour, Julia's teenage aunt was granted permission to travel with her to Egypt and then on a medical flight to Abu Dhabi. Mr Hailat said: <Securing approval for her departure came at the very last minute, just 30 minutes before the convoy's departure, after many sleepless nights. It was an exhilarating moment, but also bittersweet, knowing that thousands of other children deserve the same chance Julia received.> In Abu Dhabi, Julia initially responded well to treatment and to her new surroundings. But this week she suffered a massive seizure which is not uncommon. AHC is sometimes called the <human timebomb disease> given the tendency for it to trigger life-threatening seizures, often brought on by stress.
Julia's father Amjad told Sky News that he and his wife are distraught.
Julia is recovering in the ICU after suffering a huge seizure

Julia is recovering
In a desperate exchange with Sky News via WhatsApp, Amjad said: <Our heart is attached to Julia because she is far from us and we do not sleep well because of thinking about her so much.> Amjad said: <Julia is crying from pain, and when we watch a video of her crying, my wife cries immediately. There are some videos that I delete because I do not want my wife to watch them because it is so painful for her.> He added: <I can conceal my feelings internally and endure a little, but my wife cannot.> Amjad and Maha's other daughter is six years old and remains with them in a tent in central Gaza. <My daughter Sham asks me, 'When will we see Julia? This is my beloved sister. I miss her'.> <We all have a heavy heart and think about her a lot. Is she well today? Did she eat well? Did she take medication today?> The challenges are compounded because the condition is so rare and many medical professionals do not have experience treating it. Amjad worries too that Julia's aunt will not be able to cope. He said: <Regardless that her aunt is with her, she will not understand Julia's condition like we do. Four days ago, she sent me a video of Julia, and she did not notice that Julia's right half was not moving. Even the doctors did not notice.> Julia remains in the intensive care unit at hospital in Abu Dhabi but is showing signs of improvement. <Today, we spoke with Julia via video. She was waving her hands at us, she cried when she saw us. She misses us and so do we,> Amjad said. Amjad, Maha and Sham hope to leave Gaza soon to be reunited with Julia. But the borders to Egypt remain closed and the war continues. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Hailat said: <I want to emphasise that this medical evacuation is a drop in the ocean. Thousands of other kids are still in Gaza awaiting medical evacuation. The Rafah border crossing must be immediately reopened to allow for the safe flow of humanitarian aid and medical transfers.> >>
Source incl. videos:
https://news.sky.com/story/girl-4-with-rare-genetic-disorder-evacuated-from-gaza-but-suffers-huge-seizure-13176835

Al Jazeera - July 4, 2024 - By Dr Sandy Inglis
<<As explosions rattle our Gaza field hospital, we brace for the wounded
A Red Cross surgeon takes us inside a hospital's operations as staff work to save patients following an attack.
A woman and a girl react following an Israeli strike that hit a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Al-Mawasi area in western Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The explosions are the cue.
Boom. And again: Boom.
On June 21, in the coastal area of al-Mawasi, on the southern end of the Gaza Strip, dozens of people were killed and scores injured when hostilities reached a displacement camp near the premises of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Within minutes, the Red Cross field hospital next door, where I work as the senior medical officer, began receiving patients. That afternoon, I had been sitting in the admin area of the hospital in a meeting about staffing and rosters when we heard a particularly loud explosion. The wave of sound hit me. The hospital's tent walls jerked as the shockwaves reverberated. We quickly realised what would be coming, and most staff - local Palestinians and foreigners - went to the emergency department to prepare. But there was no time to prepare. In the chaos of war, you adapt. I stood at the hospital entrance as ambulances came screeching in, at times sliding to a stop, with paramedics piling out to grab the stretcher, directing each patient to the appropriate area of our hospital, categorised by colour. The red area: a young man with an arm dangling by threads of skin from the shoulder, shrapnel wounds across the chest and stomach. Immediate attention needed. Life at risk. Amputation likely. The yellow area: a toddler screaming in pain, all limbs attached but a clear fracture, bleeding from shallow cuts. X-ray and splint required, maybe stitches. The black area: a corpse, burned so badly as to be unrecognisable, wrapped in a sheet and sent to our morgue. On this day, more than 50 wounded patients arrived at our field hospital, and despite our best efforts, eight of them died after their arrival. The bodies of 14 people, already dead, also were brought to us. The doctors and nurses I work with aren’t strangers to what we call mass casualty events – critical situations that typically overwhelm the standard equipment and staff levels. Sadly, that week, we had three such events. When they happen, we focus on the job at hand - treating those who need it. Inside hot tents, you analyse, you operate, you stitch. Not far away are the gunshots and explosions, adding an element of fear for patients who have already lived through horror. Those who are conscious may be panicked or scared. Some are blank - in shock - or are yelling for family. Some need to be sedated.
After helping one patient, it's on to the next bed. Assess, take readings, set a cast. Then the next. All around you, family members are screaming, people grieving, bystanders shouting. Staff, though clearly traumatised, continue working. People view hospitals - even ones made of canvas and tarpaulin - as havens of safety during war. Under international humanitarian law, hospitals are protected locations, so that those who need it can get medical attention and treatment. In a place like Gaza, where no civilian feels safe, this creates a Catch-22 situation. People want to be close to the hospital, so they feel less exposed. At the same time, we have limited space and are trying to respond to large-scale emergencies where the lives of dozens are at risk. Usually before a major influx of patients, you have time to gather staff and assign roles, set up triage beds and mass casualty kits with extra equipment, and give a quick situation update on what’s coming. But that week, because the explosions were so close to the field hospital, patients began arriving within six minutes. The injuries were like those we have seen continually since the field hospital opened in mid-May close to the city of Rafah, and which have been seen across the entire Gaza Strip since October. Some can physically recover; some will live without a limb. But the mental toll, particularly for children, is so heavy it will remain for years to come. This is always a huge worry, and one that stays with me. Some of those injured on June 21 will need more surgeries. Many will need physiotherapy and mental health support to recover. After the patients have been attended to, we clean up, we repack the mass casualty boxes with fresh equipment, we speak to family members, and we debrief. The staff are traumatised by all they have seen but know the only thing they can do, for now, is attend to the patients still in the hospital and get as much rest as they can - before the next emergency.
SOURCE |incl. video|: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/4/as-explosions-rattle-our-gaza-field-hospital-we-brace-for-the-wounded

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