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Vik: a friend, a brother, a humanist

Posted on: April 15, 2011
Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

I first heard of Vik before arriving in Gaza. Vik had just been injured by IOF water cannoning which shattered the windows of the fishing boat he was accompanying. Vik had some injuries from the shattered glass.

When I met Vik he was nothing but humble and humour. A compassionate man, living to do good and do anything for Palestinian justice. Others knew him better and longer, and told me of Vik’s arrests by the IOF, deportation, and other interesting stories. But above all, what … Continue reading


Updated on April 16, 2011
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May Is About Memories

Posted on: May 25, 2010
Mohammed Tooman and Hammad Awadallah, Nakba survivors from Isdud, share memories of their destroyed village. / Credit:Eva Bartlett/IPS

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service

25 May 2010

This is the month for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or “catastrophe”, in which more than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their land and rendered homeless refugees by the Zionist attacks before, during and after the founding of Israel in 1948.

Isdud, a farming community to … Continue reading


Updated on May 26, 2010
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Gaza’s virtual connection to the rest of the world

Posted on: May 23, 2010
The Gazan skyline reveals a particular need to link with the outside world. (Emad Badwan/IPS)

Electronic Intifada

23 May 2010

Eva Bartlett

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – “I’ve learned most of what I know about photo editing and graphic design via the Internet,” says Emad, 27-year-old filmmaker and editor. In Gaza, this sort of thing has become usual in a different way.

“This program isn’t available here,” he says, smiling triumphantly as he finishes downloading the latest edition of an … Continue reading


Updated on May 23, 2010
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Gaza youth learn music and challenge the occupation

Posted on: May 21, 2010
Rita, nine, learning the basics of the violin. (Emad Badwan)

Electronic Intifada

21 May 2010

Eva Bartlett

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – “Why are you rushing? Isn’t it nicer like this?” Mohammed Omer, oud (an oud is similar to a lute) teacher at the Gaza Music School, asks his student. Omer takes the oud and demonstrates, playing the song slowly, gracefully, with the ornamentations that are key to Arab music.

Mohammed Abu Suffiya, the 10-year-old student, has only been studying for six months but has … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2010
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Teenager shot by Israeli forces in northern Gaza

Posted on: March 26, 2010
Hamdan's knee after being shot by Israeli forces while gathering scrap metal

ISM Gaza
26 March 2010

Said Abdel Aziz Hamdan, 15, went for his first time to Gaza’s northern border area to try gathering scrap metal for re-sale. Although an area lined with Israeli military towers and notorious for Israeli soldier shooting, shelling and abductions of Palestinian workers and farmers, Hamdan did not feel he would be in danger.

“People go there everyday to gather bits of metal and concrete. The … Continue reading


Updated on March 26, 2010
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Picking pebbles to live somehow

Posted on: March 3, 2010

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service

2 March 2010

They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals, and any bits worth reselling.

They venture dangerously close to the border fence to unlock metal and steel rods from their demolished home heaps. They are Gaza’s recyclers, and in a Strip where unemployment hovers at nearly 50 percent and poverty soars over 80 percent, environmental considerations … Continue reading


Updated on March 3, 2010
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Will you marry poor me

Posted on: January 15, 2010

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service

14 January 2010

“If we had money we’d get married right away,” says Samir*, 23. He has found his bride, but not the money to hold the wedding.

The Israeli siege imposed shortly after Hamas’s election in early 2006 has ruled out marriage for many. Palestinians traditionally marry young, between 18 and 25, but more and more now pass their mid-twenties single.

With unemployment levels above 45 percent, and the price of most goods doubled or more, living, and marrying, are becoming unaffordable.

Worsening living conditions under the siege are changing relationship patterns. While salaried work has traditionally … Continue reading


Updated on January 18, 2010
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The rains

Posted on: December 31, 2009
The rains

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

31 December 2009

It’s pouring rain. Farmers are collectively breathing relief, finally able to begin working on their parched land, land deprived water because Israeli bombing, tanks and bulldozers destroyed virtually all of the wells, cisterns, and rain-water collectors of farms in the border regions.

I’m breathing many sighs of relief, because the rain is fresh, brings life, brings a needed feeling of growth…

But the family of Saleh Abu Leila, with their 14 family members crammed into 1.5 tents (half the tent is occupied by a refrigerator) of poor-quality, torn fabric will be sighing with much less … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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New year in Gaza reopens wounds of old

Posted on: December 31, 2009
New Year's in Gaza is time to honor the dead. (Eva Bartlett)

Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada

31 December 2009

For many survivors of the last Israeli war on Gaza, time has not healed their wounds, physical or emotional.

Halil Amal Samouni, 10, still suffers vision problems in her right eye. The shrapnel remaining in her head causes her constant pain and she is unable to concentrate at school.

Her concentration is broken, also, by memories of her martyred father and younger brother, both of whom she saw shot dead at close range by Israeli soldiers during the 2008-2009 winter war … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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Gaza massacre reflections

Posted on: December 29, 2009
Home damaged during the winter 2008/2009 Israeli massacre of Gaza. Waiting for repairs.

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

28 December 2009

The anniversary of the first day of Israel’s massacre of Gaza last winter passed yesterday. Palestinians still locked in Gaza couldn’t avoid thinking about that hell, recalling to others where they were when the first strikes hit…what they did, what they thought, what they saw and smelled and heard.

At 11 am yesterday I’m in a meeting, but all of us are aware of the significance of the hour, particularly as the minutes pass towards 11:25, when the slaughter began.

Later, I visit … Continue reading


Updated on December 29, 2009
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