it is not enough

you see, it is not enough to wound them. you must also make sure that those you wound can not get well. on this day, i try to think of groucho and karl, lenny and woody, abbie and emma, getz and al cohn, zinn and chomsky, blum and kozol, but i keep seeing bulldozers and sharon and kissenger and settlers. and i hear the lyrics to exodus..."this land is mine, god gave this land to me." a title of a kozol book comes to me quite clearly as i think of these genocidal days...

the night is dark and i am far from home


For Immediate Release

Israeli snipers are shooting at families who are
attempting to seek refuge in Al-Quds hospital,
Gaza City. Palestinian and international
volunteers are now on the streets outside the
hospital to try and get the families inside the hospital.

Australian Human Rights Activist Sharon Lock is
assisting medical teams at the hospital,

"Israeli snipers are shooting at families
attempting to get to the hospital. They are frightened and have no where to go. At least two
families have been shot at now, children have been wounded."

Al-Quds hospital, Gaza City, located in the Tel
al Huwa neighbourhood of Gaza, has been under
attack by the Israeli army since 1:30 AM.
According to International volunteers at the
hospital it has been hit by shells four times.

"The hospital has received over 150 calls for
help from people including many children in the
surrounding area who have been wounded and are in
desperate need of medical care. The Israeli army
has surrounded the hospital and no one is able to
get in or out." ­ Sharon Lock (Australia) International Solidarity Movement

No one is able to get to these children.