Tag: Cast Lead

  • I’ll tell you how he died

    By Eva Bartlett in Gaza ingaza.wordpress.com A good, brave, and very funny man was killed yesterday as he loaded the body of a civilian twice-killed into an ambulance. Emergency medical workers, Arafa Hani Abd al Dayem, 35, and Alaa Ossama Sarhan, 21, had answered the call to retrieve Thaer Abed Hammad, 19, and his dead…

  • 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…

  • CNN: In Gaza, living with anger and fear

    By Ashley Fantz | CNN (CNN) “Listen, listen to this!” shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver. “It’s difficult for anybody to imagine that in a second, maybe when I am talking to you on the phone, maybe something [will] happen to me or to my family,” the…