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MPORTANT LINKS [copy/paste] Americans United for Palestitian Human Rights: http://www.auphr.org/ END THE OCCUPATION NOW [MySpace] http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=3157342 Palestinian Center for Human Rights:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights:
http://www.mezan.org/site_en/index.php
Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement:
http://www.gisha.org/
BTselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories:
http://www.btselem.org/English/Gaza_Strip/
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs UN OCHA:
http://www.ochaopt.org/
Palestinian Red Crescent Society:
http://www.palestinercs.org/
American Friends Service Committee:
http://afsc.org/israel-palestine/gaza.htm
A.F.S.C Blog:
http://endthesiege.blogspot.com/
END the Occupation Action Alerts Page:
http://endtheoccupation.org//article.php?list=type&type=20
Popular Committee Against Siege "Home page" [English]
http://www.freegaza.ps/english/
http://www.imemc.org/
Israel has denied a group of Israeli medical volunteers entry into the Gaza Strip, affecting the groups ability to reach patients in the beleaguered enclave, an official told IRIN, the United Nations News Agency.
"We had 350 patients waiting for us in Gaza," said Salah Haj Yihye, the mobile clinic coordinator with the medical delegation from the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), a non-governmental organisation. They had planned to spend 8-10 October in the enclave.
The eight-member team was granted a permit on 6 October, but only when they arrived at the Erez Crossing to Gaza two days later were they informed that the permit had been "frozen".
Some of the patients, anticipating surgery, had already prepared themselves and many were fasting when they found out that the doctors would not be coming, causing distress.
Yihye said the work was coordinated with local health officials, including the ministry of health in Gaza, which is headed by a Hamas minister.
PHR-Israel had arranged for four orthopaedic physicians, an oncologist, a specialist surgeon and two psychologists to visit the enclave.
Some members of the mission were planning on conducting surgical operations in the enclave, others were set to give training.
"The two psychologists were going to train Gazans on trauma and post-traumatic treatment," Yihye said, noting the need for this knowledge in the territory, which has seen a lot of violence.
The Gaza Strip lacks medical specialists in certain fields, including psychology and certain orthopaedic specialist areas, and all the doctors were chosen for their specific expertise.
Yom Kippur
Yihye was worried he would not be able to organise the volunteer doctors again. He had hoped to take advantage of the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, when Israel comes to an almost complete standstill and the medics were on leave from work.
Miss. Sarojini Naidu speaking about this aspect of Islam says, "It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for in the mosque, when the minaret is sounded and the worshipers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and the king kneel side by side and proclaim, God alone is great." The great poetess of India continues, "I have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes a man instinctively a brother. When you meet an Egyptian, an Algerian and Indian and a Turk in London, it matters not that Egypt is the motherland of one and India is the motherland of another."
Mahatma Gandhi, in his inimitable style, says "Some one has said that Europeans in South Africa dread the advent Islam -- Islam that civilized Spain, Islam that took the torch light to Morocco and preached to the world the Gospel of brotherhood. The Europeans of South Africa dread the Advent of Islam. They may claim equality with the white races. They may well dread it, if brotherhood is a sin. If it is equality of colored races then their dread is well founded."
Prophet Mohammed said "The best house among the Muslims is one which contains an orphan who is well treated, and the worst house among the Muslims is one which contains an orphan who is badly treated."
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