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Stunning Gaza / article on Gaza after "Liberation"
my friend sent me this email, and he's the one writing the intro below before the title "Stunning Gaza"
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Salam,
I'm emailing you all an article written by the head of the Gaza Community Mental Health Hospital. He wrote about what has been happening in Gaza as of late. Since last Friday Israel resorted to a new tactic meant to disrupt life in Gaza. Thankfully it has stopped, but what we went through was something new and quite frankly frightening. They would fly their F-16 fighter jets at low altitude and break the sound barrier. When they do this it creates a sonic boom. The shear sound and magnitude is horrific. During the middle of the night they would do it 2 or 3 times. Imagine sleeping and everything is quite, then BOOOOM! Your heart beats a million seconds a minute after that. Three days ago they did it 7 times. Once is too much so imagine 7! Here's the article:
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Stunning Gaza!
In the last days, Gaza was awakened from its dreams of liberation with horrible explosions which have shattered our skies, shaken our buildings, broken our windows, and threw the place into panic
We are being bombed since Friday 23 of September day and night. Usually between 2:00-4:00am, between 6:30 - 8:00 in the morning school going time, and in the afternoon or early evening.
The explosions are heard and felt all over the Gaza Strip with the same intensity. These explosions were used alongside the usual routine of killing and destruction which the Israelis forces are familiar with.
This new cycle of terror started with Israel assassinating four people in the West Bank town of Tolkarem. In the same day Islamic Jihad retaliated from Gaza by sending rockets to Israeli village of Sdirot. In the same day 19 people were killed during a military parade of Hamas. Apparently the cause was mishandling of explosive, but Hamas blamed Israel and joined Islamic Jihad in sending rockets to Sdirot where five people were injured.
Hamas quickly retracted and announced that it will stop all military operation from Gaza. Islamic Jihad followed with assertion that it will abide by the truce. Israeli campaign of bombing continues. Last night I, with all Gazans, were awakened by the horrible noise twice, 3:30am and at 7:15am. I hardly was able to sleep in between. Five more explosions were directed at us in the last four hours, one has shaken my desk while I am writing.
Gaza is in a state of panic, children are restless, crying, frightened and many are wetting their beds. Some children are afraid leaving home and they refuse to go to school. Many are dazed, pale, insomniac and have poor appetite.
Some pregnant women reported colics and some were admitted to hospital with precipitated labour. Many people complain of ear pressure. All are stunned
The new method of exploding sonic bombs in our skies was obviously never used before the disengagement so as not to alarm or hurt the Israeli settlers and their children.
Israel is inducing learned helplessness to the Palestinians in Gaza with the aim of making the whole population captive to fear and paralysis. This is a war crime and this is a racist crime. Israel must be stopped.
Dr. Eyad El Sarraj
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Salam,
I'm emailing you all an article written by the head of the Gaza Community Mental Health Hospital. He wrote about what has been happening in Gaza as of late. Since last Friday Israel resorted to a new tactic meant to disrupt life in Gaza. Thankfully it has stopped, but what we went through was something new and quite frankly frightening. They would fly their F-16 fighter jets at low altitude and break the sound barrier. When they do this it creates a sonic boom. The shear sound and magnitude is horrific. During the middle of the night they would do it 2 or 3 times. Imagine sleeping and everything is quite, then BOOOOM! Your heart beats a million seconds a minute after that. Three days ago they did it 7 times. Once is too much so imagine 7! Here's the article:
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Stunning Gaza!
In the last days, Gaza was awakened from its dreams of liberation with horrible explosions which have shattered our skies, shaken our buildings, broken our windows, and threw the place into panic
We are being bombed since Friday 23 of September day and night. Usually between 2:00-4:00am, between 6:30 - 8:00 in the morning school going time, and in the afternoon or early evening.
The explosions are heard and felt all over the Gaza Strip with the same intensity. These explosions were used alongside the usual routine of killing and destruction which the Israelis forces are familiar with.
This new cycle of terror started with Israel assassinating four people in the West Bank town of Tolkarem. In the same day Islamic Jihad retaliated from Gaza by sending rockets to Israeli village of Sdirot. In the same day 19 people were killed during a military parade of Hamas. Apparently the cause was mishandling of explosive, but Hamas blamed Israel and joined Islamic Jihad in sending rockets to Sdirot where five people were injured.
Hamas quickly retracted and announced that it will stop all military operation from Gaza. Islamic Jihad followed with assertion that it will abide by the truce. Israeli campaign of bombing continues. Last night I, with all Gazans, were awakened by the horrible noise twice, 3:30am and at 7:15am. I hardly was able to sleep in between. Five more explosions were directed at us in the last four hours, one has shaken my desk while I am writing.
Gaza is in a state of panic, children are restless, crying, frightened and many are wetting their beds. Some children are afraid leaving home and they refuse to go to school. Many are dazed, pale, insomniac and have poor appetite.
Some pregnant women reported colics and some were admitted to hospital with precipitated labour. Many people complain of ear pressure. All are stunned
The new method of exploding sonic bombs in our skies was obviously never used before the disengagement so as not to alarm or hurt the Israeli settlers and their children.
Israel is inducing learned helplessness to the Palestinians in Gaza with the aim of making the whole population captive to fear and paralysis. This is a war crime and this is a racist crime. Israel must be stopped.
Dr. Eyad El Sarraj