Tag: Eva Bartlett

  • And still they run these taxis

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 3 August 2009 “It cost over 1,000 dollars. Before the siege, it would have been 500 to 1000 shekels (roughly 125 to 250 dollars), at most 250 dollars. Anyway, I had to buy it; you need to maintain the car when you use it all the time.” The father…

  • 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…

  • Malnutrition begins to bite

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 15 July 2009 “There are some people who buy frozen meat, because it’s much cheaper: 20 shekels (five dollars) per kilo versus 60 shekels for fresh beef.” According to the 45-year-old father of ten, while business is in general terrible, the better days are early in the month, when…