Thursday, May 24, 2007

Don't Feel Sorry for Me; See Me!!!

So today and after we delivered the supplies to the Safad Bedawi hospital, and to a clinic in Bedawi camp, we went to these theoretical meetings Swedish NGO called Save the Children which are organizing to "educate" the Palestinian refugees' student since they are missing classes and all. So we are talking about people who have no place to stay, no covers, not enough food, no diapers, wounded, have missing families..etc and they are worried about educating them, so we left them alone with their meetings.

A professor in AUB named Rami Zurieq had this amazing plan and some rare statistics he managed to make in collaboration with a Palestinian civil organization and this is what they said:

70% of the Nahr el Bared refugees have been hosted by the Badawi camp families.

20 % of the Nahr el Bared refugees are in schools of Badawi camp.

Now here's the serious damage:

80% of the supplies of Red Cross and UNRWA and taken to the schools. and 20% to homes.

So this is the areas in which we'd be working on in the future days; we are going to track refugees living in the houses and find out what they need.

As we are planning, Dr. Marcy Newman, Baha’ and I were very much interested in interviewing the refugees and find out more about their misery under the bombs. So we dragged ourselves to school, and talked to mothers, sons and children. I've heard same stories repeatedly and to be honest I am not going to publish them today, I want to make sure if they’re true first.

So I asked them about the number of the martyrs they did see and they recognized their bodies. This list is the first appeared in the media so far and I have asked a lot of people who confirmed to me that they have seen the bodies. Ironically, the honorable Lebanese army has stated today that they have caused one death to the Palestinian civilians and a number of wounded. I am not proud to say that they are wrong, I am disgusted of an army that treat the dead as invisible. Shame on them.

This is the initial number of the Palestinian civilians in Nahr el Bared who have lost their lives in the fight for "honor" of the Lebanese Army, i am going to update the list daily:

1- Montaha Kamal Khalil.
2- Ahmad Daghloul.
3- Ra’ed el Shans.
4- Abd el Latif Al Kaza’.
5- Oday Nser Ismail 16 years old.
6- Jihad Abo el Ez 35 years old.
7- Ashraf Akl 30 years old.
8- Adel Younes, a teacher, 50 years old.
9- Lina Jabr, 18 years old, her house have fallen on her.
10- Abo Leiman Bhnan.
11- Sleiman Bhnan, a doctor.
12- Nayef el Saleh.
13- Amer Nadwa.
14- Saeed Sleiman.

Al-Akhbar have just contacted me and they got all their names, they are supposed to be published tomorrow, not sure if they will.

This is the list of the civil institutions, medical centers and mosques that have been bombed:

Jenin Medical Center.
Amal Medical Center.
Bayt el Maqdes.
Palestine Center, Dr. Fathala.
Khaled Ben Walid Mosque.
Al Qudes Mosque.
Al Jalil Mosque.

You’ll be updated tomorrow.

3 comments:

hilal said...

Can u send the list to people on the blogosphere who are claiming there is only one civilian dead?
oh. wait .. don't.. maybe the others on the list commited suicide.. ;)

Golaniya said...

you will like DemocracyNow's repot on this, they'll publish it soon.

FaiLaSooF said...

So basicly, what you are saying that the Army is lying, and the civilians are honest. So now official reports are wrong and what common people say is right.

What amazes me the most is the way a newspaper such as Al-Akhbar gets its news from. Very scientific way to document casualties.

In all cases I hope you would mention the Aids the army and the Lebanese Red Cross are providing to the refugees, and the fact that most of the aids delivered to Naher-l-Bared camp were stolen by Fath-l-Islam fighters. But why bother tell the whole picture?, we're used to choose what we want to see, and neglect the rest....