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The lentils did ok today

Posted on: April 4, 2009
Lentil picking in Khoza'a

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

31 March 2009

Today we accompanied farmers in the Latamat area on the outskirts of Khoza’a. The last time we were out farming in Khoza’a the shooting was the closest I’d experienced, and from the video footage it looked like the Israelis were aiming to shoot my college J in the leg. Since later that same day Wafa was shot in the kneecap, and not too long before that farmer Mohammed was shot in the foot while we were with him, the ISM group had been taking stock of our role. We decided that … Continue reading


Updated on April 5, 2009
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Speaking Truth to Power

Posted on: March 21, 2009
Giving up on irrigating parsley too dangerous to pick

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

We were back at Faraheen this morning accompanying farmers again, eying the jeeps driving along the Israeli border while our farmers removed the irrigation pipes from one of the fields we have visited regularly. Since Mohammed was shot in the leg, the farmer here has decided to give up on this field, its convenient well, and its half-grown parsley crop – 200,000 shekels worth – in case of further injury or death of harvesters. It was a quiet morning, thank goodness.

Tristan is conscious and was breathing on his own until he caught pneumonia. … Continue reading


Updated on March 21, 2009
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The high cost of living

Posted on: March 15, 2009
The price of fish...

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

13 March 2009

Excerpt from ‘The high cost of living’

The price of fish…

Yesterday I went to the Kabariti family for Friday lunch, a fish barbeque. I took with me three of the “letters from the world” that were delivered by the Free Gaza boat last year. These letters were from a mother and her two daughters in California, so we decided to give them to the Kabariti girls and their mum, all of whom read English.

The girls and I sat in … Continue reading


Updated on March 18, 2009
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When a second home isn’t due to wealth

Posted on: March 14, 2009
J and L's kids - still alive because they've abandoned their house

Sharon Lock | Tales To Tell

Excerpts from Sharon Lock’s blog

We were visiting hospital dietitian S’s family in Al Fukhary. They all fled their home during the attacks, except for S’s dad who stayed behind to confront the tanks. And literally did – S shows us where the tanks got to: the back garden. At this point, his dad went to the back door and looked the solider in the tank in the eye. The soldier in the tank looked back. … Continue reading


Updated on March 14, 2009
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A beautiful place

Posted on: February 10, 2009
9 year old K is on the right with the blue backpack on her chair

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

8 February 2009

9 year old K is on the right with the blue backpack on her chair

Before the strikes, the group 14 Friends of Palestine asked E and me to make contact with a little girl they sponsor via Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children. It’s taken a while for us to catch our breath and follow … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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The Al Haddad family’s story: nothing left but ashes

Posted on: February 8, 2009
Mazin Al Haddad shows me pieces of phosphorous bombs

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

6 February 2009

You remember the Nadeems (I must ring and ask them how Firas’s knee operation went so I can tell you) who tried to escape from the Israel’s attacks on Tela Howa in their car, but it wouldn’t start. Also on January 15, an hour or so afterwards at about 10.15am, their neighbours the Al Haddads tried to escape in their car.

They only got a few yards.

The Kabariti family told me about this, because … Continue reading


Updated on February 10, 2009
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To the sound of F16s

Posted on: February 3, 2009
Hassan and Halil: two of the 30 injured medics; 21 were killed

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

I’m told the bursts of noise that are currently shaking the net cafe a little are probably F16 sonic booms and not rockets, so that’s nice! Last night’s attacks involved seven rockets on the tunnel/border area of Rafah and a strike on an empty police station in Gaza city.

The military said Sunday’s attacks were the beginning of a new wave of raids over Gaza, but did not elaborate… Ehud Olmert, Israel’s out-going prime minister, said that the … Continue reading


Updated on February 3, 2009
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Majda’s story: “Are my children terrorists?”

Posted on: January 31, 2009
Nadeem family: Mohanned, Majda, Firas, Basher, Tala, Dima

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

31 January 2009

The night of Wednesday, January 14, was the worst night for the people in the Tela Howa area. You’ve already heard Reem’s story, and heard from me that this was the night they began to drop rockets on the Al Quds hospital, with our worst rocket fire occuring Thursday night.

Today I met Majda Nadeem and her children. They live on the third floor of a building beside the crossroads of the main road that leads from … Continue reading


Updated on February 1, 2009
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At Al Wafa – Saja and Ceasefiring

Posted on: January 28, 2009
Dr Tariq examining Saja's gunshot wound

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

Yesterday E and I went back to see Amer at his Zaytoun house. He told us his brother Abdullah is back home from the Egyptian hospital, and showed us his hospital records; his wounds (two shots to abdomen, one to arm), are healing ok. He was worried about Saja, his 6 year old, though, it seemed he thought the gunshot wound to her arm wasn’t healing properly, and he wasn’t sure if he could get an overworked doctor’s attention under current circumstances. E already had some links with doctors at Al Wafa hospital … Continue reading


Updated on January 28, 2009
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Will there be time to recover?

Posted on: January 26, 2009
Punks not dead... and neither is Gaza.

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

Back in Gaza city late last night, we met by the sea to welcome back A, who returned through the Rafah border the day before, after his kidnap off a Gaza fishing boat by Israel late last year. It was hard to give him much of a festive welcome with the stories we had to tell.

Mo spoke of the Al Fukhary area, near his home, where due to lack of electricity for radios or … Continue reading


Updated on January 27, 2009
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