Tuesday 10th February saw the first real rain in Gaza since the supposed “ceasefire”. Whilst most of Palestine is desperate for rain, it was bad news for the people sleeping in tents in the newly-constructed emergency shelter camps – as most of the tents are of simple triangular design without proper flooring or annexes in [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Gaza’s emergency shelter camps fail to meet humanitarian or political needs
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Like a drum” – shelling of Gaza’s beachfront continues
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
19 year-old Ali Abdl Salam Al Sa’ay walks like the living dead. Eyes closed, he hobbles into the examination room at Gaza city’s Nasser Eye Hospital, holding his bandaged hands gingerly in front of him. A relative walks alongside him, holding up his intravenous drip of antibiotics. ‘His right eye is lost’, explains his opthamologist, [...]
The execution of children – war crimes in Izbet Abed Rabbo
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Khaled Abed Rabbo clicks his tongue “Tsk” to indicate “no”, when he is offered a piece of chocolate. The Israeli soldiers who executed his two young daughters were eating chips and chocolate whilst they did it, he explains, quietly. So he will never eat these things again. Khaled has told the story of the horrific [...]
Leaving the land
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQXecLyureE “That wasn’t gunfire, it was construction work”. “No, it was gunfire”. “No, it wasn’t. It was construction work”. Whizz. “It’s gunfire – there was a whizz”. “Really, I didn’t hear a whizz”. “Yeah, there was a whizz.” Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Whizz. “Oh”. It was a relaxed start to the gunfire. Everyone thinking [...]
Shooting at Farmers
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If you hadn’t been here with us, they would have killed us all”. It seems like a bit of an overstatement from Yusef Abu Shaheen, after 7 international activists and 4 members of an Italian tv crew accompanied him and 5 other farm workers to his land in Al Farahin – a village east of Khan Younis, close [...]
Bodies in the rubble
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are still nine bodies in the rubble of a house in Zeitoon – a neighbourhood in the east of Gaza city. 7 children and 2 pregnant women, still lie crushed beneath the weight of a four storey building, their bodies unretrieved. The oldest child is 6 years old. [...]
Report on accompanying residents of Beit Hannoun
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Israeli armed forces opened fire on a group of Human Rights Workers (HRWs) and civilians in the Beit Hannoun area of the Gaza Strip on Thursday 29th January. International HRWs were accompanying residents of Beit Hannoun, in the far north of the Gaza Strip, to their homes, in order to salvage belongings from the rubble, [...]
Life in the boder zone
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If you stay here for five minutes, you will hear gunfire”, explain locals in Wadi Salqa. ”They shoot at anything moving in the village”. Palestinian radio stations have reported that people living in Wadi Salqa are scared to death. Arriving in the village, this seems no overstatement. ”If you move beyond the end of this [...]
