29/07/08 Numerous high-profile Palestinian political party members exited the Rafah crossing Tuesday, en route to Cairo for Wednesday’s inter-party negotiations brokered by Egyptian Chief of Intelligence, Omar Suleiman. Linda Willis and Khalil Al Niss were able to meet with Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) members Ramzy Rabah and Saleh Zeidan, who spoke… Read More day 10: high ideals, high appeals

First Published: July 29, 2008   By Eva Bartlett On Sunday, July 20, the Scotland-to-Gaza van filled with medicines and medical supplies destined for Gaza came to a standstill at Egypt’s closed gates.The Rafah crossing, the only Egyptian-Gazan crossing and the only crossing ostensibly not controlled by Israel, has been continuously closed since June 2007, with… Read More Nine Days at the Closed Gates of Rafah

First Published: Daily News Egypt By Eva Bartlett First Published: July 21, 2008 CAIRO: Ten days after setting out from Edinburgh, five days past their projected July 15 arrival, Scottish humanitarian Khalil Al Niss and his wife Linda Willis finally pulled up Sunday afternoon at the Gaza-Egypt Rafah crossing only to be denied entry to… Read More Scottish couple barred from delivering medical supplies at Gaza’s Rafah crossing

Continue to visit Abed, the Jabaliya teen in hospital after being shot on his roof by an Israeli sniper. He is a lovely young man, and I’ll cry with joy if he ever heals enough to just sit in a wheelchair. He longs to be independent, even if it is only by running his own… Read More Following Abed

Abdul Rahman, the 16 year old from Jabaliya, is doing very poorly. Visited with him yesterday and he was more emaciated than ever. Was a bit hopeful because Samir, an Egyptian guy who has been working with Gazans sent here, said they’d secured funding (36000 pounds) for Abed’s 2 operations. We were all hopeful. But… Read More Gaza patients in egypt

First published: Electronic Intifada   By Eva Bartlett Bedridden but painfully conscious, nearly paralyzed with no feeling from the waist down, 16-year-old Abdul Rahman (nicknamed Abed) is one of the hundreds who were injured by intense Israeli shelling and firing on Gaza between 27 February – 3 March 2008, during an operation dubbed “Hot Winter” by… Read More Putting a name to Gaza’s injured

The guy I chatted with, from Jabaliya, was brimming with the same phenomenal exuberance as when I’d met him two weeks ago in one of Cairo’s Hospitals. That was just a week or two after he and his brother had been allowed to exit Gaza for medical care. His brother, 7 years older, was identical… Read More conversations with Jabaliyans