Tag: Gaza City

  • Mohammad’s story

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 10 March 2009 An elderly man saw me walking the other morning. “Bless you, bless you,” he said, holding out his palm as I gave him 20 shekels. What has rendered a man in his late years impoverished and begging, in a manner Palestinians are not accustomed to? I followed…

  • Will there be time to recover?

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell Back in Gaza city late last night, we met by the sea to welcome back A, who returned through the Rafah border the day before, after his kidnap off a Gaza fishing boat by Israel late last year. It was hard to give him much of a festive welcome…

  • Eyewitness from Al Quds Hospital attack

    Sharon Lock | The Independent View from Gaza: The ambulance driver Sharon Lock, an Australian from the International Solidarity Movement, was working as an ambulance driver for the Palestinian Red Crescent when its Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City came under Israeli attack yesterday. One shell landed outside the building about 10 yards from the incubators…

  • Patients and refugees evacuated as Al-Quds hospital burns

    1am, 16th January 2009, Gaza City Al-Quds hospital has been evacuated after the central building of the hospital was set ablaze. Patients and those seeking refuge in the hospital have been transferred to Al-Shifa hospital. Al-Quds hospital has been surrounded by Israeli forces since 1:30am, 15th January. The fire is spreading too fast to be…