{"id":5204,"date":"2008-12-28T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2008-12-28T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T22:09:22","slug":"amira-hass-christmas-in-gaza-no-more-room-in-the-morgue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5204","title":{"rendered":"Amira Hass: Christmas In Gaza: No More Room In The Morgue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;Little Baghdad&#8217; in Gaza &#8211; Bombs, Fear and Rage<\/p>\n<p>By Amira Hass, <em>Ha&#8217;aretz<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article21551.htm\">28 December 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many corpses and wounded, every moment another casualty is added to the list of the dead, and there is no more room in the morgue.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives search among the bodies and the wounded in order to bring the dead quickly to burial. A mother whose three school-age children were killed, and are piled one on top of the other in the morgue, screams and then cries, screams again and then is silent.<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha Ibrahim saw all this on Saturday at one in the afternoon, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza. As a field investigator for a human rights organization, he thought he&#8217;d been immunized, but nothing prepared him for what he saw. Wounded people whose situation was less than serious were asked to leave Shifa, in order to free up beds.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Haidar Eid is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Al-Aqsa University. He, too, saw the bodies and the wounded on Saturday. Also the children whose limbs had been amputated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To pick a time like this, 11:30 [A.M.], to bomb in the hearts of cities, this is terrible. This choice was intended to cause as large a massacre as possible,&#8221; he summed up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article21551.htm\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Little Baghdad&#8217; in Gaza &#8211; Bombs, Fear and Rage By Amira Hass, Ha&#8217;aretz, 28 December 2008 There are many corpses and wounded, every moment another casualty is added to the list of the dead, and there is no more room &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1lW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}