Category: Journals
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Journal: One family’s fear and heartbreak in Gaza
Journal by Sharon Lock Sunday December 28, 5.30am, Jabaliya In the basement, the family begins the night at their allotted sleeping spaces, but as the hours pass, draw closer together until women and children are huddled together in a pile of blankets. The women have slept little, and look exhausted. There are 5 or 6…
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ISM Gaza: ‘Sailors the world over face danger every time they put to sea. However, their risk stems from the elements, not from state-sponsored terrorism’
Personal account of accompanying Gazan fishermen by ISM activist On Sunday 12th October, I joined a group of international human rights observers dispersed amongst a small fleet of seven Palestinian trawlers from the port of Gaza City. We left port at 8.00am and headed out to sea in a westerly direction. Soon after leaving port…
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Every day in Palestine
By Jonas Every day Mahmoud takes his sheep and goats out to the fields that his family has used and been bound to through blood and sweat for generations. Every day he is met by violence and threats of violence by the ultra-orthodox settlers who live two hills away, who say that the land is…
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Women of the Underworld: On Being Thrown Out of Israel
What stays with me most from the last few days is the kindness of women. Just ordinary women, caught in bad circumstances, being nice to one another.
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Security Stranglehold Tightens in Hebron
By: Becky For a week now the security checks on Palestinians and internationals in Hebron has maintained it’s tightest grip since our arrival. Soldiers who a month ago limited themselves to their posts now extend their jurisdiction along whole streets; patrolling and watching in a paranoid attempt to preempt some fictitious attack. They scan the…