Hamdan

I met Hamdan in 2012 at the Al Amal Institute for Orphans. He crept into my heart and has stayed there ever since with his shy smile and his cloak of sadness. I look at the sun touching his eyes in this photo and I know I would do anything in my power to save…

We are all Gaza.

As the airstrikes continue unabated across the Gaza Strip, adjectives to describe this culling of human lives drain from my mind. I am wordless in a sea of blood and lost in a fog of dying breaths. When you see an image like this, the monstrous missile strewn like some dead animal in the room…

The Fishermen

When you keep your eye on the horizon of your dreams and you strain against the leash that holds you back. You ebb and you flow with the tide of hatred and repression that flows from the occupying shores like black ink on the waves. You strain every sinew to beat back the bullets, to…

Hidden Death.

This view is becoming familiar but no less shocking every time I see it. Imagine this were London or New York. It is Apocalyptic in the immensity of devastation and the grey pallour of the aftermath of another Israeli offensive against a defenceless people. Death still lurks in Gaza despite the skies being empty of…

A Tragic Outcome!

A tragic outcome!! The target was Hamas Terrorist operatives! Where in the footage of this massacre do we see the imaginary Hamas operatives? In the smouldering embers of the obliterated shack? On the beach? In the sky? There were no Hamas operatives. This was murder. If the world is stupid enough to accept the Israeli…

No Peace without Justice

I keep posting about increasing violence, restrictions and suffocation of Human & Civil rights in Palestine by the Occupying Force of Israel. Having rendered Gaza virtually uninhabitable and ensured that the people will suffer unendurable misery the attention of the IOF now seems to be on a campaign of terror in the rest of Palestine.…