An Earthquake On Top of Your Head – The Bombing of Gaza
I would like to share this heart touching narration published in Counter Punch by a practising psychologist living in the Gaza City, he has shared his family’s panic stricken reaction as the Israeli fighter jet took target practice around his neighbourbhood killing over 250 people and leaving a trail of over 700 dead
An Earthquake on top of you Head – The Bombing of Gaza by Dr. Eyad Al Serraj
The bombing went on for about 10 minutes. It was like an earthquake on top of your head. The windows were shaking and squeaking. My 10-year-old was terrified, he was jumping from one place to another trying to hide. I held him tight to my chest and tried to give him some security and reassure him. My 12-year-old was panicking and began laughing hysterically, it’s not normal. I held her hand and calmed her and told her she would be safe. My wife was panicking. She was running around the apartment looking for somewhere to hide.
We live on the ground floor so we headed to the basement.
Not very far from our home is the headquarters of the police and there was a massive bomb. The chief of police was killed. Two streets away there was another bomb and more people were killed. The office of the president is about one kilometre from our house and it was also bombed.
We went downstairs to the basement and tried to hide ourselves from the shelling. The child of one of our relatives, who lives in our building, finally came home from school. We hadn’t been able to find her. All the phone connections were jammed. She came home and she was in a very serious state of shock. She was pale and trembling and she was describing dead bodies in the streets. On her way home she passed Hamas people in uniform and they were dead.
I had been very apprehensive when I woke up this morning. I had some bread, some cheese and a glass of tea. Like all the people in Gaza I felt that something was going on and something very serious. When Israel allowed the delivery of food and fuel [when it ended the blockade of Gaza yesterday] I said to myself and my friends that Israel is really planning a massive strike. They don’t want to be blamed for starving the people.
I was sitting in the living room with my family trying to figure out what to do today for lunch, it’s our main meal. What to cook and how to cook, whether we have enough to eat. There was no rice so I wanted to have lentil soup and my wife said “No, there’s no lentils in the market.” I said “What else can we do?” She said “I bought some cans of food.” We were discussing this when suddenly the whole thing erupted. Suddenly there was a big explosion.
Right now I feel very anxious about what’s going to happen. I’m worried about how many more people are going to die.
Dr Eyad Al Serraj is a practising psychologist in Gaza City.
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Asalamuwalekum,
Here every body is talking some thing people have done so much research on this conflict, but, at the time when British sell Israel a piece of land why we Muslims not fight? why we are fighting now? every one is talking about Israel training Indians and India is oppressing Muslims in Kashmir and Kashmiri Muslims want a separate country now the place occupied by Pakistan where is it in the world map? why don't you think that how Palestinians fighting for their land said to be Indians are fighting since Muslims are not originated from there if you take it for religious reason also Kashmir is very important for Hindus the main thing we Muslims needs to check is our "Aamaal" actually we are no more Muslims!!! Huzoor(SWS) use to take care of other religion people also but we are not today!!! 'Love your Neighbor like you' it is in the Quran and Bible and other religion that is missing to day we need think and start doing all sunnahs of SWS other wise we can not become Muslim. One is not a Muslim just because he/she born to Muslim father and mother he/she will become because of Aamaal - Alama Iqbal said 'theri dariyaan me thufaan nahin hain, thera thujee mein muslmaan nahi hain...' so please stop talking Idiot things and think what can one do for Palestinians and for humanity pray to Allah there mosques all felling down because of bombs Quran is scattering Astagfirullah Let all Muslims unite together and boycott america on every aspect then you will see the difference!!!
TO graham ,oogle,and all the jews of Terriorist Israel!
WATCH THIS!
http://portail.islamboutique.fr/gaza2008/
watch this
IF YOU ARE AROUND!
IF YOU ARE NOT BLIND!
IF YOU ARE NOT PARALYZED TO OPEN IT!
IF YOU ARE NOT DRUNK!
IF YOU ARE NOT BUSY IN DANCING ON DEATHS OF MUSLIMS!
IF YOU ARE NOT BUSY IN PRAYING TO ALLAH TO SAVE YOU FROM HAMAS!!!!!!!!!!!
MAY ALLAH(SWT)'S WRATH BE ON YOU AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH YOU.AMEN!SUM AMEN!
THE DAY WILL COME INSHALLAH,WHEN WE MUSLIMS WILL ENJOY THE SHOW,IF NOT IN THIS WORLD THEN IN THE WORLD HEREAFTER INSHALLAH WHEN ALL OF YOU WILL BURN IN HELL-FIRE.
AND TO LESSEN YOUR HAPPINESS!
MAKE SURE THAT ALL THESE PALESTINIAN MUSLIMS AND THOSE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD WHO ARE DYING BECAUSE OF YOU AND USOFA ARE ALL "SHAHEED",THE BEST DEATH THAT EVERY MUSLIM WISHES FOR!.THEY ARE ALIVE ENJOYING THEMSELVES IN THE PARADISE, OUT OF THIS DIRTY WORLD!
ENJOY YOUR LIVES HERE YOU ANTI-MUSLIMS HELL-FIRE IS WAITING FOR ALL OF YOU!
Barristers are corrupted society of the Earth which is unable to provide justice and their sounds like traitor
This website has been hijacked by indians
This website has been hijacked by indians
@KarimG,
for the last 61 years Palestinians have tried
every ideology, Palestinians tried as
Hijackers
baathist, seculars
Leninist/socialists,
agnostics
Humanists etc etc etc etc . you name it !!
ALL FAILED !!!!
But the only thing Zionist Israel is
afraid is, Islam !!
the whole arab world knows that !
even in Pakistan they know it !
@Hossein,
yes, US and European people are coward and
racist, and religious fanatics crusaders arsholes.
we are volunteerily condemning our religious elements,
whereas US, EU and Israeli are preserving their
religious fanatics and extremists.
Yes, they never want anyother to adopt their kind of
Democracy and Human rights, which in our eyes is a lie.
US and European people pay tax and their governments give it to Israel to kill women and innocent children. Hamas was selected with Palestine nation vote. Why Israel surrounds Gaza and don't let food and drug to wounded persons? Isn't Israel a occupier??
I think Democracy and Human right is a big lie in West.
Assalam o alaikum,
muslims fighting for Palestine against Israel have requested all the muslims to recite Sura Al-Fatah(chapter 48) of Holy Quran tonight and ask Allah (swt) for His help and victory in the ongoing war.
JazakAllah Khair
i think the sole purpose behind the creation of Israel was to get an area of land in order to save the endangered specie of jews....
i wish to see another hitler..........
Will it make any difference if each and every Muslim in Gaza - including women, children and elderly - are slaughtered by the Israeli forces in connivance with the Palestinian Authority, Cairo and none other than Riyadh and Tehran? In the long run, NO!
The people of Gaza should be punished for supporting Hamas and for not compromising on their faith, honour and dignity. The 'practical approach' of the rulers of the Muslim states will let us live for a few more years... may be more. A few protests by the 'Islamic' parties will be enough to vent our anger. Then it would be business as usual. We will continue to sit like idle ducks till it's our turn to become the prey.
Let's call each other kafirs; let's blame jews and indians for all the woes we are faced with today; let's continue to vote for the plunderers of our nation; let's keep trying to earn and live better; let's give a damn about the whole world and focus on what we could do for ourselves, our families, our children, our careers, our businesses; let's believe that the only thing required of us by Allah is to do 'tableegh' and when everyone in this world will become a Muslim and will start offering prayers then there would be no more evil; let's continue to work for the 'Islamic' parties that will one day win if a 'free and fair' election is held; let's continue with our lives and wait for Jesus to return and bring peace back to this world!!
Good night!
Have sweet dreams...
... and let Gaza burn to ashes!!!
With all due respect to others on the board, yes indeed Muslims are victim of great injustice and are getting a raw deal BUT I have a great deal of problem in wishing for a government based on religion. Dont forget, the people who have tormented the Palestinians and committed crimes against humanity againt them, claim that God promised them the land and that they are Gods chosen people. GWB claimed that his God TOLD him to invade Iraq, and we now whats the result of that...Perhaps lets agree that we want a JUST system and if that happens to be run by believers fine but more that that!
Teetho, I think you have overmoderated on this one. Let me tell you some thing, there is no language I can use that is worse than coming on the board for propaganda of condoning, finding excuses or in any way be party to genocide, killing of innocent human beings. The same action if it results because of ignorance has the same affect for me. The liers who do not have facts on their side do cry, entertain them and you suppress what they wanted to. I will reconsider....
@ what we have to do is to consolidate
public opinion with straight forward
stand to be taken against all the negative
evil forces against muslim entity around the
world, at the same time cleaning our house !
yes farrah i believe that the pakistan will be the starting point for the changes in the world.
i think that the paksitan is on brink of revolution. the islamist forces will emerge from afghanistan and paksitan.inshaALLAH but there is lot of bloodshed and bloody wars in the way.
The story of 9/11 is so much one sided,like who was behind it,Osama ,A man who does not exist ,in any papers in the world apart from CIA crap netwrok.
na don these basis they have attacked whol eof Afghanistan .Apart from Khalid Hussaini ,not any single voice from Afghanistan.
Whole century of fight,war and undoing,Where has Afghanis gone?
Dr.Jawwad
Thanks for the link read this Kindly note since 9/11 Muslims are on defensive.One after an other the Islamic countries were attacked and bombarded in the name of Terrorism and no one ,not even a single Muslim Leader Stood up to condemn it.
Musharaff did what ever he could ,and now Iran has taken this responsive line.
I think now the Muslim response will emerge.
farrah k raja!
please read the article by javed anwar "teesra nuqta"
http://www.jasarat.com/epaper/index.php?page=03&am...
i believe the time will come when pakistan shall be free from all secular fascists and altaf's shits.
kaheen nam jihad aaey to reh reh kar hanste hen
hamarey ghaziyon ko rehzan keh keh kar hanste hen
(not mine)
Asad ali and KarimG !
please tell me what was the other option given to the barrister akc beside " get yourself informed "
Stop the Lie Machine....
dr.jawwadkhan
Thanks a bunch friend.
@khurram!
nice job.great article from a man with integrity.
here is the link:
Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and lessons of history are ignored
Above is the title of an article by renowned author Robert Fisk in the 29 December issue of The Independent UK.I need not say more.
@KarimG,
Barrister, it will be better for you to opt
for the last part of KarimG's phrase !!!!
barrister...oh barrister...
Here is the logic, if YOU have decided to enter my house, kill my child, demolish my neighborhoods, stop me from moving freely in my streets, treat me like a second class human,
If you have chosen to do all that....
YOU have no right to comment on HOW I WILL FIGHT BACK...
Do you get that Mr. Barrister?
If you are a decent human being, then stop buying this Zionist crap about Palestinians missiles, because Palestinians are doing what ME and YOU would do under these circumstances, that is to resist occupation, it would be UN-NATURAL not to resist. It is the JEWS who have chosen to leave their European and American homes to go and live in Palestine, it is them who have stolen other people's identity by calling themselves Samites, it is them who have stolen other people's homes and lands, it is THEM whose behavior is CONDEMNABLE and UN-NATURAL and it is THEM who have chosen to live this way and impose this life on others who were there from before and did live in peace with Jews and Christians before the REAL TERRORISTS arrived.
SO, Mr. Barrister, either get yourself informed or $%^& the #$%& up, how about that!
YOU INDIANS ARE LIVING IN A SATANIST PRISON BUILT BY THE JESUITS AND FINANCED BY THE ZIONIST
Remember Anton LaVey founder of the Church of Satan and Mind War controller of the CIA was a close friend of George H. Bush, and they planned together the satanic future of his son George W.Bush and the coming of the age of Satan after 9/11 a long time ago when LaVey was still alive
if US/UK/EU/AUS/UN/IMF/IN/RU wanna see their real face then please ye all go and visit
www.churchofsatan.com
@Barrister,
what ressemblance between your comment and@6.11
pm !!!
the traitors are among us
Well Iran and Syria has a moral responsibility to support militarily their Palestinian brothers. Let not forget that Hamas is to be blamed too (very dispassionately) for the rocket attacks and provoking the barbaric attacks by Israelis. Hamas should be controlled by their masters in Iran too since they have disrupted the on going Peace Process by blackmailing President Abbas.
Israel is a bitter reality and although crowd pleasing statements of wiping Israel Out are for the galleries but in reality such statements can not be taken seriously.
Arabs will cry and although it’s sad what happened in Gaza but we as Pakistanis should concentrate on wiping out Islamists among ourselves and force our government to go on more hard against Tahreek-e-Taliban in FATA for the interest of the nation.
it’s not just Palestine or Palestinians whose survival is compromised.
I wonder fate of every breathing Muslim during the era who are bowing their soul and signatures are at the verge of diffusion as antique.
Don’t you consider it a shameful act that you and I being Muslim nukes are unable to take the plea in real manner of deterrence as community?
Can you imagine and execute to abolish Israel even if you are in possession of arsenals as atomic power.
So what’s the issue?
Why don’t we being strong Muslim atomic power deter the nuisance in a real manner of impeachment as punishment?
Here lies the controversy among Muslim.
As long as lust to live would excel and sacrifice would not be put at its real place fate would continue to topple the fortune.
Truth is; it’s not very far when such sight seeing would become the fate of every existing Muslim nation.
I assure you sir this upcoming future forecasted nuclear war would clear the root of this nuisance(Israel) from the smoky screen of earth.
Let it enjoy and play the game of death till then.
proud paki
You are so very right !!
@ whata shame that in UNO security counsil's
Munir Akram was not allowed to speak for Pakistan,
the Pak.Govt. had retired him, on who's order ?
the ninkumpoop of shah mehmood qureshi's statments
can be compared with Munawar Zareef, who is far
cleverer than pendoo Qureshi ! the sort of rehman
malik "extra" orators.
Inna lilahi-wa ina elaihe-rajeoon
PPP Govt. is an Indian Gaddi Govt. throw them out !
whereas this whole situation make me feel very upset, it makes me feel sooooo greatful for Pak heros who've made Nukes and missles. Otherwise India would have doing exactly the same to Pakistan right here right now.
I told ya b4 that no one can avert ongoin war now Israel gonna wage full war due to their frustration to not gaining victory neither in Afghanistan nor in Iraq.
And they're not winning in Afghanistan/Iraq but blabbing and blaming Pakistan to do more.
No Army from abroad are gonna invade us 1st and foremost we've been influenced and then subverted in the hands of our own Dictators and Demo-leaders.
This is the hidden conspiracy to create chaos among muslim-masses then bombarded 'em which deflect blame onto infidels and dismiss us as "hatred and prejudice" aka Terrorist
India folks doin nothin but tryin to do the same as their idiots doin in Gaza.
see the pics on paknewz.com
For those in the US, please try to attend the protests scheduled in your cities. Info at http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=177....
And please donate to the victims. This is a humanitarian crisis. You can donate through Islamic Relief, Middle East Children's Alliance.
S/he who erase my 2nd sodomy article ... if there censorship allow in this blog due to presence of few secular minded uk/us/eu lovers who might not like to hear truth from me becuz Truth always hard to digest becuz its bitter in Taste?
How about your taste? bitter or sweet
if my comments gonna censor i gonna better leave.
@Indian,
may be you are giving helping hand to Israel
exterminating muslim Palestinians,in return of
Israeli favour killing in afghanistan, both of
you have your DALITS, India is sending 150.000
troups to afghanistan trained by Israeli terrorists.
perhaps both of you are vulnerable at the same time.
Both of you share the same race theory, cowards !
I am re-posting my comment on another related story on this board that was there before this article. Just to add, we can very much guess where graham hails from, but this barrister guy, probably Guardian and New York Times reading 'informed' piece of work...ya know this bunch probably are the most annoying. They have f@#$^&g lost it all in their desire to 'fit in'...
Barrister...Iranians with ALL their faults have sacrificed a lot internationally to take a principled stand. Most of the people in the world who have understood the history and true facts of the Palestine/Israel conflict DO NOT consider Palestinian resistance terrorism. Barrister...stop reading those 'official news' and read alternative, you will soon realize that that all that has been told to us by the Zionist controlled media... ALL, has been lies. Let me name a few here any way for you..
1.Holocaust (if it happened the way they claim it happened) had nothing to do with Palestinians.
2.The plan for chosens to go and occupy Palestine existed BEFORE the WWII.
3.British promised Palestine to chosens BEFORE they had conquered Palestine. (Violating the principal rule of deal making that you can not promise some thing you don't own) and it also proves the conspiracy existed way before Holocaust.
4.Terrorism was introduced by chosens in middleast, not the Palestinians.
AND I COULD GO ON.....Lies those damn lies
graham…Palestinians, lets remain with them, the Palestinians, because I know from your busy schedule in Tel Aviv you need to show up on a lot of blogs for diversion at a time like this. graham, most of you are not Samites, most of you are Turco-Mongol Khazars, white Europeans. Your claim to Palestine is as valid as Chinese Muslims’ claim to Arabia. Your people STOLE another peoples identity and their land. You have subjected them to the most brutal system of apartheid, you kill their children, demolish their homes and it is YOU who have introduced terrorism in Middle East. After all that you can not decide how your victims will choose to fight back. So graham, yes do go on dropping those missiles, may the whole you have dug yourself, there is nothing else you can do, but remember every thing does come to an end one day!
This is Khazars
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/...
And these are the first terrorists that appeared in middleast-you will find mugshots of two prime ministers in this pamphlets. This is years before there was PLO-Hamas-Hezbollah-Al Quick QuicK, Taleban or any thing else. And listen to them today yell and shout and play victim!
http://www.palestineremembered.com//images/Israeli...
Hi Indian
Do not want to be rude but can you stay within your jurisdiction?
We know what Talibaan is doing ?
or what India is doing? and what Israel is doing?
Trust us we know what we are doing?
Now what are you doing?
from the news Finally:
Monday, December 29, 2008
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi has accused fellow Arab leaders of adopting a “cowardly” response to Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza, and vowed to boycott an Arab summit on the crisis called for later this week.
“How many times have you called an emergency summit on Palestine,” the official JANA news agency quoted Qadhafi as asking his counterparts rhetorically.
“What action has ever resulted... For my part, I’m tired of listening to this stuck record,” he said in the speech delivered in front of a crowd of supporters on Saturday evening.
“This sort of cowardly, defeatist reaction is shameful.” Qadhafi said it was now time for Arab states to withdraw a 2002 proposal for ending the Middle East conflict which offered Israel full normalisation of relations in return for a full withdrawal from all the territories occupied in 1967 and an equitable solution to the Palestinian refugee problem.
“Make a formal announcement of its withdrawal,” the Libyan leader urged Arab heads of state attending Friday’s summit in Doha.
Libya’s Qadhafi Foundation said on Sunday it was planning an airlift to Egypt aimed at evacuating Palestinians wounded in Israel’s aerial onslaught on the Gaza Strip. It announced the move as Cairo accused the Islamist Hamas movement inside Gaza of preventing hundreds of Palestinians from leaving the bombarded coastal territory for medical treatment.
Two aircraft have been chartered to fly to El-Arish in Egypt 40-km from Egypt’s Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip to evacuate wounded to Benghazi in Libya, a spokesman for the charity told AFP.
Libya’s official JANA news agency also announced that Tripoli would pay for medical care for Palestinian wounded both inside Libya and in other countries. However Egypt on Sunday blamed Hamas for not letting hundreds of wounded Palestinians out of Gaza as dozens of empty ambulances waited at the border.
Hamas said it was drawing up lists of the wounded but it was proving difficult to get them to the border because of the seriousness of their injuries and ongoing Israeli strikes on the impoverished territory. On Saturday the Qadhafi Foundation also dispatched a field hospital, 20 ambulances and 50 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to Rafah.
Meanwhile, Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip from the air on Sunday for a second day and prepared for a possible invasion of the territory after killing nearly 290 Palestinians in the opening rounds of a powerful offensive. Israel said the campaign that began on Saturday was a response to almost daily rocket and mortar fire that intensified after Hamas, an Islamist group in charge of the coastal enclave Israel quit in 2005, ended a six-month ceasefire a week ago. Israeli tanks deployed on the edge of the Gaza Strip, poised to enter the densely populated enclave of 1.5 million Palestinians.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s cabinet approved a call-up of 6,500 reservists, a government official said. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who hopes to become prime minister.
Crowds of thousands swept into the streets of cities around the Middle East on Sunday to denounce Israel’s air assault on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
From Lebanon to Iran, Israel’s adversaries used the weekend assault to marshal crowds into the streets for noisy demonstrations. And among regional allies there was also discontent: The prime minister of Turkey, one of the few Muslim countries to have relations with Israel, called the air assault a “crime against humanity.” The Syrian government, meanwhile, announced the suspension of its indirect peace talks with Israel because the attacks. A government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said “Israel’s aggression closes all the doors” to a settlement in the region.
Israel and Syria held four rounds of indirect negotiations in Turkey after the peace talks were launched in May. The talks have not been convened since Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he would step down earlier this year.
pakistanis stop worrying about gaza,first save ur country.
taliban is killing people in swat just for selling dead meat.
I strongly second Mahmoud Ahmadinejad statement on Israel.
@Graham: Would you like to taste of a medicine made solely for you? You have tasted it before by the way, and if I recall correctly you hate it.
I am referring to "Hizbullah".
Apologies if mentioning this name made you p¤¤ in your pants.
@Barrister akc,
your mental level is doubtful comapring Zia-ul-Haq
with Nazi Ehud Barrak, give us figures ans stats
otherwise shut your mouth, you stink MQM ?
Barrister Sahab
For Godsake Why Zia Ul Haq?He was a dictator for Pakistan.He did not commit attrocities like Israel .
Even for the sake of arguement there are no similarities and comparissons.
Get your things in prospective.
@ Graham,
it is since 1976 the geneicde of palestinians
is perpetrated by the Nazi-hounds of Israel,
YOU DON'T LIKE THAT THEY SHOULD EVEN RETALIATE
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON WITH LIGHT TOY MISSILES,
THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE 5 % OF ARMS THAT YOU
ISRAELIs, COWARD PUFFS, have.
ISRAEL'S MANHOOD IS ALL SETTLED INSIDE USA'S PANTALONS,
Israelis are NAZI-DOGS.
70 years or hundered years of occupation does not make Jaffa brand of Oranges belong to Israel.
It is the generations of Palestenians who have irrigated this soil with blood and sweat and tears.Israel stamp does not make it theirs.
That is what makes Israel insecure.They know the ground they are standing on is not theirs by right.How weak is that?No weapons can secure a Nation.
Security comes from within, Palestenians generation after generation born in temporary camps are secure,their legitimacy their right to live and fight for right ,Israel is so scared.
state of art weaponary versus un armed civilians or few armed with rifles and RPGs......it is not the war. it is slaughter..
The time,
to speak is gone,
now the time is to take an action to save the body of muslims.everyone in this world care about itself,about how many times we have to say that it is wrong and wrong and wrong,why we not do something against israel,like avoide to purchase its products is it dfficult? is it difficult? no then why we can not do this,pleaz do it now.
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