{"id":5066,"date":"2005-12-19T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:15:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:15:21","slug":"epalestine-four-palestinians-die-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2005\/12\/epalestine-four-palestinians-die-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Palestinians die due to sound-bombs and shelling in Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">The Palestine Monitor<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">A PNGO Information Clearinghouse<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">UPDATE<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><strong>Four Palestinians die due to sound-bombs and shelling in Gaza Strip<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">December 18, 2005<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size:8pt\"><u>http:\/\/www.palestinemonitor.org\/nueva_web\/updates_news\/updates\/gaza_sound_bombs.htm<\/u><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">The General Director of Reception and Emergency in the Palestinian Health Ministry,  Dr Mauia Hassanin, declared that four sick Palestinians died on Sunday 18the  December due to Israeli sound-bombs and shelling in Southern Gaza.&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Dr Hassinin said that many people suffering from long-term illnesses such as blood  pressure, diabetes, and heart conditions died suddenly on Sunday after being struck  by deafening sound-bombs launched by low-flying Israeli airplanes.&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Some 77 people, especially children and elderly women, rushed to the hospital after  the attack, suffering from nausea and confusion, some of whom were transferred to  a specialist care centre for treatment of the nervous system. Some of the more  serious cases involved internal bleeding in the brain and five pregnant women lost  their babies as a direct result of the sound-bomb attack &#8211; a new Israeli tactic known  to traumatize and induce miscarriages.&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Further consequences of the attacks left damage to house, buildings and shops, as  well as power cuts resulting from a targeted rocket attack on an electricity generator  in Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza.&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">The Israeli army also fired at ambulance teams and policemen trying to reach the  injured. 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He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour was instrumental 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">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\/5066","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=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10024,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}