Who knows the deaf in Gaza, how do they feel the sounds of the bombing?
Fadl Kraz is a sign of sign language from one place to another, according to the destroyed Gaza Strip, trying to reach those who know them with hearing disabilities. Fadl reaches the tent of Iman Shallah or the mother of Muhammad, which tells us about her deaf children as well, in a sign of a sign that is translated by me:
With these simple and painful words, Iman Shallah reduced the tragedy of 20,000 hearing people in the Gaza Strip, according to the World Health Organization. For these, the danger is not heard in advance, but rather suddenly, leaving them, leaving them the most fragile and vulnerable to harm.
The tragedy of Iman is not only that she is a lack of hearing, and she cannot hear the sounds of bombing and explosions to protect herself and her children from him, but in that she lost her husband's only breadwinner in this war, and lost her daughter with him, to find herself alone in a tent of displacement in Gaza City, with three children, two of whom are hearing like her.
Iman continues to describe her daily suffering, saying: "What we live in the war is very difficult, I try to shout to my children if I see them trying to leave the tent, but the cry does not come out of me because I do not speak, and do not reach them because they do not hear, this permanent fear forces me to keep them prisoners in their narrow space inside the tent, for fear of an external world that they cannot decipher, if I always ask his vocal risk I left them going out, and there was a bombing that we did not hear his voice, what would happen to them?
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From the womb of this suffering, the role of Fadl, who works in the field of signaling of sign language in several charities in the Gaza Strip 33 years ago, and with the outbreak of the war, volunteered to help this group for free, and did not hesitate for a moment to provide its services.
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Fadl says: "My long work in the field of sign language creates a strong relationship between me and the deaf and dumbness, and I have become the frequency of the displacement camps, and I visit them, so that I teach them some of the tips and instructions that save life, such as how to distinguish the time of bombing from the movements of those around."
He adds: "The optimal response that they should do at this time to survive and preserve their lives, as well as the idea of teaching the people around the deaf and dumb in the displacement camps the basics of sign language, in order to be able to communicate with them and save them at the time of need."
Fadl adds: "Among those I know well is the mother of Muhammad and her sons, my knowledge began with her when she saw her going to one of the associations in which I work as a request for help, the difference of my heart for her condition, especially after she lost her only breadwinner, this is the most time she needs for those who extend her and her youngsters a helping hand."
Fadl realizes that the challenges that resulted from the war goes beyond the danger of direct shelling, it affects the simplest details of life, and tells us a position that reveals the depth of the crisis: “In the context of my initiative to visit the displaced from deaf and dumb, and to provide a helping hand to them, when I was visiting Umm Muhammad and her children one day in their tent inside one of the schools that turned into a house, the temperatures were very high, so I asked me for a drink Saying that she has no or her young water.
When I asked her about the reason, she told me that the car designated for transporting and distributing water when it reaches the camp, its driver presses its trumpet more than once to alert the displaced, so they crowded their role to obtain the water, but I do not hear the sound of the trumpet, and therefore I always miss my share of drinking water, "according to Fadl.
The sign coach adds: "This situation was making Umm Muhammad had to go to the tents of her displaced neighbors, and asking them some water, which affected in a deep way, and made me think about finding a way to help her, and from here came my initiative to teach the deaf and dumb neighbors the basics of sign language, so that they can communicate with Umm Muhammad and warn her of the arrival of the water tank to take its share of it, as well Water, but I am not always able to do this, so the best solution was to find a language of communication between it and others. "
From here, the role of Fadl Kraz is not limited to communication, but rather extends to teach survival strategies, the 12 -year -old child says about him with awareness of more than his age:
Despite his awareness of the surrounding danger, Fadl insists on continuing the path he chose for himself, as a sign of a sign language in this war, he says about his choice: "Sometimes I am on the way to visit a family displaced from deaf and dumb, I have ideas such as: What if a bombing happens here or there? I definitely feel fear."
"But there is another feeling that crowds fear inside me, a feeling of the real desire to implement this initiative, to save these human beings, although it is to endanger my life if I went to a place, then the danger in the whole Gaza Strip," according to Fadl.
"Our Children to Deaf": A hand that helps from under the rubble
This individual steadfastness of Kraz is supported by institutional efforts, almost the only steadfast in Gaza, the "Association of Our Children for the Deaf", which was not just a civil society association, but rather a lifeline for this category, as it is the only one that still provides its services to those who hearing in the Gaza Strip, despite its headquarters being bombed.
The director of the association, Fadi Abed, confirms to the BBC that the association faced the same fate of many: "Our headquarters, as is the case in the rest of the institutions, suffered a very severe damage that led to the stopping of services."
But the will was stronger than destruction, as Abed adds: "Given the great need, the" Our Children to the Deaf "association managed to find a new place to continue its work and not stop the basic services, this insistence on staying was not just a reaction, but rather a philosophy of work in the face of a long -term war, and we do not know when it will put its weights, and the insistence of people to stay and return to the daily routine, it was a basic motivation for us, despite the approaching of the war."
In front of the reality of destroyed schools and crowded shelter centers, the association invented solutions from the womb of the crisis, as its director says: "The alternative was to find educational points or classrooms in tents to teach deaf and dumb, and the most inspiring thing is that those who prepared these seasons are the people with disabilities themselves."
He continued: "After they lost their job opportunities due to the war, we re -absorbed them and rehabilitated the necessary workshops for them, they were the ones who manufactured furniture, tables and chairs for students, to be a model and a resilience story to follow, and these students were before the war from the association, and those who obtained their corridors on many educational activities that enabled them to perform their mission in the war successfully."
Behind these human stories, Fadi Abed highlights numbers described as shocking, according to field surveys carried out by the association, revealing a worsening health crisis experienced by hearing in the Gaza Strip, according to the association, there are 35 thousand people in Gaza, including children and adults, suffering from hearing loss temporarily or permanently as a result of continuous explosions, environmental pollution, and the absence of the necessary medical care.
The rate of hearing problems also doubled - according to the "Our Children for the Deaf" association - from what it was before the war, in addition to a noticeable increase in hearing problems in newborns who were born during the war, which requires urgent interventions.
The association’s surveys, according to its director, Fadi Abed, indicate that 83% of people with hearing disabilities have lost their auxiliary tools, such as medical heads, as a result of repeated displacement and lack of maintenance or spare parts, and the mud is worse, according to Abed, that Israel prevented the entry of new auxiliary tools to the sector, despite the urgent need for them.
The threads of this story are intertwined to paint a realistic painting of the reality of the silent in the war in the Gaza Strip, the mother Iman, who is trying to be a protective shield for her children, and the child Muhammad who faces danger with influential visual awareness, and a signaling language coach Fadl who extends the bridges of communication with his hands to everyone who needs it, and Fadi who leads a institution trying to rebuild life from the ruins of the war, all of them in turn and from his location that tells a different chapter of the war, And live testimonies.
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