Category: Journals

  • 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…

  • “Shebab and Jeish” – A New ISMer’s Journal From Beit Ummar

    by Ernesto July 4th: We got into the West Bank with no hitches. Unfortunately, I did not get to visit the old city of Al-Quds or Jerusalem, like I promised folks back home I would. I will when I get the opportunity. Around a dozen of us, internationals – from the U.S., Ireland, Scotland, Sweden,…

  • A Letter From Gaza

    They will never stop doing this as long as the US and Britain support them. They cut the electricity and soon there will be no water to drink. Sonic bombs are something that make you feel like you are going crazy! Please do something about them, at least! Hold demonstrations or whatever. I don’t know…