GAZA RELIEF/TABUNG KEMANUSIAAN GAZA

15 Jan 2009

Dear Brothers and Sisters
Assalamu Alaikum!
Peace be upon you

Pray that you are all well. Further confirmation from Dr. Amin Sinnokrot, IMA Palestine, that there is no passage into Gaza via the West Bank. Recent communications with Dr. Malik Mahmoud and Dr. Madhat Abbas (Director-General Crisis Management, MOH, Gaza) has confirmed safe passage via the Rafah border during the 3 hours of daily ceasefire for humanitarian agencies. Dr Madhat Abbas has specifically requested the following items:

1. tents, mattresses, blankets, clothing for > 100,000 displaced citizens
2. food, water, feeding formulas (infants)
3. wheelchairs, calipers, crutches, splints, walking frames etc
4. operating theatre outer garments, boots, gloves, masks
5. human plasma
6. heparin
7. surgical consumables
8. emergency medicines and equipment including endotracheal tubes

They have also reconfirmed the following disciplines of medical personnel:

1. trauma specialists
2. burn specialists
3. general surgeons
4. orthopaedic surgeons
5. neurosurgeons
6. vascular surgeons
7. paediatric surgeons/specialists
8. urologists
9. ICU professionals (medical and nursing)

The massacre in Gaza has escalated into a genocide of all the citizens using illegal weapons including phosphorus bombs, dime bombs containing uranium and plutonium deposits causing horrific disfiguring injuries, burns and death. The death toll has now exceeded 1,000 and more than 5,000 injuries. The medical services in Gaza were starved of medical support for months preceding the invasion with a total blockade since the start. It is on the brink of total collapse sustained only by the brave but exhausted medical professionals in Gaza. Humanitarian aid has started trickling through but the situation remains a catastrophic humanitarian disaster.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, we need immediate action to assist and support our colleagues in Gaza. We have to sustain the life-saving services in the 13 hospitals of Gaza. Dr. Malik and the members in Arab Medical Union will coordinate their passage from Cairo to Rafah while Dr. Madhat will continue their escort to Shifa Hospital and other neighbouring health facilities.

Kindly coordinate your relief teams with the necessary documentation and forward details to me for final arrangement with our brothers in Egypt and Gaza. See below for more details.

Jazakumallah Khair

Dr. Ashraf Jedaar
FIMA Relief Coordinator
+27836754103
ajedaar@iafrica.com

Dr. Musa Mohd. Nordin
President FIMA
+60123200564
musamn@gmail.com

FIMA Banking details:

JORDAN ISLAMIC BANKShmeisani Branch - AmmanAccount # 46327Beneficiary: Jordan Society for Islamic Medical Sciences.Contact: Prof Aly Mishal: 00962795990054E-mail: info@islamic-hospital.orgSwift Code: JIBAJOAMFull No : (235860 - 235821) (001) 001 0046327