{"id":1578,"date":"2004-12-26T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-26T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T02:42:23","slug":"no-happy-holidays-for-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/no-happy-holidays-for-fallujah\/","title":{"rendered":"No Happy Holidays for Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC reports: BBC News spoke to Dr Saleh Hussein Isawi, the acting director of the Falluja general hospital, who accompanied some of the refugees into the city.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I was there, inside the city – about 60% to 70% of the homes and buildings are completely crushed and damaged, and not ready to inhabit at the moment.<\/p>\n

Of the 30% still left standing, I don’t think there is a single one that has not been exposed to some damage.<\/p>\n

One of my colleagues… went to see his home, and saw that it is almost completely collapsed and everything is burnt inside.<\/p>\n

When he went to his neighbours’ home, he found a relative of his was dead and a dog had eaten the meat off him.<\/p>\n

I think we will see many things like this, because the US forces have cleared the dead people from the streets, but not from inside the homes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Link via Jews sans frontieres<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

From Left I on the News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Iraq, less than a thousand residents of Fallujah have returned in two days<\/a>; an estimated 200,000 had fled. Sure, they’ll be ready for elections on January 30…2006.<\/em> Of course that would be assuming that any of the returnees actually stay<\/em>, which seems unlikely given the lack of water, electricity…or houses.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC reports: BBC News spoke to Dr Saleh Hussein Isawi, the acting director of the Falluja general hospital, who accompanied some of the refugees into the city. I was there, inside the city – about 60% to 70% of the homes and buildings are completely crushed and damaged, and not ready to inhabit at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}