“This particular aspect of the siege is quite compelling because when a society is deprived of the ability to fish and to farm, it is deprived of its ability to sustain itself. It’s part of the ongoing Nakba, and part of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine,” says Charlotte Kates, a lawyer and one of the Day of Action coordinators.… Read More Gaza Farmers and Fishers Find Canadian Support
*Palestinians injured in Israel’s latest bombing campaign in Gaza (photo by Mohamed Majdalawi) by Eva Bartlett In August 2011, when the Israeli army bombed the Gaza Strip for nearly a week, killing 26 and injuring 89 more Palestinians, they at least had a pretext, no matter how transparently false — one which was immediately proven… Read More No pretense of an excuse for continued Israeli attacks on Gaza
*injured Palestinians from Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza (photo by: Mohamed Majdalawi) As Gaza endures its 4th day of intense bombing from Israeli F-16s, V58 fighter planes, Apache helicopters, UAVs and warships, please take the time to look at these websites and read these key articles: Mohamed Majdalawi, Palestinian, Jabaliya camp, photos and thoughts Omar… Read More Israel initiates bloodbath on Gaza… which continues 4 days later
first published by Eva Bartlett at the New Internationalist Wedding season began weeks ago with the first convoys of honking cars overloaded with singing, dancing, cheering shebab [guys]. From 4pm onwards, the beeping cars and wedding bands – five or more musicians dressed in traditional trousers and blouses, playing different-sized drums and something akin to… Read More street celebrations
*the emergency tent camp named Karama (“Dignity”) set up in the Ezbet Abed Rabbo region, for the 350 families with houses completely destroyed and the 700 families with houses badly damaged. The 55 tents available are obviously insufficient for the number of families, the size of the tents insufficient for the size of families, many… Read More dignity
Today was the first day that medics and journalists were able to reach areas occupied by the invading Israeli troops. Palestinians by this point, by weeks ago, were desperate for any semblance of a normal life, though normality here is far from normality anywhere else. They were desperate to return to their homes, survey the… Read More waiting
“Fi shark sheyjayee, ashera shuhada…” Israeli warplanes just bombed a funeral ceremony in a school in Eastern Sheyjayee, east of Gaza city. Minutes ago, as the mourners of another recently killed by Israel tried in vain to grieve their dead. At least ten more are now dead. Everything is in vain here: breathing (inhale chemical… Read More another funeral bombed
–By Eva Bartlett After finishing a shift with the Palestinian Red Crescent medics yesterday morning, we went to the Fakhoura UN school, which Israel bombed. It was a school housing numerous internally-displaced Palestinians. The Israeli shelling killed 42 civilians, among whom 13 children. Al-Mezan reported: The Israeli army, “fired four artillery shells in the vicinity… Read More after Israeli bombing of UN Fakhoura school: no room for the dead, no room for the living
If your unbelievably small and overcrowded land was being terrorized, pulverized by bombs from one of the world’s largest militaries (equipped with nuclear bombs), and your borders were closed; if your house was not safe, mosque (church) not safe, school not safe, street not safe, UN refugee camp not safe…Where would you go, run, hide?… Read More where would you go?
By Eva Bartlett A good, brave, and very funny man was killed yesterday as he loaded the body of a civilian into an ambulance.Emergency medical workers, Arafa Hani Abd al Dayem, 35, and Alaa Ossama Sarhan, 21, had answered the call to retrieve Thaer Abed Hammad, 19, and his dead friend Ali, 19, who had… Read More Israeli army kills Palestinian medic with dart bomb
In Gaza 