[Reader-list] An SMS from Gaza

[Paul D. Miller]

Forward:

    Subject: [euromed-youth] The Horror
    Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 12:03 PM

    SOS/SMS from Gaza

    hello, received this via email:

    Yesterday, the 3th of January the Norwegian physician Dr. Mads Gilbert of
    Norwac, a Norwegian Triage medical team, who is one of the few doctors
    admitted into the Gaza strip sent out an SMS (text message from his cell
    phone) to friends and acquaintences home in Norway with a plea for the
    message to be spread by its recipients. Because no journalists are allowed
    into Gaza the doctors have an unusual but vital double role as reporters as
    well as physicians.

    This is not a political message, not pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli
    message. It is a plea that needless and excessive use of military force must
    stop, that aid-workers, medicine and food must be allowed into the
    territory. It is a humanitarian message.

    Here is a translation of the message from Mads Gilbert.

    "They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza City two hours ago. 80
    wounded, 20 killed, all came here to Shifa Hades [hospital]! We are wading
    in death, blood, and amputees. Many children. A pregnant woman. I have never
    experienced anything so terrible. Now we hear tanks. Pass it on, send it
    around, shout it out. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We are living in a
    history book now, all of us. Mads G. 3.1.09 1:50PM, Gaza"