{"id":135286,"date":"2014-08-06T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=135286"},"modified":"2014-08-06T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:55:09","slug":"raining-bombs-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/raining-bombs-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Raining Bombs and Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Dr. MONA EL-FARRA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m still alive. \u00a0I don\u2019t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. \u00a0It all depends on my luck. \u00a0And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs fall from Israel\u2019s tanks, planes, or warships. Some hours it\u2019s raining bombs. \u00a0Americans say \u201cIt\u2019s raining cats and dogs.\u201d In the new Gaza idiom, we say \u201cIt\u2019s raining bombs and shells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Today I started my day in the Red Crescent Society\u2019s medical center. \u00a0The electricity has stopped, but the X-ray still functions, so we received many patients. \u00a0Let me share with you some of what I saw.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">First is the story of an unnamed child we called \u201cNumber 6.\u201d\u00a0He was around three years and had identifying stickers on his arms saying \u201cUnknown\u201d and \u201cNumber 6.\u201d\u00a0I was shocked and immediately asked the nurses and ambulance drivers, \u201cWhat is his name?\u201d I was told no one knew his name. \u00a0They found him in a mass of destroyed houses and he was the only survivor in his family. \u00a0He had a head injury and wounds on other parts of his body. \u00a0Immediately I asked, \u201cDoesn\u2019t anyone remember where the house was?\u201d They said that in the area where they found him, all the buildings were destroyed and the rubble was mixed up with each other and sometimes the children\u2019s bodies were thrown from one area to another. \u00a0So they didn\u2019t know where he had lived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">And then I realized he\u2019s Number 6, and that means there were five other unknown children before him and many more children after him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/07\/31\/its-raining-bombs-and-shells\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. MONA EL-FARRA I\u2019m still alive. \u00a0I don\u2019t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. \u00a0It all depends on my luck. \u00a0And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}