Tag Archives: middle east

May 25: Back home in England

Posted on May 25, 2009 by talestotell

I’m back in the UK. It is nearly a year since I left here to be part of making the FreeGaza project happen, pretty much expecting to end up in Israeli prison – the one thing that didn’t happen! Instead, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

April 16: Visiting Al Assria Cultural Centre

Posted on May 8, 2009 by talestotell

In one of my last Gaza days I went to visit the Union of Health Work Committee‘s Al Assria Cultural Centre . I’d meant to get there ages ago, on request of Sheffield Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, who have been supporting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

April: Kids on wheels in Jabalia & other farewells

Posted on April 22, 2009 by talestotell

Here again are the children of our Jabalia friends, one of the many lovely families I spent last week saying goodbye to. The wheelchair belongs, not to any of the kids thank goodness, but to the father of the oldest … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

April 13: Living in the real world

Posted on April 13, 2009 by talestotell

When we began our first level medic course here in Khan Younis Red Crescent after the Israeli attacks, we found a lot of black humour in the training slides, developed in America, which their authors were probably unaware of. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

April 11: Disarming by direct action

Posted on April 12, 2009 by talestotell

Last night I was playing chess in the shisha cafe across from Al Quds Red Crescent, where I am sure to find a familiar face and where they seem to have got over me being a girl in amongst the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

April 9: Art in the ruins

Posted on April 10, 2009 by talestotell

In my last post, I told you about the photo exhibition in the middle building (which I tend to call the Social Centre, possibly because someone told me it was called that) of the Al Quds Red Crescent hospital complex. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

April 7: It must have really happened

Posted on April 8, 2009 by talestotell

April 7 is World Health Day, and the World Health Organisation declared the theme for the day to be Save Lives: Make Hospitals Safe for Emergencies. In Gaza, health workers held a morning demonstration which some of my colleagues went … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

April 2: Down to the sea

Posted on April 5, 2009 by talestotell

On Thursday we joined Gaza fishermen in their demonstration against the increase in Israeli violence against fishermen and the ongoing theft of their boats. An Israeli gunboat appeared three miles out, but didn’t open fire at us on the beach, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

March 31: The lentils did ok today

Posted on April 2, 2009 by talestotell

Today we accompanied farmers in the Latamat area on the outskirts of Khoza’a. The last time we were out farming in Khoza’a the shooting was the closest I’d experienced, and from the video footage it looked like the Israelis were … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

March 30: Land Day in Beit Hanoun

Posted on April 1, 2009 by talestotell

Today was Land Day, celebrated every year in Palestine, commemorating the Palestinian love of the land and also those people who have died for it. Our friend S from the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative invited us to join people in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments