“The boy with the destroyed brain did not need anaesthetic; he could no longer feel anything. The other lay in an artificial coma with intravenous anaesthetic agents to soften the pain and allow the ventilator to work without resistance from the boy’s own breathing. A large bandage covered both his eyes. He could not see anyway. He was already blind.Where could I cry out the despair and rage I felt for all this terrible fate we saw at such close quarters? Would the heavens hear? Will the world hear? They know that this is happening, after all. The numbers tick into the West every single afternoon, to the news agencies, to the intelligence services and to the diplomatic missions of the world’s most powerful nations, who do not even make an attempt to pull in the reins and control the wildness of the Israeli war machine.”
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“The boy with the destroyed brain did not need anaesthetic; he could no longer feel anything. The other lay in an artificial coma with intravenous anaesthetic agents to soften the pain and allow the ventilator to work without resistance from the boy’s own breathing. A large bandage covered both his eyes. He could not see anyway. He was already blind.

Where could I cry out the despair and rage I felt for all this terrible fate we saw at such close quarters? Would the heavens hear? Will the world hear? They know that this is happening, after all. The numbers tick into the West every single afternoon, to the news agencies, to the intelligence services and to the diplomatic missions of the world’s most powerful nations, who do not even make an attempt to pull in the reins and control the wildness of the Israeli war machine.”

IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR VALIANT SISTER JAWAHER ABU RAHMA

“I am in shock, we are in shock,” Hamde Abu Rahmah told me as we stood outside the small cemetery in Bilin where 36-year-old Jawaher Abu Rahmah was buried on Saturday. One day earlier, on 31 December, Jawaher was killed after inhaling US-made tear-gas fired by Israeli soldiers at demonstrators in the occupied West Bank village. Jawaher’s brother Bassem was killed by Israeli occupation forces in a similar manner in 2009.

Source: desertpeace.wordpress.com

Protester Death Shows IDF May Be Using Most Dangerous Type of Tear Gas

Protester Death Shows IDF May Be Using Most Dangerous Type of Tear Gas
Jawaher Abu Rahmah died Saturday as a result of tear gas shot by IDF soldiers during demonstrations against the separation fence on Friday.

http://tabibqulob.blogspot.com/2011/01/protester-death-shows-idf-may-be-using.html

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palestina: Jamila Al Habash poses on her wheelchair after visiting an exhibition by German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer entitled ‘Gaza 2010’ at the Paris Modern Art Museum, on December 4, 2010. The photographs of the exhibition feature war damages and Palestinian victims after the Cast Lead Operation in 2008-2009 with notably a portrait of Jamila Al Habash. Jamila was 16 when she lost both her legs in Operation Cast Lead. She’s in France for surgical treatment. [Getty Images]
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Jamila Al Habash poses on her wheelchair after visiting an exhibition by German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer entitled ‘Gaza 2010’ at the Paris Modern Art Museum, on December 4, 2010. The photographs of the exhibition feature war damages and Palestinian victims after the Cast Lead Operation in 2008-2009 with notably a portrait of Jamila Al Habash. Jamila was 16 when she lost both her legs in Operation Cast Lead. She’s in France for surgical treatment. [Getty Images]