chapter 8

Chapter 8

He stopped the car at the entrance to the camp, and as soon as the doctors gathered, each carrying some of his tools, he distributed them all. Then he pointed to Maryam and said:

Al-Qasim: You have seven houses in this direction, and when you are done, you will return here.

Maryam: And when you didn't go with Anoud and Maher, didn't you say a doctor and two men?

Al-Qasim: Until we cover all the numbers of houses, I will go in the opposite direction, so let's start. We don't have much time.

He stopped the car at the entrance to the camp, and as soon as the doctors gathered, each carrying some of his tools, he distributed them all. Then he pointed to Maryam and said:

Al-Qasim: You have seven houses in this direction, and when you are done, you will return here.

Maryam: And when you didn't go with Anoud and Maher, didn't you say a doctor and two men...

Al-Qasim: Until we cover all the numbers of houses, I will go in the opposite direction, so let's start. We don't have long.

Maryam moved to feel angry at Al-Qasim, as he deliberately left her alone, thinking that he wanted to see her fail, but on the contrary, he liked to see her always strong and not dependent on anyone and also wanted to know how strong she could bear the responsibility, but as soon as she approached the first house, she threw What did she think in the depths, and she smiled as she knocked on the first apartment door in a five-story building, each floor containing two apartments.

Child: I think that you are lost in the hospital in the middle of Jenin and not on the outskirts where the camp area is

Mary smiled at him and replied: I know this, but the hospital sent you to visit the camp and help those who need medicine

Child: But we do not have enough money, otherwise we would have come to the hospital.

Mary: But I do my part for free and I do not want money.

Child: Indeed, if you come with me, my grandmother in the next apartment is old and not breathing well, and I am afraid for her.

Mary: Well, show me the way.

The boy ran to the next apartment, then opened the door, shouting

Child: My grandmother, the doctor, came.

Grandmother: What female doctor, Badr? No one asked for doctors.

Mary: Peace be upon you, grandmother. I am Maryam, the doctor Arafat, the director of Al-Madina Hospital, sent me to check on your health

Grandma: Hello, my daughter. But who told the doctor that I am sick?

Maryam: It is a campaign to help those who need treatment in the camp, not just you.

The grandmother nodded understandingly and then said: - Badr, go and call your mother, your aunts, and everyone else who needs treatment from the street here.

Mary: No, I will go to their homes too.

Grandma: But this is exhausting for you, my daughter

Mary: Good. It does not exhaust my grandmother but increases human determination.

Grandma with a smile: - God bless you, my daughter, but. Let's make it a little easier, come on Badr, go and get everyone at home here, and don't forget your brother, Ezz El-Din, to accompany the doctor wherever she wants and help her. We also love good.

Badr: - present

Badr rushes to time and calls out to his mother, aunts, and those in the house. After a few moments, the grandmother's apartment was filled. Mary kept revealing and writing the prescription for free medicine for those who needed it and told them to go to any pharmacy and give her the prescription and it would be spent for free. Then she left the first house with Ezz El-Din, who insisted that he carry He is the bags, and he follows them to every building they enter, and the same thing is repeated. Everyone in the building gathers in one apartment, revealing them all. Then she goes to the next house with Izz al-Din and another person from the house, even when she reached the last house on the street, she was with her ten young men who helped her. While they were inside the alley, they heard the sounds of heavy gunfire coming from outside the alley, then defensive shots from the people started responding to the first shots, and the situation remained like this for several hours. The resistance of the camp's people and the defense of their land for eleven days resulted in the killing of many and the wounding of many on both sides. Mary and those with her were doctors who were scattered among the houses trying to treat the injured and save their lives, but the equipment was not enough and the treatment with them was carried out, it was only sampled and on the side, On the other hand, the occupation became frustrated, and they decided to demolish the entire neighborhood and not knock on anything alive, even if it was an animal, and they bombed the camp with planes and tanks. The situation continued like this until the smell of blood spread among the wrecked houses. Despite this, several days passed and the siege increased suffocation. Despite the dedication of the entire medical staff to work, the situation was miserable, especially with the siege and the failure of ambulances to pass and medical supplies running out with them. With the intensification of the attack of the occupation forces, everyone began to try to flee From the damaged houses and resorting to a school for shelter, but in one of the houses at the time of evacuating the place, Maryam heard the sound of a child crying inside one of the houses, and without thinking, Mary rushed amid the lights coming out of the house from which the sound came, looking for the girl, and as soon as she found a girl no more than five years old Years, she carried her and tried to get out of the wreckage of the house, and she turned right and left to find an exit, but she saw a shell that was falling on a house near the house that was at its door. With the sound of the explosion and the flames burning louder, she started losing consciousness, but the last thing she saw with her eyes was a piece of a missile written on it in Hebrew as a gift from the children of Israel to the children of Palestine. Meanwhile, al-Qasim and those with him tried to get whoever they could out of the alley, but the bombing did not spare anyone. Even the ambulance in which a doctor was in was bombed. Only a few survived the bombing. The girls tried to escape, but they were wounded and they and the rest of the doctors' staff were killed inside the houses that were They were scattered about it, but Maryam was trying to help a girl escape. The roof of a house fell on her, and she was hit in the head and lost consciousness. Al-Qasim managed to get some of the people out, despite his leg injury, and then get out of the alley, but he remained close to the alley until the bombing ended, and then he returned with some of the people. The city was looking for body parts and destroyed houses for doctors. The Jenin shelter was destroyed. The alley was filled with corpses. They even brought bulldozers to carry the bodies and then dumped them in the landfill. The smell of blood filled the city, not just the alley. The medical staff first approached the ambulance that had been thrown and found the body of one of the doctors completely charred. He moved away while wiping his face from the horror of the sight, and despite the pain, he screamed from his leg, he held himself and kept looking for all the staff that was with him. Some of the people from outside the shelter helped him to carry the bodies of the doctors that he found to return them to the hospital, and near one of the houses that were almost destroyed, he heard the sound of a crying child. Removing many tin and aluminum, it became clear to him that the body of a girl wearing a veil, the denominator lowered and carried the girl. It was burnt and the other part was covered with blood so that the color of the veil became the color of blood. Al-Qasim tried to speed up and get out of the alley carrying the doctor's body. As soon as he reached outside the alley, someone carried it from it and put it in one of the cars. Al-Qasim sat next to her, who lost consciousness from a large number of blood. Who bled, the driver of the car rushed to the only hospital in the city.