Gravely injured in an Israeli missile attack, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl is at the center of a fight over whether Israel should continue to provide treatment.
.
Confined to a wheelchair and paralyzed from the neck down, the Palestinian girl is at the center of a legal fight over whether Israel should continue to take care of her treatment. Back in May 2006, an Israeli missile attack on an Islamic Jihad activist's car in war-torn Gaza left the Aman family, traveling close behind, in ruins. Mariya's mother, brother, grandmother and uncle were killed, and Mariya, thrown out of the car into a ditch, sustained serious injuries. Today Mariya is kept alive by an artificial respirator at the Alyn Children's Rehabilitation Hospital in Jerusalem.
Confined to a wheelchair and paralyzed from the neck down, the Palestinian girl is at the center of a legal fight over whether Israel should continue to take care of her treatment. Back in May 2006, an Israeli missile attack on an Islamic Jihad activist's car in war-torn Gaza left the Aman family, traveling close behind, in ruins. Mariya's mother, brother, grandmother and uncle were killed, and Mariya, thrown out of the car into a ditch, sustained serious injuries. Today Mariya is kept alive by an artificial respirator at the Alyn Children's Rehabilitation Hospital in Jerusalem.
.
Collateral damage I suppose!!!
.
Although it has never formally accepted responsibility, the Israeli government has largely sponsored her complicated medical rehabilitation for the past 15 months. But now her father has been told by the Israeli Ministry of Defense that his daughter must leave Israel and return to the territory of the Palestinian Authority.
Although it has never formally accepted responsibility, the Israeli government has largely sponsored her complicated medical rehabilitation for the past 15 months. But now her father has been told by the Israeli Ministry of Defense that his daughter must leave Israel and return to the territory of the Palestinian Authority.
.
Guilty feelings? But then you'd have to have a heart!
.
A court decision in favor of Mariya Aman could set a precedent and trigger other court appeals from Palestinians injured by similar acts of the Israeli military.
A court decision in favor of Mariya Aman could set a precedent and trigger other court appeals from Palestinians injured by similar acts of the Israeli military.
.
How many would there be???
.
It's not difficult to understand why Mariya's father is so worried. She will need around-the-clock specialized medical attention for the rest of her life. She is catheterized every four hours to avoid the buildup of urine in the kidneys, and her respiratory tract is regularly cleaned of secretions. She will never be able to dress herself in the morning or comb her hair. But since arriving at the hospital, she has learned to use a computer and to deftly steer her wheelchair using her chin. She has also learned to chatter away in fluent Hebrew to her dedicated Israeli therapists. "I have always avoided telling Mariya who aimed that missile at us," says Aman. "How can I explain that the people who hurt us are the same people who are helping us now?"
It's not difficult to understand why Mariya's father is so worried. She will need around-the-clock specialized medical attention for the rest of her life. She is catheterized every four hours to avoid the buildup of urine in the kidneys, and her respiratory tract is regularly cleaned of secretions. She will never be able to dress herself in the morning or comb her hair. But since arriving at the hospital, she has learned to use a computer and to deftly steer her wheelchair using her chin. She has also learned to chatter away in fluent Hebrew to her dedicated Israeli therapists. "I have always avoided telling Mariya who aimed that missile at us," says Aman. "How can I explain that the people who hurt us are the same people who are helping us now?"
.
And for what I ask?
.
An Israeli law passed in 2002 states that in an act of warfare the state has immunity and does not necessarily have to pay compensation to Palestinians, and the Justice Court has ruled that targeted assassinations are normally an act of warfare. Moreover, Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedman has long argued that there are no grounds to compensate a people that Israel is in conflict with.
.
Nice cop out! How come then the Holocaust is still a means to get compensation, even half a century later!
No comments:
Post a Comment