Palestinian children not sure if international law can protect them
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/7/2006

Khalil Abu Shammala, Director of AL-Dameer Association for Human Rights, said the children of Gaza are not sure now that the International Law and Conventions capable of protecting them.

In an open letter, Abu Shabala said nowadays the Gaza Strip is facing a real act of war, where the Israeli Forces is using the physiological torture against the Palestinian civilians by using the sonic bombs.

The letter's full texts:

Nesma my three years old daughter feels a lot of fear when she hears plains flying in the skies of Gaza. Whenever she hears the voice of the plains, her body shakes and starts crying because she got used to hear a sonic bomb after the voice of the plains.

Nowadays Gaza Strip is facing a real act of war, where the Israeli Forces is using the physiological torture against the Palestinian civilians by using the sonic bombs.

We the old people are suffering psychologically, not afraid on ourselves but not knowing how to calm down our children, not knowing how to explain for them these sonic bombs, is it fire works or a balloon blast!!!.

We can no longer hide the truth from them, because they figured it themselves when the infant Iman Hijo a four months old killed, when Ghalia family killed on the beach of Bait Lahia and the child Mohammed Jamal Roqa a 6 years old child killed by an Israeli strike while he was going to tell his friends that his father came back from Dubai and bought him toys and gifts.

Nesma the three years old child, spoke some words I didn't want to hear as a father, not even wanting my children to face such a situation, these words are "shelling, plain, tank, missile, firing, resistance and occupation."

I would have liked for Nesma and her brother Mohammed and sister Nour to live a quiet life enjoying their time like all the other children around the world, live all their life stages sure of a better, wonderful, active future and achieve all their dreams without any fear of a glimpse that could steal the life of any of them while they are on the street, or riding in the car, or even while walking on the beach.

All the children of Gaza live in fear during the day, even in this very hot summer the children of Gaza can't find any summer camps to spend the summer because the parents are afraid on their children due to the shelling.

Gaza children are inquiring, what self defense Israel speaking about while they are using this massive military machine against them, what self defense that causes the destruction of important vital structures, that prevents the patients from having their right in a proper medical care without any obstructions and that cuts the electricity power from a population 750 thousand citizen in Gaza Strip????.

The children are inquiring about the position of the International Community that doesn't raise any voice to protect them. They are astonished of this silence that gives Israel the green light to commit more crimes.

The children of Gaza are not sure now that the International Law and Conventions capable of protecting them.

Will Nesma the three years old child suffer? Who will guarantee for her to live without suffering psychologically through her life time. What will the Israeli's say to Nesma, what will the International Community say to Nesma while she is living nervous shock the rest of her life?

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