SHAFAQNA – For months, Salem al-Ajla, 65, has kept a lonely vigil outside the twisted heap of concrete that was once his home. One day, he hopes workers will arrive to help him to rebuild it.Before the seven-week conflict in Gaza this summer he lived in a three-storey apartment block that housed five of his…
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers? Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims…
Gaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead In a house in Rafah in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border, Nabil Siyam, aged 34, slowly lays out pictures of his family. He only has one arm, the other was blown off by an Israeli bomb during the summer war. The pictures show his wife,…
Latakia Update from a resident there for the last 19 years ~ “Latakia, Syria update: we have no cooking gas; we have no gasoline for cars; we have no diesel heating fuel for home heaters. We have electricity 3 hours in morning, and 3 hours in early evening. The electricity goes off at 8 pm…
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Paris Match: Many people say the solution lies in your departure. Do you believe that your departure is the solution? Syrian president Assad: What was the result (of French policy when they attacked Gaddafi)? Chaos ensued after Gaddafi’s departure. So, was the departure the solution? Have things improved, and…
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…
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…
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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,…
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 Wall Will Fall 