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 The following article from the New York Times
In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer

By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY

Published: December 31, 2008

GAZA<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/gaza_strip/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>—
A dentist stood at the bed of a doctor, his good friend Ehab Madhoun,
32,
who had just died, his shrapnel-pitted body wrapped in a white shroud. The
day before, Dr. Madhoun, a general practitioner, was in an ambulance
responding to an Israeli strike at the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Another missile hit the ambulance. The driver, Muhammad Abu Hasira, died
instantly. Dr. Madhoun lingered for a day, dying of his wounds on Wednesday
in the intensive care unit of Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of people have
been brought since
Israel<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/israel/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>began
its heaviest assault on
Gaza in three decades.UNQUOTE

In a matter of only a few days we have lost two colleagues killed while on
duty as doctors, an American surgeon deployed in Iraq and a Palestinian
doctor riding in an ambulance. Although these two men were worlds apart --
it is definitely NOT my intention to debate Middle East politics, there are
other venues for that -- they both had one thing in common: they were ready
to sacrifice themselves, and did so, in order to bring aid and relief to
others.

May we remember them all.
-- 
christos giannou
Monemvasia Lakonia
23070 Greece
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