Last September I posted on the case of six-year-old Marya Aman, and while I have endeavored to track her case through the months, there has been a frustrating dearth of information.
Until now.
Once more, The Times affords an update:
Three Israeli judges will hear a case this week brought on behalf of a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was paralysed from the neck down in an Israeli missile attack.
The High Court judges will be asked to decide whether the Israeli government should help Marya Aman, from Gaza, who depends on a life-support machine, by allowing her to stay in Israel with continuing financial support from the authorities. Her supporters say if she loses the case it will amount to a death sentence.
Marya, who has been sustained in part by donations of more than £38,000 from readers of The Sunday Times, has chosen to attend the hearing in person.
Two years ago an Israeli plane targeted a vehicle in Gaza and killed a Palestinian militant. But the blast also hit the Amans’ car, killing Marya’s mother and grandmother, her elder brother and her
She was discharged from the Alin hospital in Jerusalem last year but cannot leave because the authorities refuse to grant her residency, although they bear the £10,000-a-month cost of her hospital bills and school fees.
Cheques to Marya Aman Appeal can be sent c/o Foreign Desk, The Sunday Times, 1 Pennington
How much has been raised for the victims of missile attacks on Sderot and other Israeli towns? Are you tracking that? Just curious.
Steve – I am sure the victims of Sderot, and other settler towns, will receive sufficient financial assistance from the Israeli government, and the United States, as usual.
Should you wish to check this assertion further, visit The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, which has in the past revealed that one-third of the American foreign aid budget is allocated to Israel.
As will the families of the various homicide bombers, I suppose.