*Yahya abu Saif (20), missile victim. *Maher Habashi (24), missile victim. “They thought I was dead. I was covered in blood. They put me in the morgue fridge. I was in there for maybe 10 minutes. A neighbour came to say his good byes and saw that I was breathing. He took my pulse and… Read More They Thought I Was Dead
“She was standing in the wheat field near her demolished home, about 800 m from Green Line border, when Israeli soldiers began shooting. The first two bullets hit the ground near her. The third hit her in the kneecap,” Wafa al Najar’s mother explained, sitting on an empty hospital bed next to her injured daughter.… Read More the third hit her in the kneecap: teenager targeted by zionist soldiers
*Fara al Helo (1 year old) killed the day after her uncle, Mohammed al Helo (lower right), was killed by drone missiles -by Eva Bartlett Amer al-Helo smiled wanly while saying he is broken inside. Twenty days after Israeli soldiers shot dead his 55-year-old father and his one-year-old daughter in front of him, also shooting… Read More “They killed me three times”: Palestinian father on Israeli army murder of family members including infant daughter
Jabaliya’s Rayan tent camp residents In Jabliya’s Rayan emergency tent camp, 69 tents have been set up to serve a homeless population of 500 families, averaging from 5 to 12 people per family, whose homes were blown apart, burned, or razed to the ground by Israeli forces during the 3 weeks of attacks on Gaza.… Read More paralysed by life
17 February What caused the Israeli soldiers to shoot a deaf farmer today? Was he threatening? Was it because the group of farm labourers had successfully worked quickly to harvest their day’s wages? Was the sight of retreating, unarmed, clearly non-threatening civilians too tempting to resist? Whatever the motivation, the result is another casualty of… Read More Dirty Tricks: Israeli Soldiers Shoot Deaf Palestinian Farmer, 4th Farmer Shot in 3 weeks
*Abu Alaa, bringing food for his donkeys and camels -by Eva Bartlett “I worked on farms in Israel for 15 years,” Abu Alaa, the owner of the land said. “We had a good relationship, and the Israeli farmers loved my bread, Palestinian bread, and our baclawa (“baklava”) sweets. I had to stop working there when… Read More What’s 25,000 flowers when 40 million rot and farmers continue to be shot at?
Abed Rabbo has told whoever will listen about the murder of his children: “I tried to protect my children, to go back inside. They didn’t stop shooting,” he said, referring to the 3 Israeli soldiers by a tank outside his home who had ordered the family out then gunned them down. Particularly poignant in Khaled Abed Rabbo’s recollection of the moment is that the soldiers displayed a calm, leisurely snacking on junk food while ordering the residents of his home outside. Clearly, these armed soldiers felt no threat.… Read More while eating chips and chocolate, Israeli soldiers murder 2 and 7 year old
In a region where cooking gas is either non-existent or exorbitantly-priced, where firewood is scarce and burnables becoming scarcer, where electricity cuts occur regularly, and where bread is a staple food, people strive to find practical solutions to the bread crisis. During Israel’s 3 weeks of brutal attacks on Gaza’s civilians, the bread crisis was… Read More no small enterprise: Al Faraheen’s community bread oven
Ten hours after I had filmed 2 large missile craters near his home, Ayman Turban’s house was hit by two Apache missiles, he said. I’d been there early in the morning, after a night shift with the Red Crescent. It was 3 January, the first day of the land invasion, 8th day of Israel’s attacks… Read More Love, Nancy
In Gaza 