In solidarity... Palestine

"...
In fields am I, where barbed wire now is coiling,
And death goes whistling all adown the lea,
Though even here the sky is black with starlings,
They're starlings that have feathers made of steel.

Here bombs explode, and the Sun's face is sullied,
Here you can smell the blood and not the rose,
It's not the dew that makes the thick grass humid,
But human tears and blood that on it flow.

Athwart the smoke I sometimes seek the sunlight,
And with a bitter pang my heart will swell,
Then on my hair the dewdrops will I sprinkle,
Catching a droplet in a flower's bell.

......." - Mussa Jalil, 'The Joy of Spring'.
An air strike early on Sunday (July 20, 2014) morning killed four people, including two children, according to medics
[Courtesy:BBC / Story link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28389282]

At the scene: Yolande Knell (BBC) [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28389282http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28389282] in Gaza The thick, black column of smoke is still rising from Shejaiya, north-east of Gaza City. Earlier in the day there was constant, intense Israeli shelling but a shaky, brief, humanitarian ceasefire produced a period of relative quiet.
This enabled ambulances to enter the area. Medics pulled dead and wounded Palestinians from the rubble of their apartment buildings.
Television pictures have been showing horrific, bloody scenes of dead elderly women and children.
At the Shifa hospital, there is a traffic jam of emergency vehicles by the entrance.
"The hospital was totally overloaded. For many of us, these were the worst scenes we've ever had, not only for the density of patients and total overwhelming of our capacity but because of all this pain and agony," says Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert, who has been working in the emergency ward since last night and has been in Gaza during previous conflicts.
"There were children in enormous pain. Totally devastated families were bringing their dead children in and lying on the ground screaming."
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This is Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian surgeon who traveled to Gaza to help the injured and has been treating hundreds of victims wounded in Israel’s ongoing assault, including young children.
Dr. Gilbert says hospitals are operating without electricity, water and proper medical supplies, but
adds: “As a medical doctor, my appeal is don’t send bandages, don’t send syringes, don’t send medical teams. The most important medical thing you can do now is to force Israel to stop the bombing and lift the siege of Gaza.”
Gilbert recently recently submitted a report to the United Nations on the state of the Gaza health sector in 2014.
“Where is the decency in the U.S. government allowing Israel this impunity to punish the whole
civilian population in Gaza?” [Courtesy: Current News Service - CNS"]

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