Mainstream media is busy insinuating that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is getting closer. Pardon me for not getting excited by this news. I've heard it all far too many times before, since the mid 1980's when I grew up and started paying attention. I've repeatedly written letters on behalf of the Palestinian people to government officials, both as a member of various human rights organizations and as a private citizen. I've requested that mainstream news outlets do basic, unbiased, investigative reporting regarding the West Bank and Gaza. For the past few years I've blogged about the atrocities committed repeatedly by Israel, as it viciously harasses the caged Palestinian people until they retaliate. Israel then uses this as a convenient excuse to attack while the rest of the Islamophobic, ignorant world looks on tsk tsking about terrorists and crying "Poor Israel".
Do you think a cease-fire is going to hold while Israel does as it pleases? Doing as it pleases, by the way, doesn't include giving a shit about the Palestinian people and their rights, let alone about what the rest of us may think of it's actions. Same old same old bullshit.
Patients and refugees evacuated as Al-Quds hospital burns
The army at the door
Showing posts with label bloggers in gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bloggers in gaza. Show all posts
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009
Bloggers In Gaza, Jan. 5/09.....
Eva's posts:
It's Really Hard To Post From Here
Every time I manage to make it back to Gaza to write for a period, a new calamity.
“They’re shelling Awda hospital,” in Jabaliya, the news reports. Our internationals there at the moment report it was two shells at a police post next to the hospital, one hospital worker getting shrapnel to the head, but surviving.
The numbers slaughtered and injured are so high now –521 and 2,700 as of this morning, Gaza time — that sitting next to a dead or dying person is becoming normal. The stain of blood on the ambulance stretcher pools next to my coat, the medic warning me my coat may be dirtied. What does it matter? The stain doesn’t revolt me as it would have, did, one week ago. Death fills the air, the streets in Gaza, and I cannot stress that this is no exaggeration.
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Bombing The News
the building i was in was just bombed. from the 10th floor news studio where i’d had an interview, a series of strikes against the building, housing numerous TV stations, threatened to bring down the walls, bring down the building. the journalists i was with say it was 7 hits, it’s hard to say really because it happened very quickly, very suddenly.
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I'll Tell You How He Died
A good, brave, and very funny man was killed yesterday as he loaded the body of a civilian twice-killed into an ambulance. Emergency medical workers, Arafa Hani Abd al Dayem, 35, and Alaa Ossama Sarhan, 21, had answered the call to retrieve Thaer Abed Hammad, 19, and his dead friend Ali, 19, who had been fleeing the shelling, when they were themselves hit by an Israeli tank’s shell.
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Sharon's Post:
Jabalia 4 Jan 6pm - 5 Jan 5pm
6pm: To Al Awda hospital, run by the Union of Health Work Committees. It normally has a 50 bed capacity but has been stretched to 75. E and Mo interview Ala’a, the medic from Jabalia RC who was injured when Arafa was killed yesterday.
The story goes as follows:
It was about 8.30 am Saturday morning in Jabalia. Five teenagers found themselves under shell attack and tried to get away. Three escaped. One, Tha’er, 19, had his foot blown off. His friend Ali, also 19, tried to pick him up and carry him to safety, but was shot in the head and killed. It took 75- 90 minutes before a Jabalia Red Crescent ambulance could reach them. Medic Arafa, 35, and Ala’a, 22, carried Tha’er to the ambulance, and then went back for Ali’s body. As they closed the van door, they were shelled.
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Sameh's Post:
Day 10 Of Israeli War In Gaza
Random shelling and Compulsory Migration For Thousands in Gaza Strip
By: Sameh A. Habeeb
Note: I migt stop reporting either if I die or I flee my home. Shells
rain down beside my house now. Pray for me…Pray for Me….
Read the full post, it may be his last
It's Really Hard To Post From Here
Every time I manage to make it back to Gaza to write for a period, a new calamity.
“They’re shelling Awda hospital,” in Jabaliya, the news reports. Our internationals there at the moment report it was two shells at a police post next to the hospital, one hospital worker getting shrapnel to the head, but surviving.
The numbers slaughtered and injured are so high now –521 and 2,700 as of this morning, Gaza time — that sitting next to a dead or dying person is becoming normal. The stain of blood on the ambulance stretcher pools next to my coat, the medic warning me my coat may be dirtied. What does it matter? The stain doesn’t revolt me as it would have, did, one week ago. Death fills the air, the streets in Gaza, and I cannot stress that this is no exaggeration.
Read the full post
Bombing The News
the building i was in was just bombed. from the 10th floor news studio where i’d had an interview, a series of strikes against the building, housing numerous TV stations, threatened to bring down the walls, bring down the building. the journalists i was with say it was 7 hits, it’s hard to say really because it happened very quickly, very suddenly.
Read the full post
I'll Tell You How He Died
A good, brave, and very funny man was killed yesterday as he loaded the body of a civilian twice-killed into an ambulance. Emergency medical workers, Arafa Hani Abd al Dayem, 35, and Alaa Ossama Sarhan, 21, had answered the call to retrieve Thaer Abed Hammad, 19, and his dead friend Ali, 19, who had been fleeing the shelling, when they were themselves hit by an Israeli tank’s shell.
Read the full post
Sharon's Post:
Jabalia 4 Jan 6pm - 5 Jan 5pm
6pm: To Al Awda hospital, run by the Union of Health Work Committees. It normally has a 50 bed capacity but has been stretched to 75. E and Mo interview Ala’a, the medic from Jabalia RC who was injured when Arafa was killed yesterday.
The story goes as follows:
It was about 8.30 am Saturday morning in Jabalia. Five teenagers found themselves under shell attack and tried to get away. Three escaped. One, Tha’er, 19, had his foot blown off. His friend Ali, also 19, tried to pick him up and carry him to safety, but was shot in the head and killed. It took 75- 90 minutes before a Jabalia Red Crescent ambulance could reach them. Medic Arafa, 35, and Ala’a, 22, carried Tha’er to the ambulance, and then went back for Ali’s body. As they closed the van door, they were shelled.
Read the full post
Sameh's Post:
Day 10 Of Israeli War In Gaza
Random shelling and Compulsory Migration For Thousands in Gaza Strip
By: Sameh A. Habeeb
Note: I migt stop reporting either if I die or I flee my home. Shells
rain down beside my house now. Pray for me…Pray for Me….
Read the full post, it may be his last
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