2009.1.4

Message from Gaza

Writer:Prof. Abdelwahed
(Department of English Faculty of Arts & Humanities Al-Azhar University of Gaza)
Background of the writer in detail


Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:12 PM
Subject: Urgent!

Every minutes we haer a blast or two or three. This has been continuous for more that 15 hours so far. Tanks, artillery, warships. Hussain Odah al-Aiedi (58 years old), a UNRWA employee, is stuck in the center of the fight.

The Israeli tanks move in a circle of more than one kilometers around his house. He was shelled at 10:30 p.m. last night. Five of his fmily members have been injued and in bad condition. No one except the Israeli tanks cnreach him. There is no electricity, water or food in his house. His family, mother and the families of two brothers of his are packed in one room. They are more than twenty people. Hussain need urgent aid and evacuation of the injured.