Tag: Khan Younis

  • “It was the hardest day of our lives”

    Wednesday 14th January, 2009 In an escalation of the ground offensive in the south of Gaza, Israeli forces terrorised the population of Khoza’a, a small rural community east of Khan Younis. They entered the area at about 3.00am on the morning of Tuesday 13th January in an incursion lasting until Tuesday evening. This follows heavy…

  • Children under fire

    By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip Visit Fida’s blog here. According to news reports, over 665 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,and more than 2950 injured. Of those, more than 214 children and more than 88 women were killed. This is the story of two of those children. January 2, 2008…

  • 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…