Silvia Cattori : It seems that you are receiving people with wounds that are very difficult to treat. Do you know what kind of arms are being used?

Juma al-Saqqa : We dont know exactly what kind of weapon it was but we suggest it was a chemical weapon or a weapon with radiation [inaudible] they also had a very strong explosion. There was shrapnel trapped in the bodies.

Silvia Cattori : When did they use this weapon for the first time?

Juma al-Saqqa: They started with Operation Summer Rain two weeks ago.

Silvia Cattori : Were these weapons being used from tanks or planes?

Juma al-Saqqa: From the planes.

Silvia Cattori : And did many people die from these attacks?

Juma al-Saqqa: Yes, many of them died and many are going to die because they are completely injured. Many of them have cuts that are haemorrhaging...

Silvia Cattori : How many died?

Juma al-Saqqa: 50 killed, 200 injured.

Silvia Cattori : Israeli did not allow me to enter Gaza.

Juma al-Saqqa: They dont want you to see what is happening here. This is the worst situation we have had since ’48. We have Arab people dying day after day...We are in lack of everything. Bad water supply, bad sewage management, lack of food lack of supplies, they....[Phone line cut off