Journals

By Mona El-Farra 16th of July, 1.30 am A loud explosion woke me up. My daughter was frightened and covered her head with the blankets as I switched on my little transistor radio. The F16 hit the Ministry of Foreign ...

Journal entry by Ernesto. Provides a deeper insight to a previous ISM eyewitness report about the same incident. After visiting the family of Yusuf Abumariya we headed to the house of another family. We were served tea and fresh fruit ...

by Leila El-Haddad Friday, July 14: Things are bad in Gaza. Very bad. Not to mention of course in Lebanon, where Yassine’s, my husband’s, family lives, in the Wavel refugee camp in Baalbeck, Hezbollah stronghold. They, of course, along with ...

by Lucretia and Sunbula Outside the Faisal Hostel opposite Damascus Gate/Bab’al-‘Amoud, there appeared to be about one cop for every two Palestinians. There were regular police, along with the dreaded and despised Special Units and Border Police, who are well-known ...

by Mona El-Farra Thursday, July 13, 2006 2am Two successive big explosions wakened me up, Sondos jumped quickly to my bed , frightened, shivering and covered her head, with the blanket. It was two big explosions ,but not sonic booming, ...

Palestinian women sit in a bedroom in Beit Lahiya, Gaza where Israeli soldiers shot into a home. (AFP/Thomas Coex) From Mona Elfarra, a Palestinian physician and women’s rights activist living in the Jabalia refuge camp in the Gaza Strip. Friday, ...

by Ernesto July 4th: We got into the West Bank with no hitches. Unfortunately, I did not get to visit the old city of Al-Quds or Jerusalem, like I promised folks back home I would. I will when I get ...

They will never stop doing this as long as the US and Britain support them. They cut the electricity and soon there will be no water to drink. Sonic bombs are something that make you feel like you are going ...

by Leila El-Haddad Gaza power plant destroyed by US tax-payer funded Israeli F-16s. Picture from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Israeli F-16s bombed Gaza’s main bridge, right next to my father’s farm, between northern and southern Gaza. They have ...

One Hamas leader was killed yesterday when Israel bombed a car near the President’s home- picture from Al-Jazeera News By Mona El-Farra from From Gaza, With Love It is 7am, June 28, 2006. This is an update in the morning ...