Tag: Sharon Lock

  • Back home in Jabalia

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell This morning is the second that I woke to quietness; no shelling from the sea. E and I went today to see our Jabalia friends, F’s family. They are back in their house, one of the few standing in their neighborhood of Azbet Abed Rabbo. This is only the…

  • Temporary shelters in Jabalia

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell Many people in Gaza are now homeless due to Israeli attacks on their communities. Temporary shelters are springing up across Gaza.

  • Words & Images

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell In their own words: It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day…If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist…Unilateral separation doesn’t guarantee “peace” – it guarantees a Zionist-Jewish state…

  • Amer’s story: They killed me three times

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell 22 January 2009 Ramatan TV, nine floors up and open 24 hours, was the last bastion of internet during the strikes. We knew the place because we got asked in for interviews, and then called a few press conferences there, for example announcing that internationals would be riding with…

  • Reem’s Story

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell Today I met with my friend Reem. She is 21 and works with Mercycorps, and we met when she came to interview me after I arrived on the initial FreeGaza trip. She was so bright and sparkly then, and I know that is still in her somewhere, but right…