Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: I fondi terroristi bloccati da Bush...

Grazie al blocco di Bush dei fondi delle organizzazioni
terroristiche...
L'unita' di Dialisi dell'ospedale per i profughi in Libano e' stata
chiusa.
Peccato che le cose sono un pochino piu' complicate de "terroristi
kattivi".
http://www.antiwar.com/rep/dstar5.html
US move against Hamas funding hits dialysis
 Crackdown cuts off income to kidney failure unit 
Section's 61 patients depend on outside donations for 
bi-weekly treatment 
Mohammed Zaatari 
Daily Star correspondent 
Lying in a hospital bed, 8-year-old Hanine Shehadeh looks with
confused eyes at the dialysis machine that is connected to her body.
The equipment could soon be taken away as a result of the recent US
decision to shut down all Hamas-linked institutions.
"I want to live like the children of my age, what have I done to be
deprived of my treatment? I ask (US President George W.) Bush and the
American people what have I done so that they sentence me to death?"
she asks.
Like 60 other Palestinians who suffer from kidney failure, Hanine has
to undergo dialysis three times a week at the Hamshari Hospital's
dialysis department, or face certain death.
The United States government closed down a US-based Arab association
that was financed by an American citizen of Palestinian origin,
Hussein Tabari. Tabari has been transferring $10,000 monthly to the
dialysis section through the association since 1996.
The dialysis section at the hospital, which is part of the Palestinian
Red Crescent, has stopped receiving its patients, aged between 7 and
83 years, starting Monday due to the lack of funds.
The 61 patients cannot afford to pay for the dialysis sessions since
the cost of each session ranges from $90 to $100 and each patient
needs at least two sessions per week.
Mahmoud Hussein Abboud, 63, who has been undergoing dialysis for 18
months, said: "We are on the verge of death, we wait for death
everyday because we cannot afford to pay the expenses of the
treatment."
Abboud, who comes from Beirut twice a week, said he can barely afford
the transportation fee.
Palestinian sources told The Daily Star that Lebanon's commander of
President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in Lebanon, Sultan
Abul-Ainayn, charged Palestinian Liberation Organization
representative in Sidon, Khaled Aref, with preparing a report on the
dialysis department to submit to Arafat.
And despite PLO promises to cover dialysis expenses for one month,
until a substitute is provided, patients staged a sit-in outside the
hospital Monday and called on international humanitarian organizations
to come to their aid.
Protesters raised banners reading: "Have diabetes and dialysis
patients become terrorists in the eyes of President Bush?" and, "We
say to the US administration that we are patients and we need
treatment. We are not terrorists."
The secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Committees in Sidon,
Abed Maqdah, who participated in the protest, listened to the
patients, including Hajja Jamila Tahish, who in addition to her need
of dialysis is blind and suffers from diabetes and osteoporosis.
She said: "I can't see, how can I be a terrorist? US President George
Bush is unjust and I hope he becomes blind because he has treated a
lot of people unfairly."
The chief of the dialysis department at the hospital, Ahmad Jandawi,
urged all local and international humanitarian associations to swiftly
act on behalf of the patients at the hospital, especially since the UN
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) will not cover any of the department's
expenses, adding that any Lebanese patient can get a dialysis
treatment for free at the expense of the Health Ministry.
Jandawi said the department receives patients from all refugee camps
in Lebanon, and that 600 dialysis sessions take place monthly at the
hospital.
The media officer of the Palestinian Popular Committees in Sidon's
camps, Samir Joumaa, said, shutting down humanitarian and social
associations that provide Palestinians with services aim to exert more
pressure on the Palestinian people to accept "unjust solutions that
the US administration and Israel are trying to impose."
A member of the Palestinian Popular Committee in Sidon, Adnan Rifai,
said the associations that Bush ordered to be closed down provided
medical care to needy patients, "and not to any political or military
organization."

kattivi".
Infatti. Basterebbe che quella persona mandasse i suoi fondi attraverso
una miriade di altre associazioni che non abbiano legami con il
terrorismo.
O non e' in grado di fare questo? :)
-Stefano

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Veramente nelle due righe che posti si parla di portare via i
macchinari  e non "potrbbe essere chiusa presto" per cui lo potrebbe
già essere...
Socio del Luigino Fans Club. Tessera n° 0094.