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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jusfiq Hadjar <utusan.al...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Children hit hard as Gaza toll rises > By Heather Sharp > BBC News, Jerusalem > > The pictures keep coming. The blood-spattered young faces, the glazed eyes, > the limp small bodies. > The latest figures from Palestinian health officials say 205 children > are among some 600 people who have died in the Gaza war. In the chaos, > there are no statistics for how many are among the at least 2,900 > injured. > As medics work flat out to save as many young lives as > they can, child psychiatrists in both Gaza and southern Israel fear > some children will never recover from the psychological damage done as > the bombs, shells and rockets fall. > Dr Iyad Sarraj, director of the Gaza Community Mental > Health Programme, says "so many people" are telephoning his workers - > although the organisation's headquarters lies abandoned with shattered > windows and broken furniture after it was damaged in an Israeli air > strike. > "It's really terrible for children here now," he says. > "I have been through so many of these kinds of things and this is the > worst." > Long-term impact > He talks of a boy he treated five years ago. Grappling in the dark > after his house was hit in an air strike on a Hamas militant next door, > he felt something wet. > "He realised it was the flesh of his sister who was > blown into pieces. He was in such a state. He couldn't eat or smell > meat for three years after that. I am sure he will suffer some kind of > long-term psychological impact," Dr Sarraj says. > "This sort of thing must be happening right now as we speak." > He can barely leave his home for fear of the fighting, and has been > unable to visit the hospitals where he has watched television pictures > of traumatised, badly injured children arriving. > "These children need help more than anyone. They look > frightened, horrified, bewildered. They need a lot of attention but > they can't receive it because their families are so terrified," he > says. > But the effects of the war are plain even among his own family. > His stepdaughter Nour Kharma, 14, barely spoke in the days immediately > after she heard her school friend and basketball partner, Christina, 15 > had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. > "She was in such turmoil, in a depressive mood, in > really bad shape. She was always in tears," he says. "In the end I > asked her to write about it." > "[When I heard,] I threw the phone and started crying…" > Nour reads, in crisp English. "Her parents did the best they can do. > But it wasn't enough, so the result was dying. What if my parents can't > protect me…? Will I die too?" > She weeps quietly on the other end of the phone. "I > feel very sad. I keep remembering her. I really miss her," she says > simply. > Salwi Tibi of Save the Children, who lives in the north of Gaza City > close to some of the most intense ground clashes, has also been > monitoring the impact on children. > She talks of a two-and-a-half year old boy from Beit > Lahiya, scene of heavy fighting, who was taken lifeless to the local > hospital. > "He was not injured, his health was OK. The doctors > told me the child died because of the shock from the sound of the > shelling," she said. > And she thinks her own daughter, Malak, 7, is typical of many children > affected by the war. > She began wetting her bed on the first day of the airstrikes. > "Wherever I go she follows me - even to the bathroom. As soon as she > hears the shelling she puts her fingers and closes her eyes and shouts > "stop them, stop them," says Ms Tibi. > "She can't sleep alone, she wants to sleep close to me and she puts her arms > around my neck." > "If I had a computer I would let her listen to music and play games so > she would forget, but there is no electricity, everything is silent, so > all she can hear is shelling and bombing." > It is exactly these symptoms that are also prevalent among the children of > Sderot. > The Israeli town close to Gaza has been hit by many of the 10,000 > Palestinian rockets fired into southern Israel over the past eight > years. > Four people have been killed and 100 people injured in > the region since the start of the air campaign. No figures are > available for the number of children, although one victim was a baby > injured in the face. > Dalia Yosef, a psychotherapist and Director of the > Resilience Centre, says her workload has increased with the rocket fire > in the run-up to and during the war. > Any child under eight in the town has only known a life > with just 15 seconds to reach shelter whenever the warning siren > sounds. > "He has experienced the world as not safe - his house > is not safe, his yard, his daycare centre is not safe… it influences > the whole circle of the child's life," she says. > Yossi Haimov, 10, had gone out to play after school > with his eight-year-old sister when he was hit by a qassam rocket in > February 2008. > "It splintered his hand and now he can't use it," his > father, Tashkent, said. "The bone was completely destroyed from the > shoulder down. Only half of his shoulder is still there." > "He is definitely still traumatised," says Mr Haimov. > Previously a keen footballer, Yossi is no longer always outside with his > friends. > "Now he's scared all the time… he's afraid to get hurt or get knocked > over. Sometimes he gets very upset and nervous and he has panic > attacks." > Research from Sderot says about 30% of children there > show signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Mr Sarraj says about a > third of Gazan children are suffering from psychological symptoms that > needed intervention. > "Your mind doesn't ask from where the stress is coming. > It doesn't matter if you live in Sderot, Gaza or in New York. This is > the reaction of the human," says Ms Yosef. > Story from BBC NEWS: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7814490.stm > > Published: 2009/01/07 10:33:42 GMT > > (c) BBC MMIX > > Print Sponsor > --------------- > Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo > > > Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf > itu dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif. > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Post message: prole...@egroups.com > Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com > Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com > List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com > Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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