Help Dr. Mona reach her dying mother!
Dear friends,
Below is an urgent message from Dr. Mona, a dear friend to many of us. Her situation is both outrageous and tragic. However, multiply that by 6,000, because that is how many Palestinians have been waiting for up to five weeks on the Egyptian border to get to their homes in Gaza. Twenty-eight of them have died from heat, exhaustion, stress and their own delicate condition.
Please call AND write your members of Congress (or other elected representatives outside the U.S.), and demand their intervention to get Israel and Egypt to open the borders. Be sure to copy Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on your messages at eulmert@knesset.gov.il. Go to www.congress.org to find your senators or representatives. Call the Congressional switchboard at 1-800-839-5276 and ask for your member of Congress.
Paul
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Marhaba..are you back?
From: "mona El-farra"
sorry i canot write more , can you circulate this to friends
and supporters
love
mona Sunday, July 15, 2007
My mother is in her last moments and I cannot cross the borders
My mother is in the hospital at the moment. She is severely ill. She was
admitted to hospital 3 days ago. I cannot reach her.
I finished my 45 day speaking tour in the USA. Everywhere across the USA
and in each lecture I told the audience about our suffering, living in
this big prison called Gaza. I told them about the borders closure and
about the patients who passed away while waiting to cross.the borders .
Now it is my personal story, like the daily stories of 1.4 million people
in GAZA under siege and occupation.poverty , lack of resources , killing
shooting violence etc....
I cannot cross the borders, I cannot cross the Rafah crossing. I badly
need to be next to my mother. I badly need to be there with her to help
her, to do whatever I can for her.to say good bye mum , I was always there
for my patients and many people, to help and try to alleviate their
suffering.in her last hours i canot be there my hands are tied, I am
helpless, I can do nothing, I just have to wait and wait and wait.my
throat is dry my are eyes full of tears .
this is unjust, unhuman . it is the occupation , how come to be just and
fair ,when it is mainly based on injustice , agression and cruelity .
Can somebody help me to go home? I badly need to be at home next to my
mother in her last moments.
Good bye mum ,hpoe you rest in peace , peace we donot enjoy in Gaza
The borders have been closed for more than 5 weeks , 28 patients died
while waiting to crossthe Rafah crossing .the only crossing between gaza
and egypt , all other exits are completely sealed by the Israeli army
The border was opened 70 times in one year
love and solidarity
[Dr. Mona Elfarra]
Below is an urgent message from Dr. Mona, a dear friend to many of us. Her situation is both outrageous and tragic. However, multiply that by 6,000, because that is how many Palestinians have been waiting for up to five weeks on the Egyptian border to get to their homes in Gaza. Twenty-eight of them have died from heat, exhaustion, stress and their own delicate condition.
Please call AND write your members of Congress (or other elected representatives outside the U.S.), and demand their intervention to get Israel and Egypt to open the borders. Be sure to copy Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on your messages at eulmert@knesset.gov.il. Go to www.congress.org to find your senators or representatives. Call the Congressional switchboard at 1-800-839-5276 and ask for your member of Congress.
Paul
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Marhaba..are you back?
From: "mona El-farra"
sorry i canot write more , can you circulate this to friends
and supporters
love
mona Sunday, July 15, 2007
My mother is in her last moments and I cannot cross the borders
My mother is in the hospital at the moment. She is severely ill. She was
admitted to hospital 3 days ago. I cannot reach her.
I finished my 45 day speaking tour in the USA. Everywhere across the USA
and in each lecture I told the audience about our suffering, living in
this big prison called Gaza. I told them about the borders closure and
about the patients who passed away while waiting to cross.the borders .
Now it is my personal story, like the daily stories of 1.4 million people
in GAZA under siege and occupation.poverty , lack of resources , killing
shooting violence etc....
I cannot cross the borders, I cannot cross the Rafah crossing. I badly
need to be next to my mother. I badly need to be there with her to help
her, to do whatever I can for her.to say good bye mum , I was always there
for my patients and many people, to help and try to alleviate their
suffering.in her last hours i canot be there my hands are tied, I am
helpless, I can do nothing, I just have to wait and wait and wait.my
throat is dry my are eyes full of tears .
this is unjust, unhuman . it is the occupation , how come to be just and
fair ,when it is mainly based on injustice , agression and cruelity .
Can somebody help me to go home? I badly need to be at home next to my
mother in her last moments.
Good bye mum ,hpoe you rest in peace , peace we donot enjoy in Gaza
The borders have been closed for more than 5 weeks , 28 patients died
while waiting to crossthe Rafah crossing .the only crossing between gaza
and egypt , all other exits are completely sealed by the Israeli army
The border was opened 70 times in one year
love and solidarity
[Dr. Mona Elfarra]