{"id":1572,"date":"2016-08-25T02:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2017-04-22T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:08:45","slug":"it-was-extremely-difficult-to-witness-his-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/it-was-extremely-difficult-to-witness-his-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was extremely difficult to witness his suffering\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-redactor-inserted-image=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTwo days after that visit, war blew up in Gaza and days later, Yousef\u2019s neighbourhood was hit when a ceasefire was announced for few hours I went to visit and was shocked as I could not recognize the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cEverything had changed. Massive destruction was everywhere \u2013 damaged houses, destroyed sewage networks, severed electricity wires, and rescue teams searching for dead bodies. We walked over the rubble, and I was hardly able to move or identify the scene around us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1574 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/islamicreliefmalaysia_news_5.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhen we reached the place where Yousef used to live, rubble was everywhere putting an end to all his hopes and dreams. In front of this catastrophic scene, Yousef failed to hide his shock when finding that all his toys were broken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt was extremely difficult to witness his unbearable suffering after seeing his previous happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMisery can be seen in the eyes of those injured kids waiting for their parents in Gaza hospitals. Shima\u2019a is one of those children who spent days in a hospital waiting for her mom to come, unknowing that she passed away days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhat is most difficult in Gaza is that you find yourself helping the needy today fearing that you, yourself, will be one of those asking for relief tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo days after that visit, war blew up in Gaza and days later, Yousef\u2019s neighbourhood was hit when a ceasefire was announced for few hours I went to visit and was shocked as I could not recognize the area. \u201cEverything had changed. Massive destruction was everywhere \u2013 damaged houses, destroyed sewage networks, severed electricity wires, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}