Category: Journals

  • War Games in Beit Ummar

    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 and before we were able to fully get the gentleman’s name and story, Ahmed, one…

  • ‘Blogging from Gaza’ – From bad to worse: the downpour continues

    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 all of Lebanon, are blockaded by air and sea, so Yassine has sort of become…

  • Travel Advisory: Prayer may be Hazardous to your Health in East Jerusalem

    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 for “breaking” pesky troublemakers. They looked like they were prepared for war. There is a…

  • Three Days in One Room: The Experience of the Attar Family

    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, I am an expert now. The power has been off, it was a great blessing…

  • A Palestinian Blogger on Life in the Blast Zone

    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, June 30, 2006 The power is still off. It comes on and off irregularly. The…