Korban serangan udara, laut, dan darat ke Jalur Gaza terus bertambah. Gempuran selama hampir dua pekan di Jalur Gaza jelas menyisakan kepedihan mendalam. Selain itu, juga ketakutan, kecemasan, dan trauma pada warga setempat, terutama anak-anak. “Gaza ini wilayah kecil. Jadi, pada saat bom-bom Israel dijatuhkan, kami merasa bom itu seperti jatuh di rumah kami,” kata Shawa, warga setempat yang memiliki tiga anak.
“Aku takut sekali…, seolah-olah kematian terus membayangiku,” ujar Mohammad Ayyad. Bocah 11 tahun yang tinggal tak jauh dari bangunan pemerintah Hamas di kota Gaza ini masih dibayang-bayangi serangan bom Israel ke kawasan itu. Seperti banyak anak lainnya, dia mengalami trauma oleh serangan besar-besaran itu. “Kami mendengar banyak sekali ledakan. Adikku sampai ngompol,” katanya, seperti dikutip AFP.
Jangankan siang hari, malam di sejumlah kawasan di Gaza pun tak membuat nyaman warga setempat. Pasukan Israel kerap melancarkan serangan pada malam hari. “Serangan pada malam hari membuat suasana di sini seperti di neraka,” ujar Sarah Radi, seorang guru berusia 26 tahun. Setiap malam, warga dikejutkan oleh setidaknya 200 ledakan bom tiap jam selama serangan.
Apa yang tengah berlangsung di Gaza, menurut Sarah, adalah pemusnahan warga sipil. “Mereka bilang mau menghancurkan Hamas. Kenyataannya, mereka mau menghabisi warga dan anak-anak Palestina. Apa yang telah dilakukan perempuan dan anak-anak sehingga pasukan Israel memusnahkan rumah mereka?” tanya dia.
Faktanya memang seperti diungkapkan Shawa. Jalur Gaza yang terentang sepanjang sekitar 40 kilometer dan lebar sekitar 10 kilometer itu dihuni kurang lebih 1,5 juta warga. Tingkat kepadatan penduduknya sangat tinggi, mencapai hampir 4.000 orang per kilometer persegi. Hampir separuh penduduknya adalah anak-anak dan remaja di bawah usia 18 tahun.
Para ahli kejiwaan pun mengarahkan perhatian mereka pada anak-anak dan remaja ini. Menurut perkiraan Samir Zaqut, serbuan mutakhir Israel ke Gaza itu akan jadi bayang-bayang mengerikan dan tak terlupakan bagi anak-anak. “Jelas, serangan bom dan peluru kendali Israel itu bisa menyebabkan tekanan pasca-traumatis pada mereka, seperti depresi, insomnia, bahkan kemungkinan besar skizofrenia,” kata psikolog yang bekerja untuk Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, lembaga non-pemerintah yang beroperasi di Gaza, itu.
Badan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (PBB) bidang khusus anak-anak, Unicef, menegaskan bahwa Gaza sekarang menjadi tempat paling berbahaya bagi anak-anak. Sebanyak 53% anak-anak tidak percaya lagi bahwa orangtua mereka bisa melindungi mereka dari kekerasan itu. Malah 93% merasa tidak aman di mana pun mereka berada.
Perang memang membuat anak-anak trauma. Hidup dalam ketakutan, seakan bom berikutnya mengenai rumah mereka. Banyak sekali di antara mereka kini enggan makan. Mereka kehilangan nafsu bermain, jarang bicara, dan memeluk erat orangtua mereka setiap saat. “Mereka dibayangi ketakutan, terutama pada malam hari karena gelap tanpa penerangan listrik,” ujar Sajy Elmaghinni, petugas Unicef di Gaza, seperti dikutip harian Hurriyet.
Belum lagi bila dihitung dampak agresi Israel itu terhadap anak-anak yang mengalami cacat tubuh. Hingga saat ini, belum ada catatan resmi tentang jumlah anak yang anggota tubuhnya harus diamputasi. Di Rumah Sakit Shifa di kota Gaza, terkabar, setiap dokter rata-rata mengamputasi lima hingga 10 pasien setiap hari. “Saya tidak tahu senjata macam apa yang digunakan pasukan Israel. Banyak sekali operasi amputasi dilakukan di sini,” kata Ziad Abdul Jawad.
Erwin Y. Salim
[Laporan Utama, Gatra Nomor 9 Beredar Kamis, 8 Januari 2009]
A Palestinian man reacts in front of the bodies of three children killed by an Israeli tank shell, one of them his son, at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 5, 2009. An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children in their home in eastern Gaza City on Monday, medical officials said. They said several other Palestinians were wounded in the incident in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighbourhood. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)
Palestinian medics carry the bodies of two children, killed by an Israeli tank shell early on January 5, 2009, upon their arrival at the mortuary of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital. Five children were killed in two separate Israeli strikes in Gaza early today, Palestinian medics said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinians walk past a destroyed mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A wounded Palestinian woman waits for treatment at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital on January 5, 2009. The Israeli air force hit 130 targets in Gaza overnight, an army spokesman said today with the Palestinian toll passing 510 early this morning. The fatalities included five children who were killed in two separate Israeli strikes in Gaza early today, Palestinian medics said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP – DECEMBER 28: A wounded Palestinian boy is brought by car to the Al-Shifa hospital on December 28, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza. On the second day of cross-border conflict, Israel’s air force continued to launch attacks along the Gaza Strip, destroying many buildings belonging to Hamas, including holy mosques, civilian homes and vehicles, work shops, police compounds and a prison, increasing the number of Palestians killed to over 270. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A Palestinian man reacts as he carries a girl who according to Palestinian medical sources was killed in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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The bodies of two Palestinian children, killed by an Israeli tank shell early on January 5, 2009, lie on the ground at the mortuary of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital. Five children were killed in two separate Israeli strikes in Gaza early today, Palestinian medics said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
Three Palestinian children from the Balosha family, of five who were all killed in the same Israeli missile strike, are seen in the morgue before their burial at Kamal Edwan hopsital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. Israel’s overwhelming air campaign against the Gaza Strip inched closer to the territory’s Hamas rulers as the assault entered its third day Monday, as missiles struck a house next to the Hamas premier’s home and destroyed symbols of the Islamic movement’s power. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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A Palestinian medic carries a wounded girl to the treatment room of Shifa hospital following an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. More than 400 Gazans have been killed and some 1,700 have been wounded since Israel embarked on its aerial campaign, Gaza health officials said. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)
** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENTS ** Palestinians bodies are seen at the morgue of Shifa hospital, following an Israeli army operation, in Gaza City, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, cutting the coastal territory into two and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas militants gained momentum. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan)
A Palestinian doctor carries the body of a child killed by an Israeli tank shell, at Shifa hospital in Gaza January 5, 2009. An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children in their home in eastern Gaza City on Monday, medical officials said. They said several other Palestinians were wounded in the incident in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighbourhood. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)
A Palestinian woman from the El Deeb family, who had ten relatives killed near a United Nations school Tuesday, weeps during their funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. Israel’s military paused its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country’s leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or expand the assault against Hamas. With criticism rising of the operation’s spiraling civilian death toll and Gazans increasingly suffering the effects of nonstop airstrikes and shelling, Israel’s military said it opened “humanitarian corridors” to allow aid supplies to reach Palestinians.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa).
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