Only Palestinian children feel traumatized when Israelis try to defend themselves from attack by their parents - at least according to the Catholic News Service - Gaza students traumatized by fighting, says parish priest.

Students at a Catholic school in the Gaza Strip were left traumatized by days of fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen, said the local parish priest.

The school, about five miles from Beit Hanoun, is run by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The priest said that students were frightened Nov. 6 and wanted to go home when they heard that a 16-year-old boy was killed and a teacher critically injured when an Israeli missile struck a group of youths on their way to school, but he convinced the students to stay.

"Our job is to study. That is our weapon against the Israelis," he said.

That and a huge number of missiles, anti-tank devices, etc. Note the level of Christian love and forgiveness taught by this Catholic priest. His Patriarch has always claimed that Palestinian violence was caused by the ‘occupation’ and love, peace, joy, butterflies, puppies and kittens would break out as soon as the Jews left. Now the Jews have moved out of Gaza, the violence against them has increased.

Does Fr Musallam condemn the Palestinians for responding in this way, and deliberately targeting innocent civilians? Or even for putting their own children at risk? No. Do any Catholic (or Anglican or Methodist) news outlets write sympathetically about the suffering of the Israeli children? Again, no.

Earlier this month, Ynet ran this item: Sderot: Traumatized kids have nowhere to run

Qassams close in on unfortified clinic treating children suffering from post-traumatic stress caused by rockets

The children treated at the clinic suffer from anxiety that manifests itself in fear of being outside the home, sleeping in their parents' bed, leaving the door open when they shower, oversensitivity to any noise, some suffer from bed wetting.

"Outside of school they basically have no lives," says Dr. Bason, "this is the only place that can help them but the day the rocket fell near the clinic the children refused to come."

The medical staff also fears how effective treatment will be says Dr. Bason: "You can't treat a child when you're feeling insecure, when there's a siren we stand close to the call, there's no where to run to from there and that only adds to their anxiety."

These traumatized Israeli children are victims of Palestinian aggression, but note the twisting of facts into lies in the words of Constantine Dabbagh, executive director of the Middle East Council of Churches' Gaza office.

"For five days (Beit Hanoun) is without food, without milk for the children. What is going on with the world? Is everyone sleeping? They should put more pressure on Israel to stop the aggression and find a solution. They won't break (the Palestinians') determination."

Israeli self-defence is ‘aggression’? The Palestinians’ determination to do what? Carry out genocide against the Israelis, according to their own statements. And this ‘Christian’ supports them.