One Of reveals the shooting of an emergency medical worker on January 7th, during the period which Israel declared a ‘cease-fire’ period. The medics were subject to no less than 15 shots while they attempted to evacuate the body of a man already sniped by Israeli soldiers.
One Of poses the question: how would you feel if your loved one died because ambulances were prevented from reaching the wounded.
The 2009 theme of WHO’s World Health Day, 7 April, is “Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies”. ‘One Of’ earned first place honours in Palestine’s short film competition based on the theme. talestotell attended the ceremonies.
talestotell.wordpress.com: April 7: It must have really happened
Article 18 of the Geneva Convention (1949) states that civilian hospitals may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.It came through the hospital wall
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I remember Dr B saying, as hundreds of civilians arrived for shelter, that maybe it would be like the Israeli seige of the Church of the Nativity in 2002 – I don’t think we had enough food for that many people for even a day.
I remember standing beside the hospital window, hearing yet another ear splitting crash, then seeing a piece of burning bomb hit us, as I was on the phone to my father, and saying to him resignedly, “Sorry, I will have to hang up now and find a fire extinguisher.” Fighting the phosphorous fire as it was burning Al Quds, the craziness of having to twice evacuate a hospital, and nightly working alongside terrified medics who had carried the bodies of their colleagues and expected to be the next dead, it just all seemed sickeningly logical at the time. Today, somehow, the films allowed me to take a step back, to look from outside, as you’ve been looking.
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