Growing Old in Gaza.
Growing old in Gaza has another meaning… It means survival. It means you have lived through more death, destruction and terror than anybody else around you. It means living with memories that burn your soul and sear your heart. It means having endured loss, grief, sorrow. It means age withers your hope. It means dreaming…
Stealing Palestine: Who dragged Palestinians into Syria’s conflict? ~ Sharmine Narwani for RT
Note from Sharmine Narwani ~ “This is an article I started researching when I first visited Yarmouk camp outside Damascus in 2012 – back when it was an ‘oasis of calm.’ Much has changed since then, but today, this much is clear: Palestinians didn’t jump into the fray in Syria. They were dragged into it…
The Broken Sparrows of Palestine
Originally posted on In Gaza:
Abdul Rahman Abu Oida, pastels, by Ahmad Barqawi ? By Eva Bartlett, Nov 4, 2014, Crescent International A teen who loved strawberries, adored children far more…A paraplegic young man with soulful eyes, deaf ears and unfulfilled dreams of being a father…A martyr. This is the story of Broken Sparrow,…
Gaza’s Children Calling..
Every child in Gaza has a story of one war, many have stories from three wars. As I look through the images that poured out of the last Israeli onslaught on the besieged enclave called Gaza I read the suffering hidden deep in every child’s eyes, the sadness behind the beaming smiles that would break…
The Non-Useful Atrocities – Eva Bartlett
“Who outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of the two American journalists allegedly beheaded, the first of whose execution video has been deemedfaked. But what of the non-Western journalists and civilians beheaded and murdered by ISIS, al-Nusra, and associated terrorists in…
Flight from Kobani ~ by a resident of Latakia, Syria
“Here is my KOBANI story: Jehan is a widow who has lived in Ayn Al Arab for 15 years. The western mainstream press insists on using the Kurdish name for the place, Kobani. They want to establish that the area is Kurdish, not Syrian.Regardless of ethnicity, the country it is located in the Syrian Arab…
Gaza Smile Project ~ The Gaza Magic Bus Campaign.
Gaza Smile Project ~ The Magic Bus https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gaza-smile-project-the-magic-bus–2/x/8485984 As a result of the success of our campaign to raise money for school bags for the children of Gaza we are now working on a project to ensure that more of these children can get to school from their UN shelters. Many families have been…
Palestine ~ Internally Displaced People
“Palestine IDP Figures Analysis IDMC estimates that there are at least 263,000 IDPs in Occupied Palestine (West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem) as of 03 October 2014 This figure includes Palestinians who were displaced within the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem since the start of Israel’s occupation in 1967. The figure…
The Missing of Gaza ~ Civilians taken prisoner by IOF during Operation Protective Edge.
Still no news of the civilians taken as prisoners by the IOF during their occupation of Khuzaa and other border regions during the 51 day assault on Gaza. Khuzaa in the South East of Gaza suffered one of the most brutal and viciously inhumane attacks on a defenceless civilian population. Over 300 prisoners were reported…
The Wall Will Fall 