Category: Journals

  • Jan 5 night shift / UNRWA refugee schools attacked

    By Sharon in Gaza talestotell.wordpress.com Evacuated after multiple rocket hits destroyed their home 8pm: I am due at Al Quds hospital for a Red Crescent shift at 8pm, but as I am finishing up writing with the seaside apartment’s generated electricity, the strangest noise arrives from the sea. It is a whooshing sound like a…

  • 23 hours in Jabaliya

    By Sharon in Gaza talestotell.wordpress.com January 4, 6pm – January 5, 5pm 6pm: To Al Awda hospital, run by the Union of Health Work Committees. It normally has a 50 bed capacity but has been stretched to 75. E and Mo interview Ala’a, the medic from Jabalia RC who was injured when Arafa was killed…

  • It’s really hard to post from here

    By Eva Bartlett ingaza.wordpress.com Every time I manage to make it back to Gaza to write for a period, a new calamity. “They’re shelling Awda hospital,” in Jabaliya, the news reports. Our internationals there at the moment report it was two shells at a police post next to the hospital, one hospital worker getting shrapnel…

  • Jabalia 6pm Saturday to midday Sunday

    By Sharon in Gaza To view Sharon’s blog please click here 5.30pm: at Ramattan media office. Shelling has noticeably increased in the city in the last hours. Rumours increase that the Israeli Occupation Force will begin the land incursion tonight. We hear that a mosque in Beit Lahia has been attacked during the prayer time…

  • Journal: Late post for Sat night

    By Sharon in Gaza To view Sharon’s blog please click here Last night E rode with the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jabalia, where attacks have continued to be very heavy, and was witness to the collection of three martyred folks – one was 24 year old caretaker of the American school, whose body was in…