23 April 2006

Emotional exhaustion among children and women.

Twenty-five people, mainly children in addition to eight women, arrived at the Hospital after being affected with prostration.
Many of them were physiologically affected by the daily shelling as well.






An Israeli rocket hit the sewage system in the north of Gaza
and the whole area smells bad.



A war of words has lead to the setting of Gaza alight, again.

The artillery shelling is still going on and there have even been clashes on the campus of our University.

The Islamic University of Gaza, where I've had my last semester of studies, is where the clashes are this time. Students and supporters of both Hamas and Fateh movement had statred the problem with verbal arguements, and ended up with thirty-one people injured in the clashes.

Dr. Mawia Hassanin, the director of Emergency and Ambulance in Gaza City, said that the hospital received 6 people injured by Israeli tank shells in Gaza City. One of them, a 21 year old man, was seriously injured in his neck while he was outside his house in the North of Gaza.

The rounds of artillery shelling continue till this moment.

No salaries, no life.

It has been noticed over the last few days that internal conflicts are increasing as a result of U.S. and E.U. cutting AID for the Palestinian Authority.









This, of course, is affecting the education, health and welfare sectors. The Ministry of Education, for example, has postponed mid-term exams as a result of shortages in exam papers, affecting the education of hundreds of students in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health has no way to afford medicine for people whom are facing cancer and other diseases. Normal citizens have nowhere to go to.

Even a taxi driver would find it impossible to find passengers to pay for a taxi. This affects them negatively and restricts transportation movement in Gaza.