Category: Journals

Electricity Cut, Bridges Bombed, Sonic Booms Continue

by Leila El-Haddad Gaza power plant destroyed by US tax-payer funded Israeli F-16s. Picture from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Israeli F-16s bombed Gaza’s main bridge, right next to my father’s farm, between northern and southern Gaza. They have also destroyed Gaza’s ONLY power plant, and electricity in most of Gaza has been cut…

June 29, 2006
Gaza Tonight

One Hamas leader was killed yesterday when Israel bombed a car near the President’s home- picture from Al-Jazeera News By Mona El-Farra from From Gaza, With Love It is 7am, June 28, 2006. This is an update in the morning from last night. It was very dangerous for me to reach the computer. The power…

June 28, 2006
Vacation in Balata refugee camp

by Lucretia R. I decided to take a vacation to Balata refugee camp and give art lessons to children there. I hadn’t been there since the invasion in February and I recently completed a portrait of Ibrahim, a boy who died while I was there and I wanted to give it to his family. Because…

June 27, 2006