Nadeem family: Mohanned, Majda, Firas, Basher, Tala, Dima
The night of Wednesday, January 14, was the worst night for the people in the Tela Howa area. You’ve already heard Reem’s story, and heard from me that this was the night they began to drop rockets on the Al Quds hospital, with our worst rocket fire occuring Thursday night. (more…)
Meeting Manwar to go to her demolished home - border in the background
Dr Tariq examining Saja's gunshot wound
Yesterday E and I went back to see Amer at his Zaytoun house. He told us his brother Abdullah is back home from the Egyptian hospital, and showed us his hospital records; his wounds (two shots to abdomen, one to arm), are healing ok. He was worried about Saja, his 6 year old, though, it seemed he thought the gunshot wound to her arm wasn’t healing properly, and he wasn’t sure if he could get an overworked doctor’s attention under current circumstances. (more…)
...and neither is Gaza.
Baby A, out of the basement, with his uncle who lost both legs in past attack
bedroom after soldiers
kitchen after soldiers
This morning is the second that I woke to quietness; no shelling from the sea. E and I went today to see our Jabalia friends, F’s family. They are back in their house, one of the few standing in their neighbourhood of Azbet Abed Rabbo. This is only the case because their fears were realised – it was again occupied by the army during the land incursion. (more…)
This family has no clothes other than those they are wearing.
In their own words:
“It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day…If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist…Unilateral separation doesn’t guarantee “peace” – it guarantees a Zionist-Jewish state with an overwhelming majority of Jews…“
- Professor Arnon Soffer, Head of the IDF’s National Defense College, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post (24 May 2004)
Please note one of the more disturbing images I have seen follows in this post. I don’t know where it was taken or who by, but it was given to me by a Red Crescent worker. (more…)
Ramatan TV, nine floors up and open 24 hours, was the last bastion of internet during the strikes. We knew the place because we got asked in for interviews, and then called a few press conferences there, for example announcing that internationals would be riding with ambulances. We began to hang around in the corners at other times, hoping no-one would mind us hitching a ride on the wifi. (more…)
Ahmad Hassaneen, 7 years old
This is Ahmad Hassaneen, from Shayjaiee in East Gaza, near to the border. He was shot in the head about 9.45am today while playing with other children. Dr Fawzi Nabusi holds the x-ray showing the bullet in his brain. He is currently in a coma in Al Shifa hospital. (more…)
Medic Hassan (who was shot) on duty in Jabalia - photo by Moh the Gazan
From my email…
Subject: Help Request Through ISM Website
Date: Saturday Jan 17
I am writing to make a request for a good friend from Gaza that I have known for 5 years now (Amer Shurrab, Seeds of Peace ’99, UWCAD ’01–03, Middlebury College ’08.5). He just found out his father and two brothers were attacked while returning home from their farm during the 3-hr ceasefire. One brother (Kassab Shurrab) died, but the father (Mohammed Shurrab -64) and the remaining brother (Ibrahim-17) are now wounded and stranded in an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) controlled area. (more…)
