Category: Journals

  • Trying to provide health care in Tubas

    By Tom At the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Tubas we heard about the impact of the occupation, the checkpoints, and the road blocks on the ambulance staff. When we heard that ambulance staff had been made to walk on the bodies of dead people by the Israeli Army we didn’t want to believe…

  • Tel Rumeida Journal

    Monday, April the 24th Today was a quiet day. Volunteers doing a lot of work preparing for the press conference on Wednesday. A Press release and open letter to the police and army about rising settler violence are being drafted. Jerusalem Post visit Tel Rumeida and visit two families who recount stories of settler and…

  • “That terrible feeling inside “

    http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ Ok I admit I’ve been a little lazy this week. Part of that is has to do with the fact that, wrapped up in my pre-travel anxiety as it were, and my mad rush to tie up as many loose ends as possible and write as much as possible, I think I burnt myself…

  • Lee’s Journal: Visiting Mohammed

    I visited Rafidia hospital this afternoon to check on the condition of the boy I last saw unconscious, being taken from my arms into the back of an ambulance. I notice small patches of his blood still visible on my jeans and shoes as we walked into the ICU. Mohammed Saqer (17) is critically injured…

  • Lauren’s Journal: Shaheid means Martyr

    Oh. God. They killed another one. Another shaheid. Another child martyr. Oh. God. Oh god. Ohgod. His blood. On the rocks. A hole in his head. It was a big hole. He is still alive after an hour from the shooting. But what does a rubber bullet 2 inches inside his brain with multiple skull…