Category: Journals

  • Well-watered and soldier-free: the good old days on Palestinian farmland

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 23 July 2009 The young farm worker wasn’t oblivious to the danger: working in the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone” is no task for the faint-hearted. But, like so many, he either needed the paid labour, or his family depends on the land. The farmers had returned two days after their land…

  • Harvest challenges

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 1 June 2009 Just after 7 am on May 30th, Palestinian farmers in Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, returned to the land they’d been menaced off of 5 days earlier. “The same day the Israelis dropped papers saying they would shoot at us for being on our land they did…

  • Israel kills at will and in total impunity while the world demands nonviolence from Palestinians

    Frank Barat | Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK The death of Bassem Abu Rahme On April the 17th, like any Fridays afternoon for the last 4 years, the small village of Bil’in, north of Ramallah, was preparing for the usual demonstration against Israel’s annexation wall (some people call it apartheid wall or separation wall. The Israeli…

  • His name was Basem

    Mohammad Khatib | Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements His name was Basem, which means smile, and that is how he greeted everyone.  But we all called him ‘Pheel’, which means elephant because he had the body the size of an elephant. But Basem had the heart of a child. He loved everyone,…

  • ‘I was born Palestinian’

    Laila El-Haddad | A Mother from Gaza 14 April 2009 “Its not very comfortable in there is it?” said the stony faced official, cigarette smoke forming a haze around his gleaming oval head. “Its OK. We’re fine” I replied wearily, delirious after being awake for a straight period of 30 hours. “You could be in…