{"id":4475,"date":"2009-02-18T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:06:43","slug":"epalestine-may-we-all-remember-those","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2009\/02\/epalestine-may-we-all-remember-those\/","title":{"rendered":"[ePalestine] May we all remember those who can’t forget…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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I pass below a glimpse into the memories of one person–<\/span><\/font> of the thousands–in Gaza who remain tortured by Israel’s slaughter in Gaza last month.  The world has moved on, we can’t!<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The Gaza borders remain closed.  The Gaza sea remains blockaded.  The airspace remains prohibited.  No building materials allowed in.  Electricity still shabby. Etc, etc, etc…the world has moved on…Gaza remains occupied 100%!<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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As we enter the 40 day mourning day of all those murdered…a special prayer for the children, the hundreds of children…<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Humanity should be ashamed of itself–deeply ashamed,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Ma’an News<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Memories of Gaza dead continue to haunt the living  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Date: 08 \/ 02 \/ 2009  Time:  14:09  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Gaza – Ma’an – Layla Hussein Nassar “Umm Ibrahim” is 40-years old, though she seems much older.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Her home in Jabaliya was destroyed during the Israeli war on Gaza. Two relatives, her husband and five children were inside the home when it was hit by a missile. Umm Ibrahim collected as many of her injured children as she could and crawled out of the damaged building with her son Nahidh and sought safety in a house across the street.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Her husband Muhammad and four-year-old son Rakan were buried beneath the rubble. She did not know whether they were alive or dead.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Eventually Nahidh crawled out of the shelter to find help, leaving Umm Ibrahim alone with a dying daughter and seriously wounded daughter-in-law.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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She is haunted by the girls’ screams and calls for help, and recalls staring intently at her destroyed home, willing there to be some sort of movement to let her know some of her other family members were alive.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Umm Ibrahim sat down with Ma’an reporter Khadra Hamdan on Saturday. Her thoughts are scattered and painful; now on the record as one of the victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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I have nothing in mind except what has happened to me. Everything is in my memory and I will never forget it all of my life. I am a mother who collected the fragments of her children, so how could I forget that?  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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…My son Rakan was torn to pieces. No hands, no legs and even no face were left. I could not bring him to the hospital; the house was falling down around him and my husband.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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My daughter Fidaa was as beautiful as the moon. Oh God! How beautiful you were Fidaa! Her clothes were torn like her body. She died in my hands.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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My elder son Ibrahim, I collected his body in a blanket and took him with me to the neighbors’ home. I went back for my daughter-in-law Eman; her face and legs were chopped and bloody and she kept asking me to call an ambulance.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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The first day, I was not aware that my husband was killed. I was calling him to tell him that his sons and daughters were killed. I heard him asking for ambulance, and then his voice vanished.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Eman remained alive for approximately 18 hours. Umm Ibrahim remembers trying to sooth her:  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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– May God help you tolerate this.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

– I also pray that God relieves you of this torture.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

– Aunty, I am thirsty and hungry. My wounds are burning.  <\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Dear friends, I pass below a glimpse into the memories of one person– of the thousands–in Gaza who remain tortured by Israel’s slaughter in Gaza last month.  The world has moved on, we can’t! The Gaza borders remain closed.  The Gaza sea remains blockaded.  The airspace remains prohibited.  No building materials allowed in.  Electricity still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9731,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/9731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}