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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,    but because of the people who don't do anything about it

Occupation magazine - Life under occupation Home page  back Print  Send To friend Each person is a story and on each stretcher is a tragedy Tamar Fleishman Machsomwatch 29.10.2013 Translating: Ruth Fleishman Every time it seems like we reached bottom of the pit, reality proves there to be an even deeper one. Perhaps to those who do not stand in front of the ambulances, the stretchers and the back-to-back procedures the pictures seem the same. Each person is a story and on each stretcher is a tragedy. Only the occupation is the same, as well as the rifles, the regulations and the orders. A six year old child had injured his head at ten AM with a metal bar, his father phoned a friend who was a brain expert in Jorden who told him that the child must be on the operation table within the hour, however, he reached the checkpoint only at three PM. By the time the mechanism of the occupation had permitted the child and his mother (not his father) to pass through to a hospital in Jerusalem, five hours had past. Five hours is a time frame that hands out the verdict of life and death. The child was hazy, his eyes were open but there was no look in them, his hands rose without purpose and fell down as though on their own, and the father begged that they take him as well with the child to the hospital, so that he be with his child- but no, only the mother could, and the man stood by the child who couldn`t really see him, and touched his body and hands and at the tip of his head that had remain without exposed, as though saying goodbye, and keeping it together until the ambulance drove off and only then did tears come bursting out of his eyes. And from mine when once I was on my own. Links to the latest articles in this section Occupation forces injure mourners following funeral of slain infant Mohammad Tamimi Nabi Saleh village assaulted - toddler shot in the head died in hospital Palestinians in the snow: thrown from home into the snow, throw snowballs and get arrested