Category: Journals

  • Laila’s Journal: I don’t exist!

    By Laila el-Haddad I don’t exist! …well, at least not according to British Airways. I was attempting to enter in my “passenger details” and country of citizenship and residence on their website for a flight I have booked next month (from Cairo, 8 hours and a border crossing away, since the Gaza airport is incapacitated-much…

  • Tel Rumeida Journal – Sunday 23/04/06

    Our group was tired out after the large settler attack yesterday and apprehensive about what might happen over the coming week. We were hoping for a quiet day, and we got that. So here’s a description of a quiet day in Tel Rumeida… International volunteers from EAPPI, ISM and TRP on the streets at 7am…

  • Mary’s Journal: Daily Life in Tel Rumeida

    Kids in Shuhada Street Everyday but Friday, we are out on the street watching as children go to school, which starts at 7.45am. It’s usually quiet, though today about 15 visiting settlers attacked Anna and BJ and 3 EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel) people. They are not badly hurt (one was kicked…

  • Hamas forms new security branch

    By Laila el-Haddad Something strange is happening in Gaza. Municipality workers are actually working. The streets seem a bit cleaner. And for once, I actually saw a policeman arresting a criminal in a dramatic pick-up the other day, much to the chagrin of his gang, who stoned and shot at the police car (futilely), and…

  • Anamaria’s Journal: Not Welcome Anymore

    I arrived at the airport 4 hours before take off. I was through check in after just one hour and no problems. But when I went through passport control, the woman there looked at the computer screen and went away with my passport. She came back a few minutes later with 2 other women and…