Category: Journals

  • Majda’s story: “Are my children terrorists?”

    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…

  • Expanding illegal no-go zones leaves hundreds homeless

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 30 January 2009 Imagine being grateful for the chance to return to your demolished home and sift through the rubble, to try to retrieve personal belongings, ID cards and papers, still-useable clothes and pots… Imagine your house had been bulldozed, you’d been given 5 minutes to leave it, not been…

  • Yousef Shrater

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 29 January 2009 Remarkably, the staircase in Yousef Shrater’s bombed and burned house is still intact, as are the 14 people that make up the 3 families who were living in the house. Shrater, a father of four, walks over broken cement blocks and tangles of support rods and up…