Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Mazyouna Damoo, her mother and her sister (all injured in the same Israeli attack) crossed into Jordan early this morning. Her father was not allowed to go with them and has been left behind in Gaza. I can't see any details of when they will be able to travel on to the USA for surgery and further treatment.

This may be 'an answer to your prayers'. But I think it is more likely a response to negative international press coverage that was causing major embarrassment to the Israeli government. But the vast majority of the 2,500 children in Gaza in the same position did not get that level of international exposure and are going nowhere.
Thanks for that update. There has been a lot of negative international press coverage about the whole Gaza situation but I don't see much in the way of embarrassment within the Israeli government!

I don't expect to get a reply from the Israeli ambassador but if I do I think it will say something along the lines of "look, we ARE helping the Palestinian children - we have allowed the girl you named to leave with her mother and sister to go to Jordan" and quietly forgetting about the thousands of others as you say.

Let's see how this case works out. I'd be happy to write to the ambassador again and remind her of these anonymous children who are in a similar position. As you may remember I posted a while back that I have already written to my previous M.P. and the previous Home Secretary about a Kindertransport type scheme for Palestinian children but this idea has been rejected out of hand because of the sheer scale of the problem; but if limited to just those children who are in need of immediate surgical intervention, then in conjunction with medical charities it may be viable?