How You Can Help
Dec 29th, 2008 at 7:04 pm by Susie
Medical supplies badly needed in Gaza. If you want to help, click here for details.
As the situation stands, Palestinian doctors are performing surgeries without surgical gloves, local or general anesthetics, gauze, sterilized equipment or sufficient oxygen for patients. All together, there are only 1,500 hospital beds available in Gaza’s 13 publicly run hospitals. A fleet of 60 ambulances is now reduced by half. The endless flow of new wounded and the need for beds has led to a suspension of care for dozens of other patients, including cancer, cardiac, and other chronically ill patients, who have all been sent to their homes for the duration of the crisis. Patients are not being permitted entry to Egypt and all referrals out of Gaza via Erez crossing have been suspended.
Because Americans who send supplies may be convicted of a federal crime, our only options are to donate to organizations in other countries, including Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, who is making a Gaza Emergency Appeal.
The girls are Ayah, Eiman, Ikram, Tahrir and Samar Ba’lousha. They lived near the Imad Aqil Mosque in the Jabalia Refugee Camp, one of the most densely populated places on earth. The mosque was targeted yesterday, again, a target of no military value whatsoever.
Thank you for the donor information.
I see this picture and flashback to the little girls killed in a Birmingham church in 1963.