Doctors: Gaza reminiscent of Sabra and Shatila
Source: AFP, 14-01-2009
OSLO: "Israel's" offensive in Gaza can be compared to the massacre of Palestinian refugees by "Israeli"-backed Lebanese militiamen in 1982, two Norwegian medics said Monday as they returned to Norway after working 10 days at a Gaza hospital. "Gaza in 2009 is becoming a new bloody chapter in Palestinian and Middle Eastern history that is, unfortunately, comparable to Sabra and Shatila," Mads Gilbert told reporters at Oslo's Gardermoen airport, referring to the three-day massacre at two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut 27 years ago.
Gilbert, 61, and his colleague Erik Fosse, 58, were sent into Gaza to work at the Shifa Hospital by the pro-Palestinian aid organization NORWAC on December 31. They said they had both worked in Lebanon in 1982 when "Israeli"-allied militiamen massacred between 800 and 2,000 Palestinians at the camps as "Israeli" troops stationed nearby facilitated the bloodshed.
"We hoped we would never see anything like it again," Gilbert said.
The high number of civilian casualties and the huge amount of suffering in Gaza was, however, similar to what he had seen back then, he said.
"Every third person killed and every second person injured is a child under 18 or a woman," he said.
OSLO: "Israel's" offensive in Gaza can be compared to the massacre of Palestinian refugees by "Israeli"-backed Lebanese militiamen in 1982, two Norwegian medics said Monday as they returned to Norway after working 10 days at a Gaza hospital. "Gaza in 2009 is becoming a new bloody chapter in Palestinian and Middle Eastern history that is, unfortunately, comparable to Sabra and Shatila," Mads Gilbert told reporters at Oslo's Gardermoen airport, referring to the three-day massacre at two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut 27 years ago.
Gilbert, 61, and his colleague Erik Fosse, 58, were sent into Gaza to work at the Shifa Hospital by the pro-Palestinian aid organization NORWAC on December 31. They said they had both worked in Lebanon in 1982 when "Israeli"-allied militiamen massacred between 800 and 2,000 Palestinians at the camps as "Israeli" troops stationed nearby facilitated the bloodshed.
"We hoped we would never see anything like it again," Gilbert said.
The high number of civilian casualties and the huge amount of suffering in Gaza was, however, similar to what he had seen back then, he said.
"Every third person killed and every second person injured is a child under 18 or a woman," he said.
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