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+Ruby Said of the Balata Film Collective filming a demonstration.
+The Balata Film Collective was initiated to enable young Palestinians from Balata Refugee camp to use film as a method to break their isolation, challenge their oppression, and represent their lives to the world. This May 2006, 3 members of the collective will be touring the U.S. sharing their films and their stories, and hoping to build connections with other film collectives and film makers involved in the global struggle for justice and liberation.
+The three members of the Balata Film Collective, who will be premiering their new film, Nour’s Dream, on the tour, are Ruby Said, Mohammed Farraj, and Mohammed Hajhamad. The tour will bring them to Bard College, Boston, New York City, New Jersey, New Orleans, Chicago and Minneapolis.
+Ruby Said, 26 years old, who had no prior experience with video cameras or computers, became active in the Balata Film Collective in Spring of 2005. Since then, she has participated in the making of 5 short films and the documentary film “Nour’s Dream”. Ruby is also a women’s rights activist and a secretary at the Yafa Cultural Center where she coordinates children’s activities.
+Mohammed Farraj, 28 years old, helped to found the Balata Film Collective and balatacamp.net news service after he was released from spending 2 years in zionist prisons in winter of 2004. Mohammed is a prisoner rights and human rights activist and a journalism student at An-Najah National University.
+Mohammed Hajhamad, 32 years old, has run many drama programs and summer camps for children in Balata Camp, and he is the head theater trainer of A’edoon (“We Will Return”) Dabke and Art Theater group in Balata Camp’s Yafa Cultural Center. Mohammed has been working in theater since 1993, and has directed many plays, several television pieces, and most recently the documentary film “Nour’s Dream”.
+The Balata Film Collective will be raising funds during their visit to help them achieve the following goals:
+- Founding theaters or cinemas to make our films available for every one who wants to see them.
+- Training children, youth and adults in Balata Camp how to make documentaries and how to use cameras to deliver their ideas.
+- Participating in film festivals to deliver our ideas to the world.
+In New Jersey and New York:
+Thursday, May 11th
+New Brunswick Public Library
+60 Livingston Ave
+New Brunswick, NJ
+7:00 p.m.Click for more information
+Friday, May 12th
+The Bridge (Made in Palestine exhibition space)
+521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor (b/tw 10th & 11th Ave)
+New York City
+7:00 p.m.Click for more information
+Related Links:
+BY TOPIC: Arts, Music & Culture: Films
+Balata Film Collective

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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Balfour’s university skirts demands it end entanglement in Gaza genocide</h1>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/suha-omar" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Suha Omar</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-10-14T14:00:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">14 October 2025</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-170981" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-10/img_7508.jpeg?itok=bxuFJQVe&amp;timestamp=1760444759 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-10/img_7508.jpeg?itok=bxuFJQVe&amp;timestamp=1760444759" width="800" height="533" alt="Protest at University of Edinburgh with a banner seen from the back emblazoned with &quot;Balfour's University&quot;" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Students want University of Edinburgh to divest from companies complicit with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.</p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Meher Vepari</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>On 28 March, during a Palestine rally at the University of Edinburgh, a student protester was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DHyfjdYou7h/?igsh=MWE5ZGE0anl5MmYweg==">physically attacked</a> by a man with a retractable knife in front of university security.</p>
+<p>The student suffered cuts to his face, yet security stood idly by. When students reported that the man had a knife, they were dismissed by security members.</p>
+<p>Over the last year, student protesters at Edinburgh have called for a reduction in policing on campus, a demand which, according to student organizers, has been rejected by the administration on the grounds that a security presence at rallies ensures the safety of students.</p>
+<p>But the 28 March incident instantly disproved the administration&#8217;s position. It was a moment that shattered any illusion of safety or institutional neutrality.</p>
+<p>Following up with Edinburgh’s Student Association, students learned that security staff’s non-reaction – watching the scene unfold from a safe distance with their <a href="https://x.com/eu_jps/status/1910044881755811901?s=46&amp;t=pdrcPMsDr3WJZCQHcnQpSw">hands in their pockets</a> – is in fact protocol. University security staff have a hands-off de-escalation policy that instructs them to disengage at the threat of a physical altercation.</p>
+<p>Although security failed to make any attempts at de-escalation in the first place, they technically fulfilled their exact jobs by not intervening once the staff, including <a href="https://estates.ed.ac.uk/what-we-do/security/about/our-team">head of security</a> Nial Moffat, were informed about the weapon.</p>
+<p>But if it goes against security protocol to intervene when physical violence happens before officers’ eyes, what are they there to do?</p>
+<h2>Ripple effect</h2>
+<p>This question remains unanswered. The university evaded responsibility in not addressing students’ concerns about security directly, and then pivoting to blame student organizers for some previous social media posts demanding that the university stop “platforming” Israeli soldiers.</p>
+<p>This lack of accountability led to an inevitable ripple effect at the University of Glasgow.</p>
+<p>While planning to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DIMwj4kNTUP/">host a talk</a> with their rector Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, Glasgow students said they were approached by security requesting a full list of names and emails of all attendees scheduled to appear. When students initially refused, security cited the knife-attack at Edinburgh to justify their request and threatened to cancel the talk if they did not receive the requested list.</p>
+<p>It did not matter that the University of Edinburgh failed to provide any reasonable explanation for how the security presence protected its students. It did not matter that the University of Glasgow – most likely operating a similar hands-off policy – could not explain how a list of attendees would improve security. After all, it seems unlikely that someone would register for the talk as “Knife Attacker” for the security staff to preemptively act on.</p>
+<p>Security’s failure at Edinburgh was therefore used to justify expanding student surveillance at Glasgow with the same tired line about concerns for student safety.</p>
+<p>This was not the first lie concerning campus safety. In a November 2023 meeting with Edinburgh students, the university administration rejected a student demand of no police presence on campus, claiming the administration had nothing to do with the police presence at every demonstration, protest and rally to date.</p>
+<p>A Freedom of Information request shared with Edinburgh University’s Justice for Palestine Society revealed, however, extensive <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/meetings_about_protests_115/response/2731368/attach/16/Enclosure%20ReviewResponse%20Independent%20IR2024%2000422i.pdf">email communication</a> between security staff and police in which they shared the details of protests happening on campus, none of which included discussions of student safety.</p>
+<p>This isn’t just about a single attack or policy. It’s about how our educational institutions weaponize the language of safety to curtail precisely the kind of student activism that opposes and exposes their investments in and profits from the very weapons used to kill Palestinians.</p>
+<p>According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show">a report</a> in <em>The Guardian</em> earlier this month, in fact, universities in the UK have gone so far as to collaborate with arms and defense companies to actively surveil students’ social media ahead of career fairs in order to preempt protests.</p>
+<h2>Invested in genocide</h2>
+<p>The University of Edinburgh has the dubious distinction of <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf">being named</a> as one of “the most financially entangled” educational institutions in the UK in the UN’s recent report on corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s occupation of Palestine, its apartheid system of control and its genocide in Gaza.</p>
+<p>This includes over $31 million invested in Amazon, Alphabet, IBM and Microsoft – <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/12/how-us-big-tech-supports-israels-ai-powered-genocide-and-apartheid">corporations</a> that provide the Israeli military with crucial technological support, including AI and facial recognition systems used to surveil and target Palestinians.</p>
+<p>University management will never readily divest from profitable investments, even if this means profiting off a genocide. The idea that divestment can be won simply through reasoned argument is an illusion that is upheld by the web of lies university administrators spin to appease students.</p>
+<p>The only language administrators really understand is pressure. And pressure is brought to bear when our presence is large enough to shape even the conversations we are excluded from. When we are silent or sporadic in our actions on campus, they have little traction. But when we are strategic and consistent, the results speak for themselves.</p>
+<p>Last year, Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society’s disruption of the university-hosted career fairs ultimately resulted in defense companies ending their <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DGp79H3o8cq/?igsh=YWpjMGp2NmpqbGU1">participation</a> in such events at the University of Edinburgh.</p>
+<p>This was not only a win, it emphasized JPS’ persistent messaging: where a university fails to make decisions in favor of boycotts and divestment, the decision will be made for them.</p>
+<p>A university’s investments do not exist in a vacuum. Education establishments in the UK contend with a legacy of colonialism. Edinburgh’s complicity runs deep. The university “played an outsized role” in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/edinburgh-university-outsized-role-creating-racist-scientific-theories-inquiry">promoting</a> racist “scientific” theories and profited handsomely from transatlantic slavery.</p>
+<p>On Palestine, there is a direct line: Arthur Balfour was chancellor of the university in 1917 when he issued the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration">Balfour declaration</a>, promising away land that was never his or the British Empire’s to give.</p>
+<p>That legacy still shapes attitudes to Palestine today. It is upheld by our institutions, entrenching us in their complicity. Hence our struggle must transcend the day-to-day battles with university administrations and confront the very system of power that allows such corruption to take root.</p>
+<h2>Numbers and strategy</h2>
+<p>As students living in the UK, witnessing a livestreamed genocide, we are perfectly positioned to make real cultural shifts in how to address Israel and Zionism. We must not be afraid to name our enemy clearly, and abide by our <em><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_D3DSZIL_n/?igsh=MWFleTU1bjhwMmw0OQ==">thawabet</a></em> – or fundamental political principles – faithfully.</p>
+<p>Incidents like the knife assault in March make us fear for our safety, even while we recognize that every threat we face pales in comparison with horrors unfolding in Palestine. Without accountability, it sets a dangerous precedent, where student lives are disposable, where protests are portrayed as inherently unsafe, and where institutional silence in the face of the atrocity goes unchallenged.</p>
+<p>That is why we need each other. Our universities play sinister games. They take part in the ongoing genocide through both financial investments and research collaborations. But rather than defend their actions, they deny their impact or their own responsibility and play an endless game of bureaucratic snakes and ladders.</p>
+<p>Our actions must be guided by this knowledge and by the knowledge that suppression is becoming ever more acute, not just at universities, where students have been <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/soas-expel-palestine-society-president-and-encampment-leader-haya-adam-after-months-suspension">expelled</a> and free speech <a href="https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/revealed-the-worsening-crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-activism-at-uk-universities/">curtailed</a>, but in the country as a whole, where the government is now talking of curbing <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/05/uk/uk-police-power-protests-palestine-action-intl">lawful protests</a>.</p>
+<p>Mapping strategy and escalation require that we can sustain our movement, on campuses and beyond, past this moment. And not only in terms of safety, media strategy and legal support but with political education that emboldens us to challenge our institutions’ core alignment with settler colonialism and imperialism.</p>
+<p>Until Palestine is free, every action, every demonstration, every victory is an act of repentance for our universities’ complicity in genocide and our own complicity by extension. Liberation will only come from Palestine, but as students we have a duty to break our universities’ financial complicity, another cog in the killing machine.</p>
+<p>And the pressure is working. The grounds for divestment are indisputable. Divestment is an inevitable reality.</p>
+<p>After two years of watching Israel commit unimaginable atrocities in our beloved Palestine, we will not be ones to hide at the threat of violence, nor will we try to rely on a system designed to fail us.</p>
+<p>Through every act of defiance and every call for divestment, from campuses and from the streets, a future Palestine, free and unbound by occupation, is imagined. Our solidarity must not be subdued. It is firmly grounded in a struggle for justice for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to return home and live freely.</p>
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<div id=\"content\" class=\"column content__region\" role=\"main\">\n            <nav class=\"breadcrumb\" role=\"navigation\" prefix=\"v: http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#\"><h2 class=\"element-invisible\">You are here</h2><span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"/\" rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\" content=\"Home\"></a></span></nav>      <a id=\"main-content\"></a>\n                    <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Balfour’s university skirts demands it end entanglement in Gaza genocide</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-51001 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/balfours-university-skirts-demands-it-end-entanglement-gaza-genocide/51001\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Balfour’s university skirts demands it end entanglement in Gaza genocide\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/suha-omar\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Suha Omar</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-10-14T14:00:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">14 October 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-170981\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-10/img_7508.jpeg?itok=bxuFJQVe&amp;timestamp=1760444759 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-10/img_7508.jpeg?itok=bxuFJQVe&amp;timestamp=1760444759\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Protest at University of Edinburgh with a banner seen from the back emblazoned with &quot;Balfour's University&quot;\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Students want University of Edinburgh to divest from companies complicit with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Meher Vepari</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>On 28 March, during a Palestine rally at the University of Edinburgh, a student protester was <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHyfjdYou7h/?igsh=MWE5ZGE0anl5MmYweg==\">physically attacked</a> by a man with a retractable knife in front of university security.</p>\n\n<p>The student suffered cuts to his face, yet security stood idly by. When students reported that the man had a knife, they were dismissed by security members.</p>\n\n<p>Over the last year, student protesters at Edinburgh have called for a reduction in policing on campus, a demand which, according to student organizers, has been rejected by the administration on the grounds that a security presence at rallies ensures the safety of students.</p>\n\n<p>But the 28 March incident instantly disproved the administration&#8217;s position. It was a moment that shattered any illusion of safety or institutional neutrality.</p>\n\n<p>Following up with Edinburgh’s Student Association, students learned that security staff’s non-reaction – watching the scene unfold from a safe distance with their <a href=\"https://x.com/eu_jps/status/1910044881755811901?s=46&amp;t=pdrcPMsDr3WJZCQHcnQpSw\">hands in their pockets</a> – is in fact protocol. University security staff have a hands-off de-escalation policy that instructs them to disengage at the threat of a physical altercation.</p>\n\n<p>Although security failed to make any attempts at de-escalation in the first place, they technically fulfilled their exact jobs by not intervening once the staff, including <a href=\"https://estates.ed.ac.uk/what-we-do/security/about/our-team\">head of security</a> Nial Moffat, were informed about the weapon.</p>\n\n<p>But if it goes against security protocol to intervene when physical violence happens before officers’ eyes, what are they there to do?</p>\n\n<h2>Ripple effect</h2>\n\n<p>This question remains unanswered. The university evaded responsibility in not addressing students’ concerns about security directly, and then pivoting to blame student organizers for some previous social media posts demanding that the university stop “platforming” Israeli soldiers.</p>\n\n<p>This lack of accountability led to an inevitable ripple effect at the University of Glasgow.</p>\n\n<p>While planning to <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DIMwj4kNTUP/\">host a talk</a> with their rector Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, Glasgow students said they were approached by security requesting a full list of names and emails of all attendees scheduled to appear. When students initially refused, security cited the knife-attack at Edinburgh to justify their request and threatened to cancel the talk if they did not receive the requested list.</p>\n\n<p>It did not matter that the University of Edinburgh failed to provide any reasonable explanation for how the security presence protected its students. It did not matter that the University of Glasgow – most likely operating a similar hands-off policy – could not explain how a list of attendees would improve security. After all, it seems unlikely that someone would register for the talk as “Knife Attacker” for the security staff to preemptively act on.</p>\n\n<p>Security’s failure at Edinburgh was therefore used to justify expanding student surveillance at Glasgow with the same tired line about concerns for student safety.</p>\n\n<p>This was not the first lie concerning campus safety. In a November 2023 meeting with Edinburgh students, the university administration rejected a student demand of no police presence on campus, claiming the administration had nothing to do with the police presence at every demonstration, protest and rally to date.</p>\n\n<p>A Freedom of Information request shared with Edinburgh University’s Justice for Palestine Society revealed, however, extensive <a href=\"https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/meetings_about_protests_115/response/2731368/attach/16/Enclosure%20ReviewResponse%20Independent%20IR2024%2000422i.pdf\">email communication</a> between security staff and police in which they shared the details of protests happening on campus, none of which included discussions of student safety.</p>\n\n<p>This isn’t just about a single attack or policy. It’s about how our educational institutions weaponize the language of safety to curtail precisely the kind of student activism that opposes and exposes their investments in and profits from the very weapons used to kill Palestinians.</p>\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show\">a report</a> in <em>The Guardian</em> earlier this month, in fact, universities in the UK have gone so far as to collaborate with arms and defense companies to actively surveil students’ social media ahead of career fairs in order to preempt protests.</p>\n\n<h2>Invested in genocide</h2>\n\n<p>The University of Edinburgh has the dubious distinction of <a href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf\">being named</a> as one of “the most financially entangled” educational institutions in the UK in the UN’s recent report on corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s occupation of Palestine, its apartheid system of control and its genocide in Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>This includes over $31 million invested in Amazon, Alphabet, IBM and Microsoft – <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/12/how-us-big-tech-supports-israels-ai-powered-genocide-and-apartheid\">corporations</a> that provide the Israeli military with crucial technological support, including AI and facial recognition systems used to surveil and target Palestinians.</p>\n\n<p>University management will never readily divest from profitable investments, even if this means profiting off a genocide. The idea that divestment can be won simply through reasoned argument is an illusion that is upheld by the web of lies university administrators spin to appease students.</p>\n\n<p>The only language administrators really understand is pressure. And pressure is brought to bear when our presence is large enough to shape even the conversations we are excluded from. When we are silent or sporadic in our actions on campus, they have little traction. But when we are strategic and consistent, the results speak for themselves.</p>\n\n<p>Last year, Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society’s disruption of the university-hosted career fairs ultimately resulted in defense companies ending their <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DGp79H3o8cq/?igsh=YWpjMGp2NmpqbGU1\">participation</a> in such events at the University of Edinburgh.</p>\n\n<p>This was not only a win, it emphasized JPS’ persistent messaging: where a university fails to make decisions in favor of boycotts and divestment, the decision will be made for them.</p>\n\n<p>A university’s investments do not exist in a vacuum. Education establishments in the UK contend with a legacy of colonialism. Edinburgh’s complicity runs deep. The university “played an outsized role” in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/edinburgh-university-outsized-role-creating-racist-scientific-theories-inquiry\">promoting</a> racist “scientific” theories and profited handsomely from transatlantic slavery.</p>\n\n<p>On Palestine, there is a direct line: Arthur Balfour was chancellor of the university in 1917 when he issued the <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration\">Balfour declaration</a>, promising away land that was never his or the British Empire’s to give.</p>\n\n<p>That legacy still shapes attitudes to Palestine today. It is upheld by our institutions, entrenching us in their complicity. Hence our struggle must transcend the day-to-day battles with university administrations and confront the very system of power that allows such corruption to take root.</p>\n\n<h2>Numbers and strategy</h2>\n\n<p>As students living in the UK, witnessing a livestreamed genocide, we are perfectly positioned to make real cultural shifts in how to address Israel and Zionism. We must not be afraid to name our enemy clearly, and abide by our <em><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C_D3DSZIL_n/?igsh=MWFleTU1bjhwMmw0OQ==\">thawabet</a></em> – or fundamental political principles – faithfully.</p>\n\n<p>Incidents like the knife assault in March make us fear for our safety, even while we recognize that every threat we face pales in comparison with horrors unfolding in Palestine. Without accountability, it sets a dangerous precedent, where student lives are disposable, where protests are portrayed as inherently unsafe, and where institutional silence in the face of the atrocity goes unchallenged.</p>\n\n<p>That is why we need each other. Our universities play sinister games. They take part in the ongoing genocide through both financial investments and research collaborations. But rather than defend their actions, they deny their impact or their own responsibility and play an endless game of bureaucratic snakes and ladders.</p>\n\n<p>Our actions must be guided by this knowledge and by the knowledge that suppression is becoming ever more acute, not just at universities, where students have been <a href=\"https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/soas-expel-palestine-society-president-and-encampment-leader-haya-adam-after-months-suspension\">expelled</a> and free speech <a href=\"https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/revealed-the-worsening-crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-activism-at-uk-universities/\">curtailed</a>, but in the country as a whole, where the government is now talking of curbing <a href=\"https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/05/uk/uk-police-power-protests-palestine-action-intl\">lawful protests</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Mapping strategy and escalation require that we can sustain our movement, on campuses and beyond, past this moment. And not only in terms of safety, media strategy and legal support but with political education that emboldens us to challenge our institutions’ core alignment with settler colonialism and imperialism.</p>\n\n<p>Until Palestine is free, every action, every demonstration, every victory is an act of repentance for our universities’ complicity in genocide and our own complicity by extension. Liberation will only come from Palestine, but as students we have a duty to break our universities’ financial complicity, another cog in the killing machine.</p>\n\n<p>And the pressure is working. The grounds for divestment are indisputable. Divestment is an inevitable reality.</p>\n\n<p>After two years of watching Israel commit unimaginable atrocities in our beloved Palestine, we will not be ones to hide at the threat of violence, nor will we try to rely on a system designed to fail us.</p>\n\n<p>Through every act of defiance and every call for divestment, from campuses and from the streets, a future Palestine, free and unbound by occupation, is imagined. Our solidarity must not be subdued. 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+Students want University of Edinburgh to divest from companies complicit with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
+On 28 March, during a Palestine rally at the University of Edinburgh, a student protester was physically attacked by a man with a retractable knife in front of university security.
+The student suffered cuts to his face, yet security stood idly by. When students reported that the man had a knife, they were dismissed by security members.
+Over the last year, student protesters at Edinburgh have called for a reduction in policing on campus, a demand which, according to student organizers, has been rejected by the administration on the grounds that a security presence at rallies ensures the safety of students.
+But the 28 March incident instantly disproved the administration’s position. It was a moment that shattered any illusion of safety or institutional neutrality.
+Following up with Edinburgh’s Student Association, students learned that security staff’s non-reaction – watching the scene unfold from a safe distance with their hands in their pockets – is in fact protocol. University security staff have a hands-off de-escalation policy that instructs them to disengage at the threat of a physical altercation.
+Although security failed to make any attempts at de-escalation in the first place, they technically fulfilled their exact jobs by not intervening once the staff, including head of security Nial Moffat, were informed about the weapon.
+But if it goes against security protocol to intervene when physical violence happens before officers’ eyes, what are they there to do?
+Ripple effect
+This question remains unanswered. The university evaded responsibility in not addressing students’ concerns about security directly, and then pivoting to blame student organizers for some previous social media posts demanding that the university stop “platforming” Israeli soldiers.
+This lack of accountability led to an inevitable ripple effect at the University of Glasgow.
+While planning to host a talk with their rector Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, Glasgow students said they were approached by security requesting a full list of names and emails of all attendees scheduled to appear. When students initially refused, security cited the knife-attack at Edinburgh to justify their request and threatened to cancel the talk if they did not receive the requested list.
+It did not matter that the University of Edinburgh failed to provide any reasonable explanation for how the security presence protected its students. It did not matter that the University of Glasgow – most likely operating a similar hands-off policy – could not explain how a list of attendees would improve security. After all, it seems unlikely that someone would register for the talk as “Knife Attacker” for the security staff to preemptively act on.
+Security’s failure at Edinburgh was therefore used to justify expanding student surveillance at Glasgow with the same tired line about concerns for student safety.
+This was not the first lie concerning campus safety. In a November 2023 meeting with Edinburgh students, the university administration rejected a student demand of no police presence on campus, claiming the administration had nothing to do with the police presence at every demonstration, protest and rally to date.
+A Freedom of Information request shared with Edinburgh University’s Justice for Palestine Society revealed, however, extensive email communication between security staff and police in which they shared the details of protests happening on campus, none of which included discussions of student safety.
+This isn’t just about a single attack or policy. It’s about how our educational institutions weaponize the language of safety to curtail precisely the kind of student activism that opposes and exposes their investments in and profits from the very weapons used to kill Palestinians.
+According to a report in The Guardian earlier this month, in fact, universities in the UK have gone so far as to collaborate with arms and defense companies to actively surveil students’ social media ahead of career fairs in order to preempt protests.
+Invested in genocide
+The University of Edinburgh has the dubious distinction of being named as one of “the most financially entangled” educational institutions in the UK in the UN’s recent report on corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s occupation of Palestine, its apartheid system of control and its genocide in Gaza.
+This includes over $31 million invested in Amazon, Alphabet, IBM and Microsoft – corporations that provide the Israeli military with crucial technological support, including AI and facial recognition systems used to surveil and target Palestinians.
+University management will never readily divest from profitable investments, even if this means profiting off a genocide. The idea that divestment can be won simply through reasoned argument is an illusion that is upheld by the web of lies university administrators spin to appease students.
+The only language administrators really understand is pressure. And pressure is brought to bear when our presence is large enough to shape even the conversations we are excluded from. When we are silent or sporadic in our actions on campus, they have little traction. But when we are strategic and consistent, the results speak for themselves.
+Last year, Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society’s disruption of the university-hosted career fairs ultimately resulted in defense companies ending their participation in such events at the University of Edinburgh.
+This was not only a win, it emphasized JPS’ persistent messaging: where a university fails to make decisions in favor of boycotts and divestment, the decision will be made for them.
+A university’s investments do not exist in a vacuum. Education establishments in the UK contend with a legacy of colonialism. Edinburgh’s complicity runs deep. The university “played an outsized role” in promoting racist “scientific” theories and profited handsomely from transatlantic slavery.
+On Palestine, there is a direct line: Arthur Balfour was chancellor of the university in 1917 when he issued the Balfour declaration, promising away land that was never his or the British Empire’s to give.
+That legacy still shapes attitudes to Palestine today. It is upheld by our institutions, entrenching us in their complicity. Hence our struggle must transcend the day-to-day battles with university administrations and confront the very system of power that allows such corruption to take root.
+Numbers and strategy
+As students living in the UK, witnessing a livestreamed genocide, we are perfectly positioned to make real cultural shifts in how to address Israel and Zionism. We must not be afraid to name our enemy clearly, and abide by our thawabet – or fundamental political principles – faithfully.
+Incidents like the knife assault in March make us fear for our safety, even while we recognize that every threat we face pales in comparison with horrors unfolding in Palestine. Without accountability, it sets a dangerous precedent, where student lives are disposable, where protests are portrayed as inherently unsafe, and where institutional silence in the face of the atrocity goes unchallenged.
+That is why we need each other. Our universities play sinister games. They take part in the ongoing genocide through both financial investments and research collaborations. But rather than defend their actions, they deny their impact or their own responsibility and play an endless game of bureaucratic snakes and ladders.
+Our actions must be guided by this knowledge and by the knowledge that suppression is becoming ever more acute, not just at universities, where students have been expelled and free speech curtailed, but in the country as a whole, where the government is now talking of curbing lawful protests.
+Mapping strategy and escalation require that we can sustain our movement, on campuses and beyond, past this moment. And not only in terms of safety, media strategy and legal support but with political education that emboldens us to challenge our institutions’ core alignment with settler colonialism and imperialism.
+Until Palestine is free, every action, every demonstration, every victory is an act of repentance for our universities’ complicity in genocide and our own complicity by extension. Liberation will only come from Palestine, but as students we have a duty to break our universities’ financial complicity, another cog in the killing machine.
+And the pressure is working. The grounds for divestment are indisputable. Divestment is an inevitable reality.
+After two years of watching Israel commit unimaginable atrocities in our beloved Palestine, we will not be ones to hide at the threat of violence, nor will we try to rely on a system designed to fail us.
+Through every act of defiance and every call for divestment, from campuses and from the streets, a future Palestine, free and unbound by occupation, is imagined. Our solidarity must not be subdued. It is firmly grounded in a struggle for justice for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to return home and live freely.
+Suha Omar is a student organizer and University of Edinburgh alumna.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Barely any flour, no meat</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-50722 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/barely-any-flour-no-meat/50722" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/khaled-al-qershali" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Khaled Al-Qershali</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-06-04T12:48:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">4 June 2025</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-169825" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-06/160624_khanyunis_osh_0032.jpg?itok=-cCbzm0V&amp;timestamp=1749056323 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-06/160624_khanyunis_osh_0032.jpg?itok=-cCbzm0V&amp;timestamp=1749056323" width="800" height="533" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>A man performs Eid al-Adha prayer among the rubble of al-Yaqeen Mosque, which was destroyed in an Israeli attack, in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, June&nbsp;2024.</p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Omar Ashtawy</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><span class="caps">APA</span> images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>Every Eid al-Adha, Ayman Shallah, 49, would attend the Eid prayer in the mosque near his house in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza&nbsp;City.</p>
+<p>Eid al-Adha is the second major festival in Islam, and it begins on 6 June this year, following <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinians-endure-another-festive-season-under-genocide/50547">Eid al-Fitr</a>, which was marked this year in&nbsp;March.</p>
+<p>The holiday lasts for several days and commemorates Muslims’ obedience and submission to Allah, as well as the Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son. A ritual sacrifice of an animal – typically a cow, sheep or goat – is performed after the&nbsp;prayer.</p>
+<p>The days are filled with family gatherings, acts of giving and acts of worship – one of the most significant being the Eid prayer, where communities gather to praise Allah and give thanks for his&nbsp;blessings.</p>
+<p>“After performing the Eid prayer, I would go to the slaughterhouse with my children and some neighbors to watch the sacrifice,” Shallah told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>
+<p>Shallah was a laborer in the occupied Palestinian territories and worked hard to earn the money needed for the&nbsp;sacrifice.</p>
+<p>He would then visit his parents, brothers and sisters. Shallah said that this was his favorite moment of Eid, when the whole family gathered at one table and&nbsp;feasted.</p>
+<p>Yet during Eid al-Adha in 2024, Shallah was displaced with his parents and brother to a house in Shujaiya, near his home that Israel had bombed in December&nbsp;2023.</p>
+<p>Shallah performed the Eid prayer at the house and didn’t visit any relatives or friends, afraid he would be targeted by the Israeli army, which, he said, “targets anyone,&nbsp;anywhere.”</p>
+<p>He did not go to the market to shop for food, sweets or even new clothes – there was <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/nothing-eat-eid/47181">nothing to buy</a>, and anything available would have cost a&nbsp;fortune.</p>
+<p>“I received two kilograms of meat from a friend,” Shallah said. “I was one of the few who ate meat during that&nbsp;Eid.”</p>
+<h2>Worst&nbsp;Eid</h2>
+<p>“This year&#8217;s Eid is the worst Eid of my life,” Shallah told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>
+<p>After Israel <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-resumes-genocidal-attacks-gaza-killing-400">broke</a> the ceasefire in March, Shallah and his family were in their temporary home in Shujaiya when Israel <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/3/live-israel-kills-almost-80-palestinians-in-gaza-attacks-bombs-un-clinic">bombed</a> the house next to them on 3&nbsp;April.</p>
+<p>Shallah was injured in his left thigh, and his daughter Doha, 20, in her left leg. Both sustained&nbsp;fractures.</p>
+<p>His 16-year-old son Muhammad had a skull&nbsp;injury.</p>
+<p>But Safa, his wife, did not&nbsp;survive.</p>
+<p>At the time, Abdul Rahman – Shallah&#8217;s eldest son – was visiting his aunt in Deir al-Balah, southern&nbsp;Gaza.</p>
+<p>“I woke up to the news that Israel was targeting a house near ours,” Abdul Rahman told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>
+<p>Abdul Rahman rushed back to northern Gaza to check on his family, only to find them at Al Ahli Arab&nbsp;Hospital.</p>
+<p>“My mother was a martyr,” Abdul Rahman said. “My father and young siblings were all&nbsp;injured.”</p>
+<p>Shallah and his injured children were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah as they could not find the proper treatment for their injuries in the&nbsp;north.</p>
+<p>Shallah remained with his son and daughter in the hospital for two weeks, until their conditions&nbsp;improved.</p>
+<p>He thinks he won’t be able to perform Eid prayers in the mosque this Eid because of the injury in his left&nbsp;thigh.</p>
+<p>“Meat is nonexistent in the market. I do not think we are going to receive any this Eid,” Shallah said. “It has been more than two months since I ate&nbsp;meat.”</p>
+<p>On this Eid, Shallah and his family are going to share a meal of lentils and one piece of bread per person – just like on other days in this&nbsp;genocide.</p>
+<p>“This is the first Eid without my wife,” Shallah said. “I don’t need food – I just want this genocide to end so I don&#8217;t lose any beloved&nbsp;person.”</p>
+<h2>No flour, no&nbsp;meat</h2>
+<p>After performing the Eid prayer in the mosque, Muhammad al-Ghoz, 29, would visit his parents and brothers, and together they would go to the slaughterhouse to sacrifice the cow they had&nbsp;purchased.</p>
+<p>Al-Ghoz, his father and his three brothers shared the cost of the cow, with a 200-kilogram calf costing around $1,700, he&nbsp;said.</p>
+<p>They would then return home and cut the meat into one-kilogram portions to distribute among people in need in their neighborhood such as orphans and impoverished&nbsp;families.</p>
+<p>“It was an Eid full of happiness and food,” he&nbsp;said.</p>
+<p>In October 2023, after the genocide erupted in the Gaza Strip, al-Ghoz was displaced to a tent in Deir al-Balah with his wife and his son Rakan. He now works as a freelance Arabic-language&nbsp;teacher.</p>
+<p>On 16 June 2024, the first day of Eid al-Adha, al-Ghoz spent two hours wavering about whether to perform the Eid prayer at the mosque or&nbsp;not.</p>
+<p>“When I heard the call to prayer, I decided to go despite the circumstances,” he told The Electronic Intifada, noting, “I thought I would die while I was&nbsp;praying.”</p>
+<p>Two days before Eid al-Adha, a friend living abroad sent al-Ghoz money to buy a lamb for sacrifice. The lamb cost al-Ghoz more than $2,000 – and it weighed only 30 kilograms. After performing the Eid prayer, al-Ghoz sacrificed his lamb and donated the meat to people in&nbsp;need.</p>
+<p>On 2 March, Israel <a href="https://mezan.org/en/post/46656">halted</a> all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza&nbsp;Strip.</p>
+<p>Al-Ghoz can barely afford flour, with one kilogram now costing more than&nbsp;$40.</p>
+<p>“If I managed to get meat, I wouldn&#8217;t find anything to cook with it,” he&nbsp;said.</p>
+<p>During the interview, al-Ghoz said it was his fourth day without eating a single piece of&nbsp;bread.</p>
+<p>Al-Ghoz’s family are still in northern Gaza, but they are displaced across different&nbsp;areas.</p>
+<p>“Transportation to see my family will cost around $70,” al-Ghoz said. “I would rather buy some flour to feed my son&nbsp;Rakan.”</p>
+<h2>Eid outside&nbsp;Gaza</h2>
+<p>Muhammad Obaid, 27, used to live in Gaza City&#8217;s central al-Rimal&nbsp;neighborhood.</p>
+<p>He would go with his friends the night before Eid al-Adha and shop for sweets and new clothes at al-Rimal&nbsp;markets.</p>
+<p>The next morning, Obaid would perform the Eid prayer in the mosque near his house and accompany his father to sacrifice the cow they had&nbsp;bought.</p>
+<p>Then they would cut the meat into portions to give to relatives and friends during their visits, and distribute the rest to people in need in their&nbsp;neighborhood.</p>
+<p>In June 2023, Obaid traveled to Germany to pursue a job opportunity as a&nbsp;doctor.</p>
+<p>During the 2024 Eid al-Adha, Obaid performed the Eid prayer with the local Muslim&nbsp;community.</p>
+<p>“After the prayer, the imam prayed for people in Gaza,” he told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>
+<p>Many people, he said, were raising the Palestinian flag and kuffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian checkered&nbsp;scarf.</p>
+<p>But after Obaid finished the Eid prayer, there was nothing to&nbsp;do.</p>
+<p>“There is no Eid without my family,” Obaid said. “All the traditions are&nbsp;lost.”</p>
+<p>“I tried to call my family, but there were <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/we-cannot-bear-blackouts/44086">no signals</a>.”</p>
+<p>Obaid has tried to stay in touch with his family since this genocide erupted but has faced difficulty since Israel first <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-communications-blackout-israel-intensifies-attack">cut off</a> internet communications in the Strip on 27 October&nbsp;2023.</p>
+<p>Obaid was finally able to call his family and check on them in the&nbsp;evening.</p>
+<p>But he felt ashamed to offer Eid greetings – his family was displaced in a tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, and facing&nbsp;famine.</p>
+<p>“I couldn&#8217;t have a joyful Eid because I don&#8217;t have acquaintances in Germany,” Obaid told The Electronic Intifada. “But I couldn&#8217;t say that to my parents who were struggling to get food&nbsp;supplies.”</p>
+<p>Obaid’s father told him that they had made pizza with the canned meat to “bring some joy for children amid this&nbsp;genocide.”</p>
+<p>Obaid&#8217;s mother wanted to cook <em>sumaghiya</em> – a traditional Palestinian stew made with beef and chickpeas – but she couldn&#8217;t because she didn&#8217;t find the ingredients in the&nbsp;market.</p>
+<p>This year, Obaid&#8217;s family <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/palestinians-return-homes-gaza-unrwa-ban-looms">returned</a> to northern Gaza after the January ceasefire, but they remain displaced in al-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, having lost their home in the&nbsp;genocide.</p>
+<p>For his family, this Eid al-Adha is worse not only because meat is nonexistent, but also because flour – if available – is sold at an unimaginable&nbsp;price.</p>
+<p>For more than 19 months, Obaid&#8217;s family, he said, “won&#8217;t be able to eat the food they like” – not even on&nbsp;Eid.</p>
+<p>“There is no one from Gaza who can continue life normally,” Obaid said. “Even if we leave Gaza, Gaza will never leave&nbsp;us.”</p>
+<p><em>Khaled Al-Qershali is an English graduate working as a journalist in&nbsp;Gaza.</em></p>
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                <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Barely any flour, no meat</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-50722 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/barely-any-flour-no-meat/50722\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Barely any flour, no meat\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/khaled-al-qershali\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Khaled Al-Qershali</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-06-04T12:48:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">4 June 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-169825\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-06/160624_khanyunis_osh_0032.jpg?itok=-cCbzm0V&amp;timestamp=1749056323 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-06/160624_khanyunis_osh_0032.jpg?itok=-cCbzm0V&amp;timestamp=1749056323\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>A man performs Eid al-Adha prayer among the rubble of al-Yaqeen Mosque, which was destroyed in an Israeli attack, in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, June&nbsp;2024.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Omar Ashtawy</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><span class=\"caps\">APA</span> images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>Every Eid al-Adha, Ayman Shallah, 49, would attend the Eid prayer in the mosque near his house in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza&nbsp;City.</p>\n\n<p>Eid al-Adha is the second major festival in Islam, and it begins on 6 June this year, following <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinians-endure-another-festive-season-under-genocide/50547\">Eid al-Fitr</a>, which was marked this year in&nbsp;March.</p>\n\n<p>The holiday lasts for several days and commemorates Muslims’ obedience and submission to Allah, as well as the Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son. A ritual sacrifice of an animal – typically a cow, sheep or goat – is performed after the&nbsp;prayer.</p>\n\n<p>The days are filled with family gatherings, acts of giving and acts of worship – one of the most significant being the Eid prayer, where communities gather to praise Allah and give thanks for his&nbsp;blessings.</p>\n\n<p>“After performing the Eid prayer, I would go to the slaughterhouse with my children and some neighbors to watch the sacrifice,” Shallah told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>\n\n<p>Shallah was a laborer in the occupied Palestinian territories and worked hard to earn the money needed for the&nbsp;sacrifice.</p>\n\n<p>He would then visit his parents, brothers and sisters. Shallah said that this was his favorite moment of Eid, when the whole family gathered at one table and&nbsp;feasted.</p>\n\n<p>Yet during Eid al-Adha in 2024, Shallah was displaced with his parents and brother to a house in Shujaiya, near his home that Israel had bombed in December&nbsp;2023.</p>\n\n<p>Shallah performed the Eid prayer at the house and didn’t visit any relatives or friends, afraid he would be targeted by the Israeli army, which, he said, “targets anyone,&nbsp;anywhere.”</p>\n\n<p>He did not go to the market to shop for food, sweets or even new clothes – there was <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/nothing-eat-eid/47181\">nothing to buy</a>, and anything available would have cost a&nbsp;fortune.</p>\n\n<p>“I received two kilograms of meat from a friend,” Shallah said. “I was one of the few who ate meat during that&nbsp;Eid.”</p>\n\n<h2>Worst&nbsp;Eid</h2>\n\n<p>“This year&#8217;s Eid is the worst Eid of my life,” Shallah told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>\n\n<p>After Israel <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-resumes-genocidal-attacks-gaza-killing-400\">broke</a> the ceasefire in March, Shallah and his family were in their temporary home in Shujaiya when Israel <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/3/live-israel-kills-almost-80-palestinians-in-gaza-attacks-bombs-un-clinic\">bombed</a> the house next to them on 3&nbsp;April.</p>\n\n<p>Shallah was injured in his left thigh, and his daughter Doha, 20, in her left leg. Both sustained&nbsp;fractures.</p>\n\n<p>His 16-year-old son Muhammad had a skull&nbsp;injury.</p>\n\n<p>But Safa, his wife, did not&nbsp;survive.</p>\n\n<p>At the time, Abdul Rahman – Shallah&#8217;s eldest son – was visiting his aunt in Deir al-Balah, southern&nbsp;Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>“I woke up to the news that Israel was targeting a house near ours,” Abdul Rahman told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>\n\n<p>Abdul Rahman rushed back to northern Gaza to check on his family, only to find them at Al Ahli Arab&nbsp;Hospital.</p>\n\n<p>“My mother was a martyr,” Abdul Rahman said. “My father and young siblings were all&nbsp;injured.”</p>\n\n<p>Shallah and his injured children were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah as they could not find the proper treatment for their injuries in the&nbsp;north.</p>\n\n<p>Shallah remained with his son and daughter in the hospital for two weeks, until their conditions&nbsp;improved.</p>\n\n<p>He thinks he won’t be able to perform Eid prayers in the mosque this Eid because of the injury in his left&nbsp;thigh.</p>\n\n<p>“Meat is nonexistent in the market. I do not think we are going to receive any this Eid,” Shallah said. “It has been more than two months since I ate&nbsp;meat.”</p>\n\n<p>On this Eid, Shallah and his family are going to share a meal of lentils and one piece of bread per person – just like on other days in this&nbsp;genocide.</p>\n\n<p>“This is the first Eid without my wife,” Shallah said. “I don’t need food – I just want this genocide to end so I don&#8217;t lose any beloved&nbsp;person.”</p>\n\n<h2>No flour, no&nbsp;meat</h2>\n\n<p>After performing the Eid prayer in the mosque, Muhammad al-Ghoz, 29, would visit his parents and brothers, and together they would go to the slaughterhouse to sacrifice the cow they had&nbsp;purchased.</p>\n\n<p>Al-Ghoz, his father and his three brothers shared the cost of the cow, with a 200-kilogram calf costing around $1,700, he&nbsp;said.</p>\n\n<p>They would then return home and cut the meat into one-kilogram portions to distribute among people in need in their neighborhood such as orphans and impoverished&nbsp;families.</p>\n\n<p>“It was an Eid full of happiness and food,” he&nbsp;said.</p>\n\n<p>In October 2023, after the genocide erupted in the Gaza Strip, al-Ghoz was displaced to a tent in Deir al-Balah with his wife and his son Rakan. He now works as a freelance Arabic-language&nbsp;teacher.</p>\n\n<p>On 16 June 2024, the first day of Eid al-Adha, al-Ghoz spent two hours wavering about whether to perform the Eid prayer at the mosque or&nbsp;not.</p>\n\n<p>“When I heard the call to prayer, I decided to go despite the circumstances,” he told The Electronic Intifada, noting, “I thought I would die while I was&nbsp;praying.”</p>\n\n<p>Two days before Eid al-Adha, a friend living abroad sent al-Ghoz money to buy a lamb for sacrifice. The lamb cost al-Ghoz more than $2,000 – and it weighed only 30 kilograms. After performing the Eid prayer, al-Ghoz sacrificed his lamb and donated the meat to people in&nbsp;need.</p>\n\n<p>On 2 March, Israel <a href=\"https://mezan.org/en/post/46656\">halted</a> all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza&nbsp;Strip.</p>\n\n<p>Al-Ghoz can barely afford flour, with one kilogram now costing more than&nbsp;$40.</p>\n\n<p>“If I managed to get meat, I wouldn&#8217;t find anything to cook with it,” he&nbsp;said.</p>\n\n<p>During the interview, al-Ghoz said it was his fourth day without eating a single piece of&nbsp;bread.</p>\n\n<p>Al-Ghoz’s family are still in northern Gaza, but they are displaced across different&nbsp;areas.</p>\n\n<p>“Transportation to see my family will cost around $70,” al-Ghoz said. “I would rather buy some flour to feed my son&nbsp;Rakan.”</p>\n\n<h2>Eid outside&nbsp;Gaza</h2>\n\n<p>Muhammad Obaid, 27, used to live in Gaza City&#8217;s central al-Rimal&nbsp;neighborhood.</p>\n\n<p>He would go with his friends the night before Eid al-Adha and shop for sweets and new clothes at al-Rimal&nbsp;markets.</p>\n\n<p>The next morning, Obaid would perform the Eid prayer in the mosque near his house and accompany his father to sacrifice the cow they had&nbsp;bought.</p>\n\n<p>Then they would cut the meat into portions to give to relatives and friends during their visits, and distribute the rest to people in need in their&nbsp;neighborhood.</p>\n\n<p>In June 2023, Obaid traveled to Germany to pursue a job opportunity as a&nbsp;doctor.</p>\n\n<p>During the 2024 Eid al-Adha, Obaid performed the Eid prayer with the local Muslim&nbsp;community.</p>\n\n<p>“After the prayer, the imam prayed for people in Gaza,” he told The Electronic&nbsp;Intifada.</p>\n\n<p>Many people, he said, were raising the Palestinian flag and kuffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian checkered&nbsp;scarf.</p>\n\n<p>But after Obaid finished the Eid prayer, there was nothing to&nbsp;do.</p>\n\n<p>“There is no Eid without my family,” Obaid said. “All the traditions are&nbsp;lost.”</p>\n\n<p>“I tried to call my family, but there were <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/we-cannot-bear-blackouts/44086\">no signals</a>.”</p>\n\n<p>Obaid has tried to stay in touch with his family since this genocide erupted but has faced difficulty since Israel first <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-communications-blackout-israel-intensifies-attack\">cut off</a> internet communications in the Strip on 27 October&nbsp;2023.</p>\n\n<p>Obaid was finally able to call his family and check on them in the&nbsp;evening.</p>\n\n<p>But he felt ashamed to offer Eid greetings – his family was displaced in a tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, and facing&nbsp;famine.</p>\n\n<p>“I couldn&#8217;t have a joyful Eid because I don&#8217;t have acquaintances in Germany,” Obaid told The Electronic Intifada. “But I couldn&#8217;t say that to my parents who were struggling to get food&nbsp;supplies.”</p>\n\n<p>Obaid’s father told him that they had made pizza with the canned meat to “bring some joy for children amid this&nbsp;genocide.”</p>\n\n<p>Obaid&#8217;s mother wanted to cook <em>sumaghiya</em> – a traditional Palestinian stew made with beef and chickpeas – but she couldn&#8217;t because she didn&#8217;t find the ingredients in the&nbsp;market.</p>\n\n<p>This year, Obaid&#8217;s family <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/palestinians-return-homes-gaza-unrwa-ban-looms\">returned</a> to northern Gaza after the January ceasefire, but they remain displaced in al-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, having lost their home in the&nbsp;genocide.</p>\n\n<p>For his family, this Eid al-Adha is worse not only because meat is nonexistent, but also because flour – if available – is sold at an unimaginable&nbsp;price.</p>\n\n<p>For more than 19 months, Obaid&#8217;s family, he said, “won&#8217;t be able to eat the food they like” – not even on&nbsp;Eid.</p>\n\n<p>“There is no one from Gaza who can continue life normally,” Obaid said. “Even if we leave Gaza, Gaza will never leave&nbsp;us.”</p>\n\n<p><em>Khaled Al-Qershali is an English graduate working as a journalist in&nbsp;Gaza.</em></p>\n  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/eid-al-adha\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Eid al-Adha</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/sacrifice\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">sacrifice</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-genocide\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza genocide</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/shujaiya\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Shujaiya</a>    </li>\n  \n</ul>\n\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a 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srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2025-09/main_image.png?itok=2n63UQjv&amp;timestamp=1758205191 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2025-09/main_image.png?itok=HJg9L7BJ&amp;timestamp=1758205191 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-09/main_image.png?itok=0Qw53-Rs&amp;timestamp=1758205191 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-09/main_image.png?itok=0Qw53-Rs&amp;timestamp=1758205191\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"A boy holds out his hands to show the camera pieces of grain he has collected from the ground\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/swimming-sea-aid/50950\">Swimming into the sea for aid</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Swimming into the sea for aid\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Khaled Al-Qershali</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-09-18T09:43:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">18 September 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last\">\n      <article class=\"node-50881 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/i-envy-my-dead-best-friend/50881\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/i-envy-my-dead-best-friend/50881\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2025-08/250819_-_hamo-library1.png?itok=T-TlNdRM&amp;timestamp=1755630699 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2025-08/250819_-_hamo-library1.png?itok=bndLdyyf&amp;timestamp=1755630699 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-08/250819_-_hamo-library1.png?itok=XPLx5R4r&amp;timestamp=1755630699 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-08/250819_-_hamo-library1.png?itok=XPLx5R4r&amp;timestamp=1755630699\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/i-envy-my-dead-best-friend/50881\">I envy my dead best friend</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"I envy my dead best friend\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Khaled Al-Qershali</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-08-20T05:21:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">20 August 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-12846 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/siege-puts-holiday-tradition-beyond-reach-many-gaza-families/12846\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/siege-puts-holiday-tradition-beyond-reach-many-gaza-families/12846\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2013-10/131014-adha-sheep.jpg?itok=dgZMp4sm&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2013-10/131014-adha-sheep.jpg?itok=F49K6VC6&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2013-10/131014-adha-sheep.jpg?itok=YvdRWAPa&amp;timestamp=1448949295 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2013-10/131014-adha-sheep.jpg?itok=YvdRWAPa&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/siege-puts-holiday-tradition-beyond-reach-many-gaza-families/12846\">Siege puts holiday tradition beyond reach of many Gaza families</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Siege puts holiday tradition beyond reach of many Gaza families\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Rami Almeghari</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2013-10-15T14:42:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">15 October 2013</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n<article class=\"node-9780 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/photostory-somber-holiday-under-occupation/9780\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/photostory-somber-holiday-under-occupation/9780\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2010-11/sanne_winderickx_6.jpg?itok=bH__P5VD&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2010-11/sanne_winderickx_6.jpg?itok=lzigOD1y&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2010-11/sanne_winderickx_6.jpg?itok=cfKO5yd0&amp;timestamp=1448949295 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2010-11/sanne_winderickx_6.jpg?itok=cfKO5yd0&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/photostory-somber-holiday-under-occupation/9780\">Photostory: somber holiday under occupation </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Photostory: somber holiday under occupation \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Sanne Winderickx</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2010-11-25T02:24:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">25 November 2010</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n<article class=\"node-50897 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/israel-uses-aid-exploit-and-humiliate/50897\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/israel-uses-aid-exploit-and-humiliate/50897\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2025-08/190825_gaza_akh_002.jpg?itok=8b64YWX1&amp;timestamp=1756748184 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2025-08/190825_gaza_akh_002.jpg?itok=OmWnDK5G&amp;timestamp=1756748184 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-08/190825_gaza_akh_002.jpg?itok=7EAsbQgw&amp;timestamp=1756748184 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-08/190825_gaza_akh_002.jpg?itok=7EAsbQgw&amp;timestamp=1756748184\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"People walk alongside trucks on a dirt road in the daytime, carrying aid. \" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/israel-uses-aid-exploit-and-humiliate/50897\">Israel uses aid to exploit and humiliate </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Israel uses aid to exploit and humiliate \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p 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+A man performs Eid al-Adha prayer among the rubble of al-Yaqeen Mosque, which was destroyed in an Israeli attack, in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, June 2024.
+APA imagesEvery Eid al-Adha, Ayman Shallah, 49, would attend the Eid prayer in the mosque near his house in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.
+Eid al-Adha is the second major festival in Islam, and it begins on 6 June this year, following Eid al-Fitr, which was marked this year in March.
+The holiday lasts for several days and commemorates Muslims’ obedience and submission to Allah, as well as the Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son. A ritual sacrifice of an animal – typically a cow, sheep or goat – is performed after the prayer.
+The days are filled with family gatherings, acts of giving and acts of worship – one of the most significant being the Eid prayer, where communities gather to praise Allah and give thanks for his blessings.
+“After performing the Eid prayer, I would go to the slaughterhouse with my children and some neighbors to watch the sacrifice,” Shallah told The Electronic Intifada.
+Shallah was a laborer in the occupied Palestinian territories and worked hard to earn the money needed for the sacrifice.
+He would then visit his parents, brothers and sisters. Shallah said that this was his favorite moment of Eid, when the whole family gathered at one table and feasted.
+Yet during Eid al-Adha in 2024, Shallah was displaced with his parents and brother to a house in Shujaiya, near his home that Israel had bombed in December 2023.
+Shallah performed the Eid prayer at the house and didn’t visit any relatives or friends, afraid he would be targeted by the Israeli army, which, he said, “targets anyone, anywhere.”
+He did not go to the market to shop for food, sweets or even new clothes – there was nothing to buy, and anything available would have cost a fortune.
+“I received two kilograms of meat from a friend,” Shallah said. “I was one of the few who ate meat during that Eid.”
+Worst Eid
+“This year’s Eid is the worst Eid of my life,” Shallah told The Electronic Intifada.
+After Israel broke the ceasefire in March, Shallah and his family were in their temporary home in Shujaiya when Israel bombed the house next to them on 3 April.
+Shallah was injured in his left thigh, and his daughter Doha, 20, in her left leg. Both sustained fractures.
+His 16-year-old son Muhammad had a skull injury.
+But Safa, his wife, did not survive.
+At the time, Abdul Rahman – Shallah’s eldest son – was visiting his aunt in Deir al-Balah, southern Gaza.
+“I woke up to the news that Israel was targeting a house near ours,” Abdul Rahman told The Electronic Intifada.
+Abdul Rahman rushed back to northern Gaza to check on his family, only to find them at Al Ahli Arab Hospital.
+“My mother was a martyr,” Abdul Rahman said. “My father and young siblings were all injured.”
+Shallah and his injured children were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah as they could not find the proper treatment for their injuries in the north.
+Shallah remained with his son and daughter in the hospital for two weeks, until their conditions improved.
+He thinks he won’t be able to perform Eid prayers in the mosque this Eid because of the injury in his left thigh.
+“Meat is nonexistent in the market. I do not think we are going to receive any this Eid,” Shallah said. “It has been more than two months since I ate meat.”
+On this Eid, Shallah and his family are going to share a meal of lentils and one piece of bread per person – just like on other days in this genocide.
+“This is the first Eid without my wife,” Shallah said. “I don’t need food – I just want this genocide to end so I don’t lose any beloved person.”
+No flour, no meat
+After performing the Eid prayer in the mosque, Muhammad al-Ghoz, 29, would visit his parents and brothers, and together they would go to the slaughterhouse to sacrifice the cow they had purchased.
+Al-Ghoz, his father and his three brothers shared the cost of the cow, with a 200-kilogram calf costing around $1,700, he said.
+They would then return home and cut the meat into one-kilogram portions to distribute among people in need in their neighborhood such as orphans and impoverished families.
+“It was an Eid full of happiness and food,” he said.
+In October 2023, after the genocide erupted in the Gaza Strip, al-Ghoz was displaced to a tent in Deir al-Balah with his wife and his son Rakan. He now works as a freelance Arabic-language teacher.
+On 16 June 2024, the first day of Eid al-Adha, al-Ghoz spent two hours wavering about whether to perform the Eid prayer at the mosque or not.
+“When I heard the call to prayer, I decided to go despite the circumstances,” he told The Electronic Intifada, noting, “I thought I would die while I was praying.”
+Two days before Eid al-Adha, a friend living abroad sent al-Ghoz money to buy a lamb for sacrifice. The lamb cost al-Ghoz more than $2,000 – and it weighed only 30 kilograms. After performing the Eid prayer, al-Ghoz sacrificed his lamb and donated the meat to people in need.
+On 2 March, Israel halted all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip.
+Al-Ghoz can barely afford flour, with one kilogram now costing more than $40.
+“If I managed to get meat, I wouldn’t find anything to cook with it,” he said.
+During the interview, al-Ghoz said it was his fourth day without eating a single piece of bread.
+Al-Ghoz’s family are still in northern Gaza, but they are displaced across different areas.
+“Transportation to see my family will cost around $70,” al-Ghoz said. “I would rather buy some flour to feed my son Rakan.”
+Eid outside Gaza
+Muhammad Obaid, 27, used to live in Gaza City’s central al-Rimal neighborhood.
+He would go with his friends the night before Eid al-Adha and shop for sweets and new clothes at al-Rimal markets.
+The next morning, Obaid would perform the Eid prayer in the mosque near his house and accompany his father to sacrifice the cow they had bought.
+Then they would cut the meat into portions to give to relatives and friends during their visits, and distribute the rest to people in need in their neighborhood.
+In June 2023, Obaid traveled to Germany to pursue a job opportunity as a doctor.
+During the 2024 Eid al-Adha, Obaid performed the Eid prayer with the local Muslim community.
+“After the prayer, the imam prayed for people in Gaza,” he told The Electronic Intifada.
+Many people, he said, were raising the Palestinian flag and kuffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian checkered scarf.
+But after Obaid finished the Eid prayer, there was nothing to do.
+“There is no Eid without my family,” Obaid said. “All the traditions are lost.”
+“I tried to call my family, but there were no signals.”
+Obaid has tried to stay in touch with his family since this genocide erupted but has faced difficulty since Israel first cut off internet communications in the Strip on 27 October 2023.
+Obaid was finally able to call his family and check on them in the evening.
+But he felt ashamed to offer Eid greetings – his family was displaced in a tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, and facing famine.
+“I couldn’t have a joyful Eid because I don’t have acquaintances in Germany,” Obaid told The Electronic Intifada. “But I couldn’t say that to my parents who were struggling to get food supplies.”
+Obaid’s father told him that they had made pizza with the canned meat to “bring some joy for children amid this genocide.”
+Obaid’s mother wanted to cook sumaghiya – a traditional Palestinian stew made with beef and chickpeas – but she couldn’t because she didn’t find the ingredients in the market.
+This year, Obaid’s family returned to northern Gaza after the January ceasefire, but they remain displaced in al-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, having lost their home in the genocide.
+For his family, this Eid al-Adha is worse not only because meat is nonexistent, but also because flour – if available – is sold at an unimaginable price.
+For more than 19 months, Obaid’s family, he said, “won’t be able to eat the food they like” – not even on Eid.
+“There is no one from Gaza who can continue life normally,” Obaid said. “Even if we leave Gaza, Gaza will never leave us.”
+Khaled Al-Qershali is an English graduate working as a journalist in Gaza.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">BBC “guidelines” endanger and offend Gaza interviewees</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-50892 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                  <span property="dc:title" content="BBC “guidelines” endanger and offend Gaza interviewees" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="1" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/abubaker-abed" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Abubaker Abed</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-08-28T17:10:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">28 August 2025</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-170522" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=ETWlc0ZL&amp;timestamp=1756301755 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=ETWlc0ZL&amp;timestamp=1756301755" width="800" height="534" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>The BBC’s Gaza coverage is not only embarrassing, it is placing interviewees in danger.</p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Abdullah Bailey</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">Avalon</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>In addition to scrolling through the devastating daily news on her social media account and helping her family with the exhausting essential everyday chores, Lamis, a second-year university student, is also pursuing her studies in English language and literature in her bleak and somber house in Nuseirat refugee camp – an area that has been <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/10-palestinians-killed-idf-airstrike-water-distribution-point/story?id=123715251">heavily pummeled</a> throughout the ongoing Gaza genocide.</p>
+<p>In May, the 20-year-old – who, like every other subject in this article, did not want to give her real name – was contacted by BBC World News to do a live interview about the expansion of ground operations in the Gaza Strip. Lamis was excited for the opportunity to present her lived experience on Israel’s genocide in Gaza freely.</p>
+<p>Or so she initially thought.</p>
+<p>Like many other BBC interviewees, Lamis and others interviewed for this article were shocked to find not only that their interviews were heavily edited, but that BBC producers asked them questions off air they felt were unethical and could endanger their safety.</p>
+<p>“At first, the questions were normal,” Lamis told The Electronic Intifada about the interview itself. “But then the presenter mentioned the ‘parties to the war, Hamas and Israel.’ I rejected this claim and said that the war is not against Hamas; it is against defenseless people, against children, against any voice or any hope in Gaza. This is a genocide, not a war.”</p>
+<p>After the interview, the BBC’s producer asked Lamis about her political positions and whether “you support Hamas.”</p>
+<p>Aside from the fact that it is commonly known in Gaza that women are not able to join political factions or resistance groups, the questions upset Lamis for several reasons.</p>
+<p>“I felt it was unjust,” she said. The BBC was trying to decide how to treat her, she said, and all Palestinians in Gaza based on their political affiliation and opinions.</p>
+<p>“Unfortunately, I could not express this because I feared their cooperation with the occupation, and that my answer might put me in danger,” a clearly frustrated Lamis said.</p>
+<p>Nevertheless, she told the producer over WhatsApp that the question was “not appropriate,” and was clear with the producer that the cause of the genocide was “the Israeli occupation (and its agents).”</p>
+<p>She also feared, she said, that if she proclaimed herself supportive of Hamas, or said any of her relatives were that way minded, that information would make its way to Israeli intelligence.</p>
+<p>To compound matters further, Lamis then realized that the interview, when it aired, had effectively been censored to take out any mention of genocide.</p>
+<p>“I was shocked that they cut what they wanted. They are showing the world something different from what we are living. They are exploiting us for their own aims,” she told The Electronic Intifada.</p>
+<h2>“Do you support Hamas?”</h2>
+<p>Israel has long been <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5435219-israel-global-opinion-gaza/">clear</a> that it wants to “eliminate Hamas.” <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/10/8/know-their-names-palestinian-families-killed-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza">Whole families</a> deemed to be affiliated with the resistance movement – often through AI <a href="https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/">targeting algorithms</a> – have been wiped out.</p>
+<figure id="file-170523" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-float-right file file-image file-image-png" style="width:400px"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc1.png?itok=RA6w_xrf&amp;timestamp=1756397788 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc1.png?itok=RA6w_xrf&amp;timestamp=1756397788" width="576" height="1034" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Excerpts from a WhatsApp conversation between a BBC producer and a potential interviewee in Gaza.</p></figcaption></figure><p>And the slaughter of journalists – who ought to enjoy protected status under international law – continues unabated along with Israel’s genocide. In August alone, Israel has killed 11 journalists, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/10/al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-city">six on</a> 10 August, and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/al-jazeera-journalist-mohammed-salama-among-14-killed-in-israeli-attack">another five</a> on 25 August.</p>
+<p>The pattern of assassination – as in the case of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, one of the journalists murdered on 10 August – follows a media smear campaign against targets with fabricated information, often accusing the target of links with Hamas.</p>
+<p>Moreover, via Israeli cyber spying and the willing cooperation of social media companies like <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/blog/meta-israel-nexus-silencing-palestinian-voices-digital-landscape">Meta</a> and <a href="https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/02/tech-giants-and-british-bank-named-in-francesca-albanese-report-on-gaza-genocide/">Google</a>, the Israeli military is certain to have monitored Anas’ movements and activities. And Israel can do this with anyone in Gaza.</p>
+<p>Not only do BBC interviewees fear that by expressing any support for anything Hamas does or says, they and their relatives could wind up as AI-determined military targets, they balk at the ethics of such questions.</p>
+<p>Shadin from Gaza’s Deir al-Balah received a message from the BBC in May, requesting an interview and asking the 18-year-old to convey her pain and ambitions for the future.</p>
+<p>“At first, I was genuinely proud,” Shadin told The Electronic Intifada. “It felt like an important opportunity to be heard, to speak for my people, and to share our reality with a wider audience through one of the world&#8217;s most well-known media platforms.”</p>
+<p>She did the interview and was pleased with how it went, only to be asked later: “Do you support Hamas?” The question, from the BBC producer, came under the guise of “integrity and transparency,” and is part of the BBC’s “<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/bbc-patsy-israel-lobby/50830">editorial guidelines</a>” on whether to include an interview in a BBC program.</p>
+<h2>Pushing a narrative</h2>
+<p>Shadin never responded because, after seeing the questions, she felt herself in grave danger. Israel’s intelligence agencies are monitoring <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud">everything they can</a>, including calls and messages, and Israeli tech companies are <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77n76kzmz4o">world leaders</a> in clandestine software that monitors a target’s movements, calls and online activities, known as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware">spyware</a>.</p>
+<p>“As soon as the Hamas question came up, I realized this wasn&#8217;t really about us, or about our suffering and survival,” Shadin said. “I felt they were pushing a political narrative. It was disappointing and made me feel unsafe. I knew then that I had to be very careful.”</p>
+<figure id="file-170524" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-float-right file file-image file-image-png" style="width:400px"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc2.png?itok=z8enfait&amp;timestamp=1756397712 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc2.png?itok=z8enfait&amp;timestamp=1756397712" width="591" height="1019" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Excerpts from a WhatsApp conversation between a BBC producer and a potential interviewee in Gaza.</p></figcaption></figure><p>Later in June, the same BBC producer who had reached out before, sent another message to Shadin to ask for an interview. Shadin ignored it.</p>
+<p>Rima, 20, another Gaza-based writer and student and a friend of Shadin’s, had a similar experience with the BBC.</p>
+<p>She did a live interview in May about food shortages in Gaza. A week later, the producer messaged Rima to check – like the others – on her political affiliations.</p>
+<p>Rima apologized that she would prefer not to answer such questions. The producer – stretching credulity – argued that she just wanted to confirm they [BBC News] were talking to “ordinary Gazans rather than someone in a political position.”</p>
+<p>Rima told The Electronic Intifada she felt like her words didn’t really matter and that the BBC was just discriminating against Palestinians.</p>
+<p>“Supporting or opposing Hamas shouldn’t determine how people are treated or whether they deserve to be heard.”</p>
+<p>In July, Khader, 17, was contacted in Gaza by BBC News for an interview with the network. The high school student, stranded in a dilapidated tent in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis with his family after the destruction of their house, was excited to prepare for his first live TV appearance.</p>
+<p>But out of the blue, the producer asked him, “Do you or your parents have any political affiliation with Hamas?”</p>
+<p>The question irritated the teenager and made him uncomfortable.</p>
+<h2>Dehumanizing Palestinians</h2>
+<p>Unlike the other young people interviewed for this article, however, Khader responded: “We are against the violence, so no.”</p>
+<p>He answered despite the common knowledge that, as with women and political party affiliation, it is generally understood that a child cannot join the resistance in Gaza.</p>
+<p>Israel has compulsory military service, and young Israelis, 18 and over, not only have to serve their time, they also get called on reserve duty until they are <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-806478">in their 40s</a>.</p>
+<p>It’s the opposite of Gaza, where joining resistance groups is entirely optional, and under-18s – as per the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (<a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/optional-protocol-convention-rights-child-involvement-children">OPAC</a>), which was later approved by the UN General Assembly as an addendum to the Convention on the Rights of the Child – are forbidden to affiliate with any of them.</p>
+<p>Nonetheless, the BBC producer had no qualms asking Khader about his politics and that of his family. This was done in spite of the well-known shortcomings in the security and privacy of text-messaging apps, particularly WhatsApp, which in January <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware">announced</a> that some of its users had been targeted by an Israeli spyware company, Paragon Solutions.</p>
+<p>That is, in fact, the reason he felt in peril by the BBC&#8217;s query, asked over WhatsApp.</p>
+<p>The four young people felt imperiled by the BBC’s dangerous questions and all now wish the BBC had never communicated with them.</p>
+<p>This journalist has also faced a similar experience. In fact, on 10 August – the day Israel killed Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in the Al Jazeera tent by Al-Shifa Hospital – the BBC World Service sent me a request for a pre-taped interview to hear my reaction to the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/8/7/palestinian-footballer-suleiman-al-obeid-killed-while-seeking-aid-in-gaza">killing of athletes</a> in Gaza and the lack of international support from UEFA and FIFA for our sports bodies.</p>
+<p>I was clear with their producer about my thoughts on the BBC. “You’re a mouthpiece for Zionism and you have oceans of the blood of my people on your hands.”</p>
+<p>For the past two years, the BBC, along with most, if not all, Western mainstream media organizations, have been <a href="https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/3250">deliberately dehumanizing</a> Palestinians and ignoring our plight. They have effectively been <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage">manufacturing consent</a> for Israel to go ahead with its genocidal campaign in the besieged territory.</p>
+<p>The BBC continues to platform Israelis, including military and political officials. So far, there is no suggestion that the BBC is investigating the political preferences or affiliations of its Israeli interviewees. Certainly, the BBC has never asked them whether they, their parents, their grandparents or siblings have participated in the genocide Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.</p>
+<p>From Gaza, the message to the world’s media that the BBC and others continue to ignore despite its irrefutability, is simple.</p>
+<p>“Our reality is painful, but it&#8217;s real. Don&#8217;t look away. Don&#8217;t soften it. Let people feel it as it is,” Shadin said.</p>
+<p><em>Abubaker Abed is a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+        <a href="/comment/312287#comment-312287" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Akhi, if we recognize them</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/312287#comment-312287" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2025-09-12T11:04:44+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Anonymous</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2025-09-12T11:04:44+00:00">Fri, 09/12/2025 - 11:04</time></span>    </p>
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+    <p>Akhi, if we recognize them using the name &quot;Israel&quot; we are recognizing the zionist entity as a legitimate state and as the holy nation from the Scripture.</p>
+<p>The nations which resist international zionism still refuse to recognize them as a legitimate state. If you call them &quot;Israel&quot; you are ideologically submitting to zionism and giving them legitimacy and power.</p>
+<p>This is an only an editorial suggestion congruent with anti-zionism and the Islamic faith. According to the Koran, it is Muslims who are the true children of Israel from Abraham, salallahu alayhi wa salam, to Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa salam.</p>
+<p>Children of Israel! call to mind the favour which I bestowed upon you, and that I preferred you to all others.</p>
+<p>- Surah Al Baqarah 47</p>
+<p>This is why our brothers in the resistance refer to them with names such as &quot;the zionist entity&quot; and &quot;occupation forces&quot; in such names in refusal to recognize their legitimacy. Words, as I am sure you are well aware, have a lot of meaning and power.</p>
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role=\"main\">\n            <nav class=\"breadcrumb\" role=\"navigation\" prefix=\"v: http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#\"><h2 class=\"element-invisible\">You are here</h2><span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"/\" rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\" content=\"Home\"></a></span></nav>      <a id=\"main-content\"></a>\n                    <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">BBC “guidelines” endanger and offend Gaza interviewees</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-50892 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"BBC “guidelines” endanger and offend Gaza interviewees\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"1\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/abubaker-abed\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Abubaker Abed</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-08-28T17:10:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">28 August 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-170522\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=ETWlc0ZL&amp;timestamp=1756301755 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=ETWlc0ZL&amp;timestamp=1756301755\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>The BBC’s Gaza coverage is not only embarrassing, it is placing interviewees in danger.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Abdullah Bailey</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">Avalon</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>In addition to scrolling through the devastating daily news on her social media account and helping her family with the exhausting essential everyday chores, Lamis, a second-year university student, is also pursuing her studies in English language and literature in her bleak and somber house in Nuseirat refugee camp – an area that has been <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/International/10-palestinians-killed-idf-airstrike-water-distribution-point/story?id=123715251\">heavily pummeled</a> throughout the ongoing Gaza genocide.</p>\n\n<p>In May, the 20-year-old – who, like every other subject in this article, did not want to give her real name – was contacted by BBC World News to do a live interview about the expansion of ground operations in the Gaza Strip. Lamis was excited for the opportunity to present her lived experience on Israel’s genocide in Gaza freely.</p>\n\n<p>Or so she initially thought.</p>\n\n<p>Like many other BBC interviewees, Lamis and others interviewed for this article were shocked to find not only that their interviews were heavily edited, but that BBC producers asked them questions off air they felt were unethical and could endanger their safety.</p>\n\n<p>“At first, the questions were normal,” Lamis told The Electronic Intifada about the interview itself. “But then the presenter mentioned the ‘parties to the war, Hamas and Israel.’ I rejected this claim and said that the war is not against Hamas; it is against defenseless people, against children, against any voice or any hope in Gaza. This is a genocide, not a war.”</p>\n\n<p>After the interview, the BBC’s producer asked Lamis about her political positions and whether “you support Hamas.”</p>\n\n<p>Aside from the fact that it is commonly known in Gaza that women are not able to join political factions or resistance groups, the questions upset Lamis for several reasons.</p>\n\n<p>“I felt it was unjust,” she said. The BBC was trying to decide how to treat her, she said, and all Palestinians in Gaza based on their political affiliation and opinions.</p>\n\n<p>“Unfortunately, I could not express this because I feared their cooperation with the occupation, and that my answer might put me in danger,” a clearly frustrated Lamis said.</p>\n\n<p>Nevertheless, she told the producer over WhatsApp that the question was “not appropriate,” and was clear with the producer that the cause of the genocide was “the Israeli occupation (and its agents).”</p>\n\n<p>She also feared, she said, that if she proclaimed herself supportive of Hamas, or said any of her relatives were that way minded, that information would make its way to Israeli intelligence.</p>\n\n<p>To compound matters further, Lamis then realized that the interview, when it aired, had effectively been censored to take out any mention of genocide.</p>\n\n<p>“I was shocked that they cut what they wanted. They are showing the world something different from what we are living. They are exploiting us for their own aims,” she told The Electronic Intifada.</p>\n\n<h2>“Do you support Hamas?”</h2>\n\n<p>Israel has long been <a href=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5435219-israel-global-opinion-gaza/\">clear</a> that it wants to “eliminate Hamas.” <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/10/8/know-their-names-palestinian-families-killed-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza\">Whole families</a> deemed to be affiliated with the resistance movement – often through AI <a href=\"https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/\">targeting algorithms</a> – have been wiped out.</p>\n\n<figure id=\"file-170523\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-float-right file file-image file-image-png\" style=\"width:400px\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc1.png?itok=RA6w_xrf&amp;timestamp=1756397788 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc1.png?itok=RA6w_xrf&amp;timestamp=1756397788\" width=\"576\" height=\"1034\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Excerpts from a WhatsApp conversation between a BBC producer and a potential interviewee in Gaza.</p></figcaption></figure><p>And the slaughter of journalists – who ought to enjoy protected status under international law – continues unabated along with Israel’s genocide. In August alone, Israel has killed 11 journalists, <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/10/al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-city\">six on</a> 10 August, and <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/al-jazeera-journalist-mohammed-salama-among-14-killed-in-israeli-attack\">another five</a> on 25 August.</p>\n\n<p>The pattern of assassination – as in the case of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, one of the journalists murdered on 10 August – follows a media smear campaign against targets with fabricated information, often accusing the target of links with Hamas.</p>\n\n<p>Moreover, via Israeli cyber spying and the willing cooperation of social media companies like <a href=\"https://www.apc.org/en/blog/meta-israel-nexus-silencing-palestinian-voices-digital-landscape\">Meta</a> and <a href=\"https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/02/tech-giants-and-british-bank-named-in-francesca-albanese-report-on-gaza-genocide/\">Google</a>, the Israeli military is certain to have monitored Anas’ movements and activities. And Israel can do this with anyone in Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>Not only do BBC interviewees fear that by expressing any support for anything Hamas does or says, they and their relatives could wind up as AI-determined military targets, they balk at the ethics of such questions.</p>\n\n<p>Shadin from Gaza’s Deir al-Balah received a message from the BBC in May, requesting an interview and asking the 18-year-old to convey her pain and ambitions for the future.</p>\n\n<p>“At first, I was genuinely proud,” Shadin told The Electronic Intifada. “It felt like an important opportunity to be heard, to speak for my people, and to share our reality with a wider audience through one of the world&#8217;s most well-known media platforms.”</p>\n\n<p>She did the interview and was pleased with how it went, only to be asked later: “Do you support Hamas?” The question, from the BBC producer, came under the guise of “integrity and transparency,” and is part of the BBC’s “<a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/bbc-patsy-israel-lobby/50830\">editorial guidelines</a>” on whether to include an interview in a BBC program.</p>\n\n<h2>Pushing a narrative</h2>\n\n<p>Shadin never responded because, after seeing the questions, she felt herself in grave danger. Israel’s intelligence agencies are monitoring <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud\">everything they can</a>, including calls and messages, and Israeli tech companies are <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77n76kzmz4o\">world leaders</a> in clandestine software that monitors a target’s movements, calls and online activities, known as <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware\">spyware</a>.</p>\n\n<p>“As soon as the Hamas question came up, I realized this wasn&#8217;t really about us, or about our suffering and survival,” Shadin said. “I felt they were pushing a political narrative. It was disappointing and made me feel unsafe. I knew then that I had to be very careful.”</p>\n\n<figure id=\"file-170524\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-float-right file file-image file-image-png\" style=\"width:400px\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc2.png?itok=z8enfait&amp;timestamp=1756397712 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/abubakerbbc2.png?itok=z8enfait&amp;timestamp=1756397712\" width=\"591\" height=\"1019\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Excerpts from a WhatsApp conversation between a BBC producer and a potential interviewee in Gaza.</p></figcaption></figure><p>Later in June, the same BBC producer who had reached out before, sent another message to Shadin to ask for an interview. Shadin ignored it.</p>\n\n<p>Rima, 20, another Gaza-based writer and student and a friend of Shadin’s, had a similar experience with the BBC.</p>\n\n<p>She did a live interview in May about food shortages in Gaza. A week later, the producer messaged Rima to check – like the others – on her political affiliations.</p>\n\n<p>Rima apologized that she would prefer not to answer such questions. The producer – stretching credulity – argued that she just wanted to confirm they [BBC News] were talking to “ordinary Gazans rather than someone in a political position.”</p>\n\n<p>Rima told The Electronic Intifada she felt like her words didn’t really matter and that the BBC was just discriminating against Palestinians.</p>\n\n<p>“Supporting or opposing Hamas shouldn’t determine how people are treated or whether they deserve to be heard.”</p>\n\n<p>In July, Khader, 17, was contacted in Gaza by BBC News for an interview with the network. The high school student, stranded in a dilapidated tent in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis with his family after the destruction of their house, was excited to prepare for his first live TV appearance.</p>\n\n<p>But out of the blue, the producer asked him, “Do you or your parents have any political affiliation with Hamas?”</p>\n\n<p>The question irritated the teenager and made him uncomfortable.</p>\n\n<h2>Dehumanizing Palestinians</h2>\n\n<p>Unlike the other young people interviewed for this article, however, Khader responded: “We are against the violence, so no.”</p>\n\n<p>He answered despite the common knowledge that, as with women and political party affiliation, it is generally understood that a child cannot join the resistance in Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>Israel has compulsory military service, and young Israelis, 18 and over, not only have to serve their time, they also get called on reserve duty until they are <a href=\"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-806478\">in their 40s</a>.</p>\n\n<p>It’s the opposite of Gaza, where joining resistance groups is entirely optional, and under-18s – as per the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (<a href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/optional-protocol-convention-rights-child-involvement-children\">OPAC</a>), which was later approved by the UN General Assembly as an addendum to the Convention on the Rights of the Child – are forbidden to affiliate with any of them.</p>\n\n<p>Nonetheless, the BBC producer had no qualms asking Khader about his politics and that of his family. This was done in spite of the well-known shortcomings in the security and privacy of text-messaging apps, particularly WhatsApp, which in January <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware\">announced</a> that some of its users had been targeted by an Israeli spyware company, Paragon Solutions.</p>\n\n<p>That is, in fact, the reason he felt in peril by the BBC&#8217;s query, asked over WhatsApp.</p>\n\n<p>The four young people felt imperiled by the BBC’s dangerous questions and all now wish the BBC had never communicated with them.</p>\n\n<p>This journalist has also faced a similar experience. In fact, on 10 August – the day Israel killed Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in the Al Jazeera tent by Al-Shifa Hospital – the BBC World Service sent me a request for a pre-taped interview to hear my reaction to the <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/8/7/palestinian-footballer-suleiman-al-obeid-killed-while-seeking-aid-in-gaza\">killing of athletes</a> in Gaza and the lack of international support from UEFA and FIFA for our sports bodies.</p>\n\n<p>I was clear with their producer about my thoughts on the BBC. “You’re a mouthpiece for Zionism and you have oceans of the blood of my people on your hands.”</p>\n\n<p>For the past two years, the BBC, along with most, if not all, Western mainstream media organizations, have been <a href=\"https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/3250\">deliberately dehumanizing</a> Palestinians and ignoring our plight. They have effectively been <a href=\"https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage\">manufacturing consent</a> for Israel to go ahead with its genocidal campaign in the besieged territory.</p>\n\n<p>The BBC continues to platform Israelis, including military and political officials. So far, there is no suggestion that the BBC is investigating the political preferences or affiliations of its Israeli interviewees. Certainly, the BBC has never asked them whether they, their parents, their grandparents or siblings have participated in the genocide Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>From Gaza, the message to the world’s media that the BBC and others continue to ignore despite its irrefutability, is simple.</p>\n\n<p>“Our reality is painful, but it&#8217;s real. Don&#8217;t look away. Don&#8217;t soften it. Let people feel it as it is,” Shadin said.</p>\n\n<p><em>Abubaker Abed is a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-genocide\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza genocide</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/bbc\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">BBC</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/whatsapp\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">WhatsApp</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/ai\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">AI</a>    </li>\n  \n</ul>\n\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"comment-add first last active\"><a href=\"/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892#comment-form\" title=\"Share your thoughts and opinions related to this posting.\" class=\"active\">Add new comment</a></li>\n</ul><ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A//electronicintifada.net/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892\" class=\"popup\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-official fa-2x\"></i><span> Facebook</span></a></li>\n<li class=\"ei_twitter last\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=BBC%20%E2%80%9Cguidelines%E2%80%9D%20endanger%20and%20offend%20Gaza%20interviewees&amp;url=https%3A//electronicintifada.net/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892\" class=\"popup\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter fa-2x\"></i><span> Twitter</span></a></li>\n</ul><ul class=\"links inline donate\"><li class=\"donate-now first last\"><a href=\"/%23\" class=\"kindful-donate-btn\" id=\"kindful-donate-btn-2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb\">Donate Now</a></li>\n</ul><script src=\"https://middleeastculturalandcharitablesociety-bloom.kindful.com/embeds/2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb/init.js?type=button\" data-embed-id=\"2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb\" data-lookup-type=\"jquery-selector\" data-lookup-value=\"#kindful-donate-btn-2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb\" data-styles-off=\"true\"></script>\n\n  <section id=\"comments\" class=\"comments comment-wrapper\">\n        <h2 class=\"comments__title title\"><i class=\"fa fa-comments\"></i> Comments</h2>\n    \n  <a id=\"comment-312287\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous first last odd\" about=\"/comment/312287#comment-312287\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAZUlEQVRYhe3XsQ2AMAwFUYIYjBEYlREyGvVJxMUXSC7ulXGRi1J5bGvXWQxD93w/37+/KmIH2UF2kB1kB9lBdpAdZAfZQXaQHdSlY/yxPAaOerxaRzPFm7v8ix1kB9lBXTokKfUAVdYE2/uW550AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/312287#comment-312287\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Akhi, if we recognize them</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/312287#comment-312287\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2025-09-12T11:04:44+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Anonymous</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2025-09-12T11:04:44+00:00\">Fri, 09/12/2025 - 11:04</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>Akhi, if we recognize them using the name &quot;Israel&quot; we are recognizing the zionist entity as a legitimate state and as the holy nation from the Scripture.</p>\n<p>The nations which resist international zionism still refuse to recognize them as a legitimate state. If you call them &quot;Israel&quot; you are ideologically submitting to zionism and giving them legitimacy and power.</p>\n<p>This is an only an editorial suggestion congruent with anti-zionism and the Islamic faith. According to the Koran, it is Muslims who are the true children of Israel from Abraham, salallahu alayhi wa salam, to Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa salam.</p>\n<p>Children of Israel! call to mind the favour which I bestowed upon you, and that I preferred you to all others.</p>\n<p>- Surah Al Baqarah 47</p>\n<p>This is why our brothers in the resistance refer to them with names such as &quot;the zionist entity&quot; and &quot;occupation forces&quot; in such names in refusal to recognize their legitimacy. 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+The BBC’s Gaza coverage is not only embarrassing, it is placing interviewees in danger.
+AvalonIn addition to scrolling through the devastating daily news on her social media account and helping her family with the exhausting essential everyday chores, Lamis, a second-year university student, is also pursuing her studies in English language and literature in her bleak and somber house in Nuseirat refugee camp – an area that has been heavily pummeled throughout the ongoing Gaza genocide.
+In May, the 20-year-old – who, like every other subject in this article, did not want to give her real name – was contacted by BBC World News to do a live interview about the expansion of ground operations in the Gaza Strip. Lamis was excited for the opportunity to present her lived experience on Israel’s genocide in Gaza freely.
+Or so she initially thought.
+Like many other BBC interviewees, Lamis and others interviewed for this article were shocked to find not only that their interviews were heavily edited, but that BBC producers asked them questions off air they felt were unethical and could endanger their safety.
+“At first, the questions were normal,” Lamis told The Electronic Intifada about the interview itself. “But then the presenter mentioned the ‘parties to the war, Hamas and Israel.’ I rejected this claim and said that the war is not against Hamas; it is against defenseless people, against children, against any voice or any hope in Gaza. This is a genocide, not a war.”
+After the interview, the BBC’s producer asked Lamis about her political positions and whether “you support Hamas.”
+Aside from the fact that it is commonly known in Gaza that women are not able to join political factions or resistance groups, the questions upset Lamis for several reasons.
+“I felt it was unjust,” she said. The BBC was trying to decide how to treat her, she said, and all Palestinians in Gaza based on their political affiliation and opinions.
+“Unfortunately, I could not express this because I feared their cooperation with the occupation, and that my answer might put me in danger,” a clearly frustrated Lamis said.
+Nevertheless, she told the producer over WhatsApp that the question was “not appropriate,” and was clear with the producer that the cause of the genocide was “the Israeli occupation (and its agents).”
+She also feared, she said, that if she proclaimed herself supportive of Hamas, or said any of her relatives were that way minded, that information would make its way to Israeli intelligence.
+To compound matters further, Lamis then realized that the interview, when it aired, had effectively been censored to take out any mention of genocide.
+“I was shocked that they cut what they wanted. They are showing the world something different from what we are living. They are exploiting us for their own aims,” she told The Electronic Intifada.
+“Do you support Hamas?”
+Israel has long been clear that it wants to “eliminate Hamas.” Whole families deemed to be affiliated with the resistance movement – often through AI targeting algorithms – have been wiped out.
+Excerpts from a WhatsApp conversation between a BBC producer and a potential interviewee in Gaza.And the slaughter of journalists – who ought to enjoy protected status under international law – continues unabated along with Israel’s genocide. In August alone, Israel has killed 11 journalists, six on 10 August, and another five on 25 August.
+The pattern of assassination – as in the case of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, one of the journalists murdered on 10 August – follows a media smear campaign against targets with fabricated information, often accusing the target of links with Hamas.
+Moreover, via Israeli cyber spying and the willing cooperation of social media companies like Meta and Google, the Israeli military is certain to have monitored Anas’ movements and activities. And Israel can do this with anyone in Gaza.
+Not only do BBC interviewees fear that by expressing any support for anything Hamas does or says, they and their relatives could wind up as AI-determined military targets, they balk at the ethics of such questions.
+Shadin from Gaza’s Deir al-Balah received a message from the BBC in May, requesting an interview and asking the 18-year-old to convey her pain and ambitions for the future.
+“At first, I was genuinely proud,” Shadin told The Electronic Intifada. “It felt like an important opportunity to be heard, to speak for my people, and to share our reality with a wider audience through one of the world’s most well-known media platforms.”
+She did the interview and was pleased with how it went, only to be asked later: “Do you support Hamas?” The question, from the BBC producer, came under the guise of “integrity and transparency,” and is part of the BBC’s “editorial guidelines” on whether to include an interview in a BBC program.
+Pushing a narrative
+Shadin never responded because, after seeing the questions, she felt herself in grave danger. Israel’s intelligence agencies are monitoring everything they can, including calls and messages, and Israeli tech companies are world leaders in clandestine software that monitors a target’s movements, calls and online activities, known as spyware.
+“As soon as the Hamas question came up, I realized this wasn’t really about us, or about our suffering and survival,” Shadin said. “I felt they were pushing a political narrative. It was disappointing and made me feel unsafe. I knew then that I had to be very careful.”
+Excerpts from a WhatsApp conversation between a BBC producer and a potential interviewee in Gaza.Later in June, the same BBC producer who had reached out before, sent another message to Shadin to ask for an interview. Shadin ignored it.
+Rima, 20, another Gaza-based writer and student and a friend of Shadin’s, had a similar experience with the BBC.
+She did a live interview in May about food shortages in Gaza. A week later, the producer messaged Rima to check – like the others – on her political affiliations.
+Rima apologized that she would prefer not to answer such questions. The producer – stretching credulity – argued that she just wanted to confirm they [BBC News] were talking to “ordinary Gazans rather than someone in a political position.”
+Rima told The Electronic Intifada she felt like her words didn’t really matter and that the BBC was just discriminating against Palestinians.
+“Supporting or opposing Hamas shouldn’t determine how people are treated or whether they deserve to be heard.”
+In July, Khader, 17, was contacted in Gaza by BBC News for an interview with the network. The high school student, stranded in a dilapidated tent in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis with his family after the destruction of their house, was excited to prepare for his first live TV appearance.
+But out of the blue, the producer asked him, “Do you or your parents have any political affiliation with Hamas?”
+The question irritated the teenager and made him uncomfortable.
+Dehumanizing Palestinians
+Unlike the other young people interviewed for this article, however, Khader responded: “We are against the violence, so no.”
+He answered despite the common knowledge that, as with women and political party affiliation, it is generally understood that a child cannot join the resistance in Gaza.
+Israel has compulsory military service, and young Israelis, 18 and over, not only have to serve their time, they also get called on reserve duty until they are in their 40s.
+It’s the opposite of Gaza, where joining resistance groups is entirely optional, and under-18s – as per the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC), which was later approved by the UN General Assembly as an addendum to the Convention on the Rights of the Child – are forbidden to affiliate with any of them.
+Nonetheless, the BBC producer had no qualms asking Khader about his politics and that of his family. This was done in spite of the well-known shortcomings in the security and privacy of text-messaging apps, particularly WhatsApp, which in January announced that some of its users had been targeted by an Israeli spyware company, Paragon Solutions.
+That is, in fact, the reason he felt in peril by the BBC’s query, asked over WhatsApp.
+The four young people felt imperiled by the BBC’s dangerous questions and all now wish the BBC had never communicated with them.
+This journalist has also faced a similar experience. In fact, on 10 August – the day Israel killed Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in the Al Jazeera tent by Al-Shifa Hospital – the BBC World Service sent me a request for a pre-taped interview to hear my reaction to the killing of athletes in Gaza and the lack of international support from UEFA and FIFA for our sports bodies.
+I was clear with their producer about my thoughts on the BBC. “You’re a mouthpiece for Zionism and you have oceans of the blood of my people on your hands.”
+For the past two years, the BBC, along with most, if not all, Western mainstream media organizations, have been deliberately dehumanizing Palestinians and ignoring our plight. They have effectively been manufacturing consent for Israel to go ahead with its genocidal campaign in the besieged territory.
+The BBC continues to platform Israelis, including military and political officials. So far, there is no suggestion that the BBC is investigating the political preferences or affiliations of its Israeli interviewees. Certainly, the BBC has never asked them whether they, their parents, their grandparents or siblings have participated in the genocide Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.
+From Gaza, the message to the world’s media that the BBC and others continue to ignore despite its irrefutability, is simple.
+“Our reality is painful, but it’s real. Don’t look away. Don’t soften it. Let people feel it as it is,” Shadin said.
+Abubaker Abed is a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza.
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/tim-llewellyn" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Tim Llewellyn</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-07-25T09:10:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">25 July 2025</span></span>        </p>
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+<span class="field field-author">Abdullah Bailey</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">Avalon</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>A “dagger to the heart of the BBC claim to be impartial and to be trustworthy.”</p>
+<p>That was what Samir Shah, the BBC chair, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/04/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone-documentary-bbc-credibility-samir-shah">told</a> a British parliamentary committee on 4 March, describing the documentary <em>Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone</em>.</p>
+<p>But he wasn’t talking about its cancellation by the once venerable media institution.</p>
+<p>Shah made his negative judgment of the film before he asked the BBC’s Peter Johnston to report on whether it was or was not in breach of BBC guidelines. This report duly found against the film five months later, solely on the grounds that the 13-year-old narrator’s father was an official in Gaza&#8217;s Hamas government.</p>
+<p>The real dagger here was Shah’s hasty and cowardly assertion. Through him, the BBC was prostrating itself before some of its worst enemies and most savage critics, in government and in opposition.</p>
+<p>Indeed, the contortions of excuse and prevarication BBC management has put itself through in the past half year to suppress this film have twisted the dagger further into the BBC’s corporate body. It has shown the corporation to be a patsy of the Israel lobby and Israel’s friends and influencers.</p>
+<p>And it didn’t stop there. The BBC also managed to suppress another Gaza documentary, <em><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crenz9d3181o">Gaza: Doctors Under Attack</a></em>, that was commissioned by the corporation.</p>
+<p>This has meant that the BBC has muffed two opportunities to show evocative, terrifying narratives from the Gaza Strip itself, where international journalists are banned by Israel.</p>
+<p>These two films might partly have made up for the BBC’s wholly inadequate news reporting of Israel’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah">self-confessed</a> attempt at clearing Gaza of its inhabitants and the genocide taking place there.</p>
+<p>Fear has overwhelmed journalism.</p>
+<h2>Process not content</h2>
+<p>As a long-gestating BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqpdy00w2o">internal report</a> has now reported, nothing in <em>How to Survive a War Zone</em> was found to be biased or partial. The breach of BBC editorial guidelines lay only in its failure to establish that its narrator, Abdullah al-Yazouri, is the son of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/bbc-asked-to-remove-gaza-documentary-over-narrators-fathers-ties-to-hamas">deputy agriculture minister</a>, Ayman al-Yazouri.</p>
+<p>This is a technocratic post in the Hamas government of Gaza, a government that was established after Hamas won legislative elections of 2006 but whose victory was denied by the West, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.</p>
+<p>The conclusion: it is all about process, not about content.</p>
+<p>The BBC could easily have kept showing the film rather than dropping it so hastily, just a few days after first showing, apparently forever. It should have dealt separately with the question of the narrator’s identity.</p>
+<p>Anyone who has seen the film will know that there is no hint of Hamas control or pro-Hamas bias in the documentary. If anything, it’s the opposite.</p>
+<p>The fault lies in the BBC’s own lack of rigor in questioning the independent makers of the movie, Hoyo. It could have explained this oversight and admitted responsibility.</p>
+<p>However, no one at the BBC, including the head of news herself, CEO Deborah Turness, put their hands up to this lapse of journalistic practice. This allowed Zionists and their supporters, the government and a mainstream media always seeking BBC blood to bury the documentary in irrelevant contumely.</p>
+<p>I have used the word cowardly about the BBC advisedly. In most of the corporation’s day-to-day news output on Israel-Palestine, and now with the burying of the two Gaza documentaries, the BBC shows itself to be more concerned – most concerned – with the reactions to its output from pro-Israel critics such as the self-styled Middle East media watchdog CAMERA, or UK Lawyers for Israel, rather than the material itself.</p>
+<p>Reporting fully and accurately on the campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in all Palestine is not uppermost in the BBC managerial mind.</p>
+<p>The Gaza doctors’ documentary “risked creating a perception of partiality,” <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crenz9d3181o">said</a> the BBC. As if in the current climate of pro-Israel clamor in Britain’s ruling circles, anything the BBC might truthfully report – and thereby defy or deny Israel’s positions – could do anything else for most of the British mainstream commentariat.</p>
+<h2>Set up</h2>
+<p>The BBC’s allegations that the reporter on the film, Ramita Nivai, had been a <a href="https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/bbc-bosses-pulled-our-film-on-israel-attacking-gazas-medics-heres-why">decisive factor</a> in dropping the film was a shameful ruse. Her remarks in an interview on the flagship morning news show, the <em>Today</em> program, on 19 June, in which she is said to have described Israel as a “rogue state” were in a different context.</p>
+<p>Nivai was not interviewed about Gaza per se.</p>
+<p>The presenter, Amol Rajan, asked Nivai, who is of Iranian origin, what she had managed to hear from family and friends inside Iran during the Israeli air strikes in mid June.</p>
+<p>What Nivai actually said was that Iranian fears about the Israeli attacks on Iran had been intensified by their hearing and knowing that Israel was a rogue state that was attacking civilians, primarily in the long campaign against Gaza, which naturally has been vividly and widely reported on Iranian and other media outlets.</p>
+<p>I listened carefully to the exchange and it was certainly not at all clear that Nivai herself was accusing Israel of being a rogue state. Even if she had been, as a concerned person of Iranian extraction with family in great danger, it would hardly have been unusual.</p>
+<p>It certainly was no adequate reason for the BBC to question her journalistic credentials to report on the beleaguered medics of Gaza. Nivai did not, as the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crenz9d3181o">reported</a>, appear on the <em>Today</em> program “discussing the war on Gaza.”</p>
+<p>In other words, Nivai was set up.</p>
+<p>In fact, the timeline of events makes clear that the BBC had decided long before the <em>Today</em> episode in question, in late April, that it was dropping the Gaza doctors documentary and was now, in desperation, casting around for <em>ex post facto</em> causes.</p>
+<p>The film, eventually shown by the UK’s Channel 4 on 2 July, was definitively a searing and accurate report on the hell experienced by Gaza’s medical teams and their patients. If the BBC had wished to add more Israeli comments or denials than the ample number already in the program, it could have found ways to do so.</p>
+<p>However, as the BBC so often points out when complaints are made by people opposed to or critical of Israel, internal balance is not always to be found within a program or item, but over time.</p>
+<p>As a report by the Centre for Media Monitoring <a href="https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-Gaza-Israel-one-story-double-standards/">found</a>, in a public meeting in the UK Houses of Parliament on 17 June, most BBC news coverage of Israel/Palestine is inadequate and favors the Israel narrative.</p>
+<p>There is hardly ever any mention of ethnic cleansing despite openly stated <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/hamas-israel-hunger-war-in-gaza">Israeli plans</a> to empty Gaza, nor of genocide, despite the British government’s role and <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192">a case</a> before the International Court of Justice. These words are generally banned, even in the mouths of outside commentators – an intrusive bid to censor eyewitnesses and experts on the region by studio-bound editors, presenters and producers.</p>
+<p>The BBC has almost entirely failed to recount the outsized number of deaths and assassinations of journalists, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/2/gaza-war-deadliest-ever-for-journalists-says-report">over 230</a> by now,  in Gaza. It has generally failed to report or investigate the <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-to-gaza/">collaboration</a> between the British airforce and the Israeli military, both in the use of the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus for ferrying arms and other supplies to Israel and in co-operating in intelligence-gathering flights over Gaza.</p>
+<h2>Rot from the top</h2>
+<p>It has never mentioned the so-called Hannibal Directive, under the auspices of which the Israeli army and air force <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/army-was-ordered-kill-israelis-7-october-defense-minister-confirms">killed their own</a> people, soldiers, security guards, captives and family members in the fields, towns and kibbutzim near Gaza on 7 October 2023, in an attempt to keep as low as possible the numbers of Israelis that Hamas and other groups could take back to Gaza.</p>
+<p>This aspect of the 7 October casualty toll and the nature of that day’s killings is vital in trying to tell the real story of what happened that day.</p>
+<p>But, as the stunned visage of the unfortunate BBC executive who appeared in the parliamentary reckoning when the Centre for Media Monitoring presented their report <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/peter-oborne-vs-bbc-the-full-story/">showed</a>, proper answers and impartial reporting are not the concern of the BBC.</p>
+<p>As I and so many others have reported here on The Electronic Intifada and elsewhere for nearly 25 years now, the BBC’s main concern in its handling of the news from Israel-Palestine is its own survival in the face of an increasingly vociferous regiment of Israel’s backers and apologists.</p>
+<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is now doing everything in its power to <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/will-terrorist-ban-stop-palestine-action">tip the legal system</a> and police forces against the majority in civil society who support the struggle for justice in Palestine and real solid sanctions against Israel, including the proper pursuit of war crimes charges.</p>
+<p>The BBC is helping Starmer, not least in its lack of coverage, of the <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/defiance-at-state-repression-on-palestine-march-in-london/">vast</a> and continual protests against Israel’s genocidal wars by large swathes of British civil society.</p>
+<p>The BBC does sometimes report well. There are shards of light in the darkness of trimming and evasion. On Monday 14 July, the <em>Today</em> program carried a first-class, uninhibited interview with Sam Rose, the acting director of UNRWA affairs for Gaza, followed by a commentary by the veteran former BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen.</p>
+<p>Proper coverage can be done and sometimes is, but it is sporadic, especially on the major news outlets to which politicians and Israel lobby pay most attention.</p>
+<p>Responsibility for this farrago lies with top management, the news bosses and news managers who police what their reporters and correspondents can say and which voices the producers can call into the studios. This extends to the questions and strictures on what presenters can ask and what disciplines they must apply.</p>
+<p>As the pathetic dithering over the two recent Gaza documentaries shows, these managers, from the director-general, the chair and the head of news on down to the overburdened and second-guessed journalists who put out the programs, regard themselves as primarily answerable to the British government and its continued support and sustenance of Israel. They are not concerned with truth, still less any public right to truth.</p>
+<p>What the tragedy of the two documentaries has shown is that the BBC and its managers are more concerned with the BBC’s and their own survival than with the task the BBC’s <a href="https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/charter">Royal Charter</a> – its constitutional basis –  sets it. The government holds the purse strings of the BBC, so the government is in effect blackmailing the corporation on behalf of Israel.</p>
+<p><em>Tim Llewellyn is a former BBC Middle East Correspondent and editor of the Britain Palestine Project website.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/tim-llewellyn\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Tim Llewellyn</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-07-25T09:10:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">25 July 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-170254\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-07/bbctim.jpg?itok=l-CUQ52r&amp;timestamp=1753373949 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-07/bbctim.jpg?itok=l-CUQ52r&amp;timestamp=1753373949\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>A protester outside BBC headquarters on 11 May 2025.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Abdullah Bailey</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">Avalon</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>A “dagger to the heart of the BBC claim to be impartial and to be trustworthy.”</p>\n\n<p>That was what Samir Shah, the BBC chair, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/04/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone-documentary-bbc-credibility-samir-shah\">told</a> a British parliamentary committee on 4 March, describing the documentary <em>Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone</em>.</p>\n\n<p>But he wasn’t talking about its cancellation by the once venerable media institution.</p>\n\n<p>Shah made his negative judgment of the film before he asked the BBC’s Peter Johnston to report on whether it was or was not in breach of BBC guidelines. This report duly found against the film five months later, solely on the grounds that the 13-year-old narrator’s father was an official in Gaza&#8217;s Hamas government.</p>\n\n<p>The real dagger here was Shah’s hasty and cowardly assertion. Through him, the BBC was prostrating itself before some of its worst enemies and most savage critics, in government and in opposition.</p>\n\n<p>Indeed, the contortions of excuse and prevarication BBC management has put itself through in the past half year to suppress this film have twisted the dagger further into the BBC’s corporate body. It has shown the corporation to be a patsy of the Israel lobby and Israel’s friends and influencers.</p>\n\n<p>And it didn’t stop there. The BBC also managed to suppress another Gaza documentary, <em><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crenz9d3181o\">Gaza: Doctors Under Attack</a></em>, that was commissioned by the corporation.</p>\n\n<p>This has meant that the BBC has muffed two opportunities to show evocative, terrifying narratives from the Gaza Strip itself, where international journalists are banned by Israel.</p>\n\n<p>These two films might partly have made up for the BBC’s wholly inadequate news reporting of Israel’s <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah\">self-confessed</a> attempt at clearing Gaza of its inhabitants and the genocide taking place there.</p>\n\n<p>Fear has overwhelmed journalism.</p>\n\n<h2>Process not content</h2>\n\n<p>As a long-gestating BBC <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqpdy00w2o\">internal report</a> has now reported, nothing in <em>How to Survive a War Zone</em> was found to be biased or partial. The breach of BBC editorial guidelines lay only in its failure to establish that its narrator, Abdullah al-Yazouri, is the son of a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/bbc-asked-to-remove-gaza-documentary-over-narrators-fathers-ties-to-hamas\">deputy agriculture minister</a>, Ayman al-Yazouri.</p>\n\n<p>This is a technocratic post in the Hamas government of Gaza, a government that was established after Hamas won legislative elections of 2006 but whose victory was denied by the West, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.</p>\n\n<p>The conclusion: it is all about process, not about content.</p>\n\n<p>The BBC could easily have kept showing the film rather than dropping it so hastily, just a few days after first showing, apparently forever. It should have dealt separately with the question of the narrator’s identity.</p>\n\n<p>Anyone who has seen the film will know that there is no hint of Hamas control or pro-Hamas bias in the documentary. If anything, it’s the opposite.</p>\n\n<p>The fault lies in the BBC’s own lack of rigor in questioning the independent makers of the movie, Hoyo. It could have explained this oversight and admitted responsibility.</p>\n\n<p>However, no one at the BBC, including the head of news herself, CEO Deborah Turness, put their hands up to this lapse of journalistic practice. This allowed Zionists and their supporters, the government and a mainstream media always seeking BBC blood to bury the documentary in irrelevant contumely.</p>\n\n<p>I have used the word cowardly about the BBC advisedly. In most of the corporation’s day-to-day news output on Israel-Palestine, and now with the burying of the two Gaza documentaries, the BBC shows itself to be more concerned – most concerned – with the reactions to its output from pro-Israel critics such as the self-styled Middle East media watchdog CAMERA, or UK Lawyers for Israel, rather than the material itself.</p>\n\n<p>Reporting fully and accurately on the campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in all Palestine is not uppermost in the BBC managerial mind.</p>\n\n<p>The Gaza doctors’ documentary “risked creating a perception of partiality,” <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crenz9d3181o\">said</a> the BBC. As if in the current climate of pro-Israel clamor in Britain’s ruling circles, anything the BBC might truthfully report – and thereby defy or deny Israel’s positions – could do anything else for most of the British mainstream commentariat.</p>\n\n<h2>Set up</h2>\n\n<p>The BBC’s allegations that the reporter on the film, Ramita Nivai, had been a <a href=\"https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/bbc-bosses-pulled-our-film-on-israel-attacking-gazas-medics-heres-why\">decisive factor</a> in dropping the film was a shameful ruse. Her remarks in an interview on the flagship morning news show, the <em>Today</em> program, on 19 June, in which she is said to have described Israel as a “rogue state” were in a different context.</p>\n\n<p>Nivai was not interviewed about Gaza per se.</p>\n\n<p>The presenter, Amol Rajan, asked Nivai, who is of Iranian origin, what she had managed to hear from family and friends inside Iran during the Israeli air strikes in mid June.</p>\n\n<p>What Nivai actually said was that Iranian fears about the Israeli attacks on Iran had been intensified by their hearing and knowing that Israel was a rogue state that was attacking civilians, primarily in the long campaign against Gaza, which naturally has been vividly and widely reported on Iranian and other media outlets.</p>\n\n<p>I listened carefully to the exchange and it was certainly not at all clear that Nivai herself was accusing Israel of being a rogue state. Even if she had been, as a concerned person of Iranian extraction with family in great danger, it would hardly have been unusual.</p>\n\n<p>It certainly was no adequate reason for the BBC to question her journalistic credentials to report on the beleaguered medics of Gaza. Nivai did not, as the BBC <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crenz9d3181o\">reported</a>, appear on the <em>Today</em> program “discussing the war on Gaza.”</p>\n\n<p>In other words, Nivai was set up.</p>\n\n<p>In fact, the timeline of events makes clear that the BBC had decided long before the <em>Today</em> episode in question, in late April, that it was dropping the Gaza doctors documentary and was now, in desperation, casting around for <em>ex post facto</em> causes.</p>\n\n<p>The film, eventually shown by the UK’s Channel 4 on 2 July, was definitively a searing and accurate report on the hell experienced by Gaza’s medical teams and their patients. If the BBC had wished to add more Israeli comments or denials than the ample number already in the program, it could have found ways to do so.</p>\n\n<p>However, as the BBC so often points out when complaints are made by people opposed to or critical of Israel, internal balance is not always to be found within a program or item, but over time.</p>\n\n<p>As a report by the Centre for Media Monitoring <a href=\"https://cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-Gaza-Israel-one-story-double-standards/\">found</a>, in a public meeting in the UK Houses of Parliament on 17 June, most BBC news coverage of Israel/Palestine is inadequate and favors the Israel narrative.</p>\n\n<p>There is hardly ever any mention of ethnic cleansing despite openly stated <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/hamas-israel-hunger-war-in-gaza\">Israeli plans</a> to empty Gaza, nor of genocide, despite the British government’s role and <a href=\"https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192\">a case</a> before the International Court of Justice. These words are generally banned, even in the mouths of outside commentators – an intrusive bid to censor eyewitnesses and experts on the region by studio-bound editors, presenters and producers.</p>\n\n<p>The BBC has almost entirely failed to recount the outsized number of deaths and assassinations of journalists, <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/2/gaza-war-deadliest-ever-for-journalists-says-report\">over 230</a> by now,  in Gaza. It has generally failed to report or investigate the <a href=\"https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-to-gaza/\">collaboration</a> between the British airforce and the Israeli military, both in the use of the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus for ferrying arms and other supplies to Israel and in co-operating in intelligence-gathering flights over Gaza.</p>\n\n<h2>Rot from the top</h2>\n\n<p>It has never mentioned the so-called Hannibal Directive, under the auspices of which the Israeli army and air force <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/army-was-ordered-kill-israelis-7-october-defense-minister-confirms\">killed their own</a> people, soldiers, security guards, captives and family members in the fields, towns and kibbutzim near Gaza on 7 October 2023, in an attempt to keep as low as possible the numbers of Israelis that Hamas and other groups could take back to Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>This aspect of the 7 October casualty toll and the nature of that day’s killings is vital in trying to tell the real story of what happened that day.</p>\n\n<p>But, as the stunned visage of the unfortunate BBC executive who appeared in the parliamentary reckoning when the Centre for Media Monitoring presented their report <a href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/peter-oborne-vs-bbc-the-full-story/\">showed</a>, proper answers and impartial reporting are not the concern of the BBC.</p>\n\n<p>As I and so many others have reported here on The Electronic Intifada and elsewhere for nearly 25 years now, the BBC’s main concern in its handling of the news from Israel-Palestine is its own survival in the face of an increasingly vociferous regiment of Israel’s backers and apologists.</p>\n\n<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is now doing everything in its power to <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/will-terrorist-ban-stop-palestine-action\">tip the legal system</a> and police forces against the majority in civil society who support the struggle for justice in Palestine and real solid sanctions against Israel, including the proper pursuit of war crimes charges.</p>\n\n<p>The BBC is helping Starmer, not least in its lack of coverage, of the <a href=\"https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/defiance-at-state-repression-on-palestine-march-in-london/\">vast</a> and continual protests against Israel’s genocidal wars by large swathes of British civil society.</p>\n\n<p>The BBC does sometimes report well. There are shards of light in the darkness of trimming and evasion. On Monday 14 July, the <em>Today</em> program carried a first-class, uninhibited interview with Sam Rose, the acting director of UNRWA affairs for Gaza, followed by a commentary by the veteran former BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen.</p>\n\n<p>Proper coverage can be done and sometimes is, but it is sporadic, especially on the major news outlets to which politicians and Israel lobby pay most attention.</p>\n\n<p>Responsibility for this farrago lies with top management, the news bosses and news managers who police what their reporters and correspondents can say and which voices the producers can call into the studios. This extends to the questions and strictures on what presenters can ask and what disciplines they must apply.</p>\n\n<p>As the pathetic dithering over the two recent Gaza documentaries shows, these managers, from the director-general, the chair and the head of news on down to the overburdened and second-guessed journalists who put out the programs, regard themselves as primarily answerable to the British government and its continued support and sustenance of Israel. They are not concerned with truth, still less any public right to truth.</p>\n\n<p>What the tragedy of the two documentaries has shown is that the BBC and its managers are more concerned with the BBC’s and their own survival than with the task the BBC’s <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/charter\">Royal Charter</a> – its constitutional basis –  sets it. The government holds the purse strings of the BBC, so the government is in effect blackmailing the corporation on behalf of Israel.</p>\n\n<p><em>Tim Llewellyn is a former BBC Middle East Correspondent and editor of the Britain Palestine Project website.</em></p>  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-genocide\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza genocide</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-war-crimes\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza war crimes</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/bbc\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">BBC</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/keir-starmer\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Keir Starmer</a>    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class=\"date-display-single\">7 March 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-38771 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/uk-media-do-what-much-better-why/38771\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/uk-media-do-what-much-better-why/38771\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2023-10/rafahbombing.jpeg?itok=FHT5P1Ud&amp;timestamp=1697134885 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2023-10/rafahbombing.jpeg?itok=e2bk8Wf3&amp;timestamp=1697134885 1x, 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class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Tim Llewellyn</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2023-10-12T18:21:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">12 October 2023</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last\">\n      <article class=\"node-37396 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/uk-drowns-criticism-netanyahu-trade-deal/37396\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/uk-drowns-criticism-netanyahu-trade-deal/37396\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source 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+A protester outside BBC headquarters on 11 May 2025.
+AvalonA “dagger to the heart of the BBC claim to be impartial and to be trustworthy.”
+That was what Samir Shah, the BBC chair, told a British parliamentary committee on 4 March, describing the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone.
+But he wasn’t talking about its cancellation by the once venerable media institution.
+Shah made his negative judgment of the film before he asked the BBC’s Peter Johnston to report on whether it was or was not in breach of BBC guidelines. This report duly found against the film five months later, solely on the grounds that the 13-year-old narrator’s father was an official in Gaza’s Hamas government.
+The real dagger here was Shah’s hasty and cowardly assertion. Through him, the BBC was prostrating itself before some of its worst enemies and most savage critics, in government and in opposition.
+Indeed, the contortions of excuse and prevarication BBC management has put itself through in the past half year to suppress this film have twisted the dagger further into the BBC’s corporate body. It has shown the corporation to be a patsy of the Israel lobby and Israel’s friends and influencers.
+And it didn’t stop there. The BBC also managed to suppress another Gaza documentary, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, that was commissioned by the corporation.
+This has meant that the BBC has muffed two opportunities to show evocative, terrifying narratives from the Gaza Strip itself, where international journalists are banned by Israel.
+These two films might partly have made up for the BBC’s wholly inadequate news reporting of Israel’s self-confessed attempt at clearing Gaza of its inhabitants and the genocide taking place there.
+Fear has overwhelmed journalism.
+Process not content
+As a long-gestating BBC internal report has now reported, nothing in How to Survive a War Zone was found to be biased or partial. The breach of BBC editorial guidelines lay only in its failure to establish that its narrator, Abdullah al-Yazouri, is the son of a deputy agriculture minister, Ayman al-Yazouri.
+This is a technocratic post in the Hamas government of Gaza, a government that was established after Hamas won legislative elections of 2006 but whose victory was denied by the West, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
+The conclusion: it is all about process, not about content.
+The BBC could easily have kept showing the film rather than dropping it so hastily, just a few days after first showing, apparently forever. It should have dealt separately with the question of the narrator’s identity.
+Anyone who has seen the film will know that there is no hint of Hamas control or pro-Hamas bias in the documentary. If anything, it’s the opposite.
+The fault lies in the BBC’s own lack of rigor in questioning the independent makers of the movie, Hoyo. It could have explained this oversight and admitted responsibility.
+However, no one at the BBC, including the head of news herself, CEO Deborah Turness, put their hands up to this lapse of journalistic practice. This allowed Zionists and their supporters, the government and a mainstream media always seeking BBC blood to bury the documentary in irrelevant contumely.
+I have used the word cowardly about the BBC advisedly. In most of the corporation’s day-to-day news output on Israel-Palestine, and now with the burying of the two Gaza documentaries, the BBC shows itself to be more concerned – most concerned – with the reactions to its output from pro-Israel critics such as the self-styled Middle East media watchdog CAMERA, or UK Lawyers for Israel, rather than the material itself.
+Reporting fully and accurately on the campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in all Palestine is not uppermost in the BBC managerial mind.
+The Gaza doctors’ documentary “risked creating a perception of partiality,” said the BBC. As if in the current climate of pro-Israel clamor in Britain’s ruling circles, anything the BBC might truthfully report – and thereby defy or deny Israel’s positions – could do anything else for most of the British mainstream commentariat.
+Set up
+The BBC’s allegations that the reporter on the film, Ramita Nivai, had been a decisive factor in dropping the film was a shameful ruse. Her remarks in an interview on the flagship morning news show, the Today program, on 19 June, in which she is said to have described Israel as a “rogue state” were in a different context.
+Nivai was not interviewed about Gaza per se.
+The presenter, Amol Rajan, asked Nivai, who is of Iranian origin, what she had managed to hear from family and friends inside Iran during the Israeli air strikes in mid June.
+What Nivai actually said was that Iranian fears about the Israeli attacks on Iran had been intensified by their hearing and knowing that Israel was a rogue state that was attacking civilians, primarily in the long campaign against Gaza, which naturally has been vividly and widely reported on Iranian and other media outlets.
+I listened carefully to the exchange and it was certainly not at all clear that Nivai herself was accusing Israel of being a rogue state. Even if she had been, as a concerned person of Iranian extraction with family in great danger, it would hardly have been unusual.
+It certainly was no adequate reason for the BBC to question her journalistic credentials to report on the beleaguered medics of Gaza. Nivai did not, as the BBC reported, appear on the Today program “discussing the war on Gaza.”
+In other words, Nivai was set up.
+In fact, the timeline of events makes clear that the BBC had decided long before the Today episode in question, in late April, that it was dropping the Gaza doctors documentary and was now, in desperation, casting around for ex post facto causes.
+The film, eventually shown by the UK’s Channel 4 on 2 July, was definitively a searing and accurate report on the hell experienced by Gaza’s medical teams and their patients. If the BBC had wished to add more Israeli comments or denials than the ample number already in the program, it could have found ways to do so.
+However, as the BBC so often points out when complaints are made by people opposed to or critical of Israel, internal balance is not always to be found within a program or item, but over time.
+As a report by the Centre for Media Monitoring found, in a public meeting in the UK Houses of Parliament on 17 June, most BBC news coverage of Israel/Palestine is inadequate and favors the Israel narrative.
+There is hardly ever any mention of ethnic cleansing despite openly stated Israeli plans to empty Gaza, nor of genocide, despite the British government’s role and a case before the International Court of Justice. These words are generally banned, even in the mouths of outside commentators – an intrusive bid to censor eyewitnesses and experts on the region by studio-bound editors, presenters and producers.
+The BBC has almost entirely failed to recount the outsized number of deaths and assassinations of journalists, over 230 by now,  in Gaza. It has generally failed to report or investigate the collaboration between the British airforce and the Israeli military, both in the use of the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus for ferrying arms and other supplies to Israel and in co-operating in intelligence-gathering flights over Gaza.
+Rot from the top
+It has never mentioned the so-called Hannibal Directive, under the auspices of which the Israeli army and air force killed their own people, soldiers, security guards, captives and family members in the fields, towns and kibbutzim near Gaza on 7 October 2023, in an attempt to keep as low as possible the numbers of Israelis that Hamas and other groups could take back to Gaza.
+This aspect of the 7 October casualty toll and the nature of that day’s killings is vital in trying to tell the real story of what happened that day.
+But, as the stunned visage of the unfortunate BBC executive who appeared in the parliamentary reckoning when the Centre for Media Monitoring presented their report showed, proper answers and impartial reporting are not the concern of the BBC.
+As I and so many others have reported here on The Electronic Intifada and elsewhere for nearly 25 years now, the BBC’s main concern in its handling of the news from Israel-Palestine is its own survival in the face of an increasingly vociferous regiment of Israel’s backers and apologists.
+British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is now doing everything in its power to tip the legal system and police forces against the majority in civil society who support the struggle for justice in Palestine and real solid sanctions against Israel, including the proper pursuit of war crimes charges.
+The BBC is helping Starmer, not least in its lack of coverage, of the vast and continual protests against Israel’s genocidal wars by large swathes of British civil society.
+The BBC does sometimes report well. There are shards of light in the darkness of trimming and evasion. On Monday 14 July, the Today program carried a first-class, uninhibited interview with Sam Rose, the acting director of UNRWA affairs for Gaza, followed by a commentary by the veteran former BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen.
+Proper coverage can be done and sometimes is, but it is sporadic, especially on the major news outlets to which politicians and Israel lobby pay most attention.
+Responsibility for this farrago lies with top management, the news bosses and news managers who police what their reporters and correspondents can say and which voices the producers can call into the studios. This extends to the questions and strictures on what presenters can ask and what disciplines they must apply.
+As the pathetic dithering over the two recent Gaza documentaries shows, these managers, from the director-general, the chair and the head of news on down to the overburdened and second-guessed journalists who put out the programs, regard themselves as primarily answerable to the British government and its continued support and sustenance of Israel. They are not concerned with truth, still less any public right to truth.
+What the tragedy of the two documentaries has shown is that the BBC and its managers are more concerned with the BBC’s and their own survival than with the task the BBC’s Royal Charter – its constitutional basis –  sets it. The government holds the purse strings of the BBC, so the government is in effect blackmailing the corporation on behalf of Israel.
+Tim Llewellyn is a former BBC Middle East Correspondent and editor of the Britain Palestine Project website.
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+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-25696 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/beating-stress-stories/25696" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/ghada-al-haddad" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ghada Al-Haddad</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2018-10-11T19:33:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">11 October 2018</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-70286" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a1289_0.jpg?itok=lCYOmjue&amp;timestamp=1539329007 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a1289_0.jpg?itok=lCYOmjue&amp;timestamp=1539329007" width="800" height="533" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>The restored monastery serves as a learning and recreational resource for Gaza’s&nbsp;children. </p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Salama</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>A site of immense value to global heritage can be found in central&nbsp;Gaza.</p>
+<p>With parts of it reported to be <a href="http://nawaculture.org/our-services/">1,700 years old</a>, it <a href="http://thisweekinpalestine.com/childrens-library-deir-al-balah/">hosted</a> both a mosque and a monastery. Featuring three domes and ancient Greek inscriptions, the site is named after Saint&nbsp;George.</p>
+<p>Though best known as England&#8217;s patron saint, George is widely <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27048219">believed</a> to have been born and raised in&nbsp;Palestine.</p>
+<p>In more recent times, Saint George&#8217;s Monastery &#8211; as the 200-square-meter complex is called &#8211; started falling into&nbsp;disrepair.</p>
+<p>Nawa, a cultural group in Deir al-Balah, the city where the monastery is located, resolved to preserve the site and ensure it is of benefit to the local&nbsp;community.</p>
+<p>In 2014, Nawa assumed responsibility for a project aimed at developing a children&#8217;s library on the site. The project was undertaken in cooperation with the United Nations cultural body <span class="caps">UNESCO</span>, which has restored the&nbsp;monastery.</p>
+<p>The project has proven fruitful. Since 2017, the library has been open to the public, running a number of educational&nbsp;programs.</p>
+<h2>“Dire&nbsp;need”</h2>
+<p>“This area is an impoverished one,” said Reem Abu Jaber, the director of Nawa. “Children here are in dire need of cultural, artistic and recreational&nbsp;services.”</p>
+<p>The decision to focus on the printed word was deliberate. Abu Jaber argues that access to information is essential in the situation facing Gaza today, where children have been traumatized by repeated Israeli attacks and where an economic blockade has restricted contact with the wider&nbsp;world.</p>
+<figure id="file-70306" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a5067.jpg?itok=LLXjYQl7&amp;timestamp=1539329007 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a5067.jpg?itok=LLXjYQl7&amp;timestamp=1539329007" width="800" height="533" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Calligraphy classes are held in the Deir al-Balah&nbsp;library. </p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Salama</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>In June, the organization Save the Children <a href="https://opt.savethechildren.net/news/generation-children-gaza-brink-mental-health-crisis-new-research-shows">published</a> the findings of a survey involving 150 children and their caregivers in Gaza. It found that 95 percent of children in the sample have such symptoms as depression, hyperactivity, a preference for being alone or a tendency towards aggressive&nbsp;behavior.</p>
+<p>“I am afraid that those children will grow up without having books in their memories,” said Abu Jaber. “I am afraid they will not have credible and neutral sources of information to depend on when making&nbsp;decisions.”</p>
+<p>Between 150 and 180 children visit the library each&nbsp;day.</p>
+<p>A number of activities have been organized to give local people a sense that they own the&nbsp;project.</p>
+<p>For example, children were asked to write names of their loved ones so that they could be glued to the walls of a nearby&nbsp;alley.</p>
+<p>As well as being able to borrow books, the children can attend storytelling sessions. Usually held in the underground chapel belonging to the monastery, the sessions focus on traditional Palestinian&nbsp;tales.</p>
+<p>“These stories are our roots and a strong proof of our rights to this land,” said Abu&nbsp;Jaber.</p>
+<h2>“Second&nbsp;home”</h2>
+<p>The sessions have been designed in such a way to assist children suffering from&nbsp;trauma.</p>
+<p>They tend to start with soothing music and relaxation exercises. During them, children take deep breaths and then exhale. They are encouraged to let go of negative&nbsp;feelings.</p>
+<p>Plants are often brought into the activities, too, so that children can savor the aroma of herbs such as&nbsp;mint.</p>
+<p>Muhammad, 11, has been coming to the library for the past year. “I feel that it is like my second home,” he said. “I would like to stay all day at the&nbsp;library.”</p>
+<p>This past summer, the library ran courses on calligraphy and creative writing, as well as a club where participants can discuss a book they have read. Literacy classes for parents have been held,&nbsp;too.</p>
+<p>Despite its focus on Palestinian literature, the library also has a collection of books by Western&nbsp;authors.</p>
+<p>Shahed, 12, has become a fan of Agatha Christie, the Englishwoman who wrote detective novels and murder&nbsp;mysteries.</p>
+<p>“The library has opened my daughter&#8217;s eyes in so many ways,” said Shahed&#8217;s mother. “She has started sharing her thoughts and opinions on everything we talk about in our&nbsp;house.”</p>
+<p>Many people in Deir al-Balah have expressed delight about the library and how children have engaged with its&nbsp;activities.</p>
+<p>Amany Al-Najjar, 32, lives near the monastery and works in it as a&nbsp;storyteller.</p>
+<p>“I never imagined that the place would turn into a library,” she said. “I always wished to have a library in my&nbsp;neighborhood.”</p>
+<p><em>Ghada Al-Haddad is a journalist based in&nbsp;Gaza.</em></p>
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                    \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/ghada-al-haddad\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Ghada Al-Haddad</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2018-10-11T19:33:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">11 October 2018</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-70286\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a1289_0.jpg?itok=lCYOmjue&amp;timestamp=1539329007 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a1289_0.jpg?itok=lCYOmjue&amp;timestamp=1539329007\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>The restored monastery serves as a learning and recreational resource for Gaza’s&nbsp;children. </p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ahmed Salama</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>A site of immense value to global heritage can be found in central&nbsp;Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>With parts of it reported to be <a href=\"http://nawaculture.org/our-services/\">1,700 years old</a>, it <a href=\"http://thisweekinpalestine.com/childrens-library-deir-al-balah/\">hosted</a> both a mosque and a monastery. Featuring three domes and ancient Greek inscriptions, the site is named after Saint&nbsp;George.</p>\n\n<p>Though best known as England&#8217;s patron saint, George is widely <a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27048219\">believed</a> to have been born and raised in&nbsp;Palestine.</p>\n\n<p>In more recent times, Saint George&#8217;s Monastery &#8211; as the 200-square-meter complex is called &#8211; started falling into&nbsp;disrepair.</p>\n\n<p>Nawa, a cultural group in Deir al-Balah, the city where the monastery is located, resolved to preserve the site and ensure it is of benefit to the local&nbsp;community.</p>\n\n<p>In 2014, Nawa assumed responsibility for a project aimed at developing a children&#8217;s library on the site. The project was undertaken in cooperation with the United Nations cultural body <span class=\"caps\">UNESCO</span>, which has restored the&nbsp;monastery.</p>\n\n<p>The project has proven fruitful. Since 2017, the library has been open to the public, running a number of educational&nbsp;programs.</p>\n\n<h2>“Dire&nbsp;need”</h2>\n\n<p>“This area is an impoverished one,” said Reem Abu Jaber, the director of Nawa. “Children here are in dire need of cultural, artistic and recreational&nbsp;services.”</p>\n\n<p>The decision to focus on the printed word was deliberate. Abu Jaber argues that access to information is essential in the situation facing Gaza today, where children have been traumatized by repeated Israeli attacks and where an economic blockade has restricted contact with the wider&nbsp;world.</p>\n\n<figure id=\"file-70306\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a5067.jpg?itok=LLXjYQl7&amp;timestamp=1539329007 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2018-10/117a5067.jpg?itok=LLXjYQl7&amp;timestamp=1539329007\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Calligraphy classes are held in the Deir al-Balah&nbsp;library. </p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ahmed Salama</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>In June, the organization Save the Children <a href=\"https://opt.savethechildren.net/news/generation-children-gaza-brink-mental-health-crisis-new-research-shows\">published</a> the findings of a survey involving 150 children and their caregivers in Gaza. It found that 95 percent of children in the sample have such symptoms as depression, hyperactivity, a preference for being alone or a tendency towards aggressive&nbsp;behavior.</p>\n\n<p>“I am afraid that those children will grow up without having books in their memories,” said Abu Jaber. “I am afraid they will not have credible and neutral sources of information to depend on when making&nbsp;decisions.”</p>\n\n<p>Between 150 and 180 children visit the library each&nbsp;day.</p>\n\n<p>A number of activities have been organized to give local people a sense that they own the&nbsp;project.</p>\n\n<p>For example, children were asked to write names of their loved ones so that they could be glued to the walls of a nearby&nbsp;alley.</p>\n\n<p>As well as being able to borrow books, the children can attend storytelling sessions. Usually held in the underground chapel belonging to the monastery, the sessions focus on traditional Palestinian&nbsp;tales.</p>\n\n<p>“These stories are our roots and a strong proof of our rights to this land,” said Abu&nbsp;Jaber.</p>\n\n<h2>“Second&nbsp;home”</h2>\n\n<p>The sessions have been designed in such a way to assist children suffering from&nbsp;trauma.</p>\n\n<p>They tend to start with soothing music and relaxation exercises. During them, children take deep breaths and then exhale. They are encouraged to let go of negative&nbsp;feelings.</p>\n\n<p>Plants are often brought into the activities, too, so that children can savor the aroma of herbs such as&nbsp;mint.</p>\n\n<p>Muhammad, 11, has been coming to the library for the past year. “I feel that it is like my second home,” he said. “I would like to stay all day at the&nbsp;library.”</p>\n\n<p>This past summer, the library ran courses on calligraphy and creative writing, as well as a club where participants can discuss a book they have read. Literacy classes for parents have been held,&nbsp;too.</p>\n\n<p>Despite its focus on Palestinian literature, the library also has a collection of books by Western&nbsp;authors.</p>\n\n<p>Shahed, 12, has become a fan of Agatha Christie, the Englishwoman who wrote detective novels and murder&nbsp;mysteries.</p>\n\n<p>“The library has opened my daughter&#8217;s eyes in so many ways,” said Shahed&#8217;s mother. “She has started sharing her thoughts and opinions on everything we talk about in our&nbsp;house.”</p>\n\n<p>Many people in Deir al-Balah have expressed delight about the library and how children have engaged with its&nbsp;activities.</p>\n\n<p>Amany Al-Najjar, 32, lives near the monastery and works in it as a&nbsp;storyteller.</p>\n\n<p>“I never imagined that the place would turn into a library,” she said. “I always wished to have a library in my&nbsp;neighborhood.”</p>\n\n<p><em>Ghada Al-Haddad is a journalist based in&nbsp;Gaza.</em></p>\n  <h3 class=\"field-label field 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+The restored monastery serves as a learning and recreational resource for Gaza’s children.
+A site of immense value to global heritage can be found in central Gaza.
+With parts of it reported to be 1,700 years old, it hosted both a mosque and a monastery. Featuring three domes and ancient Greek inscriptions, the site is named after Saint George.
+Though best known as England’s patron saint, George is widely believed to have been born and raised in Palestine.
+In more recent times, Saint George’s Monastery – as the 200-square-meter complex is called – started falling into disrepair.
+Nawa, a cultural group in Deir al-Balah, the city where the monastery is located, resolved to preserve the site and ensure it is of benefit to the local community.
+In 2014, Nawa assumed responsibility for a project aimed at developing a children’s library on the site. The project was undertaken in cooperation with the United Nations cultural body UNESCO, which has restored the monastery.
+The project has proven fruitful. Since 2017, the library has been open to the public, running a number of educational programs.
+“Dire need”
+“This area is an impoverished one,” said Reem Abu Jaber, the director of Nawa. “Children here are in dire need of cultural, artistic and recreational services.”
+The decision to focus on the printed word was deliberate. Abu Jaber argues that access to information is essential in the situation facing Gaza today, where children have been traumatized by repeated Israeli attacks and where an economic blockade has restricted contact with the wider world.
+Calligraphy classes are held in the Deir al-Balah library.
+Ahmed SalamaIn June, the organization Save the Children published the findings of a survey involving 150 children and their caregivers in Gaza. It found that 95 percent of children in the sample have such symptoms as depression, hyperactivity, a preference for being alone or a tendency towards aggressive behavior.
+“I am afraid that those children will grow up without having books in their memories,” said Abu Jaber. “I am afraid they will not have credible and neutral sources of information to depend on when making decisions.”
+Between 150 and 180 children visit the library each day.
+A number of activities have been organized to give local people a sense that they own the project.
+For example, children were asked to write names of their loved ones so that they could be glued to the walls of a nearby alley.
+As well as being able to borrow books, the children can attend storytelling sessions. Usually held in the underground chapel belonging to the monastery, the sessions focus on traditional Palestinian tales.
+“These stories are our roots and a strong proof of our rights to this land,” said Abu Jaber.
+“Second home”
+The sessions have been designed in such a way to assist children suffering from trauma.
+They tend to start with soothing music and relaxation exercises. During them, children take deep breaths and then exhale. They are encouraged to let go of negative feelings.
+Plants are often brought into the activities, too, so that children can savor the aroma of herbs such as mint.
+Muhammad, 11, has been coming to the library for the past year. “I feel that it is like my second home,” he said. “I would like to stay all day at the library.”
+This past summer, the library ran courses on calligraphy and creative writing, as well as a club where participants can discuss a book they have read. Literacy classes for parents have been held, too.
+Despite its focus on Palestinian literature, the library also has a collection of books by Western authors.
+Shahed, 12, has become a fan of Agatha Christie, the Englishwoman who wrote detective novels and murder mysteries.
+“The library has opened my daughter’s eyes in so many ways,” said Shahed’s mother. “She has started sharing her thoughts and opinions on everything we talk about in our house.”
+Many people in Deir al-Balah have expressed delight about the library and how children have engaged with its activities.
+Amany Al-Najjar, 32, lives near the monastery and works in it as a storyteller.
+“I never imagined that the place would turn into a library,” she said. “I always wished to have a library in my neighborhood.”
+Ghada Al-Haddad is a journalist based in Gaza.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Bedouin dreams amid genocide nightmare</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-48211 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/bedouin-dreams-amid-genocide-nightmare/48211" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                  <span property="dc:title" content="Bedouin dreams amid genocide nightmare" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/ahmed-abu-artema" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ahmed Abu Artema</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-08-07T20:45:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">7 August 2024</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-162691" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=QhnjnCZ_&amp;timestamp=1723071119 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=QhnjnCZ_&amp;timestamp=1723071119" width="800" height="533" alt="A crowded camp for the displaced. " title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>A camp for the displaced in al-Mawasi, hugely overcrowded and lacking any sanitation, running water or electricity. </p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Omar Ashtawy</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>I’ve always dreamed about the Bedouin life and imagined living it.</p>
+<p>To me, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bedouin">Bedouin</a> life means freedom, native intelligence and a simplicity of life that heals us from the diseases of modern industrial civilization, the pressure to pay bills, the air pollution and the food contaminated with preservatives.</p>
+<p>Before Israel’s ongoing <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/massacre-beside-my-home/48026">genocide</a> in Gaza, I would often sit in front of the television with my family in the evening and watch a Bedouin series extolling the simplicity of life in the desert.</p>
+<p>The program depicted tribes living in oases in the heart of the desert, building simple homes, raising goats, camels, horses and chickens. When someone wanted to wander, he would simply mount his horse and set off across the vast sands of the desert.</p>
+<p>The Bedouin did not need passports or transit visas because their land was large and knew no borders. People lived on what they produced from agriculture and animal husbandry.</p>
+<p>There were no debts to banks to pay in installments for the homes, cars and furniture modern living demands. A person erected their home in an hour using whatever fabric or leather was available and would dismantle it in the same time when it was time to move on.</p>
+<p>As I watched, I would tell myself that giving up aspects of modern life is a price I would be willing to pay in exchange for a life of freedom and simplicity.</p>
+<p>Yes, they live without electricity. But they stay up at night with the moon and stars.</p>
+<p>Yes, they do not have air conditioning or an electric fan to ward off the heat. But they learn how to cool themselves in the breeze.</p>
+<p>Yes, they have no refrigerator for storing food. But they eat what they grow and raise instead.</p>
+<p>Yes, they do not have phones or the internet. But they have social gatherings, friendships and community, where, if someone has more than they need, they barter with neighbors, not with a company or a government.</p>
+<p>This is freedom.</p>
+<h2>Radical change</h2>
+<p>Since the first day of this genocidal war, our lifestyles in Gaza have radically changed.</p>
+<p>Right from the start, Israel imposed a tight <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-cuts-food-water-millions-palestinians-it-calls-human-animals">siege</a> on the Gaza Strip, including even <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-continues-attack-al-shifa-hospital-systemic-violence">hospitals</a>, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/starvation-begins-bite-rafah/42931">prohibiting</a> the entry of basic necessities of life.</p>
+<p>Superficially, our lives and those of the Bedouin seemed to grow similar.</p>
+<p>Without electricity or fuel to power generators, people have become accustomed to a pitch black night undisturbed by modern lighting, with only the moon lighting up the sky.</p>
+<p>With <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/central-gaza-pushed-beyond-breaking-point/46416">no fuel</a>, there is no traffic. Instead of cars, people now use carts pulled by donkeys or horses.</p>
+<p>Refrigerators have stopped working, and people have returned to our ancestors’ methods of cooking and preparing food – if they can <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/hunger-rapidly-getting-worse-gaza/47166">find any</a>.</p>
+<p>Heaters stopped working during the winter. And in the summer, there is no air-conditioning. Gaza’s people no longer have any option to deal with the cold other than using heavy blankets. They have no option to confront the heat except by pouring whatever water is available over themselves.</p>
+<p>People have reverted to a profoundly simplified life. There is no running water, and every day is shaped by a <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/long-wait-water/47671">quest</a> – often requiring long distances and long waits in exhausting lines – to secure a few gallons of water for domestic use and drinking,</p>
+<p>Most people have lost their homes, with <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/more-than-250-humanitarian-and-human-rights-organisations-call-to-stop-arms-transfers-to-israel-palestinian-armed-groups/">estimates</a> suggesting that more than 70 percent of Gaza’s homes were destroyed or damaged since 7 October.</p>
+<p>There is no shelter. Instead, we live in tents or build make-shift homes. Using their bare hands, some people have dug latrines in the sand.</p>
+<p>Scarce firewood is now the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/genocide-triggers-ecological-disaster/45991">go-to alternative</a> to cooking gas.</p>
+<h2>Life without dignity</h2>
+<p>In February, I went to al-Mawasi, in Gaza’s south, where <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/13/at-least-50-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-al-mawasi-safe-zone-in-south-gaza">tens of thousands</a> have sought shelter from Israel’s bombs.</p>
+<p>The scene first reminded me of the television series I used to watch on Bedouin life. Tents were erected on sand dunes for as far as the eye could see. Women were washing clothes by hand in the open air and hanging laundry on ropes.</p>
+<p>The sea breeze would drift through the tents and clothes.</p>
+<p>For a brief moment, I felt the joy of outdoor living. But this, of course, was an illusion.</p>
+<p>Tents are extremely crowded to the point of suffocation, leaving little room for a person to feel any kind of freedom, privacy or calm.</p>
+<p>The crowds lining up at food distribution points or waiting for water trucks spoil any notion of the benefits of a simple life.</p>
+<p>I turned south and saw the Egyptian-Palestinian border, where at the time – now the Israeli military has taken control of the border – the Egyptian army had erected an iron wall followed by a barbed-wire wall to prevent a mass exodus of displaced people.</p>
+<p>This is not the life of freedom that the soul longs for. The Bedouin life has no borders that restrict people from setting out.</p>
+<p>Israel gave us the misery of a caged life before 7 October. It has deprived us of any of the advantages of a simple life since.</p>
+<p>The ways of our ancestors resonated with a certain freedom that encompassed everything from the coastal plains to the heights and valleys of the West Bank �� and all the land in between.</p>
+<p>The life forced upon us by Israel – a life without dignity – surrounds us with walls and fences on every side.</p>
+<p>Our souls are tired.</p>
+<p>Where we would once plant and eat what we harvested, in the dangerous wasteland of genocide, people can no longer even farm.</p>
+<p>Israel’s indiscriminate and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-bombs-destruction-death-toll-scope-419488c511f83c85baea22458472a796">massive bombardment</a> of Gaza has destroyed most of Gaza’s <a href="https://www.fao.org/newsroom/story/restricted-local-food-production-exacerbates-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-gaza-strip/en">agricultural land</a> and decimated the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/genocide-triggers-ecological-disaster/45991">environment</a>.</p>
+<h2>Gaza’s sky</h2>
+<p>In ancient times, the sky at night was looked to for meaning in life. So during these nights of war, I thought I would at least take advantage of the dark to truly feel the vast sky.</p>
+<p>But I quickly realized that my sky isn’t the same as that observed by the poets and prophets.</p>
+<p>Mine is a sky of warplanes, quadcopter drones, surveillance drones and F-16 fighter jets,  these “marvels” of American and Israeli technology that have contributed so greatly to the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/">killing</a> of more than 39,000 of my people.</p>
+<p>Poets and prophets once observed the sky with tranquility to find revelation and inspiration.</p>
+<p>We look up at the sky in fearful anticipation.</p>
+<p>We know that it is from the sky that it will most likely be decided if we are to join the long convoy of death that offers us our only freedom of movement today.</p>
+<p><em>Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer, activist and refugee from Ramle.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-04-26T12:34:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">26 April 2024</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
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+      <article class="node-40731 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/content/reject-israels-racist-doctrine/40731" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/reject-israels-racist-doctrine/40731">Reject Israel&#039;s racist doctrine</a></h2>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2023-11-15T08:39:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">15 November 2023</span></span>        </p>
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/asserting-rights-poetry-and-paint/29121">Asserting rights with poetry and paint </a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Asserting rights with poetry and paint " class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Sarah Algherbawi</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2019-12-12T09:52:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">12 December 2019</span></span>        </p>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Shahd Abusalama</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-04-06T00:46:37+00:00" class="date-display-single">6 April 2012</span></span>        </p>
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dreams amid genocide nightmare</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-48211 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/bedouin-dreams-amid-genocide-nightmare/48211\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Bedouin dreams amid genocide nightmare\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/ahmed-abu-artema\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Ahmed Abu Artema</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-08-07T20:45:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">7 August 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-162691\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=QhnjnCZ_&amp;timestamp=1723071119 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=QhnjnCZ_&amp;timestamp=1723071119\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"A crowded camp for the displaced. \" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>A camp for the displaced in al-Mawasi, hugely overcrowded and lacking any sanitation, running water or electricity. </p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Omar Ashtawy</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>I’ve always dreamed about the Bedouin life and imagined living it.</p>\n\n<p>To me, <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bedouin\">Bedouin</a> life means freedom, native intelligence and a simplicity of life that heals us from the diseases of modern industrial civilization, the pressure to pay bills, the air pollution and the food contaminated with preservatives.</p>\n\n<p>Before Israel’s ongoing <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/massacre-beside-my-home/48026\">genocide</a> in Gaza, I would often sit in front of the television with my family in the evening and watch a Bedouin series extolling the simplicity of life in the desert.</p>\n\n<p>The program depicted tribes living in oases in the heart of the desert, building simple homes, raising goats, camels, horses and chickens. When someone wanted to wander, he would simply mount his horse and set off across the vast sands of the desert.</p>\n\n<p>The Bedouin did not need passports or transit visas because their land was large and knew no borders. People lived on what they produced from agriculture and animal husbandry.</p>\n\n<p>There were no debts to banks to pay in installments for the homes, cars and furniture modern living demands. A person erected their home in an hour using whatever fabric or leather was available and would dismantle it in the same time when it was time to move on.</p>\n\n<p>As I watched, I would tell myself that giving up aspects of modern life is a price I would be willing to pay in exchange for a life of freedom and simplicity.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, they live without electricity. But they stay up at night with the moon and stars.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, they do not have air conditioning or an electric fan to ward off the heat. But they learn how to cool themselves in the breeze.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, they have no refrigerator for storing food. But they eat what they grow and raise instead.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, they do not have phones or the internet. But they have social gatherings, friendships and community, where, if someone has more than they need, they barter with neighbors, not with a company or a government.</p>\n\n<p>This is freedom.</p>\n\n<h2>Radical change</h2>\n\n<p>Since the first day of this genocidal war, our lifestyles in Gaza have radically changed.</p>\n\n<p>Right from the start, Israel imposed a tight <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-cuts-food-water-millions-palestinians-it-calls-human-animals\">siege</a> on the Gaza Strip, including even <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-continues-attack-al-shifa-hospital-systemic-violence\">hospitals</a>, <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/starvation-begins-bite-rafah/42931\">prohibiting</a> the entry of basic necessities of life.</p>\n\n<p>Superficially, our lives and those of the Bedouin seemed to grow similar.</p>\n\n<p>Without electricity or fuel to power generators, people have become accustomed to a pitch black night undisturbed by modern lighting, with only the moon lighting up the sky.</p>\n\n<p>With <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/central-gaza-pushed-beyond-breaking-point/46416\">no fuel</a>, there is no traffic. Instead of cars, people now use carts pulled by donkeys or horses.</p>\n\n<p>Refrigerators have stopped working, and people have returned to our ancestors’ methods of cooking and preparing food – if they can <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/hunger-rapidly-getting-worse-gaza/47166\">find any</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Heaters stopped working during the winter. And in the summer, there is no air-conditioning. Gaza’s people no longer have any option to deal with the cold other than using heavy blankets. They have no option to confront the heat except by pouring whatever water is available over themselves.</p>\n\n<p>People have reverted to a profoundly simplified life. There is no running water, and every day is shaped by a <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/long-wait-water/47671\">quest</a> – often requiring long distances and long waits in exhausting lines – to secure a few gallons of water for domestic use and drinking,</p>\n\n<p>Most people have lost their homes, with <a href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/more-than-250-humanitarian-and-human-rights-organisations-call-to-stop-arms-transfers-to-israel-palestinian-armed-groups/\">estimates</a> suggesting that more than 70 percent of Gaza’s homes were destroyed or damaged since 7 October.</p>\n\n<p>There is no shelter. Instead, we live in tents or build make-shift homes. Using their bare hands, some people have dug latrines in the sand.</p>\n\n<p>Scarce firewood is now the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/genocide-triggers-ecological-disaster/45991\">go-to alternative</a> to cooking gas.</p>\n\n<h2>Life without dignity</h2>\n\n<p>In February, I went to al-Mawasi, in Gaza’s south, where <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/13/at-least-50-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-al-mawasi-safe-zone-in-south-gaza\">tens of thousands</a> have sought shelter from Israel’s bombs.</p>\n\n<p>The scene first reminded me of the television series I used to watch on Bedouin life. Tents were erected on sand dunes for as far as the eye could see. Women were washing clothes by hand in the open air and hanging laundry on ropes.</p>\n\n<p>The sea breeze would drift through the tents and clothes.</p>\n\n<p>For a brief moment, I felt the joy of outdoor living. But this, of course, was an illusion.</p>\n\n<p>Tents are extremely crowded to the point of suffocation, leaving little room for a person to feel any kind of freedom, privacy or calm.</p>\n\n<p>The crowds lining up at food distribution points or waiting for water trucks spoil any notion of the benefits of a simple life.</p>\n\n<p>I turned south and saw the Egyptian-Palestinian border, where at the time – now the Israeli military has taken control of the border – the Egyptian army had erected an iron wall followed by a barbed-wire wall to prevent a mass exodus of displaced people.</p>\n\n<p>This is not the life of freedom that the soul longs for. The Bedouin life has no borders that restrict people from setting out.</p>\n\n<p>Israel gave us the misery of a caged life before 7 October. It has deprived us of any of the advantages of a simple life since.</p>\n\n<p>The ways of our ancestors resonated with a certain freedom that encompassed everything from the coastal plains to the heights and valleys of the West Bank – and all the land in between.</p>\n\n<p>The life forced upon us by Israel – a life without dignity – surrounds us with walls and fences on every side.</p>\n\n<p>Our souls are tired.</p>\n\n<p>Where we would once plant and eat what we harvested, in the dangerous wasteland of genocide, people can no longer even farm.</p>\n\n<p>Israel’s indiscriminate and <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-bombs-destruction-death-toll-scope-419488c511f83c85baea22458472a796\">massive bombardment</a> of Gaza has destroyed most of Gaza’s <a href=\"https://www.fao.org/newsroom/story/restricted-local-food-production-exacerbates-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-gaza-strip/en\">agricultural land</a> and decimated the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/genocide-triggers-ecological-disaster/45991\">environment</a>.</p>\n\n<h2>Gaza’s sky</h2>\n\n<p>In ancient times, the sky at night was looked to for meaning in life. So during these nights of war, I thought I would at least take advantage of the dark to truly feel the vast sky.</p>\n\n<p>But I quickly realized that my sky isn’t the same as that observed by the poets and prophets.</p>\n\n<p>Mine is a sky of warplanes, quadcopter drones, surveillance drones and F-16 fighter jets,  these “marvels” of American and Israeli technology that have contributed so greatly to the <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/\">killing</a> of more than 39,000 of my people.</p>\n\n<p>Poets and prophets once observed the sky with tranquility to find revelation and inspiration.</p>\n\n<p>We look up at the sky in fearful anticipation.</p>\n\n<p>We know that it is from the sky that it will most likely be decided if we are to join the long convoy of death that offers us our only freedom of movement today.</p>\n\n<p><em>Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer, activist and refugee 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node-title\"><a href=\"/content/right-education-will-remain-under-threat-gaza/47466\">Right to education will remain under threat in Gaza </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Right to education will remain under threat in Gaza \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"1\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-07-02T07:25:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">2 July 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-46001 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/gazas-new-and-terrifying-reality/46001\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/gazas-new-and-terrifying-reality/46001\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-04/250424_rafah_zu_004.jpg?itok=lH0V5G8X&amp;timestamp=1714135850 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2024-04/250424_rafah_zu_004.jpg?itok=_WUGC7yv&amp;timestamp=1714135850 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/250424_rafah_zu_004.jpg?itok=rVRl8rdA&amp;timestamp=1714135850 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/250424_rafah_zu_004.jpg?itok=rVRl8rdA&amp;timestamp=1714135850\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Children carry containers as they walk in front of a building attacked by Israel in southern Gaza \" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/gazas-new-and-terrifying-reality/46001\">Gaza&#039;s new and terrifying reality</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Gaza&#039;s new and terrifying reality\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-04-26T12:34:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">26 April 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      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+A camp for the displaced in al-Mawasi, hugely overcrowded and lacking any sanitation, running water or electricity.
+APA imagesI’ve always dreamed about the Bedouin life and imagined living it.
+To me, Bedouin life means freedom, native intelligence and a simplicity of life that heals us from the diseases of modern industrial civilization, the pressure to pay bills, the air pollution and the food contaminated with preservatives.
+Before Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, I would often sit in front of the television with my family in the evening and watch a Bedouin series extolling the simplicity of life in the desert.
+The program depicted tribes living in oases in the heart of the desert, building simple homes, raising goats, camels, horses and chickens. When someone wanted to wander, he would simply mount his horse and set off across the vast sands of the desert.
+The Bedouin did not need passports or transit visas because their land was large and knew no borders. People lived on what they produced from agriculture and animal husbandry.
+There were no debts to banks to pay in installments for the homes, cars and furniture modern living demands. A person erected their home in an hour using whatever fabric or leather was available and would dismantle it in the same time when it was time to move on.
+As I watched, I would tell myself that giving up aspects of modern life is a price I would be willing to pay in exchange for a life of freedom and simplicity.
+Yes, they live without electricity. But they stay up at night with the moon and stars.
+Yes, they do not have air conditioning or an electric fan to ward off the heat. But they learn how to cool themselves in the breeze.
+Yes, they have no refrigerator for storing food. But they eat what they grow and raise instead.
+Yes, they do not have phones or the internet. But they have social gatherings, friendships and community, where, if someone has more than they need, they barter with neighbors, not with a company or a government.
+This is freedom.
+Radical change
+Since the first day of this genocidal war, our lifestyles in Gaza have radically changed.
+Right from the start, Israel imposed a tight siege on the Gaza Strip, including even hospitals, prohibiting the entry of basic necessities of life.
+Superficially, our lives and those of the Bedouin seemed to grow similar.
+Without electricity or fuel to power generators, people have become accustomed to a pitch black night undisturbed by modern lighting, with only the moon lighting up the sky.
+With no fuel, there is no traffic. Instead of cars, people now use carts pulled by donkeys or horses.
+Refrigerators have stopped working, and people have returned to our ancestors’ methods of cooking and preparing food – if they can find any.
+Heaters stopped working during the winter. And in the summer, there is no air-conditioning. Gaza’s people no longer have any option to deal with the cold other than using heavy blankets. They have no option to confront the heat except by pouring whatever water is available over themselves.
+People have reverted to a profoundly simplified life. There is no running water, and every day is shaped by a quest – often requiring long distances and long waits in exhausting lines – to secure a few gallons of water for domestic use and drinking,
+Most people have lost their homes, with estimates suggesting that more than 70 percent of Gaza’s homes were destroyed or damaged since 7 October.
+There is no shelter. Instead, we live in tents or build make-shift homes. Using their bare hands, some people have dug latrines in the sand.
+Scarce firewood is now the go-to alternative to cooking gas.
+Life without dignity
+In February, I went to al-Mawasi, in Gaza’s south, where tens of thousands have sought shelter from Israel’s bombs.
+The scene first reminded me of the television series I used to watch on Bedouin life. Tents were erected on sand dunes for as far as the eye could see. Women were washing clothes by hand in the open air and hanging laundry on ropes.
+The sea breeze would drift through the tents and clothes.
+For a brief moment, I felt the joy of outdoor living. But this, of course, was an illusion.
+Tents are extremely crowded to the point of suffocation, leaving little room for a person to feel any kind of freedom, privacy or calm.
+The crowds lining up at food distribution points or waiting for water trucks spoil any notion of the benefits of a simple life.
+I turned south and saw the Egyptian-Palestinian border, where at the time – now the Israeli military has taken control of the border – the Egyptian army had erected an iron wall followed by a barbed-wire wall to prevent a mass exodus of displaced people.
+This is not the life of freedom that the soul longs for. The Bedouin life has no borders that restrict people from setting out.
+Israel gave us the misery of a caged life before 7 October. It has deprived us of any of the advantages of a simple life since.
+The ways of our ancestors resonated with a certain freedom that encompassed everything from the coastal plains to the heights and valleys of the West Bank – and all the land in between.
+The life forced upon us by Israel – a life without dignity – surrounds us with walls and fences on every side.
+Our souls are tired.
+Where we would once plant and eat what we harvested, in the dangerous wasteland of genocide, people can no longer even farm.
+Israel’s indiscriminate and massive bombardment of Gaza has destroyed most of Gaza’s agricultural land and decimated the environment.
+Gaza’s sky
+In ancient times, the sky at night was looked to for meaning in life. So during these nights of war, I thought I would at least take advantage of the dark to truly feel the vast sky.
+But I quickly realized that my sky isn’t the same as that observed by the poets and prophets.
+Mine is a sky of warplanes, quadcopter drones, surveillance drones and F-16 fighter jets,  these “marvels” of American and Israeli technology that have contributed so greatly to the killing of more than 39,000 of my people.
+Poets and prophets once observed the sky with tranquility to find revelation and inspiration.
+We look up at the sky in fearful anticipation.
+We know that it is from the sky that it will most likely be decided if we are to join the long convoy of death that offers us our only freedom of movement today.
+Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer, activist and refugee from Ramle.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Bedouin village razed once again as historic Jerusalem hotel demolished</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-9185 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/bedouin-village-razed-once-again-historic-jerusalem-hotel-demolished/9185" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2011-01-18T11:33:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">18 January 2011</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-18842" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110118-shepherd.jpg?itok=_fD3f6rn&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110118-shepherd.jpg?itok=_fD3f6rn&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="304" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Israeli forces demolish the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah to make way for new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/">ActiveStills</a>)</p>
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+Following the demolition of the historic Shepherd Hotel and the increase of home demolitions across occupied East Jerusalem, United Nations agencies and European Union officials called for observers and the implementation of international law in Jerusalem.
+<p>Top <span class="caps">EU</span> leaders proposed that its officials maintain presence in the Palestinian areas of the city that are under attack by settlers and Israeli forces, the <span class="caps">UK</span>’s <em>Independent</em> reported. (“<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/eu-officials-propose-help-for-arrested-palestinians-2180298.html"><span class="caps">EU</span> officials propose help for arrested Palestinians</a>,” 10 January 2011). The leaders added that <span class="caps">EU</span> officials should also attend hearings dealing with demolitions or evictions at the Jerusalem municipal courts and “ensure <span class="caps">EU</span> intervention when Palestinians are arrested or intimidated by Israeli authorities for peaceful cultural, social or political activities in East&nbsp;Jerusalem.”</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, <span class="caps">IRIN</span>, the news service of the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, released a statement on 17 January which reiterated that East Jerusalem is “occupied territory, requiring protection of the civilian population by international humanitarian law, a legal framework which prohibits population transfer into and out of the territory” (“<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=91648"><span class="caps">OPT</span>: Displacement risk for Palestinians in East Jerusalem</a>,” 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p><strong>Occupied West&nbsp;Bank</strong></p>
+<p><em>Sheikh Jarrah, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>
+<p>Israeli municipal bulldozers demolished the historic Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, 9 January, in preparation for the construction of a privately-financed, Jewish-only settlement on the&nbsp;property.</p>
+<p>The hotel is a historic building belonging to the Husseini family of Jerusalem, one of the most long-established families in the city, and was once the headquarters of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In 1967, Israel declared the hotel “absentee property” after the state&#8217;s military occupation of East Jerusalem began. Thousands of Palestinian families from Jerusalem were exiled following the occupation, and were prevented from returning to their properties by the Israeli government and military &#8212; thus resulting in the state&#8217;s absorption of what it declared “absentee properties” throughout the depopulated&nbsp;city.</p>
+<p>The building title was transferred in 1985 to American millionaire and settlement enterprise financier Irving Moskowitz. Last year, the Jerusalem district planning and building council acknowledged Moskowitz’ “ownership” of the property and approved demolition of the building “to make way for twenty [settlement] housing units” (“<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/irving-moskowitz-east-jerusalem-settler">Irving Moskowitz demolishes part of Jerusalem hotel to build settler housing</a>,” <em>Guardiam</em>, 9 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>On the morning of 9 January, the <em>Guardian</em> reported that “work began without warning &#8230; and by 10am a wing of the hotel in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah was reduced to&nbsp;rubble.”</p>
+<p>The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has been under siege by ultra-right wing settlers, who have violently taken over Palestinian homes as the Israeli courts continue to rule in their&nbsp;favor.</p>
+<p>Speaking to the <em>Guardian</em>, Nasser Isa Hidmi of the Jerusalem Committee Against Demolition and Deportation said the international community “should act to prevent Jewish settlers moving into Palestinian&nbsp;neighborhoods.”</p>
+<p>“We don&#8217;t want sympathy,” Hidmi added. “[W]e want them to stop Israel from doing what it&#8217;s&nbsp;doing.”</p>
+<p>In the aftermath of the demolition of the Shepherd Hotel, the Husseini family officially called for an international presence in the city of Jerusalem to protect the property of Palestinian residents. This echoed a similar call by residents of the nearby Silwan neighborhood (“<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/silwan-activists-ask-eu-for-protection-against-israel-s-actions-1.336265?localLinksEnabled=false">Silwan activists ask <span class="caps">EU</span> for protection against Israel&#8217;s actions</a>,” <em>Haaretz</em>, 10 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>Ynet reported on 10 January that the Husseini family&#8217;s attorney, Sani Huri, said that the Israeli government&#8217;s claim that the land had been purchased legally by Moskowitz is “unfounded” and that Israel transferred the asset to Moskowitz without the family&#8217;s consent (“<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4011822,00.html">Mufti&#8217;s descendants: Shepherd Hotel ours</a>,” 10 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>“The property was given to the [Husseini] family when it was forced to leave Jerusalem for Jordan,” Huri told Ynet. Speaking about the alleged “sale” of the hotel by the state to Moskowitz, Huri said: “[T]here needs to be documents and signatures, but here everything was done in secret. When we asked the Land Registration Office to see the documents, we were told the file had&nbsp;disappeared.”</p>
+<p>On 16 January, Ynet reported that the Jerusalem municipal court had issued a temporary injunction against construction on the site until a hearing is held this week (“<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4014460,00.html">Construction at Shepherd Hotel plot delayed due to residents’ appeal</a>,” 16 January 2011). Residents of Sheikh Jarrah and the Council of Waqf and Muslim Affairs in Israel filed a petition against the demolition of the hotel and further settlement construction in the&nbsp;neighborhood.</p>
+<p>Earlier in the week, Israeli forces demolished part of a nine-member family&#8217;s home in Lafta, adjacent to Sheikh Jarrah, leaving only 35 square meters of the house standing, reported Ma&#8217;an (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347696">Israeli forces demolish East Jerusalem home</a>,” 3 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p><em>Silwan, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>
+<p>Meanwhile, outside the Old City walls in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, a small retail kiosk was demolished by Israeli forces on Tuesday, 11 January. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Israeli police destroyed the kiosk and confiscated the retail goods, and told the owner that they were not “legally required” to give prior warning to the demolition (“<a href="http://silwanic.net/?p=10398">Municipality destroys Palestinian shopfront outside Old City</a>,” 11 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>The kiosk owner, Wael Razem, had operated his small shop for eleven years, and had supported thirty members of his family with that income, the center&nbsp;reported.</p>
+<p><em>Wadi Joz, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>
+<p>Israeli forces destroyed two livestock structures on 10 January in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz, according to Ma&#8217;an News Agency (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=349784">Israeli authorities raze structures in East Jerusalem</a>,” 10 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>The owner of the structures said that Israeli authorities informed him that he could choose between destroying the structures on his own, or face a bill of tens of thousands of shekels if the Israeli municipality destroyed&nbsp;them.</p>
+<p>During the demolition, the owner&#8217;s horses and pieces of farm equipment were taken and confiscated, reported&nbsp;Ma&#8217;an.</p>
+<p>A shed was torn down earlier in the day in the nearby Suwwana neighborhood, Ma&#8217;an&nbsp;added.</p>
+<p><em>Hizma, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>
+<p>Citing lack of building permits, Israeli municipal police and bulldozers destroyed several business of a Palestinian resident in the northeast Jerusalem neighborhood of Hizma, reported Ma&#8217;an (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=348288">Palestinian businesses demolished in East Jerusalem</a>,” 5 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>On 5 January, the authorities demolished two garages, a car wash and building materials belonging to Abed al-Aziz al-Khatib, who provided income for dozens of family&nbsp;members.</p>
+<p><em>Beit Hanina, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>
+<p>Israeli military forces destroyed the home of Nayif Iskafee in Beit Hanina on 4 January, reported the Palestine News Network (<span class="caps">PNN</span>) (“<a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9363&amp;Itemid=64">Israeli troops demolish a home in Jerusalem &#8230;</a>,” 4 January 2011). Iskafee told <span class="caps">PNN</span> that for the last ten years, he had been fighting in the municipal courtto keep his home from being&nbsp;demolished.</p>
+<p><em>Dkaika</em></p>
+<p>Israeli military forces, flanked by several bulldozers, invaded the village of Dkaika in the southern West Bank on 12 January, and demolished 16 homes, a store, a livestock pen and a classroom at the local school. The Israeli military said the homes and structures were “built without permission,” and were therefore subject to demolition. The village is in Area C, which encompasses 60 percent of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and is under full Israeli military&nbsp;control.</p>
+<p>Under the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were carved up into areas A, B and C. Under the Oslo regulations, Area C is administered and controlled by the Israeli government and its military. Approximately 40,000 Palestinians live in Area&nbsp;C.</p>
+<p>Obtaining building permits inside Area C is nearly impossible for Palestinians, while permits for illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the area continue to be approved by the Israeli&nbsp;government.</p>
+<p>Dozens of children were inside the school when the bulldozers and military convoys arrived at about 7:30am, the <em>Guardian</em> reported (“<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/view-from-jerusalem-with-harriet-sherwood/2011/jan/14/palestinian-territories-israel">Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village</a>,” 14 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>Israeli soldiers prevented teachers from entering the building, the <em>Guardian&#8217;s</em> Harriet Sherwood reported. “Sulaima Najadah, 38, who has taught English at the school since last September, told me that he sneaked in to reassure the crying children &#8230; The teachers were handcuffed and blindfolded in front of their pupils before the bulldozers moved in. One girl, Mariam Odeh, 13, said she had been afraid the classroom would be demolished over their&nbsp;heads.”</p>
+<p>Between fifty and sixty individuals were made homeless in the demolitions, the <em>Guardian</em> stated. “Twelve-year-old Nayfeh Kaabneh lost her home as well as her classroom,” Sherwood added. “That night she slept in a tent.” The children have continued their school lessons outdoors in the freezing&nbsp;cold.</p>
+<p>The <span class="caps">UN</span> agency for Palestine refugees (<span class="caps">UNRWA</span>) issued a statement on the Dkaika demolitions on 14 January. The agency condemned what happened there in the context of other ongoing demolitions by Israeli forces in Area C (“<a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MCOI-8D6HSJ?OpenDocument&amp;rc=3&amp;cc=pse"><span class="caps">UNRWA</span> condemns demolition of Bedouin homes and school in West Bank</a>,” 14 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>“Instead of sitting down to their exam, the children faced the traumatic scene of watching their homes and classroom be demolished,” Fillipo Grandi, <span class="caps">UNRWA</span>’s Commissioner-General said. “This is&nbsp;unacceptable.”</p>
+<p>“This community of refugees was originally displaced in 1948 from their ancestral land in the Negev,” Grandi added. “Now, they face the devastating consequences of another forced displacement. Demolitions of the kind we have seen in Dkaika this week affect a growing number of Palestinians, and reflect a policy of&nbsp;discrimination.”</p>
+<p>Grandi called on Israel to “immediately cease demolitions of Palestinian properties” in the occupied West Bank, calling on the government to “respect and ensure the rights of Palestine refugees in accordance with its obligations under international law, as repeatedly called for by the international&nbsp;community.”</p>
+<p><span class="caps">UNRWA</span> stated that with this latest demolition in Dkaika, more than five hundred Palestinians have been uprooted and displaced from their homes in Area C since the beginning of&nbsp;2010.</p>
+<p><em>Azzun&nbsp;Atma</em></p>
+<p>Two homes were demolished by Israeli forces in the small village of Azzun Atma, also in Area C, on 11 January, according to Ma&#8217;an News Agency (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=350048">2 homes razed in Area C</a>,” 11 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>Israeli military officials said the homes were built without permits. The village is sandwiched between Israel&#8217;s wall in the West Bank and several illegal settlement blocs, near the city of&nbsp;Qalqilya.</p>
+<p>Muin Amin Younis, owner of one of the homes, told Ma&#8217;an he began building his house in 2003, on land owned by his family. It was not yet completed when it was destroyed by Israeli bulldozers. “They said I built it without a license, but it is my own land,” Younis told&nbsp;Ma&#8217;an.</p>
+<p><em>Jericho</em></p>
+<p>Israeli military forces handed out 15 demolition orders to farmers in the al-Dweik al-Foqa area near Jericho on 6 January, claiming their homes and livestock pens were built without permits. Ma&#8217;an News Agency reported that Israeli military patrols have routinely harassed farmers and livestock herders in the valley, designated as part of Area C, and have prevented farmers from reaching their agricultural lands (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=348697">Israel slates 15 Jericho homes for demolition</a>,” 6 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>The day before, Ma&#8217;an reported, Israeli forces handed out similar demolition orders to Palestinian residents of Ein Assy, near Halhul, which is also in Area&nbsp;C.</p>
+<p>Days earlier, Israeli forces served 17 eviction and demolition notices to an extended family in al-Nuwaima, near Jericho, according to Ma&#8217;an (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347557">Israel issues 17 demolition orders in Jericho</a>,” 3 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>“Members of the al-Zayed family received orders to demolish a mosque, electricity infrastructure and tents,” Ma&#8217;an stated. “The electricity structures slated for demolition were recently installed by the Palestinian Authority at a cost of 79,000 shekels [$22,225 <span class="caps">US</span>].”</p>
+<p><strong>Palestinian citizens in Israel&nbsp;targeted</strong></p>
+<p>Israeli bulldozers returned to the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert and demolished the village for the tenth time since July 2010. On Sunday, 16 January, Israeli forces destroyed tents and structures belonging to villagers, and arrested and beat residents and activists who protested the demolitions. As residents began rebuilding their homes yet again, the bulldozers returned to al-Araqib less than 24 hour later, and razed the buildings to the ground on Monday, 17&nbsp;January.</p>
+<p>Ma&#8217;an News Agency reported that during Sunday&#8217;s demolition, Israeli police fired rubber-coated steel bullets at the protesters, injuring nine (“<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=351987"><span class="caps">MK</span> praises resolve of al-Araqib village</a>,” 16 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>On Monday, villagers and solidarity activists were again attacked by Israeli police during the next round of evictions and demolitions. The web edition of the Israeli daily <em>Yedioth Aharnot</em> reported that police fired paint balls and arrested five (“<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015082,00.html">Clash at Bedouin village; 2 injured, 5 arrested</a>,” Ynet, 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>The village is one of dozens of “unrecognized” villages inside the state of Israel. Residents of these villages do not receive basic services such as electricity, running water, safe roads, schools, clinics or transportation, and are regularly under attack by Israeli police and municipal&nbsp;bulldozers.</p>
+<p>Al-Araqib was initially demolished on 27 July 2010, and has faced repeated demolition since then, the last time occurring <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11709.shtml">three weeks ago on 23 December</a>. Villagers and solidarity activists have been attacked and beaten during clashes with Israeli police during the multiple demolitions, and the people of al-Araqib have rebuilt their structures in the aftermath of each&nbsp;occurance.</p>
+<p>Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament Talab al-Sana condemned the repeated demolitions of the village by the Israel Land Administration, and praised al-Araqib&#8217;s residents’ attachment to their land as “heroic determination and steadfastness,” according to the 16 January Ma&#8217;an&nbsp;report.</p>
+<p>Following the last two days of demolition, Ynet reported that yesterday the Beersheba municipal court issued a temporary injunction to “stop all work” by the Israel Land Administration following a request by the villagers (“<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015138,00.html">District court: temporary halt of work at Bedouin village</a>,” 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>“The court ruled that because [the villagers of al-Araqib] fear the State will change the existing reality of the land in question, all work must be stopped temporarily,” Ynet reported. The issue will be “discussed” in court next&nbsp;week.</p>
+<p>The Jewish National Fund (<span class="caps">JNF</span>), an Israeli land institution, has been a <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11576.shtml">driving force behind the destruction</a> of al-Araqib and many other Bedouin communities in the&nbsp;Negev.</p>
+<p>The <span class="caps">JNF</span> plans to build a forest on village land, continuing a historic policy of cutting off indigenous populations from their land since Israel&#8217;s establishment in&nbsp;1948.</p>
+<p>As The Electronic Intifada has reported, international human rights organizations have <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11655.shtml">condemned the repeated destruction</a> of al-Araqib and Israel&#8217;s policies of violent dispossession of indigenous&nbsp;populations.</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, Israeli municipal bulldozers razed a three-story home in the Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahem on 4 January, sparking the community to call for a general strike in protest, reported Palestinian news agency <span class="caps">WAFA</span> (“<a href="http://arabic.wafa.ps/arabic/index.php?action=detail&amp;id=95228">General strike in protest against demolition of house</a>,” 5 January 2011 [Arabic]). Residents of Umm al-Fahem refused to go to work or attend school, and shops were closed all day on Wednesday, 5 January. Umm al-Fahm is located near Nazareth in the&nbsp;Galilee.</p>
+<p><strong>Israeli settlements&nbsp;expand</strong></p>
+<p>Finally, while many Israeli bulldozers are being used to destroy Palestinian homes and buildings, others are being put to work in massive settlement expansion projects in the occupied West&nbsp;Bank.</p>
+<p>The Israeli government is set to approve the construction of 1,400 new housing units in the Gilo settlement colony, located near Bethlehem in the southern corner of occupied East Jerusalem, <em>Gulf Daily News</em> reported (“<a href="http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=296365">New settlements plan enrages Palestinians</a>,” 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>
+<p>The latest plan &#8230; is being promoted by the Jerusalem Development Authority, a joint corporation of the Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality,” the paper&nbsp;reported.</p>
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                <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Bedouin village razed once again as historic Jerusalem hotel demolished</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-9185 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/bedouin-village-razed-once-again-historic-jerusalem-hotel-demolished/9185\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Bedouin village razed once again as historic Jerusalem hotel demolished\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                                        \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2011-01-18T11:33:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">18 January 2011</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-18842\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110118-shepherd.jpg?itok=_fD3f6rn&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110118-shepherd.jpg?itok=_fD3f6rn&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"304\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Israeli forces demolish the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah to make way for new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. (<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/\">ActiveStills</a>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure><br />\nFollowing the demolition of the historic Shepherd Hotel and the increase of home demolitions across occupied East Jerusalem, United Nations agencies and European Union officials called for observers and the implementation of international law in Jerusalem.\n<p>Top <span class=\"caps\">EU</span> leaders proposed that its officials maintain presence in the Palestinian areas of the city that are under attack by settlers and Israeli forces, the <span class=\"caps\">UK</span>’s <em>Independent</em> reported. (“<a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/eu-officials-propose-help-for-arrested-palestinians-2180298.html\"><span class=\"caps\">EU</span> officials propose help for arrested Palestinians</a>,” 10 January 2011). The leaders added that <span class=\"caps\">EU</span> officials should also attend hearings dealing with demolitions or evictions at the Jerusalem municipal courts and “ensure <span class=\"caps\">EU</span> intervention when Palestinians are arrested or intimidated by Israeli authorities for peaceful cultural, social or political activities in East&nbsp;Jerusalem.”</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <span class=\"caps\">IRIN</span>, the news service of the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, released a statement on 17 January which reiterated that East Jerusalem is “occupied territory, requiring protection of the civilian population by international humanitarian law, a legal framework which prohibits population transfer into and out of the territory” (“<a href=\"http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=91648\"><span class=\"caps\">OPT</span>: Displacement risk for Palestinians in East Jerusalem</a>,” 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p><strong>Occupied West&nbsp;Bank</strong></p>\n<p><em>Sheikh Jarrah, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>\n<p>Israeli municipal bulldozers demolished the historic Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, 9 January, in preparation for the construction of a privately-financed, Jewish-only settlement on the&nbsp;property.</p>\n<p>The hotel is a historic building belonging to the Husseini family of Jerusalem, one of the most long-established families in the city, and was once the headquarters of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In 1967, Israel declared the hotel “absentee property” after the state&#8217;s military occupation of East Jerusalem began. Thousands of Palestinian families from Jerusalem were exiled following the occupation, and were prevented from returning to their properties by the Israeli government and military &#8212; thus resulting in the state&#8217;s absorption of what it declared “absentee properties” throughout the depopulated&nbsp;city.</p>\n<p>The building title was transferred in 1985 to American millionaire and settlement enterprise financier Irving Moskowitz. Last year, the Jerusalem district planning and building council acknowledged Moskowitz’ “ownership” of the property and approved demolition of the building “to make way for twenty [settlement] housing units” (“<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/irving-moskowitz-east-jerusalem-settler\">Irving Moskowitz demolishes part of Jerusalem hotel to build settler housing</a>,” <em>Guardiam</em>, 9 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>On the morning of 9 January, the <em>Guardian</em> reported that “work began without warning &#8230; and by 10am a wing of the hotel in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah was reduced to&nbsp;rubble.”</p>\n<p>The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has been under siege by ultra-right wing settlers, who have violently taken over Palestinian homes as the Israeli courts continue to rule in their&nbsp;favor.</p>\n<p>Speaking to the <em>Guardian</em>, Nasser Isa Hidmi of the Jerusalem Committee Against Demolition and Deportation said the international community “should act to prevent Jewish settlers moving into Palestinian&nbsp;neighborhoods.”</p>\n<p>“We don&#8217;t want sympathy,” Hidmi added. “[W]e want them to stop Israel from doing what it&#8217;s&nbsp;doing.”</p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the demolition of the Shepherd Hotel, the Husseini family officially called for an international presence in the city of Jerusalem to protect the property of Palestinian residents. This echoed a similar call by residents of the nearby Silwan neighborhood (“<a href=\"http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/silwan-activists-ask-eu-for-protection-against-israel-s-actions-1.336265?localLinksEnabled=false\">Silwan activists ask <span class=\"caps\">EU</span> for protection against Israel&#8217;s actions</a>,” <em>Haaretz</em>, 10 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>Ynet reported on 10 January that the Husseini family&#8217;s attorney, Sani Huri, said that the Israeli government&#8217;s claim that the land had been purchased legally by Moskowitz is “unfounded” and that Israel transferred the asset to Moskowitz without the family&#8217;s consent (“<a href=\"http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4011822,00.html\">Mufti&#8217;s descendants: Shepherd Hotel ours</a>,” 10 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>“The property was given to the [Husseini] family when it was forced to leave Jerusalem for Jordan,” Huri told Ynet. Speaking about the alleged “sale” of the hotel by the state to Moskowitz, Huri said: “[T]here needs to be documents and signatures, but here everything was done in secret. When we asked the Land Registration Office to see the documents, we were told the file had&nbsp;disappeared.”</p>\n<p>On 16 January, Ynet reported that the Jerusalem municipal court had issued a temporary injunction against construction on the site until a hearing is held this week (“<a href=\"http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4014460,00.html\">Construction at Shepherd Hotel plot delayed due to residents’ appeal</a>,” 16 January 2011). Residents of Sheikh Jarrah and the Council of Waqf and Muslim Affairs in Israel filed a petition against the demolition of the hotel and further settlement construction in the&nbsp;neighborhood.</p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Israeli forces demolished part of a nine-member family&#8217;s home in Lafta, adjacent to Sheikh Jarrah, leaving only 35 square meters of the house standing, reported Ma&#8217;an (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347696\">Israeli forces demolish East Jerusalem home</a>,” 3 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p><em>Silwan, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside the Old City walls in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, a small retail kiosk was demolished by Israeli forces on Tuesday, 11 January. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Israeli police destroyed the kiosk and confiscated the retail goods, and told the owner that they were not “legally required” to give prior warning to the demolition (“<a href=\"http://silwanic.net/?p=10398\">Municipality destroys Palestinian shopfront outside Old City</a>,” 11 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>The kiosk owner, Wael Razem, had operated his small shop for eleven years, and had supported thirty members of his family with that income, the center&nbsp;reported.</p>\n<p><em>Wadi Joz, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>\n<p>Israeli forces destroyed two livestock structures on 10 January in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz, according to Ma&#8217;an News Agency (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=349784\">Israeli authorities raze structures in East Jerusalem</a>,” 10 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>The owner of the structures said that Israeli authorities informed him that he could choose between destroying the structures on his own, or face a bill of tens of thousands of shekels if the Israeli municipality destroyed&nbsp;them.</p>\n<p>During the demolition, the owner&#8217;s horses and pieces of farm equipment were taken and confiscated, reported&nbsp;Ma&#8217;an.</p>\n<p>A shed was torn down earlier in the day in the nearby Suwwana neighborhood, Ma&#8217;an&nbsp;added.</p>\n<p><em>Hizma, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>\n<p>Citing lack of building permits, Israeli municipal police and bulldozers destroyed several business of a Palestinian resident in the northeast Jerusalem neighborhood of Hizma, reported Ma&#8217;an (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=348288\">Palestinian businesses demolished in East Jerusalem</a>,” 5 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>On 5 January, the authorities demolished two garages, a car wash and building materials belonging to Abed al-Aziz al-Khatib, who provided income for dozens of family&nbsp;members.</p>\n<p><em>Beit Hanina, East&nbsp;Jerusalem</em></p>\n<p>Israeli military forces destroyed the home of Nayif Iskafee in Beit Hanina on 4 January, reported the Palestine News Network (<span class=\"caps\">PNN</span>) (“<a href=\"http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9363&amp;Itemid=64\">Israeli troops demolish a home in Jerusalem &#8230;</a>,” 4 January 2011). Iskafee told <span class=\"caps\">PNN</span> that for the last ten years, he had been fighting in the municipal courtto keep his home from being&nbsp;demolished.</p>\n<p><em>Dkaika</em></p>\n<p>Israeli military forces, flanked by several bulldozers, invaded the village of Dkaika in the southern West Bank on 12 January, and demolished 16 homes, a store, a livestock pen and a classroom at the local school. The Israeli military said the homes and structures were “built without permission,” and were therefore subject to demolition. The village is in Area C, which encompasses 60 percent of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and is under full Israeli military&nbsp;control.</p>\n<p>Under the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were carved up into areas A, B and C. Under the Oslo regulations, Area C is administered and controlled by the Israeli government and its military. Approximately 40,000 Palestinians live in Area&nbsp;C.</p>\n<p>Obtaining building permits inside Area C is nearly impossible for Palestinians, while permits for illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the area continue to be approved by the Israeli&nbsp;government.</p>\n<p>Dozens of children were inside the school when the bulldozers and military convoys arrived at about 7:30am, the <em>Guardian</em> reported (“<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/view-from-jerusalem-with-harriet-sherwood/2011/jan/14/palestinian-territories-israel\">Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village</a>,” 14 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>Israeli soldiers prevented teachers from entering the building, the <em>Guardian&#8217;s</em> Harriet Sherwood reported. “Sulaima Najadah, 38, who has taught English at the school since last September, told me that he sneaked in to reassure the crying children &#8230; The teachers were handcuffed and blindfolded in front of their pupils before the bulldozers moved in. One girl, Mariam Odeh, 13, said she had been afraid the classroom would be demolished over their&nbsp;heads.”</p>\n<p>Between fifty and sixty individuals were made homeless in the demolitions, the <em>Guardian</em> stated. “Twelve-year-old Nayfeh Kaabneh lost her home as well as her classroom,” Sherwood added. “That night she slept in a tent.” The children have continued their school lessons outdoors in the freezing&nbsp;cold.</p>\n<p>The <span class=\"caps\">UN</span> agency for Palestine refugees (<span class=\"caps\">UNRWA</span>) issued a statement on the Dkaika demolitions on 14 January. The agency condemned what happened there in the context of other ongoing demolitions by Israeli forces in Area C (“<a href=\"http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MCOI-8D6HSJ?OpenDocument&amp;rc=3&amp;cc=pse\"><span class=\"caps\">UNRWA</span> condemns demolition of Bedouin homes and school in West Bank</a>,” 14 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>“Instead of sitting down to their exam, the children faced the traumatic scene of watching their homes and classroom be demolished,” Fillipo Grandi, <span class=\"caps\">UNRWA</span>’s Commissioner-General said. “This is&nbsp;unacceptable.”</p>\n<p>“This community of refugees was originally displaced in 1948 from their ancestral land in the Negev,” Grandi added. “Now, they face the devastating consequences of another forced displacement. Demolitions of the kind we have seen in Dkaika this week affect a growing number of Palestinians, and reflect a policy of&nbsp;discrimination.”</p>\n<p>Grandi called on Israel to “immediately cease demolitions of Palestinian properties” in the occupied West Bank, calling on the government to “respect and ensure the rights of Palestine refugees in accordance with its obligations under international law, as repeatedly called for by the international&nbsp;community.”</p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">UNRWA</span> stated that with this latest demolition in Dkaika, more than five hundred Palestinians have been uprooted and displaced from their homes in Area C since the beginning of&nbsp;2010.</p>\n<p><em>Azzun&nbsp;Atma</em></p>\n<p>Two homes were demolished by Israeli forces in the small village of Azzun Atma, also in Area C, on 11 January, according to Ma&#8217;an News Agency (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=350048\">2 homes razed in Area C</a>,” 11 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>Israeli military officials said the homes were built without permits. The village is sandwiched between Israel&#8217;s wall in the West Bank and several illegal settlement blocs, near the city of&nbsp;Qalqilya.</p>\n<p>Muin Amin Younis, owner of one of the homes, told Ma&#8217;an he began building his house in 2003, on land owned by his family. It was not yet completed when it was destroyed by Israeli bulldozers. “They said I built it without a license, but it is my own land,” Younis told&nbsp;Ma&#8217;an.</p>\n<p><em>Jericho</em></p>\n<p>Israeli military forces handed out 15 demolition orders to farmers in the al-Dweik al-Foqa area near Jericho on 6 January, claiming their homes and livestock pens were built without permits. Ma&#8217;an News Agency reported that Israeli military patrols have routinely harassed farmers and livestock herders in the valley, designated as part of Area C, and have prevented farmers from reaching their agricultural lands (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=348697\">Israel slates 15 Jericho homes for demolition</a>,” 6 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>The day before, Ma&#8217;an reported, Israeli forces handed out similar demolition orders to Palestinian residents of Ein Assy, near Halhul, which is also in Area&nbsp;C.</p>\n<p>Days earlier, Israeli forces served 17 eviction and demolition notices to an extended family in al-Nuwaima, near Jericho, according to Ma&#8217;an (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347557\">Israel issues 17 demolition orders in Jericho</a>,” 3 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>“Members of the al-Zayed family received orders to demolish a mosque, electricity infrastructure and tents,” Ma&#8217;an stated. “The electricity structures slated for demolition were recently installed by the Palestinian Authority at a cost of 79,000 shekels [$22,225 <span class=\"caps\">US</span>].”</p>\n<p><strong>Palestinian citizens in Israel&nbsp;targeted</strong></p>\n<p>Israeli bulldozers returned to the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert and demolished the village for the tenth time since July 2010. On Sunday, 16 January, Israeli forces destroyed tents and structures belonging to villagers, and arrested and beat residents and activists who protested the demolitions. As residents began rebuilding their homes yet again, the bulldozers returned to al-Araqib less than 24 hour later, and razed the buildings to the ground on Monday, 17&nbsp;January.</p>\n<p>Ma&#8217;an News Agency reported that during Sunday&#8217;s demolition, Israeli police fired rubber-coated steel bullets at the protesters, injuring nine (“<a href=\"http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=351987\"><span class=\"caps\">MK</span> praises resolve of al-Araqib village</a>,” 16 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>On Monday, villagers and solidarity activists were again attacked by Israeli police during the next round of evictions and demolitions. The web edition of the Israeli daily <em>Yedioth Aharnot</em> reported that police fired paint balls and arrested five (“<a href=\"http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015082,00.html\">Clash at Bedouin village; 2 injured, 5 arrested</a>,” Ynet, 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>The village is one of dozens of “unrecognized” villages inside the state of Israel. Residents of these villages do not receive basic services such as electricity, running water, safe roads, schools, clinics or transportation, and are regularly under attack by Israeli police and municipal&nbsp;bulldozers.</p>\n<p>Al-Araqib was initially demolished on 27 July 2010, and has faced repeated demolition since then, the last time occurring <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11709.shtml\">three weeks ago on 23 December</a>. Villagers and solidarity activists have been attacked and beaten during clashes with Israeli police during the multiple demolitions, and the people of al-Araqib have rebuilt their structures in the aftermath of each&nbsp;occurance.</p>\n<p>Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament Talab al-Sana condemned the repeated demolitions of the village by the Israel Land Administration, and praised al-Araqib&#8217;s residents’ attachment to their land as “heroic determination and steadfastness,” according to the 16 January Ma&#8217;an&nbsp;report.</p>\n<p>Following the last two days of demolition, Ynet reported that yesterday the Beersheba municipal court issued a temporary injunction to “stop all work” by the Israel Land Administration following a request by the villagers (“<a href=\"http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015138,00.html\">District court: temporary halt of work at Bedouin village</a>,” 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>“The court ruled that because [the villagers of al-Araqib] fear the State will change the existing reality of the land in question, all work must be stopped temporarily,” Ynet reported. The issue will be “discussed” in court next&nbsp;week.</p>\n<p>The Jewish National Fund (<span class=\"caps\">JNF</span>), an Israeli land institution, has been a <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11576.shtml\">driving force behind the destruction</a> of al-Araqib and many other Bedouin communities in the&nbsp;Negev.</p>\n<p>The <span class=\"caps\">JNF</span> plans to build a forest on village land, continuing a historic policy of cutting off indigenous populations from their land since Israel&#8217;s establishment in&nbsp;1948.</p>\n<p>As The Electronic Intifada has reported, international human rights organizations have <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11655.shtml\">condemned the repeated destruction</a> of al-Araqib and Israel&#8217;s policies of violent dispossession of indigenous&nbsp;populations.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israeli municipal bulldozers razed a three-story home in the Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahem on 4 January, sparking the community to call for a general strike in protest, reported Palestinian news agency <span class=\"caps\">WAFA</span> (“<a href=\"http://arabic.wafa.ps/arabic/index.php?action=detail&amp;id=95228\">General strike in protest against demolition of house</a>,” 5 January 2011 [Arabic]). Residents of Umm al-Fahem refused to go to work or attend school, and shops were closed all day on Wednesday, 5 January. Umm al-Fahm is located near Nazareth in the&nbsp;Galilee.</p>\n<p><strong>Israeli settlements&nbsp;expand</strong></p>\n<p>Finally, while many Israeli bulldozers are being used to destroy Palestinian homes and buildings, others are being put to work in massive settlement expansion projects in the occupied West&nbsp;Bank.</p>\n<p>The Israeli government is set to approve the construction of 1,400 new housing units in the Gilo settlement colony, located near Bethlehem in the southern corner of occupied East Jerusalem, <em>Gulf Daily News</em> reported (“<a href=\"http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=296365\">New settlements plan enrages Palestinians</a>,” 17 January&nbsp;2011).</p>\n<p>The latest plan &#8230; is being promoted by the Jerusalem Development Authority, a joint corporation of the Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality,” the paper&nbsp;reported.</p>\n\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a 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+Israeli forces demolish the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah to make way for new Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. (ActiveStills)
+Following the demolition of the historic Shepherd Hotel and the increase of home demolitions across occupied East Jerusalem, United Nations agencies and European Union officials called for observers and the implementation of international law in Jerusalem.
+Top EU leaders proposed that its officials maintain presence in the Palestinian areas of the city that are under attack by settlers and Israeli forces, the UK’s Independent reported. (“EU officials propose help for arrested Palestinians,” 10 January 2011). The leaders added that EU officials should also attend hearings dealing with demolitions or evictions at the Jerusalem municipal courts and “ensure EU intervention when Palestinians are arrested or intimidated by Israeli authorities for peaceful cultural, social or political activities in East Jerusalem.”
+Meanwhile, IRIN, the news service of the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, released a statement on 17 January which reiterated that East Jerusalem is “occupied territory, requiring protection of the civilian population by international humanitarian law, a legal framework which prohibits population transfer into and out of the territory” (“OPT: Displacement risk for Palestinians in East Jerusalem,” 17 January 2011).
+Occupied West Bank
+Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem
+Israeli municipal bulldozers demolished the historic Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, 9 January, in preparation for the construction of a privately-financed, Jewish-only settlement on the property.
+The hotel is a historic building belonging to the Husseini family of Jerusalem, one of the most long-established families in the city, and was once the headquarters of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In 1967, Israel declared the hotel “absentee property” after the state’s military occupation of East Jerusalem began. Thousands of Palestinian families from Jerusalem were exiled following the occupation, and were prevented from returning to their properties by the Israeli government and military — thus resulting in the state’s absorption of what it declared “absentee properties” throughout the depopulated city.
+The building title was transferred in 1985 to American millionaire and settlement enterprise financier Irving Moskowitz. Last year, the Jerusalem district planning and building council acknowledged Moskowitz’ “ownership” of the property and approved demolition of the building “to make way for twenty [settlement] housing units” (“Irving Moskowitz demolishes part of Jerusalem hotel to build settler housing,” Guardiam, 9 January 2011).
+On the morning of 9 January, the Guardian reported that “work began without warning … and by 10am a wing of the hotel in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah was reduced to rubble.”
+The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has been under siege by ultra-right wing settlers, who have violently taken over Palestinian homes as the Israeli courts continue to rule in their favor.
+Speaking to the Guardian, Nasser Isa Hidmi of the Jerusalem Committee Against Demolition and Deportation said the international community “should act to prevent Jewish settlers moving into Palestinian neighborhoods.”
+“We don’t want sympathy,” Hidmi added. “[W]e want them to stop Israel from doing what it’s doing.”
+In the aftermath of the demolition of the Shepherd Hotel, the Husseini family officially called for an international presence in the city of Jerusalem to protect the property of Palestinian residents. This echoed a similar call by residents of the nearby Silwan neighborhood (“Silwan activists ask EU for protection against Israel’s actions,” Haaretz, 10 January 2011).
+Ynet reported on 10 January that the Husseini family’s attorney, Sani Huri, said that the Israeli government’s claim that the land had been purchased legally by Moskowitz is “unfounded” and that Israel transferred the asset to Moskowitz without the family’s consent (“Mufti’s descendants: Shepherd Hotel ours,” 10 January 2011).
+“The property was given to the [Husseini] family when it was forced to leave Jerusalem for Jordan,” Huri told Ynet. Speaking about the alleged “sale” of the hotel by the state to Moskowitz, Huri said: “[T]here needs to be documents and signatures, but here everything was done in secret. When we asked the Land Registration Office to see the documents, we were told the file had disappeared.”
+On 16 January, Ynet reported that the Jerusalem municipal court had issued a temporary injunction against construction on the site until a hearing is held this week (“Construction at Shepherd Hotel plot delayed due to residents’ appeal,” 16 January 2011). Residents of Sheikh Jarrah and the Council of Waqf and Muslim Affairs in Israel filed a petition against the demolition of the hotel and further settlement construction in the neighborhood.
+Earlier in the week, Israeli forces demolished part of a nine-member family’s home in Lafta, adjacent to Sheikh Jarrah, leaving only 35 square meters of the house standing, reported Ma’an (“Israeli forces demolish East Jerusalem home,” 3 January 2011).
+Silwan, East Jerusalem
+Meanwhile, outside the Old City walls in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, a small retail kiosk was demolished by Israeli forces on Tuesday, 11 January. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Israeli police destroyed the kiosk and confiscated the retail goods, and told the owner that they were not “legally required” to give prior warning to the demolition (“Municipality destroys Palestinian shopfront outside Old City,” 11 January 2011).
+The kiosk owner, Wael Razem, had operated his small shop for eleven years, and had supported thirty members of his family with that income, the center reported.
+Wadi Joz, East Jerusalem
+Israeli forces destroyed two livestock structures on 10 January in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz, according to Ma’an News Agency (“Israeli authorities raze structures in East Jerusalem,” 10 January 2011).
+The owner of the structures said that Israeli authorities informed him that he could choose between destroying the structures on his own, or face a bill of tens of thousands of shekels if the Israeli municipality destroyed them.
+During the demolition, the owner’s horses and pieces of farm equipment were taken and confiscated, reported Ma’an.
+A shed was torn down earlier in the day in the nearby Suwwana neighborhood, Ma’an added.
+Hizma, East Jerusalem
+Citing lack of building permits, Israeli municipal police and bulldozers destroyed several business of a Palestinian resident in the northeast Jerusalem neighborhood of Hizma, reported Ma’an (“Palestinian businesses demolished in East Jerusalem,” 5 January 2011).
+On 5 January, the authorities demolished two garages, a car wash and building materials belonging to Abed al-Aziz al-Khatib, who provided income for dozens of family members.
+Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem
+Israeli military forces destroyed the home of Nayif Iskafee in Beit Hanina on 4 January, reported the Palestine News Network (PNN) (“Israeli troops demolish a home in Jerusalem …,” 4 January 2011). Iskafee told PNN that for the last ten years, he had been fighting in the municipal courtto keep his home from being demolished.
+Dkaika
+Israeli military forces, flanked by several bulldozers, invaded the village of Dkaika in the southern West Bank on 12 January, and demolished 16 homes, a store, a livestock pen and a classroom at the local school. The Israeli military said the homes and structures were “built without permission,” and were therefore subject to demolition. The village is in Area C, which encompasses 60 percent of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and is under full Israeli military control.
+Under the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were carved up into areas A, B and C. Under the Oslo regulations, Area C is administered and controlled by the Israeli government and its military. Approximately 40,000 Palestinians live in Area C.
+Obtaining building permits inside Area C is nearly impossible for Palestinians, while permits for illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the area continue to be approved by the Israeli government.
+Dozens of children were inside the school when the bulldozers and military convoys arrived at about 7:30am, the Guardian reported (“Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village,” 14 January 2011).
+Israeli soldiers prevented teachers from entering the building, the Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood reported. “Sulaima Najadah, 38, who has taught English at the school since last September, told me that he sneaked in to reassure the crying children … The teachers were handcuffed and blindfolded in front of their pupils before the bulldozers moved in. One girl, Mariam Odeh, 13, said she had been afraid the classroom would be demolished over their heads.”
+Between fifty and sixty individuals were made homeless in the demolitions, the Guardian stated. “Twelve-year-old Nayfeh Kaabneh lost her home as well as her classroom,” Sherwood added. “That night she slept in a tent.” The children have continued their school lessons outdoors in the freezing cold.
+The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) issued a statement on the Dkaika demolitions on 14 January. The agency condemned what happened there in the context of other ongoing demolitions by Israeli forces in Area C (“UNRWA condemns demolition of Bedouin homes and school in West Bank,” 14 January 2011).
+“Instead of sitting down to their exam, the children faced the traumatic scene of watching their homes and classroom be demolished,” Fillipo Grandi, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General said. “This is unacceptable.”
+“This community of refugees was originally displaced in 1948 from their ancestral land in the Negev,” Grandi added. “Now, they face the devastating consequences of another forced displacement. Demolitions of the kind we have seen in Dkaika this week affect a growing number of Palestinians, and reflect a policy of discrimination.”
+Grandi called on Israel to “immediately cease demolitions of Palestinian properties” in the occupied West Bank, calling on the government to “respect and ensure the rights of Palestine refugees in accordance with its obligations under international law, as repeatedly called for by the international community.”
+UNRWA stated that with this latest demolition in Dkaika, more than five hundred Palestinians have been uprooted and displaced from their homes in Area C since the beginning of 2010.
+Azzun Atma
+Two homes were demolished by Israeli forces in the small village of Azzun Atma, also in Area C, on 11 January, according to Ma’an News Agency (“2 homes razed in Area C,” 11 January 2011).
+Israeli military officials said the homes were built without permits. The village is sandwiched between Israel’s wall in the West Bank and several illegal settlement blocs, near the city of Qalqilya.
+Muin Amin Younis, owner of one of the homes, told Ma’an he began building his house in 2003, on land owned by his family. It was not yet completed when it was destroyed by Israeli bulldozers. “They said I built it without a license, but it is my own land,” Younis told Ma’an.
+Jericho
+Israeli military forces handed out 15 demolition orders to farmers in the al-Dweik al-Foqa area near Jericho on 6 January, claiming their homes and livestock pens were built without permits. Ma’an News Agency reported that Israeli military patrols have routinely harassed farmers and livestock herders in the valley, designated as part of Area C, and have prevented farmers from reaching their agricultural lands (“Israel slates 15 Jericho homes for demolition,” 6 January 2011).
+The day before, Ma’an reported, Israeli forces handed out similar demolition orders to Palestinian residents of Ein Assy, near Halhul, which is also in Area C.
+Days earlier, Israeli forces served 17 eviction and demolition notices to an extended family in al-Nuwaima, near Jericho, according to Ma’an (“Israel issues 17 demolition orders in Jericho,” 3 January 2011).
+“Members of the al-Zayed family received orders to demolish a mosque, electricity infrastructure and tents,” Ma’an stated. “The electricity structures slated for demolition were recently installed by the Palestinian Authority at a cost of 79,000 shekels [$22,225 US].”
+Palestinian citizens in Israel targeted
+Israeli bulldozers returned to the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert and demolished the village for the tenth time since July 2010. On Sunday, 16 January, Israeli forces destroyed tents and structures belonging to villagers, and arrested and beat residents and activists who protested the demolitions. As residents began rebuilding their homes yet again, the bulldozers returned to al-Araqib less than 24 hour later, and razed the buildings to the ground on Monday, 17 January.
+Ma’an News Agency reported that during Sunday’s demolition, Israeli police fired rubber-coated steel bullets at the protesters, injuring nine (“MK praises resolve of al-Araqib village,” 16 January 2011).
+On Monday, villagers and solidarity activists were again attacked by Israeli police during the next round of evictions and demolitions. The web edition of the Israeli daily Yedioth Aharnot reported that police fired paint balls and arrested five (“Clash at Bedouin village; 2 injured, 5 arrested,” Ynet, 17 January 2011).
+The village is one of dozens of “unrecognized” villages inside the state of Israel. Residents of these villages do not receive basic services such as electricity, running water, safe roads, schools, clinics or transportation, and are regularly under attack by Israeli police and municipal bulldozers.
+Al-Araqib was initially demolished on 27 July 2010, and has faced repeated demolition since then, the last time occurring three weeks ago on 23 December. Villagers and solidarity activists have been attacked and beaten during clashes with Israeli police during the multiple demolitions, and the people of al-Araqib have rebuilt their structures in the aftermath of each occurance.
+Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament Talab al-Sana condemned the repeated demolitions of the village by the Israel Land Administration, and praised al-Araqib’s residents’ attachment to their land as “heroic determination and steadfastness,” according to the 16 January Ma’an report.
+Following the last two days of demolition, Ynet reported that yesterday the Beersheba municipal court issued a temporary injunction to “stop all work” by the Israel Land Administration following a request by the villagers (“District court: temporary halt of work at Bedouin village,” 17 January 2011).
+“The court ruled that because [the villagers of al-Araqib] fear the State will change the existing reality of the land in question, all work must be stopped temporarily,” Ynet reported. The issue will be “discussed” in court next week.
+The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an Israeli land institution, has been a driving force behind the destruction of al-Araqib and many other Bedouin communities in the Negev.
+The JNF plans to build a forest on village land, continuing a historic policy of cutting off indigenous populations from their land since Israel’s establishment in 1948.
+As The Electronic Intifada has reported, international human rights organizations have condemned the repeated destruction of al-Araqib and Israel’s policies of violent dispossession of indigenous populations.
+Meanwhile, Israeli municipal bulldozers razed a three-story home in the Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahem on 4 January, sparking the community to call for a general strike in protest, reported Palestinian news agency WAFA (“General strike in protest against demolition of house,” 5 January 2011 [Arabic]). Residents of Umm al-Fahem refused to go to work or attend school, and shops were closed all day on Wednesday, 5 January. Umm al-Fahm is located near Nazareth in the Galilee.
+Israeli settlements expand
+Finally, while many Israeli bulldozers are being used to destroy Palestinian homes and buildings, others are being put to work in massive settlement expansion projects in the occupied West Bank.
+The Israeli government is set to approve the construction of 1,400 new housing units in the Gilo settlement colony, located near Bethlehem in the southern corner of occupied East Jerusalem, Gulf Daily News reported (“New settlements plan enrages Palestinians,” 17 January 2011).
+The latest plan … is being promoted by the Jerusalem Development Authority, a joint corporation of the Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality,” the paper reported.

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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Better to launch balloons than die in silence</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-31056 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/better-launch-balloons-die-silence/31056" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                  <span property="dc:title" content="Better to launch balloons than die in silence" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/ahmed-abu-artema" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ahmed Abu Artema</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2020-08-25T18:32:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">25 August 2020</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-95871" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2020-08/200820_ash_00_42.jpg?itok=erEqHRpe&amp;timestamp=1598381728 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2020-08/200820_ash_00_42.jpg?itok=erEqHRpe&amp;timestamp=1598381728" width="800" height="533" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to the deadly weapons in Israel’s arsenal. </p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Ashraf Amra</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>In recent weeks, the tension between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel&#8217;s forces of occupation has increased. Israel has used the launching of incendiary balloons by Palestinian youths as a pretext to <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-crimes-must-be-met-arms-embargo">bomb</a> Gaza once again.</p>
+<p>The release of the balloons is a gesture of protest against how the Israeli occupation has procrastinated in abiding by its <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/hamas-did-not-reject-ceasefire-israel-did">previous agreements</a> with the Palestinian resistance. Under those agreements, Israel had committed to easing the siege on Gaza.</p>
+<p>This procrastination has caused the continued deterioration of Gaza&#8217;s health and public services and its economy. Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues to control the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.</p>
+<p>The Israeli military has responded to the incendiary balloons by carrying out dozens of raids on sites used by Palestinian resistance fighters with US-made F-16 jets. The Israeli naval forces, which besiege Gaza from the sea, have prevented fishers from doing their work and <a href="https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14941">fired</a> at their boats.</p>
+<p>The Israeli government has also <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-cuts-fuel-gaza-goes-dark">closed</a> the only crossing through which commercial goods enter Gaza. This closure led to the shutting down of the only power plant in the territory, which, in turn, means households in Gaza receive only four hours of electricity per day.</p>
+<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-claims-israel-responding-to-gaza-fire-balloons-as-it-does-to-rockets/">stated</a> frankly that Israel would respond to the incendiary balloons in the same way as it responds to rockets fired from Gaza. Israel, it seems, wishes to keep on responding with deadly force to largely symbolic acts of resistance that make use of very basic materials.</p>
+<p>Israel has put this statement into practice by dropping highly destructive missiles from F-16s onto densely populated Gaza for 13 consecutive nights.</p>
+<p>The incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to Israel&#8217;s sophisticated and modern weapons. Youths have simply attached burning wicks to balloons and released them toward Israel.</p>
+<p>The balloons have been carried into Israel by the wind. They have caused some fires on farm land and, as a result, incurred a small amount of damage to Israel&#8217;s economy.</p>
+<p>Yet nobody has been killed or injured by them.</p>
+<h2>Compelled to act</h2>
+<p>Israel and pro-Israeli media exaggerate the effects of this form of resistance while completely ignoring the reasons motivating it.</p>
+<p>If one wishes to understand why incendiary balloons have been launched from Gaza, it is crucial to go back to the circumstances under which Palestinian youths feel compelled to act.</p>
+<p>I have been asked repeatedly by many Western journalists if the youth who launch incendiary balloons are contradicting the principles of the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return">Great March of Return</a>, unarmed protests which began in 2018.</p>
+<p>I have replied by asking the journalists to imagine a person locked in a room without access to food or medicine while they are dying slowly and silently. The person decides to bang on the door of the room with all their strength and anger and shouts for their freedom and their need to escape from death.</p>
+<p>Then their jailer comes from outside to give a moral sermon and tell people: Look at this prisoner&#8217;s barbarism. They are not behaving properly because they are not knocking on the door calmly and not presenting their demands to us in a respectful way.</p>
+<p>It is unfair to blame the victim, to be preoccupied with assessing their behavior. By neglecting to address the root of the problem, we are distracted from the real criminal, the one who placed a prisoner in those life-threatening and inhuman conditions.</p>
+<p>Whatever a prisoner who feels death approaching them does, their behavior will be in harmony with the principles of freedom and justice, even if they break the door of the prison cell.</p>
+<p>This analogy captures Israel&#8217;s behavior toward Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has exaggerated the significance of the simple incendiary balloons launched by groups of Palestinian youths.</p>
+<p>Israel has tried to portray these balloons as akin to a military threat. By doing so, it has tried to devise new “rules.”</p>
+<p>Under those “rules,” Israel thinks it may respond to crude balloons with missiles launched from F-16 warplanes.</p>
+<h2>Banging on the tank&#8217;s walls</h2>
+<p>Israel says nothing about the political and economic environment in which the young people who release those balloons are growing up.</p>
+<p>These young people are victims of Israeli aggression many times over.</p>
+<p>Their problems began before they were born. In 1948, their families were expelled from their villages by Zionist forces.</p>
+<p>Two-thirds of Gaza&#8217;s population are refugees hailing from towns and villages in what is now called Israel.</p>
+<p>Many young Palestinians can see their families’ original villages beyond the fence separating Gaza and Israel. But they cannot reach them.</p>
+<p>That offers some explanation as to the motives of people releasing balloons. The balloons are crossing the boundary and reaching towns and villages that have been stolen from Palestinians.</p>
+<p>They are being flown as a protest against the theft of our homeland.</p>
+<p>After the expulsions of 1948, Israel committed countless other crimes. Those include occupation, massacres, the mass detention and torture of Palestinians.</p>
+<p>They have included, too, a <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gaza-siege">siege</a> that has deprived Palestinians in Gaza of basic rights and necessities. The siege has undermined our economy, destroyed the labor market and shattered the dreams of Palestinian youth for a decent life.</p>
+<p>Gaza&#8217;s youth banged against the prison walls during the Great March of Return. Israel <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-slaughters-palestinians-marching-return">responded</a> by firing live bullets against them, causing death and permanent disabilities.</p>
+<p>These youths, crushed by the Israeli occupation and deprived of their fundamental rights, still feel the urge to scream at their jailers. They want to make noise so that they do not die in silence.</p>
+<p>In his novel <em>Men in the Sun</em>, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ghassan-kanafani">Ghassan Kanafani</a> tells a story of three Palestinians undertaking a perilous journey hidden in a water tank. After the men are found dead by their driver, Kanafani asks why they didn&#8217;t bang on the water tank wall.</p>
+<p>Banging on the walls of a tank is better than suffocating.</p>
+<p>Launching handmade incendiary balloons from the besieged Gaza Strip is like banging on the walls of a water tank and refusing to die in silence.</p>
+<p><em>Ahmed Abu Artema is a writer who lives in Gaza and a researcher at the Center for Political and Development Studies. He is one of the organizers of the Great March of Return.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+<!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]-->
+<source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=46-kJKVN&amp;timestamp=1723071119 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=5xW2Qst5&amp;timestamp=1723071119 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-08/mawasitents.jpg?itok=aNaFJ063&amp;timestamp=1723071119 2x" media="(min-width: 72rem)" />
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/bedouin-dreams-amid-genocide-nightmare/48211">Bedouin dreams amid genocide nightmare</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Bedouin dreams amid genocide nightmare" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-08-07T20:45:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">7 August 2024</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
+      <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even">
+      <article class="node-47466 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/content/right-education-will-remain-under-threat-gaza/47466" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
+  <figure class="field field-image">
+    <a href="/content/right-education-will-remain-under-threat-gaza/47466"><picture >
+<!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]-->
+<source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-07/270624_zawaida_osh_1_0025.jpg?itok=hKJUQ-gx&amp;timestamp=1719905647 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2024-07/270624_zawaida_osh_1_0025.jpg?itok=hXaktU1Q&amp;timestamp=1719905647 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-07/270624_zawaida_osh_1_0025.jpg?itok=KdGksxYT&amp;timestamp=1719905647 2x" media="(min-width: 72rem)" />
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/right-education-will-remain-under-threat-gaza/47466">Right to education will remain under threat in Gaza </a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Right to education will remain under threat in Gaza " class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="1" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-07-02T07:25:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">2 July 2024</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
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+      <article class="node-46001 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/content/gazas-new-and-terrifying-reality/46001" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<img  src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/250424_rafah_zu_004.jpg?itok=rVRl8rdA&amp;timestamp=1714135850" width="224" height="224" alt="Children carry containers as they walk in front of a building attacked by Israel in southern Gaza " title="" />
+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/gazas-new-and-terrifying-reality/46001">Gaza&#039;s new and terrifying reality</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Gaza&#039;s new and terrifying reality" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-04-26T12:34:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">26 April 2024</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
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+</div><article class="node-32081 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/content/rudimentary-weapon-desperation/32081" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/rudimentary-weapon-desperation/32081">A rudimentary weapon of desperation</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="A rudimentary weapon of desperation" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Hamza Abu Eltarabesh</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2021-01-15T11:15:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">15 January 2021</span></span>        </p>
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/was-great-march-return-best-way-confront-israel/35091">Was Great March of Return the best way to confront Israel? </a></h2>
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+<span class="field field-author">Hamza Abu Eltarabesh</span>
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                <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Better to launch balloons than die in silence</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-31056 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/better-launch-balloons-die-silence/31056\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Better to launch balloons than die in silence\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/ahmed-abu-artema\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Ahmed Abu Artema</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2020-08-25T18:32:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">25 August 2020</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-95871\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2020-08/200820_ash_00_42.jpg?itok=erEqHRpe&amp;timestamp=1598381728 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2020-08/200820_ash_00_42.jpg?itok=erEqHRpe&amp;timestamp=1598381728\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to the deadly weapons in Israel’s arsenal. </p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ashraf Amra</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>In recent weeks, the tension between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel&#8217;s forces of occupation has increased. Israel has used the launching of incendiary balloons by Palestinian youths as a pretext to <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-crimes-must-be-met-arms-embargo\">bomb</a> Gaza once again.</p>\n\n<p>The release of the balloons is a gesture of protest against how the Israeli occupation has procrastinated in abiding by its <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/hamas-did-not-reject-ceasefire-israel-did\">previous agreements</a> with the Palestinian resistance. Under those agreements, Israel had committed to easing the siege on Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>This procrastination has caused the continued deterioration of Gaza&#8217;s health and public services and its economy. Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues to control the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>The Israeli military has responded to the incendiary balloons by carrying out dozens of raids on sites used by Palestinian resistance fighters with US-made F-16 jets. The Israeli naval forces, which besiege Gaza from the sea, have prevented fishers from doing their work and <a href=\"https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14941\">fired</a> at their boats.</p>\n\n<p>The Israeli government has also <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-cuts-fuel-gaza-goes-dark\">closed</a> the only crossing through which commercial goods enter Gaza. This closure led to the shutting down of the only power plant in the territory, which, in turn, means households in Gaza receive only four hours of electricity per day.</p>\n\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has <a href=\"https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-claims-israel-responding-to-gaza-fire-balloons-as-it-does-to-rockets/\">stated</a> frankly that Israel would respond to the incendiary balloons in the same way as it responds to rockets fired from Gaza. Israel, it seems, wishes to keep on responding with deadly force to largely symbolic acts of resistance that make use of very basic materials.</p>\n\n<p>Israel has put this statement into practice by dropping highly destructive missiles from F-16s onto densely populated Gaza for 13 consecutive nights.</p>\n\n<p>The incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to Israel&#8217;s sophisticated and modern weapons. Youths have simply attached burning wicks to balloons and released them toward Israel.</p>\n\n<p>The balloons have been carried into Israel by the wind. They have caused some fires on farm land and, as a result, incurred a small amount of damage to Israel&#8217;s economy.</p>\n\n<p>Yet nobody has been killed or injured by them.</p>\n\n<h2>Compelled to act</h2>\n\n<p>Israel and pro-Israeli media exaggerate the effects of this form of resistance while completely ignoring the reasons motivating it.</p>\n\n<p>If one wishes to understand why incendiary balloons have been launched from Gaza, it is crucial to go back to the circumstances under which Palestinian youths feel compelled to act.</p>\n\n<p>I have been asked repeatedly by many Western journalists if the youth who launch incendiary balloons are contradicting the principles of the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return\">Great March of Return</a>, unarmed protests which began in 2018.</p>\n\n<p>I have replied by asking the journalists to imagine a person locked in a room without access to food or medicine while they are dying slowly and silently. The person decides to bang on the door of the room with all their strength and anger and shouts for their freedom and their need to escape from death.</p>\n\n<p>Then their jailer comes from outside to give a moral sermon and tell people: Look at this prisoner&#8217;s barbarism. They are not behaving properly because they are not knocking on the door calmly and not presenting their demands to us in a respectful way.</p>\n\n<p>It is unfair to blame the victim, to be preoccupied with assessing their behavior. By neglecting to address the root of the problem, we are distracted from the real criminal, the one who placed a prisoner in those life-threatening and inhuman conditions.</p>\n\n<p>Whatever a prisoner who feels death approaching them does, their behavior will be in harmony with the principles of freedom and justice, even if they break the door of the prison cell.</p>\n\n<p>This analogy captures Israel&#8217;s behavior toward Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has exaggerated the significance of the simple incendiary balloons launched by groups of Palestinian youths.</p>\n\n<p>Israel has tried to portray these balloons as akin to a military threat. By doing so, it has tried to devise new “rules.”</p>\n\n<p>Under those “rules,” Israel thinks it may respond to crude balloons with missiles launched from F-16 warplanes.</p>\n\n<h2>Banging on the tank&#8217;s walls</h2>\n\n<p>Israel says nothing about the political and economic environment in which the young people who release those balloons are growing up.</p>\n\n<p>These young people are victims of Israeli aggression many times over.</p>\n\n<p>Their problems began before they were born. In 1948, their families were expelled from their villages by Zionist forces.</p>\n\n<p>Two-thirds of Gaza&#8217;s population are refugees hailing from towns and villages in what is now called Israel.</p>\n\n<p>Many young Palestinians can see their families’ original villages beyond the fence separating Gaza and Israel. But they cannot reach them.</p>\n\n<p>That offers some explanation as to the motives of people releasing balloons. The balloons are crossing the boundary and reaching towns and villages that have been stolen from Palestinians.</p>\n\n<p>They are being flown as a protest against the theft of our homeland.</p>\n\n<p>After the expulsions of 1948, Israel committed countless other crimes. Those include occupation, massacres, the mass detention and torture of Palestinians.</p>\n\n<p>They have included, too, a <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gaza-siege\">siege</a> that has deprived Palestinians in Gaza of basic rights and necessities. The siege has undermined our economy, destroyed the labor market and shattered the dreams of Palestinian youth for a decent life.</p>\n\n<p>Gaza&#8217;s youth banged against the prison walls during the Great March of Return. Israel <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-slaughters-palestinians-marching-return\">responded</a> by firing live bullets against them, causing death and permanent disabilities.</p>\n\n<p>These youths, crushed by the Israeli occupation and deprived of their fundamental rights, still feel the urge to scream at their jailers. They want to make noise so that they do not die in silence.</p>\n\n<p>In his novel <em>Men in the Sun</em>, <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ghassan-kanafani\">Ghassan Kanafani</a> tells a story of three Palestinians undertaking a perilous journey hidden in a water tank. After the men are found dead by their driver, Kanafani asks why they didn&#8217;t bang on the water tank wall.</p>\n\n<p>Banging on the walls of a tank is better than suffocating.</p>\n\n<p>Launching handmade incendiary balloons from the besieged Gaza Strip is like banging on the walls of a water tank and refusing to die in silence.</p>\n\n<p><em>Ahmed Abu Artema is a writer who lives in Gaza and a researcher at the Center for Political and Development Studies. 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class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/gazas-new-and-terrifying-reality/46001\">Gaza&#039;s new and terrifying reality</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Gaza&#039;s new and terrifying reality\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ahmed Abu Artema</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-04-26T12:34:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">26 April 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-32081 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/rudimentary-weapon-desperation/32081\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/rudimentary-weapon-desperation/32081\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2021-01/incendiary_balloons.jpg?itok=h53fNtsr&amp;timestamp=1610709355 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2021-01/incendiary_balloons.jpg?itok=n2J5wfF4&amp;timestamp=1610709355 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2021-01/incendiary_balloons.jpg?itok=hu6yflT-&amp;timestamp=1610709355 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2021-01/incendiary_balloons.jpg?itok=hu6yflT-&amp;timestamp=1610709355\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"A group of men stand in a field of trees with a number of colorful balloons\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/rudimentary-weapon-desperation/32081\">A rudimentary weapon of desperation</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"A rudimentary weapon of desperation\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Hamza Abu Eltarabesh</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2021-01-15T11:15:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">15 January 2021</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n  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src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2022-03/140518_mj_00_17.jpg?itok=_5GpteOI&amp;timestamp=1648562444\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"A group of men carry another man on a stretcher \" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/was-great-march-return-best-way-confront-israel/35091\">Was Great March of Return the best way to confront Israel? </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Was Great March of Return the best way to confront Israel? \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Hamza Abu Eltarabesh</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2022-03-29T13:32:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">29 March 2022</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n<article class=\"node-11539 node node-blog view-mode-compact image-portrait\" about=\"/blogs/shahd-abusalama/dont-tell-my-mother-i-am-blind-muhammad-brash-grasps-light-darkness-israeli\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/blogs/shahd-abusalama/dont-tell-my-mother-i-am-blind-muhammad-brash-grasps-light-darkness-israeli\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2012-07/brash-brothers.jpg?itok=rKKRBBhN&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2012-07/brash-brothers.jpg?itok=XWOgG03T&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x, 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+Incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to the deadly weapons in Israel’s arsenal.
+APA imagesIn recent weeks, the tension between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel’s forces of occupation has increased. Israel has used the launching of incendiary balloons by Palestinian youths as a pretext to bomb Gaza once again.
+The release of the balloons is a gesture of protest against how the Israeli occupation has procrastinated in abiding by its previous agreements with the Palestinian resistance. Under those agreements, Israel had committed to easing the siege on Gaza.
+This procrastination has caused the continued deterioration of Gaza’s health and public services and its economy. Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues to control the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.
+The Israeli military has responded to the incendiary balloons by carrying out dozens of raids on sites used by Palestinian resistance fighters with US-made F-16 jets. The Israeli naval forces, which besiege Gaza from the sea, have prevented fishers from doing their work and fired at their boats.
+The Israeli government has also closed the only crossing through which commercial goods enter Gaza. This closure led to the shutting down of the only power plant in the territory, which, in turn, means households in Gaza receive only four hours of electricity per day.
+Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated frankly that Israel would respond to the incendiary balloons in the same way as it responds to rockets fired from Gaza. Israel, it seems, wishes to keep on responding with deadly force to largely symbolic acts of resistance that make use of very basic materials.
+Israel has put this statement into practice by dropping highly destructive missiles from F-16s onto densely populated Gaza for 13 consecutive nights.
+The incendiary balloons bear no resemblance to Israel’s sophisticated and modern weapons. Youths have simply attached burning wicks to balloons and released them toward Israel.
+The balloons have been carried into Israel by the wind. They have caused some fires on farm land and, as a result, incurred a small amount of damage to Israel’s economy.
+Yet nobody has been killed or injured by them.
+Compelled to act
+Israel and pro-Israeli media exaggerate the effects of this form of resistance while completely ignoring the reasons motivating it.
+If one wishes to understand why incendiary balloons have been launched from Gaza, it is crucial to go back to the circumstances under which Palestinian youths feel compelled to act.
+I have been asked repeatedly by many Western journalists if the youth who launch incendiary balloons are contradicting the principles of the Great March of Return, unarmed protests which began in 2018.
+I have replied by asking the journalists to imagine a person locked in a room without access to food or medicine while they are dying slowly and silently. The person decides to bang on the door of the room with all their strength and anger and shouts for their freedom and their need to escape from death.
+Then their jailer comes from outside to give a moral sermon and tell people: Look at this prisoner’s barbarism. They are not behaving properly because they are not knocking on the door calmly and not presenting their demands to us in a respectful way.
+It is unfair to blame the victim, to be preoccupied with assessing their behavior. By neglecting to address the root of the problem, we are distracted from the real criminal, the one who placed a prisoner in those life-threatening and inhuman conditions.
+Whatever a prisoner who feels death approaching them does, their behavior will be in harmony with the principles of freedom and justice, even if they break the door of the prison cell.
+This analogy captures Israel’s behavior toward Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has exaggerated the significance of the simple incendiary balloons launched by groups of Palestinian youths.
+Israel has tried to portray these balloons as akin to a military threat. By doing so, it has tried to devise new “rules.”
+Under those “rules,” Israel thinks it may respond to crude balloons with missiles launched from F-16 warplanes.
+Banging on the tank’s walls
+Israel says nothing about the political and economic environment in which the young people who release those balloons are growing up.
+These young people are victims of Israeli aggression many times over.
+Their problems began before they were born. In 1948, their families were expelled from their villages by Zionist forces.
+Two-thirds of Gaza’s population are refugees hailing from towns and villages in what is now called Israel.
+Many young Palestinians can see their families’ original villages beyond the fence separating Gaza and Israel. But they cannot reach them.
+That offers some explanation as to the motives of people releasing balloons. The balloons are crossing the boundary and reaching towns and villages that have been stolen from Palestinians.
+They are being flown as a protest against the theft of our homeland.
+After the expulsions of 1948, Israel committed countless other crimes. Those include occupation, massacres, the mass detention and torture of Palestinians.
+They have included, too, a siege that has deprived Palestinians in Gaza of basic rights and necessities. The siege has undermined our economy, destroyed the labor market and shattered the dreams of Palestinian youth for a decent life.
+Gaza’s youth banged against the prison walls during the Great March of Return. Israel responded by firing live bullets against them, causing death and permanent disabilities.
+These youths, crushed by the Israeli occupation and deprived of their fundamental rights, still feel the urge to scream at their jailers. They want to make noise so that they do not die in silence.
+In his novel Men in the Sun, Ghassan Kanafani tells a story of three Palestinians undertaking a perilous journey hidden in a water tank. After the men are found dead by their driver, Kanafani asks why they didn’t bang on the water tank wall.
+Banging on the walls of a tank is better than suffocating.
+Launching handmade incendiary balloons from the besieged Gaza Strip is like banging on the walls of a water tank and refusing to die in silence.
+Ahmed Abu Artema is a writer who lives in Gaza and a researcher at the Center for Political and Development Studies. He is one of the organizers of the Great March of Return.
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+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-9164 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/bilin-tel-aviv-outrage-killing-jawaher-abu-rahmah/9164" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                  <span property="dc:title" content="From Bilin to Tel Aviv, outrage at killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/joseph-dana" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Joseph Dana</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-location"><a href="/location/bilin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bilin</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2011-01-03T01:35:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">3 January 2011</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-18776" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=DxmCemXU&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=DxmCemXU&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="322" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>A photograph of Jawaher Abu Rahmah hangs at her funeral on 1 January. (Oren Ziv/<a href="http://www.activestills.org">ActiveStills</a>)</p>
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+“I am in shock, we are in shock,” Hamde Abu Rahmah told me as we stood outside the small cemetery in Bilin where 36-year-old Jawaher Abu Rahmah was buried on Saturday. One day earlier, on 31 December, Jawaher was killed after inhaling <span class="caps">US</span>-made tear-gas fired by Israeli soldiers at demonstrators in the occupied West Bank village. Jawaher&#8217;s brother Bassem was killed by Israeli occupation forces in a similar manner in 2009.
+<p>“We simply did not think that this would happen. We deal with tear-gas on a regular basis but the amount that they used and the strength was something we have not yet seen,” continued Hamde, Jawaher&#8217;s cousin who has reported on and photographed Bilin&#8217;s regular demonstrations against Israel&#8217;s wall and occupation since&nbsp;2008.</p>
+<p>Friday&#8217;s demonstration, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, was enormous. Over 1,000 people &#8212; Palestinians, Israelis and internationals &#8212; joined villagers in Bilin to call for an end to Israel&#8217;s wall. Israel tried to stop the demonstration before it even began by creating a ring of military checkpoints on roads encircling the village to prevent non-villagers from attending. However, their strategy failed as hundreds of activists trekked through the rolling hills to reach the&nbsp;village.</p>
+<p>Even prime minister of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, briefly joined the demonstration leading from the village center to the area of the wall. How Fayyad reached the village and why he left so quickly was unclear to everyone, some joked that the soldiers let him through the checkpoints because they consider him a&nbsp;Zionist.</p>
+<p>Once the demonstration reached the village&#8217;s agricultural lands, which are bisected by the wall, Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas in every direction including directly at protesters. Wave after wave of tear-gas surrounded demonstrators leaving nearly everyone gasping for air. One of the demonstrators was Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who lost consciousness from gas inhalation and never&nbsp;recovered.</p>
+<p>Jawaher was a veteran of the Bilin demonstrations attending every one for the past four years, even after Israel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly2I5AzfnrY">shot and injured her handcuffed and bound brother Ashraf</a> in the neighboring village of Nilin with rubber-coated steel bullets in July 2008, and her other brother <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yM9U2y-op4">Bassem was shot and killed with a tear-gas canister</a> in April&nbsp;2009.</p>
+<p>Bassem was killed when an Israeli soldier fired a high velocity tear-gas canister directly at his chest at one of the weekly demonstrations in Bilin. Despite clear video documentation of the murder taken on three different cameras, justice has yet to come for the Abu Rahmah family for Bassem&#8217;s death and Israeli soldiers have repeated their deadly repression of occupied Palestinians in Bilin with impunity. Now, an already grieving family has had to bury another one of their relatives after Jawaher&#8217;s shocking death on&nbsp;Friday.</p>
+<figure id="file-18777" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-3.jpg?itok=dDIX0Z-l&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-3.jpg?itok=dDIX0Z-l&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="322" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Israeli soldiers firing tear-gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at protesters in Bilin on the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was killed, 31 December. (Oren Ziv/<a href="http://www.activestills.org">ActiveStills</a>)</p>
+</figcaption></figure><br /><strong>Violent repression of unarmed demonstrators</strong>
+<p>Unarmed resistance to Israeli occupation in West Bank villages like Bilin, whose land Israel is stealing to build the wall, has almost always been met with violent repression by the Israeli military. Since 2005, 21 unarmed demonstrators, 10 of whom were children, have been killed in demonstrations throughout the occupied West Bank (“<a href="http://www.popularstruggle.org/content/under-repression">Under Repression</a>,” Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee, September&nbsp;2010).</p>
+<p>Israel has developed a three-pronged strategy of military repression of Palestinian non-violence which includes the negligent use of firearms such as in the case in Bassem&#8217;s killing, cover up of criminal misconduct, and the use of the occupation&#8217;s legal system to crush Palestinian freedom of expression as in the case of Bilin leader <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11014.shtml">Abdallah Abu Rahmah</a> who has been sentenced to a year in jail for his role in organizing non-violent&nbsp;demonstrations.</p>
+<p>The <span class="caps">US</span>-based company, Combined Systems, <span class="caps">INC</span>, is the leading American supplier of tear-gas used by the Israeli military against Palestinian protesters. Israel uses a type of tear-gas called <span class="caps">CS</span>, which has been blamed for a number of deaths and serious injuries, according to <em>Haaretz</em> (“<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/protester-death-shows-idf-may-be-using-most-dangerous-type-of-tear-gas-1.334858">Protester death shows <span class="caps">IDF</span> may be using most dangerous type of tear gas</a>,” 3 January 2011). The Israeli army has often responded to claims of negligent use of tear gas with repeated statements that the demonstration was violent because of stone throwing. They claim that the protesters “provoked” the use of the gas. However, such a claim cannot be made about Friday&#8217;s demonstration since Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas from the moment protestors entered their sight. It is obvious that for the army, the mere presence of unarmed demonstrators is reason enough to use chemical weapons against&nbsp;them.</p>
+<figure id="file-18779" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-2.jpg?itok=GxerrZtx&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-2.jpg?itok=GxerrZtx&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="322" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Israeli police make arrests at a protest in Tel Aviv against the army’s killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 1 January. (Oren Ziv/<a href="http://www.activestills.org">ActiveStills</a>)</p>
+</figcaption></figure><br /><strong>Israeli solidarity with Bilin</strong>
+<p>In response to Jawaher&#8217;s murder, on 1 January hundreds of people demonstrated across the street from Israel&#8217;s ministry of defense in Tel Aviv. Protesters chanted “Israel is a police state” and called for an end to the occupation. For more than one hour, protesters successfully blocked a main street in Tel Aviv beside the ministry by sitting in it and blocking traffic. Eight protesters were arrested in the demonstration including Mossi Raz, a former member of the Israeli Parliament. All were later released without&nbsp;charge.</p>
+<p>Later that evening, Israeli activists descended on the home of the <span class="caps">US</span> ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, in the northern Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. The activists “returned” loads of spent tear gas canisters collected in  Bilin by throwing them into the ambassador&#8217;s front yard. They also chanted, waking up neighbors, to demand a halt in <span class="caps">US</span> military aid to&nbsp;Israel.</p>
+<p>Eleven demonstrators were arrested, including two women over the age of 60. They have been charged with illegal arms possession and will remain in jail until their hearing on 4 January. More actions are being planned by Israeli activists in response to the army&#8217;s killing of Jawaher and in solidarity with&nbsp;Bilin.</p>
+<figure id="file-18778" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-4.jpg?itok=D7P969iS&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-4.jpg?itok=D7P969iS&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="322" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>The mother of Jawaher Abu Rahmah (center) mourns during her daughter’s funeral on 1 January. On the right is a poster of Bassem Abu Rahmah, her other son who was killed in 2009. (Oren Ziv/<a href="http://www.activestills.org">ActiveStills</a>)</p>
+</figcaption></figure><br /><strong>A symbol of resistance</strong>
+<p>Jawaher Abu Rahmah&#8217;s death is the latest evidence of Israel&#8217;s full-scale war against the defenseless Palestinian people living under&nbsp;occupation.</p>
+<p>Bilin has become an international symbol of Palestinian nonviolent resistance because of its six-year struggle against the Israeli wall in the West Bank. In 2007, villagers celebrated a small victory when the Israeli high court ruled that the route of the wall in Bilin was illegal and requested the army to change its path. However, the wall&#8217;s route has not been changed and as a result the protests have&nbsp;continued.</p>
+<p>In 2009, leader of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bilin, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, was arrested in his Ramallah home. Despite his recognition by the European Union as a “human rights defender,” the Israeli occupation&#8217;s legal system found him guilty of “incitement” and “illegal&nbsp;protest.”</p>
+<p>Abdallah has served his one year sentence in full, yet still sits in an Israeli jail cell because the state has filed an appeal asking for a harsher sentence. The judge has not given a date for his verdict on the&nbsp;appeal.</p>
+<p>The sadness caused by yet another victim of Israel&#8217;s occupation lingered in the air in Bilin on Saturday. However, the determination to continue the struggle was visible in the eyes of villagers as Jawaher Abu Rahmah was placed in the earth next to her brother. Leaders of various other popular committees in occupied West Bank villages like Budrus, Nabi Saleh and Nilin, attended the funeral in a show of support and unified solidarity to continue the&nbsp;demonstrations.</p>
+<p>They vowed that the unarmed protests will continue despite knowing that the violent repression of the Israeli military will continue as well. The protesters of Bilin and other villages understand that both history and justice are on their side. They have embraced the tactic of unarmed resistance and have opened their struggle to any one willing to join in respect and solidarity, even to an increasing number Israeli Jews. Their moral clarity should be a model for international civil society, which now more than ever needs to support the popular Palestinian&nbsp;struggle.</p>
+<p><em><a href="http://josephdana.com/">Joseph Dana</a> is a Media Coordinator of the <a href="http://www.popularstruggle.org/">Popular Struggle<br />
+Coordination Committee</a>.</em></p>
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                <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">From Bilin to Tel Aviv, outrage at killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-9164 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/bilin-tel-aviv-outrage-killing-jawaher-abu-rahmah/9164\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"From Bilin to Tel Aviv, outrage at killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/joseph-dana\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Joseph Dana</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-location\"><a href=\"/location/bilin\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Bilin</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2011-01-03T01:35:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">3 January 2011</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-18776\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=DxmCemXU&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=DxmCemXU&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"322\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>A photograph of Jawaher Abu Rahmah hangs at her funeral on 1 January. (Oren Ziv/<a href=\"http://www.activestills.org\">ActiveStills</a>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure><br />\n“I am in shock, we are in shock,” Hamde Abu Rahmah told me as we stood outside the small cemetery in Bilin where 36-year-old Jawaher Abu Rahmah was buried on Saturday. One day earlier, on 31 December, Jawaher was killed after inhaling <span class=\"caps\">US</span>-made tear-gas fired by Israeli soldiers at demonstrators in the occupied West Bank village. Jawaher&#8217;s brother Bassem was killed by Israeli occupation forces in a similar manner in 2009.\n<p>“We simply did not think that this would happen. We deal with tear-gas on a regular basis but the amount that they used and the strength was something we have not yet seen,” continued Hamde, Jawaher&#8217;s cousin who has reported on and photographed Bilin&#8217;s regular demonstrations against Israel&#8217;s wall and occupation since&nbsp;2008.</p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s demonstration, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, was enormous. Over 1,000 people &#8212; Palestinians, Israelis and internationals &#8212; joined villagers in Bilin to call for an end to Israel&#8217;s wall. Israel tried to stop the demonstration before it even began by creating a ring of military checkpoints on roads encircling the village to prevent non-villagers from attending. However, their strategy failed as hundreds of activists trekked through the rolling hills to reach the&nbsp;village.</p>\n<p>Even prime minister of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, briefly joined the demonstration leading from the village center to the area of the wall. How Fayyad reached the village and why he left so quickly was unclear to everyone, some joked that the soldiers let him through the checkpoints because they consider him a&nbsp;Zionist.</p>\n<p>Once the demonstration reached the village&#8217;s agricultural lands, which are bisected by the wall, Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas in every direction including directly at protesters. Wave after wave of tear-gas surrounded demonstrators leaving nearly everyone gasping for air. One of the demonstrators was Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who lost consciousness from gas inhalation and never&nbsp;recovered.</p>\n<p>Jawaher was a veteran of the Bilin demonstrations attending every one for the past four years, even after Israel <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly2I5AzfnrY\">shot and injured her handcuffed and bound brother Ashraf</a> in the neighboring village of Nilin with rubber-coated steel bullets in July 2008, and her other brother <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yM9U2y-op4\">Bassem was shot and killed with a tear-gas canister</a> in April&nbsp;2009.</p>\n<p>Bassem was killed when an Israeli soldier fired a high velocity tear-gas canister directly at his chest at one of the weekly demonstrations in Bilin. Despite clear video documentation of the murder taken on three different cameras, justice has yet to come for the Abu Rahmah family for Bassem&#8217;s death and Israeli soldiers have repeated their deadly repression of occupied Palestinians in Bilin with impunity. Now, an already grieving family has had to bury another one of their relatives after Jawaher&#8217;s shocking death on&nbsp;Friday.</p>\n<figure id=\"file-18777\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-3.jpg?itok=dDIX0Z-l&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-3.jpg?itok=dDIX0Z-l&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"322\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Israeli soldiers firing tear-gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at protesters in Bilin on the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was killed, 31 December. (Oren Ziv/<a href=\"http://www.activestills.org\">ActiveStills</a>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure><br /><strong>Violent repression of unarmed demonstrators</strong>\n<p>Unarmed resistance to Israeli occupation in West Bank villages like Bilin, whose land Israel is stealing to build the wall, has almost always been met with violent repression by the Israeli military. Since 2005, 21 unarmed demonstrators, 10 of whom were children, have been killed in demonstrations throughout the occupied West Bank (“<a href=\"http://www.popularstruggle.org/content/under-repression\">Under Repression</a>,” Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee, September&nbsp;2010).</p>\n<p>Israel has developed a three-pronged strategy of military repression of Palestinian non-violence which includes the negligent use of firearms such as in the case in Bassem&#8217;s killing, cover up of criminal misconduct, and the use of the occupation&#8217;s legal system to crush Palestinian freedom of expression as in the case of Bilin leader <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11014.shtml\">Abdallah Abu Rahmah</a> who has been sentenced to a year in jail for his role in organizing non-violent&nbsp;demonstrations.</p>\n<p>The <span class=\"caps\">US</span>-based company, Combined Systems, <span class=\"caps\">INC</span>, is the leading American supplier of tear-gas used by the Israeli military against Palestinian protesters. Israel uses a type of tear-gas called <span class=\"caps\">CS</span>, which has been blamed for a number of deaths and serious injuries, according to <em>Haaretz</em> (“<a href=\"http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/protester-death-shows-idf-may-be-using-most-dangerous-type-of-tear-gas-1.334858\">Protester death shows <span class=\"caps\">IDF</span> may be using most dangerous type of tear gas</a>,” 3 January 2011). The Israeli army has often responded to claims of negligent use of tear gas with repeated statements that the demonstration was violent because of stone throwing. They claim that the protesters “provoked” the use of the gas. However, such a claim cannot be made about Friday&#8217;s demonstration since Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas from the moment protestors entered their sight. It is obvious that for the army, the mere presence of unarmed demonstrators is reason enough to use chemical weapons against&nbsp;them.</p>\n<figure id=\"file-18779\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-2.jpg?itok=GxerrZtx&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-2.jpg?itok=GxerrZtx&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"322\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Israeli police make arrests at a protest in Tel Aviv against the army’s killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 1 January. (Oren Ziv/<a href=\"http://www.activestills.org\">ActiveStills</a>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure><br /><strong>Israeli solidarity with Bilin</strong>\n<p>In response to Jawaher&#8217;s murder, on 1 January hundreds of people demonstrated across the street from Israel&#8217;s ministry of defense in Tel Aviv. Protesters chanted “Israel is a police state” and called for an end to the occupation. For more than one hour, protesters successfully blocked a main street in Tel Aviv beside the ministry by sitting in it and blocking traffic. Eight protesters were arrested in the demonstration including Mossi Raz, a former member of the Israeli Parliament. All were later released without&nbsp;charge.</p>\n<p>Later that evening, Israeli activists descended on the home of the <span class=\"caps\">US</span> ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, in the northern Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. The activists “returned” loads of spent tear gas canisters collected in  Bilin by throwing them into the ambassador&#8217;s front yard. They also chanted, waking up neighbors, to demand a halt in <span class=\"caps\">US</span> military aid to&nbsp;Israel.</p>\n<p>Eleven demonstrators were arrested, including two women over the age of 60. They have been charged with illegal arms possession and will remain in jail until their hearing on 4 January. More actions are being planned by Israeli activists in response to the army&#8217;s killing of Jawaher and in solidarity with&nbsp;Bilin.</p>\n<figure id=\"file-18778\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-4.jpg?itok=D7P969iS&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2011-01/110103-jawaher-abu-rahmah-4.jpg?itok=D7P969iS&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"322\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>The mother of Jawaher Abu Rahmah (center) mourns during her daughter’s funeral on 1 January. On the right is a poster of Bassem Abu Rahmah, her other son who was killed in 2009. (Oren Ziv/<a href=\"http://www.activestills.org\">ActiveStills</a>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure><br /><strong>A symbol of resistance</strong>\n<p>Jawaher Abu Rahmah&#8217;s death is the latest evidence of Israel&#8217;s full-scale war against the defenseless Palestinian people living under&nbsp;occupation.</p>\n<p>Bilin has become an international symbol of Palestinian nonviolent resistance because of its six-year struggle against the Israeli wall in the West Bank. In 2007, villagers celebrated a small victory when the Israeli high court ruled that the route of the wall in Bilin was illegal and requested the army to change its path. However, the wall&#8217;s route has not been changed and as a result the protests have&nbsp;continued.</p>\n<p>In 2009, leader of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bilin, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, was arrested in his Ramallah home. Despite his recognition by the European Union as a “human rights defender,” the Israeli occupation&#8217;s legal system found him guilty of “incitement” and “illegal&nbsp;protest.”</p>\n<p>Abdallah has served his one year sentence in full, yet still sits in an Israeli jail cell because the state has filed an appeal asking for a harsher sentence. The judge has not given a date for his verdict on the&nbsp;appeal.</p>\n<p>The sadness caused by yet another victim of Israel&#8217;s occupation lingered in the air in Bilin on Saturday. However, the determination to continue the struggle was visible in the eyes of villagers as Jawaher Abu Rahmah was placed in the earth next to her brother. Leaders of various other popular committees in occupied West Bank villages like Budrus, Nabi Saleh and Nilin, attended the funeral in a show of support and unified solidarity to continue the&nbsp;demonstrations.</p>\n<p>They vowed that the unarmed protests will continue despite knowing that the violent repression of the Israeli military will continue as well. The protesters of Bilin and other villages understand that both history and justice are on their side. They have embraced the tactic of unarmed resistance and have opened their struggle to any one willing to join in respect and solidarity, even to an increasing number Israeli Jews. Their moral clarity should be a model for international civil society, which now more than ever needs to support the popular Palestinian&nbsp;struggle.</p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http://josephdana.com/\">Joseph Dana</a> is a Media Coordinator of the <a href=\"http://www.popularstruggle.org/\">Popular Struggle<br />\nCoordination Committee</a>.</em></p>\n  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/jawaher-abu-rahmah\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Jawaher Abu Rahmah</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/bilin\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Bilin</a>    </li>\n  \n</ul>\n\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a 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           <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field-author\">Max Blumenthal and </span><span class=\"field-author\">Joseph Dana</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2011-03-03T01:01:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">3 March 2011</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-9178 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/bilin-marches-jawaher-abu-rahmah/9178\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n 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content=\"2010-09-22T06:50:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">22 September 2010</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-9198 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/mother-bilin-martyrs-we-will-not-be-stopped/9198\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/mother-bilin-martyrs-we-will-not-be-stopped/9198\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2011-01/110125-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=mJvs1nU2&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2011-01/110125-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=Z0Q4ZuvF&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2011-01/110125-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=9gCfQLX6&amp;timestamp=1448949295 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2011-01/110125-abu-rahmah.jpg?itok=9gCfQLX6&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/mother-bilin-martyrs-we-will-not-be-stopped/9198\">Mother of Bilin martyrs: we will not be stopped</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Mother of Bilin martyrs: we will not be stopped\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                          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+A photograph of Jawaher Abu Rahmah hangs at her funeral on 1 January. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)
+“I am in shock, we are in shock,” Hamde Abu Rahmah told me as we stood outside the small cemetery in Bilin where 36-year-old Jawaher Abu Rahmah was buried on Saturday. One day earlier, on 31 December, Jawaher was killed after inhaling US-made tear-gas fired by Israeli soldiers at demonstrators in the occupied West Bank village. Jawaher’s brother Bassem was killed by Israeli occupation forces in a similar manner in 2009.
+“We simply did not think that this would happen. We deal with tear-gas on a regular basis but the amount that they used and the strength was something we have not yet seen,” continued Hamde, Jawaher’s cousin who has reported on and photographed Bilin’s regular demonstrations against Israel’s wall and occupation since 2008.
+Friday’s demonstration, on New Year’s Eve, was enormous. Over 1,000 people — Palestinians, Israelis and internationals — joined villagers in Bilin to call for an end to Israel’s wall. Israel tried to stop the demonstration before it even began by creating a ring of military checkpoints on roads encircling the village to prevent non-villagers from attending. However, their strategy failed as hundreds of activists trekked through the rolling hills to reach the village.
+Even prime minister of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, briefly joined the demonstration leading from the village center to the area of the wall. How Fayyad reached the village and why he left so quickly was unclear to everyone, some joked that the soldiers let him through the checkpoints because they consider him a Zionist.
+Once the demonstration reached the village’s agricultural lands, which are bisected by the wall, Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas in every direction including directly at protesters. Wave after wave of tear-gas surrounded demonstrators leaving nearly everyone gasping for air. One of the demonstrators was Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who lost consciousness from gas inhalation and never recovered.
+Jawaher was a veteran of the Bilin demonstrations attending every one for the past four years, even after Israel shot and injured her handcuffed and bound brother Ashraf in the neighboring village of Nilin with rubber-coated steel bullets in July 2008, and her other brother Bassem was shot and killed with a tear-gas canister in April 2009.
+Bassem was killed when an Israeli soldier fired a high velocity tear-gas canister directly at his chest at one of the weekly demonstrations in Bilin. Despite clear video documentation of the murder taken on three different cameras, justice has yet to come for the Abu Rahmah family for Bassem’s death and Israeli soldiers have repeated their deadly repression of occupied Palestinians in Bilin with impunity. Now, an already grieving family has had to bury another one of their relatives after Jawaher’s shocking death on Friday.
+Israeli soldiers firing tear-gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at protesters in Bilin on the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was killed, 31 December. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)
+Violent repression of unarmed demonstrators
+Unarmed resistance to Israeli occupation in West Bank villages like Bilin, whose land Israel is stealing to build the wall, has almost always been met with violent repression by the Israeli military. Since 2005, 21 unarmed demonstrators, 10 of whom were children, have been killed in demonstrations throughout the occupied West Bank (“Under Repression,” Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee, September 2010).
+Israel has developed a three-pronged strategy of military repression of Palestinian non-violence which includes the negligent use of firearms such as in the case in Bassem’s killing, cover up of criminal misconduct, and the use of the occupation’s legal system to crush Palestinian freedom of expression as in the case of Bilin leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah who has been sentenced to a year in jail for his role in organizing non-violent demonstrations.
+The US-based company, Combined Systems, INC, is the leading American supplier of tear-gas used by the Israeli military against Palestinian protesters. Israel uses a type of tear-gas called CS, which has been blamed for a number of deaths and serious injuries, according to Haaretz (“Protester death shows IDF may be using most dangerous type of tear gas,” 3 January 2011). The Israeli army has often responded to claims of negligent use of tear gas with repeated statements that the demonstration was violent because of stone throwing. They claim that the protesters “provoked” the use of the gas. However, such a claim cannot be made about Friday’s demonstration since Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas from the moment protestors entered their sight. It is obvious that for the army, the mere presence of unarmed demonstrators is reason enough to use chemical weapons against them.
+Israeli police make arrests at a protest in Tel Aviv against the army’s killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 1 January. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)
+Israeli solidarity with Bilin
+In response to Jawaher’s murder, on 1 January hundreds of people demonstrated across the street from Israel’s ministry of defense in Tel Aviv. Protesters chanted “Israel is a police state” and called for an end to the occupation. For more than one hour, protesters successfully blocked a main street in Tel Aviv beside the ministry by sitting in it and blocking traffic. Eight protesters were arrested in the demonstration including Mossi Raz, a former member of the Israeli Parliament. All were later released without charge.
+Later that evening, Israeli activists descended on the home of the US ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, in the northern Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. The activists “returned” loads of spent tear gas canisters collected in  Bilin by throwing them into the ambassador’s front yard. They also chanted, waking up neighbors, to demand a halt in US military aid to Israel.
+Eleven demonstrators were arrested, including two women over the age of 60. They have been charged with illegal arms possession and will remain in jail until their hearing on 4 January. More actions are being planned by Israeli activists in response to the army’s killing of Jawaher and in solidarity with Bilin.
+The mother of Jawaher Abu Rahmah (center) mourns during her daughter’s funeral on 1 January. On the right is a poster of Bassem Abu Rahmah, her other son who was killed in 2009. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)
+A symbol of resistance
+Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s death is the latest evidence of Israel’s full-scale war against the defenseless Palestinian people living under occupation.
+Bilin has become an international symbol of Palestinian nonviolent resistance because of its six-year struggle against the Israeli wall in the West Bank. In 2007, villagers celebrated a small victory when the Israeli high court ruled that the route of the wall in Bilin was illegal and requested the army to change its path. However, the wall’s route has not been changed and as a result the protests have continued.
+In 2009, leader of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bilin, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, was arrested in his Ramallah home. Despite his recognition by the European Union as a “human rights defender,” the Israeli occupation’s legal system found him guilty of “incitement” and “illegal protest.”
+Abdallah has served his one year sentence in full, yet still sits in an Israeli jail cell because the state has filed an appeal asking for a harsher sentence. The judge has not given a date for his verdict on the appeal.
+The sadness caused by yet another victim of Israel’s occupation lingered in the air in Bilin on Saturday. However, the determination to continue the struggle was visible in the eyes of villagers as Jawaher Abu Rahmah was placed in the earth next to her brother. Leaders of various other popular committees in occupied West Bank villages like Budrus, Nabi Saleh and Nilin, attended the funeral in a show of support and unified solidarity to continue the demonstrations.
+They vowed that the unarmed protests will continue despite knowing that the violent repression of the Israeli military will continue as well. The protesters of Bilin and other villages understand that both history and justice are on their side. They have embraced the tactic of unarmed resistance and have opened their struggle to any one willing to join in respect and solidarity, even to an increasing number Israeli Jews. Their moral clarity should be a model for international civil society, which now more than ever needs to support the popular Palestinian struggle.
+Joseph Dana is a Media Coordinator of the Popular Struggle
+Coordination Committee.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Birds no longer grace Gaza&#8217;s sky</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-42901 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/birds-no-longer-grace-gazas-sky/42901" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/batoul-mohamed-abou-ali" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</a></span>
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+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2023-12-17T12:10:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">17 December 2023</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-147456" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2023-12/boycatkhanyounis.jpeg?itok=035l9kQw&amp;timestamp=1702750914 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2023-12/boycatkhanyounis.jpeg?itok=035l9kQw&amp;timestamp=1702750914" width="800" height="533" alt="A boy holds a cat by a tent" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>A boy and a cat find solace in each other’s company in a temporary shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.</p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Naaman Omar</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>I adore the blue sky and white clouds over Gaza.</p>
+<p>Gaza! City of beauty, creativity, dignity, rebellion, strength, determination, steadfastness, ambition and triumph.</p>
+<p>Gaza! City of agony, bitterness, humiliation, waste, displacement, and both physical and psychological disrepair.</p>
+<p>In Gaza, the sky’s color triggers memories.</p>
+<p>Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza started on 7 October. Until today, we have experienced every form of torment.</p>
+<p>Even the sky has been changed, its color speaks of pain. It is never pure any more, only adorned with rockets, missiles and artillery shelling.</p>
+<p>Birds still fly across the sky, but those that have not been killed, fly free of Gaza due to the merciless Israeli occupation.</p>
+<p>Missiles are thrown everywhere without discrimination. Babies are murdered, men wounded, and women carry their constant sorrow in their eyes.</p>
+<p>Even the cats seek refuge under our clothes or behind our houses.</p>
+<p>Instead of bird chatter, we hear laments.</p>
+<p>“Uncle, I waited for my sister to bring a sip of water for three days, but now she lies under the rubble. She only tasted a cup of grief,” a little girl says.</p>
+<p>A woman mourns her martyred son.</p>
+<p>”I named him Ayoub to supply me with tolerance. God, grant me patience.”</p>
+<p>A tired man invokes God’s generosity as the rain comes down.</p>
+<p>“My children have not had water since last night. Today, they quench their thirst with the winter rain.”</p>
+<h2>The laments of Gaza</h2>
+<p>Here, a mother shares her sorrow.</p>
+<p>“I endured 350 injections to give birth after 12 years of waiting. Israel has deprived me of my long-awaited child.”</p>
+<p>There, a mother shares her joy. “Sister! Kamal! He is alive!”</p>
+<p>A man stands in the rubble of his house. “I lost my home. I lost all the memories there.”</p>
+<p>A young girl is defiant. “World! I am proud that my family has been martyred.”</p>
+<p>A 13-year-old confesses to being numb. “I lost my feelings.”</p>
+<p>A father tells his daughter he searched for four days to find her some bread. A mother pines for death to join her children. A child cries for water. A tired doctor barks orders.</p>
+<p>A young woman Khuloud says, “The night was horrible. We could not call our father and seek his advice on where to go. The bombing was everywhere. We are scared.”</p>
+<p>“We escaped to the end of Gaza, but there is no safe place here,” a woman says in anger.</p>
+<p>A child says, “We have aged beyond our years.”</p>
+<p>“Are we not human?” This woman has lost her children. “We are created from flesh, blood, heart and mind. We experience happiness and sadness. We love our life. We want to live.”</p>
+<p>A mourning father does not want to be known as a hero. “We are strong people. We have become exhausted and we want peace.”</p>
+<h2>Solace in prayer</h2>
+<p>The sky is somber, the air rings with lament.</p>
+<p>I hate the night. I hate it!</p>
+<p>On 11 December my husband and I were suddenly jolted awake to the dreadful sound of artillery shelling. Windows shattered.</p>
+<p>The sky was painted in a bleak red hue from the fires and explosions.</p>
+<p>We rushed out of our room and joined a family huddled in a small space just big enough to hold us all.</p>
+<p>A mother with a month-old baby prayed out loud, “God, if we die, please let me die with my baby. I cannot bear the thought of leaving him alone in this world.”</p>
+<p>Her tears affected me deeply.</p>
+<p>Amid the chaos, my family reassured one another and I found solace in prayer.</p>
+<p>Israel has no right to take innocent lives. It has no justification. We are living with dead souls and dead bodies. How dare they?</p>
+<p>At night, our area was bombed again, leaving us without internet connection or electricity. They targeted ambulances and journalists.</p>
+<p>We tried to return to sleep but I found it impossible. When the sun rose, I wished for just half an hour of rest.</p>
+<p>On 15 December at 7 pm, the sky lit up with ominous light, foreshadowing another night of fear.</p>
+<p>Mentally exhausted, I avoid sleep to prevent waking in panic.</p>
+<p>The night is like a grave. We are never certain if it will open or close its door on our souls and bodies.</p>
+<p>I have no wish to pass away without first seeing my mother, father and siblings.</p>
+<p>We thought we would be safe in Khan Younis. We thought wrong. Israel commits massacres against civilians even in the south.</p>
+<p>No birds grace the sky. There is no pure color to it any more. A veil of smoke hangs heavy and gray, broken only by the red hue from Israel’s attacks.</p>
+<p>The sky reflects our bloodshed and our desperation.</p>
+<p><em>Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali graduated recently from the Islamic University of Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
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+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-04-23T06:31:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">23 April 2024</span></span>        </p>
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+      <article class="node-45681 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/content/pregnant-and-fearful/45681" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/achieving-gazas-dreams-shouldnt-require-miracle/43396">Achieving Gaza&#039;s dreams shouldn&#039;t require a miracle </a></h2>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2023-12-30T12:47:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">30 December 2023</span></span>        </p>
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/waking-terror-after-dream-freedom/42716">Waking up to terror after a dream of freedom</a></h2>
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+<span class="field field-author">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</span>
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+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/i-tell-my-story-not-pity-defiance/44706"> I tell my story not for pity but in defiance</a></h2>
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+<span class="field field-author">Bashaer Muammar</span>
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+<span class="field field-author">Rasha Abou Jalal</span>
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longer grace Gaza&#8217;s sky</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-42901 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/birds-no-longer-grace-gazas-sky/42901\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Birds no longer grace Gaza&#039;s sky\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/batoul-mohamed-abou-ali\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2023-12-17T12:10:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">17 December 2023</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-147456\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2023-12/boycatkhanyounis.jpeg?itok=035l9kQw&amp;timestamp=1702750914 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2023-12/boycatkhanyounis.jpeg?itok=035l9kQw&amp;timestamp=1702750914\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"A boy holds a cat by a tent\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>A boy and a cat find solace in each other’s company in a temporary shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Naaman Omar</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>I adore the blue sky and white clouds over Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>Gaza! City of beauty, creativity, dignity, rebellion, strength, determination, steadfastness, ambition and triumph.</p>\n\n<p>Gaza! City of agony, bitterness, humiliation, waste, displacement, and both physical and psychological disrepair.</p>\n\n<p>In Gaza, the sky’s color triggers memories.</p>\n\n<p>Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza started on 7 October. Until today, we have experienced every form of torment.</p>\n\n<p>Even the sky has been changed, its color speaks of pain. It is never pure any more, only adorned with rockets, missiles and artillery shelling.</p>\n\n<p>Birds still fly across the sky, but those that have not been killed, fly free of Gaza due to the merciless Israeli occupation.</p>\n\n<p>Missiles are thrown everywhere without discrimination. Babies are murdered, men wounded, and women carry their constant sorrow in their eyes.</p>\n\n<p>Even the cats seek refuge under our clothes or behind our houses.</p>\n\n<p>Instead of bird chatter, we hear laments.</p>\n\n<p>“Uncle, I waited for my sister to bring a sip of water for three days, but now she lies under the rubble. She only tasted a cup of grief,” a little girl says.</p>\n\n<p>A woman mourns her martyred son.</p>\n\n<p>”I named him Ayoub to supply me with tolerance. God, grant me patience.”</p>\n\n<p>A tired man invokes God’s generosity as the rain comes down.</p>\n\n<p>“My children have not had water since last night. Today, they quench their thirst with the winter rain.”</p>\n\n<h2>The laments of Gaza</h2>\n\n<p>Here, a mother shares her sorrow.</p>\n\n<p>“I endured 350 injections to give birth after 12 years of waiting. Israel has deprived me of my long-awaited child.”</p>\n\n<p>There, a mother shares her joy. “Sister! Kamal! He is alive!”</p>\n\n<p>A man stands in the rubble of his house. “I lost my home. I lost all the memories there.”</p>\n\n<p>A young girl is defiant. “World! I am proud that my family has been martyred.”</p>\n\n<p>A 13-year-old confesses to being numb. “I lost my feelings.”</p>\n\n<p>A father tells his daughter he searched for four days to find her some bread. A mother pines for death to join her children. A child cries for water. A tired doctor barks orders.</p>\n\n<p>A young woman Khuloud says, “The night was horrible. We could not call our father and seek his advice on where to go. The bombing was everywhere. We are scared.”</p>\n\n<p>“We escaped to the end of Gaza, but there is no safe place here,” a woman says in anger.</p>\n\n<p>A child says, “We have aged beyond our years.”</p>\n\n<p>“Are we not human?” This woman has lost her children. “We are created from flesh, blood, heart and mind. We experience happiness and sadness. We love our life. We want to live.”</p>\n\n<p>A mourning father does not want to be known as a hero. “We are strong people. We have become exhausted and we want peace.”</p>\n\n<h2>Solace in prayer</h2>\n\n<p>The sky is somber, the air rings with lament.</p>\n\n<p>I hate the night. I hate it!</p>\n\n<p>On 11 December my husband and I were suddenly jolted awake to the dreadful sound of artillery shelling. Windows shattered.</p>\n\n<p>The sky was painted in a bleak red hue from the fires and explosions.</p>\n\n<p>We rushed out of our room and joined a family huddled in a small space just big enough to hold us all.</p>\n\n<p>A mother with a month-old baby prayed out loud, “God, if we die, please let me die with my baby. I cannot bear the thought of leaving him alone in this world.”</p>\n\n<p>Her tears affected me deeply.</p>\n\n<p>Amid the chaos, my family reassured one another and I found solace in prayer.</p>\n\n<p>Israel has no right to take innocent lives. It has no justification. We are living with dead souls and dead bodies. How dare they?</p>\n\n<p>At night, our area was bombed again, leaving us without internet connection or electricity. They targeted ambulances and journalists.</p>\n\n<p>We tried to return to sleep but I found it impossible. When the sun rose, I wished for just half an hour of rest.</p>\n\n<p>On 15 December at 7 pm, the sky lit up with ominous light, foreshadowing another night of fear.</p>\n\n<p>Mentally exhausted, I avoid sleep to prevent waking in panic.</p>\n\n<p>The night is like a grave. We are never certain if it will open or close its door on our souls and bodies.</p>\n\n<p>I have no wish to pass away without first seeing my mother, father and siblings.</p>\n\n<p>We thought we would be safe in Khan Younis. We thought wrong. Israel commits massacres against civilians even in the south.</p>\n\n<p>No birds grace the sky. There is no pure color to it any more. A veil of smoke hangs heavy and gray, broken only by the red hue from Israel’s attacks.</p>\n\n<p>The sky reflects our bloodshed and our desperation.</p>\n\n<p><em>Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali graduated recently from the Islamic University of Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-genocide\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza genocide</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-war-crimes\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza war crimes</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/forced-displacement\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">forced displacement</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/ethnic-cleansing\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" 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srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-04/220424_dair_el-balah_ah_2_0037.jpg?itok=2XpLoLKK&amp;timestamp=1713854261 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2024-04/220424_dair_el-balah_ah_2_0037.jpg?itok=ddmDOlTa&amp;timestamp=1713854261 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/220424_dair_el-balah_ah_2_0037.jpg?itok=Z-a4SBb5&amp;timestamp=1713854261 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/220424_dair_el-balah_ah_2_0037.jpg?itok=Z-a4SBb5&amp;timestamp=1713854261\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"A man stands in front of a dead body in a shroud, with a group of other men behind him\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/tasting-gazas-agony/45926\">Tasting Gaza&#039;s agony </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Tasting Gaza&#039;s agony \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-04-23T06:31:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">23 April 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-45681 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/pregnant-and-fearful/45681\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/pregnant-and-fearful/45681\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-04/070424_khan_yunis_osh_0059.jpg?itok=UjdtTnEs&amp;timestamp=1712757887 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2024-04/070424_khan_yunis_osh_0059.jpg?itok=4Mn2uYeI&amp;timestamp=1712757887 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/070424_khan_yunis_osh_0059.jpg?itok=4cgOsvJg&amp;timestamp=1712757887 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-04/070424_khan_yunis_osh_0059.jpg?itok=4cgOsvJg&amp;timestamp=1712757887\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"A building that has been destroyed in southern Gaza \" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/pregnant-and-fearful/45681\">Pregnant and fearful </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Pregnant and fearful \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-04-10T13:48:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">10 April 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last\">\n      <article class=\"node-43396 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/achieving-gazas-dreams-shouldnt-require-miracle/43396\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/achieving-gazas-dreams-shouldnt-require-miracle/43396\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2023-12/301223_nusairat_naa_001.jpg?itok=nrsSepEl&amp;timestamp=1703940917 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2023-12/301223_nusairat_naa_001.jpg?itok=3_Vc74Qj&amp;timestamp=1703940917 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2023-12/301223_nusairat_naa_001.jpg?itok=FBki5BEy&amp;timestamp=1703940917 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2023-12/301223_nusairat_naa_001.jpg?itok=FBki5BEy&amp;timestamp=1703940917\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"The remains of a building following an Israeli attack in Gaza \" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/achieving-gazas-dreams-shouldnt-require-miracle/43396\">Achieving Gaza&#039;s dreams shouldn&#039;t require a miracle </a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Achieving Gaza&#039;s dreams shouldn&#039;t require a miracle \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2023-12-30T12:47:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">30 December 2023</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-42716 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/waking-terror-after-dream-freedom/42716\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/waking-terror-after-dream-freedom/42716\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2023-12/291123_dair_el-balah_osh_0013.jpg?itok=L9mtcQg1&amp;timestamp=1702615655 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2023-12/291123_dair_el-balah_osh_0013.jpg?itok=z1i8hTIU&amp;timestamp=1702615655 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2023-12/291123_dair_el-balah_osh_0013.jpg?itok=7O1EZvhV&amp;timestamp=1702615655 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2023-12/291123_dair_el-balah_osh_0013.jpg?itok=7O1EZvhV&amp;timestamp=1702615655\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"On the beach at dusk, children run from approaching waves\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/waking-terror-after-dream-freedom/42716\">Waking up to terror after a dream of freedom</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Waking up to terror after a dream of freedom\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2023-12-14T09:58:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">14 December 2023</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n<article class=\"node-44706 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/i-tell-my-story-not-pity-defiance/44706\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/i-tell-my-story-not-pity-defiance/44706\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-02/deadprayer.jpeg?itok=j9grCz5j&amp;timestamp=1708518637 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2024-02/deadprayer.jpeg?itok=gGttXIKC&amp;timestamp=1708518637 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-02/deadprayer.jpeg?itok=gNUvjS_3&amp;timestamp=1708518637 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2024-02/deadprayer.jpeg?itok=gNUvjS_3&amp;timestamp=1708518637\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"A group of mourners pray over four bodies wrapped in white body bags\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/i-tell-my-story-not-pity-defiance/44706\"> I tell my story not for pity but in defiance</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\" I tell my story not for pity but in defiance\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Bashaer Muammar</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-02-22T17:45:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">22 February 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n<article class=\"node-49406 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/marmara-and-kittens-bring-joy-displaced-family/49406\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a 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+A boy and a cat find solace in each other’s company in a temporary shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
+APA imagesI adore the blue sky and white clouds over Gaza.
+Gaza! City of beauty, creativity, dignity, rebellion, strength, determination, steadfastness, ambition and triumph.
+Gaza! City of agony, bitterness, humiliation, waste, displacement, and both physical and psychological disrepair.
+In Gaza, the sky’s color triggers memories.
+Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza started on 7 October. Until today, we have experienced every form of torment.
+Even the sky has been changed, its color speaks of pain. It is never pure any more, only adorned with rockets, missiles and artillery shelling.
+Birds still fly across the sky, but those that have not been killed, fly free of Gaza due to the merciless Israeli occupation.
+Missiles are thrown everywhere without discrimination. Babies are murdered, men wounded, and women carry their constant sorrow in their eyes.
+Even the cats seek refuge under our clothes or behind our houses.
+Instead of bird chatter, we hear laments.
+“Uncle, I waited for my sister to bring a sip of water for three days, but now she lies under the rubble. She only tasted a cup of grief,” a little girl says.
+A woman mourns her martyred son.
+”I named him Ayoub to supply me with tolerance. God, grant me patience.”
+A tired man invokes God’s generosity as the rain comes down.
+“My children have not had water since last night. Today, they quench their thirst with the winter rain.”
+The laments of Gaza
+Here, a mother shares her sorrow.
+“I endured 350 injections to give birth after 12 years of waiting. Israel has deprived me of my long-awaited child.”
+There, a mother shares her joy. “Sister! Kamal! He is alive!”
+A man stands in the rubble of his house. “I lost my home. I lost all the memories there.”
+A young girl is defiant. “World! I am proud that my family has been martyred.”
+A 13-year-old confesses to being numb. “I lost my feelings.”
+A father tells his daughter he searched for four days to find her some bread. A mother pines for death to join her children. A child cries for water. A tired doctor barks orders.
+A young woman Khuloud says, “The night was horrible. We could not call our father and seek his advice on where to go. The bombing was everywhere. We are scared.”
+“We escaped to the end of Gaza, but there is no safe place here,” a woman says in anger.
+A child says, “We have aged beyond our years.”
+“Are we not human?” This woman has lost her children. “We are created from flesh, blood, heart and mind. We experience happiness and sadness. We love our life. We want to live.”
+A mourning father does not want to be known as a hero. “We are strong people. We have become exhausted and we want peace.”
+Solace in prayer
+The sky is somber, the air rings with lament.
+I hate the night. I hate it!
+On 11 December my husband and I were suddenly jolted awake to the dreadful sound of artillery shelling. Windows shattered.
+The sky was painted in a bleak red hue from the fires and explosions.
+We rushed out of our room and joined a family huddled in a small space just big enough to hold us all.
+A mother with a month-old baby prayed out loud, “God, if we die, please let me die with my baby. I cannot bear the thought of leaving him alone in this world.”
+Her tears affected me deeply.
+Amid the chaos, my family reassured one another and I found solace in prayer.
+Israel has no right to take innocent lives. It has no justification. We are living with dead souls and dead bodies. How dare they?
+At night, our area was bombed again, leaving us without internet connection or electricity. They targeted ambulances and journalists.
+We tried to return to sleep but I found it impossible. When the sun rose, I wished for just half an hour of rest.
+On 15 December at 7 pm, the sky lit up with ominous light, foreshadowing another night of fear.
+Mentally exhausted, I avoid sleep to prevent waking in panic.
+The night is like a grave. We are never certain if it will open or close its door on our souls and bodies.
+I have no wish to pass away without first seeing my mother, father and siblings.
+We thought we would be safe in Khan Younis. We thought wrong. Israel commits massacres against civilians even in the south.
+No birds grace the sky. There is no pure color to it any more. A veil of smoke hangs heavy and gray, broken only by the red hue from Israel’s attacks.
+The sky reflects our bloodshed and our desperation.
+Batoul Mohamed Abou Ali graduated recently from the Islamic University of Gaza.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Birthdays under bombardment</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-43946 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/birthdays-under-bombardment/43946" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                  <span property="dc:title" content="Birthdays under bombardment" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/abubaker-abed" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Abubaker Abed</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2024-01-16T12:15:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">16 January 2024</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-149936" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/dear_al_balah_child.jpeg?itok=ghxYTlxG&amp;timestamp=1705400775 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/dear_al_balah_child.jpeg?itok=ghxYTlxG&amp;timestamp=1705400775" width="800" height="533" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Displaced children having their faces painted ahead of New Year’s celebrations at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, 28 December,2023. </p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Omar Ashtawy</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>Since 7 October, all birthdays in Gaza have become potential death days.</p>
+<p>Families are living dark and bleak days, almost just waiting for their turn to be murdered.</p>
+<p>24 December was supposed to be a special day for Marwa Abed. It was her fifth birthday.</p>
+<p>And despite the situation, her family were determined to hold some kind of celebration. Her father Muhammad knew that if they had not arranged a party, Marwa would have kept asking about a birthday cake.</p>
+<p>Marwa, despite her tender years, has already lived through two wars on Gaza.</p>
+<p>At kindergarten she loved English and Arabic. She loved memorizing the Quran.</p>
+<p>She is the first child of Muhammad and his wife Aya and the second grandchild of the Abed family. She is always friendly and smiling and speaks almost too politely.</p>
+<p>“She always got up early in the morning and had her breakfast to go to the kindergarten. Her activity is inspiring, and all her teachers praised her,” Muhammad said.</p>
+<p>Now, however, her mornings are distressing.</p>
+<p>“From getting up early in the morning with a huge smile on her face, to crying every night because of the massive bombardment, this is her life now. She cannot sleep at night and always cries out in panic, ‘I am afraid.’ Her life is nothing but torment,” Muhammad said.</p>
+<p>Aya tries to keep her happy, but it&#8217;s a tough task to make a birthday cake under the circumstances.</p>
+<p>“We have to fight for flour, so how can I make her a cake? Baking powder and other ingredients are not available and, if found, too expensive.”</p>
+<p>Days before her birthday, Aya prepared some things for the birthday party, such as paper birthday crowns and some toys.</p>
+<p>Normally, Marwa would get presents from her uncles, aunts and grandparents on her birthday. This year she only had two gifts, from her father and mother.</p>
+<p>“We managed to make a simple cake, some popcorn, and date balls,” Aya said. “Her uncles, aunts and grandparents, all displaced and evacuated from Gaza to Deir al-Balah, gathered in the house to celebrate the birthday. Our goal was to make her happy. Nothing less. Nothing more.”</p>
+<h2>Singing louder</h2>
+<p>Every day in Gaza now is dark and miserable. Like everywhere else, Deir al-Balah &#8211; a city in the middle area &#8211; has suffered a series of airstrikes.</p>
+<p>One landed very near Marwa’s house on her birthday.</p>
+<p>“Instead of singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ the party was disrupted by intense bombings,” Muhammad said. “We waited for minutes, hoping the bombings would end. The sound only became louder. It was nerve-racking.”</p>
+<p>Yet despite this, the children were intent on having fun. Over the sound of the missile strikes, they just sang louder, Muhammad said.</p>
+<figure id="file-149946" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/marwabirthday.jpeg?itok=jYnPCrFL&amp;timestamp=1705400775 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/marwabirthday.jpeg?itok=jYnPCrFL&amp;timestamp=1705400775" width="800" height="600" alt="a group of children celebrate" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Marwa, third from right, ended up with a happy birthday after all.</p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Abubaker Abed</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>“I honestly couldn’t speak for tears. I was so happy for her and the children. This is the first smile I have seen on her face for more than two months.”</p>
+<p>Aya agreed, choking back her emotions.</p>
+<p>“I know this is not the usual birthday party we hold. But at least, it made her day. It was truly delightful. But the fear that her fifth birthday could also be her last, never left me.”</p>
+<p>Hassan, Muhammad’s cousin, was so happy for his three children &#8211; Ali, 8, Waleed, 6, and Hamza, 3 &#8211; that he couldn’t find the words.</p>
+<p>“Hamza kept clapping and singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ I can’t remember a night he slept better during this war.”</p>
+<p>Ali and Waleed’s birthdays are in February, Hassan noted.</p>
+<p>“I hope this war ends soon. We are displaced and suffering from everything, so I can’t even think of planning their parties. I should be able to give them a nice birthday, like any child in the world.”</p>
+<p>Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has harmed children the most. More than 10,000 have been <a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-10000-children-killed-nearly-100-days-war">killed</a>.</p>
+<p>As children will, however, they are adapting, getting used to terrifying moments and terrifying days. Their childhood is turning into a nightmare.</p>
+<p>But it’s the only childhood they have.</p>
+<p>Marwa never imagined her birthday would be this way. But at least, she celebrated.</p>
+<p>She had a moment of happiness. Her birthday did not become her death day.</p>
+<p><em>Abubaker Abed is a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892">BBC “guidelines” endanger and offend Gaza interviewees</a></h2>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Abubaker Abed</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-08-28T17:10:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">28 August 2025</span></span>        </p>
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/gazas-amputee-footballers-look-forward-fresh-start/50370">Gaza’s amputee footballers look forward to a fresh start</a></h2>
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+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/israel-killed-my-brothers-family/49056">Israel killed my brother&#039;s family</a></h2>
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+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/panic-central-gaza/46981">Panic in central Gaza </a></h2>
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+<span class="field field-author">Abubaker Abed</span>
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+<span class="field field-author">Abubaker Abed</span>
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under bombardment</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-43946 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/birthdays-under-bombardment/43946\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Birthdays under bombardment\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/abubaker-abed\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Abubaker Abed</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-01-16T12:15:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">16 January 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-149936\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/dear_al_balah_child.jpeg?itok=ghxYTlxG&amp;timestamp=1705400775 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/dear_al_balah_child.jpeg?itok=ghxYTlxG&amp;timestamp=1705400775\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Displaced children having their faces painted ahead of New Year’s celebrations at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, 28 December,2023. </p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Omar Ashtawy</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>Since 7 October, all birthdays in Gaza have become potential death days.</p>\n\n<p>Families are living dark and bleak days, almost just waiting for their turn to be murdered.</p>\n\n<p>24 December was supposed to be a special day for Marwa Abed. It was her fifth birthday.</p>\n\n<p>And despite the situation, her family were determined to hold some kind of celebration. Her father Muhammad knew that if they had not arranged a party, Marwa would have kept asking about a birthday cake.</p>\n\n<p>Marwa, despite her tender years, has already lived through two wars on Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>At kindergarten she loved English and Arabic. She loved memorizing the Quran.</p>\n\n<p>She is the first child of Muhammad and his wife Aya and the second grandchild of the Abed family. She is always friendly and smiling and speaks almost too politely.</p>\n\n<p>“She always got up early in the morning and had her breakfast to go to the kindergarten. Her activity is inspiring, and all her teachers praised her,” Muhammad said.</p>\n\n<p>Now, however, her mornings are distressing.</p>\n\n<p>“From getting up early in the morning with a huge smile on her face, to crying every night because of the massive bombardment, this is her life now. She cannot sleep at night and always cries out in panic, ‘I am afraid.’ Her life is nothing but torment,” Muhammad said.</p>\n\n<p>Aya tries to keep her happy, but it&#8217;s a tough task to make a birthday cake under the circumstances.</p>\n\n<p>“We have to fight for flour, so how can I make her a cake? Baking powder and other ingredients are not available and, if found, too expensive.”</p>\n\n<p>Days before her birthday, Aya prepared some things for the birthday party, such as paper birthday crowns and some toys.</p>\n\n<p>Normally, Marwa would get presents from her uncles, aunts and grandparents on her birthday. This year she only had two gifts, from her father and mother.</p>\n\n<p>“We managed to make a simple cake, some popcorn, and date balls,” Aya said. “Her uncles, aunts and grandparents, all displaced and evacuated from Gaza to Deir al-Balah, gathered in the house to celebrate the birthday. Our goal was to make her happy. Nothing less. Nothing more.”</p>\n\n<h2>Singing louder</h2>\n\n<p>Every day in Gaza now is dark and miserable. Like everywhere else, Deir al-Balah &#8211; a city in the middle area &#8211; has suffered a series of airstrikes.</p>\n\n<p>One landed very near Marwa’s house on her birthday.</p>\n\n<p>“Instead of singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ the party was disrupted by intense bombings,” Muhammad said. “We waited for minutes, hoping the bombings would end. The sound only became louder. It was nerve-racking.”</p>\n\n<p>Yet despite this, the children were intent on having fun. Over the sound of the missile strikes, they just sang louder, Muhammad said.</p>\n\n<figure id=\"file-149946\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/marwabirthday.jpeg?itok=jYnPCrFL&amp;timestamp=1705400775 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2024-01/marwabirthday.jpeg?itok=jYnPCrFL&amp;timestamp=1705400775\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"a group of children celebrate\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Marwa, third from right, ended up with a happy birthday after all.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Abubaker Abed</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>“I honestly couldn’t speak for tears. I was so happy for her and the children. This is the first smile I have seen on her face for more than two months.”</p>\n\n<p>Aya agreed, choking back her emotions.</p>\n\n<p>“I know this is not the usual birthday party we hold. But at least, it made her day. It was truly delightful. But the fear that her fifth birthday could also be her last, never left me.”</p>\n\n<p>Hassan, Muhammad’s cousin, was so happy for his three children &#8211; Ali, 8, Waleed, 6, and Hamza, 3 &#8211; that he couldn’t find the words.</p>\n\n<p>“Hamza kept clapping and singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ I can’t remember a night he slept better during this war.”</p>\n\n<p>Ali and Waleed’s birthdays are in February, Hassan noted.</p>\n\n<p>“I hope this war ends soon. We are displaced and suffering from everything, so I can’t even think of planning their parties. I should be able to give them a nice birthday, like any child in the world.”</p>\n\n<p>Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has harmed children the most. More than 10,000 have been <a href=\"https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-10000-children-killed-nearly-100-days-war\">killed</a>.</p>\n\n<p>As children will, however, they are adapting, getting used to terrifying moments and terrifying days. Their childhood is turning into a nightmare.</p>\n\n<p>But it’s the only childhood they have.</p>\n\n<p>Marwa never imagined her birthday would be this way. But at least, she celebrated.</p>\n\n<p>She had a moment of happiness. Her birthday did not become her death day.</p>\n\n<p><em>Abubaker Abed is a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/eigazadispatches\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">eiGazaDispatches</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-testimonies\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza testimonies</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-genocide\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza genocide</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-war-crimes\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza war crimes</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/mental-health\" 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<header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/uk-university-sorry-email-hinting-ban-palestinian-students/50904\">UK university sorry for email hinting at ban on Palestinian students</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"UK university sorry for email hinting at ban on Palestinian students\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field-author\">Ali Abunimah and </span><span class=\"field-author\">Abubaker Abed</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-09-02T18:32:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">2 September 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-50892 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/bbc-guidelines-endanger-and-offend-gaza-interviewees/50892\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=iVemz3iO&amp;timestamp=1756301755 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=8cI4CHPw&amp;timestamp=1756301755 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-08/bbcgaza.jpg?itok=sQq0IUAP&amp;timestamp=1756301755 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img 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content=\"2025-08-28T17:10:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">28 August 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last\">\n      <article class=\"node-50370 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/gazas-amputee-footballers-look-forward-fresh-start/50370\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/gazas-amputee-footballers-look-forward-fresh-start/50370\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2025-02/amputeefootball.jpg?itok=RkJVQMZw&amp;timestamp=1738775678 1.5x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_100w/public/2025-02/amputeefootball.jpg?itok=OGFoQvqD&amp;timestamp=1738775678 1x, https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-02/amputeefootball.jpg?itok=uqjxqDrM&amp;timestamp=1738775678 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_200w/public/2025-02/amputeefootball.jpg?itok=uqjxqDrM&amp;timestamp=1738775678\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Footballers on crutches at play\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/gazas-amputee-footballers-look-forward-fresh-start/50370\">Gaza’s amputee footballers look forward to a fresh start</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Gaza’s amputee footballers look forward to a fresh start\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Abubaker Abed</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-02-07T08:30:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">7 February 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-49056 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/israel-killed-my-brothers-family/49056\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/israel-killed-my-brothers-family/49056\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2024-09/deralbalahrescue.jpg?itok=HMg6TYx-&amp;timestamp=1727429554 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property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Doaa Salim</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2024-09-27T09:33:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">27 September 2024</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n<article class=\"node-46981 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/panic-central-gaza/46981\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/panic-central-gaza/46981\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source 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+Displaced children having their faces painted ahead of New Year’s celebrations at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, 28 December,2023.
+APA imagesSince 7 October, all birthdays in Gaza have become potential death days.
+Families are living dark and bleak days, almost just waiting for their turn to be murdered.
+24 December was supposed to be a special day for Marwa Abed. It was her fifth birthday.
+And despite the situation, her family were determined to hold some kind of celebration. Her father Muhammad knew that if they had not arranged a party, Marwa would have kept asking about a birthday cake.
+Marwa, despite her tender years, has already lived through two wars on Gaza.
+At kindergarten she loved English and Arabic. She loved memorizing the Quran.
+She is the first child of Muhammad and his wife Aya and the second grandchild of the Abed family. She is always friendly and smiling and speaks almost too politely.
+“She always got up early in the morning and had her breakfast to go to the kindergarten. Her activity is inspiring, and all her teachers praised her,” Muhammad said.
+Now, however, her mornings are distressing.
+“From getting up early in the morning with a huge smile on her face, to crying every night because of the massive bombardment, this is her life now. She cannot sleep at night and always cries out in panic, ‘I am afraid.’ Her life is nothing but torment,” Muhammad said.
+Aya tries to keep her happy, but it’s a tough task to make a birthday cake under the circumstances.
+“We have to fight for flour, so how can I make her a cake? Baking powder and other ingredients are not available and, if found, too expensive.”
+Days before her birthday, Aya prepared some things for the birthday party, such as paper birthday crowns and some toys.
+Normally, Marwa would get presents from her uncles, aunts and grandparents on her birthday. This year she only had two gifts, from her father and mother.
+“We managed to make a simple cake, some popcorn, and date balls,” Aya said. “Her uncles, aunts and grandparents, all displaced and evacuated from Gaza to Deir al-Balah, gathered in the house to celebrate the birthday. Our goal was to make her happy. Nothing less. Nothing more.”
+Singing louder
+Every day in Gaza now is dark and miserable. Like everywhere else, Deir al-Balah – a city in the middle area – has suffered a series of airstrikes.
+One landed very near Marwa’s house on her birthday.
+“Instead of singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ the party was disrupted by intense bombings,” Muhammad said. “We waited for minutes, hoping the bombings would end. The sound only became louder. It was nerve-racking.”
+Yet despite this, the children were intent on having fun. Over the sound of the missile strikes, they just sang louder, Muhammad said.
+Marwa, third from right, ended up with a happy birthday after all.
+Abubaker Abed“I honestly couldn’t speak for tears. I was so happy for her and the children. This is the first smile I have seen on her face for more than two months.”
+Aya agreed, choking back her emotions.
+“I know this is not the usual birthday party we hold. But at least, it made her day. It was truly delightful. But the fear that her fifth birthday could also be her last, never left me.”
+Hassan, Muhammad’s cousin, was so happy for his three children – Ali, 8, Waleed, 6, and Hamza, 3 – that he couldn’t find the words.
+“Hamza kept clapping and singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ I can’t remember a night he slept better during this war.”
+Ali and Waleed’s birthdays are in February, Hassan noted.
+“I hope this war ends soon. We are displaced and suffering from everything, so I can’t even think of planning their parties. I should be able to give them a nice birthday, like any child in the world.”
+Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has harmed children the most. More than 10,000 have been killed.
+As children will, however, they are adapting, getting used to terrifying moments and terrifying days. Their childhood is turning into a nightmare.
+But it’s the only childhood they have.
+Marwa never imagined her birthday would be this way. But at least, she celebrated.
+She had a moment of happiness. Her birthday did not become her death day.
+Abubaker Abed is a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Birzeit&#8217;s Virtual Gallery: The university&#8217;s latest means of cultural exchange</h1>
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+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2005-05-06T08:37:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">6 May 2005</span></span>        </p>
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+This spring Palestine&#8217;s Birzeit University launched its latest means of cultural exchange.  The new Paltel Virtual Gallery, which serves as an Internet portal for Birzeit students, Palestinians, and anyone else interested in Palestinian art, will also feature academic courses on Palestinian, Arab, and contemporary international art.  In addition to highlighting a different Palestinian artist each month, the multiple functions of the bilingual Paltel Virtual Gallery intend to serve both those curious about Palestinian art, as well as Palestinians thirsting for more exposure to international art, which doesn&#8217;t enjoy a high priority in Palestinian schools.
+<p>Spearheaded by artist and lecturer in Islamic art Vera Tamari, and scholar Tina Sherwell, the gallery was formally launched at the gallery&#8217;s physical space at Birzeit University on March 17.  But the gallery continues to be developed, with new features such as the virtual exhibition space, which will host both Palestinian and international art works that can be viewed online; a keyword-searchable online library of Palestinian art; as well as an artist-in-residency&nbsp;program.</p>
+<p>The launch of the Paltel Virtual Gallery comes at an exciting time for the community at Birzeit &#8212; the end of this month will find the anticipated opening of a new physical gallery space at the campus, and will feature the university&#8217;s permanent collection.  Also in the gallery space will be archived materials such as the Tawfiq Canaan amulet collection, and Birzeit&#8217;s collection of Palestinian&nbsp;costumes.</p>
+<p>The virtual gallery is the latest product of Birzeit University&#8217;s history as a point of cultural exchange between Palestine and the international community.  Just next to cosmopolitan Ramallah, which boasts successful cafes and restaurants, Birzeit has in the past attracted internationals interested in learning about Palestine or wanting to bequeath gifts to Palestine through the institution.  The Syrian artist currently living in Berlin Marwan Qassab Bashi donated 75 works to the university, and the director of a museum of modern art in Berlin curated a show through Birzeit that was taken to Gaza, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and&nbsp;Jerusalem.</p>
+<p>Birzeit has also hosted workshops with international artists, though it has no formal art department.  Indeed, because of the economic and other hardships the Palestinian school system has faced, coupled with cultural values, the creative arts has never been considered a main concern of the educational curricula.  But Tamari, who teaches an introductory course to the elements of arts at the university, has found that despite her students’ complete lack of background in the arts, they are longing to do creative work.  Noting that they are “starting from zero,” Tamari comments that the students “come up with amazing results in their projects.”  Indeed, having been so starved for creative endeavors, they “go wild with their ideas.  It&#8217;s nice for them to start scratching their&nbsp;imaginations.”</p>
+<p>Despite the lack of formal arts education in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestine boasts a large number of filmmakers, painters, sculptors, and musicians for such a small population.  And if the old adage is true that hardship breeds creativity, then Palestinians have a large well in which to tap into.  Tightened Israeli-imposed movement restrictions in the past four years of intifada have left Palestine&#8217;s economy dilapidated, and Israel&#8217;s campaigns of violence have killed thousands, many of them university-aged young&nbsp;men.</p>
+<p>Tamari explains that she realized that students had “no way of making contacts with Arab, international, and even Palestinian artists because of movement restrictions,” and so she “started resorting to the Internet.”  She started giving her students assignments that required use of the Internet as a resource in researching art, encouraging them to take virtual tours of museum galleries, the likes of which the vast majority of her students had never seen.  This capability of cultural change through the web inspired Tamari.  Receiving funding for three years from the Palestinian communications company Paltel, Tamari and Sherwell began working on Birzeit&#8217;s own virtual art&nbsp;space.</p>
+<p>Noting that Palestinians in the occupied territories are burdened with a “physical and cultural isolation,” Shrewell says that the gallery has potential to break that.  The website will advertise deadlines for grants and call for entries for exhibitions, which isolated young Palestinian artists are not necessarily privy to.  And since <span class="caps">DSL</span> will soon be mass-implemented in the territories, more and more young Palestinians will be able to reasonably access the Internet and come to the&nbsp;website.</p>
+<p>And while some sections of the website are under construction, and those who don&#8217;t use Internet Explorer as their Internet browser will be disappointed when they can&#8217;t properly view images on the website, the website is an attractive, user-friendly one that has significant potential as a resource for both Palestinians in the territories and those abroad interested in Palestinian&nbsp;art.</p>
+<p>Indeed, both this double-goal is an important one to develop.  There is little interest in or understanding of fine art that isn&#8217;t transparently political in Palestine, nor is there any real art market.  As Tamari puts it, “artists cannot survive unless they&#8217;re very well-known.”  And then there is the “baggage” that Palestinian art carries, as Sherwell explains.  The international art scene “see ‘Palestinian’ before seeing the artwork,” she says, and that Palestinian art “comes with a framework.”  Giving as an exception to the rule Lebanese-born Palestinian world-renowned artist Mona Hatoum, Sherwell points out that even Hatoum has struggled to avoid being pigeonholed into the Palestinian context, and being denied other meanings to her&nbsp;work.</p>
+<p>In any event, as there is so much ignorance of Palestinian life and culture outside the Middle East, the Paltel Virtual Gallery is a welcome step towards cultural understanding.  And at a time when the West Bank is on the verge of developing a high-speed Internet infrastructure, the web has great potential as a means of bridging the isolation Palestinians experience as a result of the&nbsp;occupation.</p>
+<p><b>Related&nbsp;links:</b></p>
+<li><a href="http://virtualgallery.birzeit.edu/home" target="_blank">The Paltel Virtual&nbsp;Gallery</a>
+</li><li><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/artsmusicculture.shtml"><span class="caps">BY</span> <span class="caps">TOPIC</span>: Arts, Music and Culture</a>
+<p><i>Maureen Clare Murphy, currently based in occupied Palestine, is Arts, Music and Culture Editor for the Electronic&nbsp;Intifada</i></p>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-06-27T18:01:31+00:00" class="date-display-single">27 June 2025</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
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+      <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even">
+      <article class="node-50754 node node-blog view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-forced-choose-between-being-killed-or-starved-un-says" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
+  <figure class="field field-image">
+    <a href="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-forced-choose-between-being-killed-or-starved-un-says"><picture >
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-forced-choose-between-being-killed-or-starved-un-says">Palestinians forced to choose between being killed or starved, UN says</a></h2>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-06-19T00:02:26+00:00" class="date-display-single">19 June 2025</span></span>        </p>
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+    <a href="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/least-830-killed-more-aggressive-israeli-offensive"><picture >
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/moving-forward-while-celebrating-palestinian-arts-past/16436">Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art&#039;s past</a></h2>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Nora Parr</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-04-25T20:14:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">25 April 2016</span></span>        </p>
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/thought-provoking-art-exhibition-imagines-earthquake-palestine/12265">Thought-provoking art exhibition imagines earthquake in Palestine</a></h2>
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+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Daryl Meador</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-03-18T13:18:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">18 March 2013</span></span>        </p>
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+</article>
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+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/unearthing-secrets-palestinian-art-6-and-series-transgressions/6879">The Unearthing of Secrets: Palestinian Art, 6+ and a Series of Transgressions</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="The Unearthing of Secrets: Palestinian Art, 6+ and a Series of Transgressions" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maymanah Farhat</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2007-04-25T11:45:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">25 April 2007</span></span>        </p>
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role=\"main\">\n            <nav class=\"breadcrumb\" role=\"navigation\" prefix=\"v: http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#\"><h2 class=\"element-invisible\">You are here</h2><span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"/\" rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\" content=\"Home\"></a></span></nav>      <a id=\"main-content\"></a>\n                    <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Birzeit&#8217;s Virtual Gallery: The university&#8217;s latest means of cultural exchange</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-5580 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/birzeits-virtual-gallery-universitys-latest-means-cultural-exchange/5580\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Birzeit&#039;s Virtual Gallery: The university&#039;s latest means of cultural exchange\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/maureen-clare-murphy\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Maureen Clare Murphy</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2005-05-06T08:37:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">6 May 2005</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-5577\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2005-05/virtualgallery483.jpg?itok=sGjVxygv&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2005-05/virtualgallery483.jpg?itok=sGjVxygv&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"282\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture></figure><br />\nThis spring Palestine&#8217;s Birzeit University launched its latest means of cultural exchange.  The new Paltel Virtual Gallery, which serves as an Internet portal for Birzeit students, Palestinians, and anyone else interested in Palestinian art, will also feature academic courses on Palestinian, Arab, and contemporary international art.  In addition to highlighting a different Palestinian artist each month, the multiple functions of the bilingual Paltel Virtual Gallery intend to serve both those curious about Palestinian art, as well as Palestinians thirsting for more exposure to international art, which doesn&#8217;t enjoy a high priority in Palestinian schools.\n<p>Spearheaded by artist and lecturer in Islamic art Vera Tamari, and scholar Tina Sherwell, the gallery was formally launched at the gallery&#8217;s physical space at Birzeit University on March 17.  But the gallery continues to be developed, with new features such as the virtual exhibition space, which will host both Palestinian and international art works that can be viewed online; a keyword-searchable online library of Palestinian art; as well as an artist-in-residency&nbsp;program.</p>\n<p>The launch of the Paltel Virtual Gallery comes at an exciting time for the community at Birzeit &#8212; the end of this month will find the anticipated opening of a new physical gallery space at the campus, and will feature the university&#8217;s permanent collection.  Also in the gallery space will be archived materials such as the Tawfiq Canaan amulet collection, and Birzeit&#8217;s collection of Palestinian&nbsp;costumes.</p>\n<p>The virtual gallery is the latest product of Birzeit University&#8217;s history as a point of cultural exchange between Palestine and the international community.  Just next to cosmopolitan Ramallah, which boasts successful cafes and restaurants, Birzeit has in the past attracted internationals interested in learning about Palestine or wanting to bequeath gifts to Palestine through the institution.  The Syrian artist currently living in Berlin Marwan Qassab Bashi donated 75 works to the university, and the director of a museum of modern art in Berlin curated a show through Birzeit that was taken to Gaza, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and&nbsp;Jerusalem.</p>\n<p>Birzeit has also hosted workshops with international artists, though it has no formal art department.  Indeed, because of the economic and other hardships the Palestinian school system has faced, coupled with cultural values, the creative arts has never been considered a main concern of the educational curricula.  But Tamari, who teaches an introductory course to the elements of arts at the university, has found that despite her students’ complete lack of background in the arts, they are longing to do creative work.  Noting that they are “starting from zero,” Tamari comments that the students “come up with amazing results in their projects.”  Indeed, having been so starved for creative endeavors, they “go wild with their ideas.  It&#8217;s nice for them to start scratching their&nbsp;imaginations.”</p>\n<p>Despite the lack of formal arts education in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestine boasts a large number of filmmakers, painters, sculptors, and musicians for such a small population.  And if the old adage is true that hardship breeds creativity, then Palestinians have a large well in which to tap into.  Tightened Israeli-imposed movement restrictions in the past four years of intifada have left Palestine&#8217;s economy dilapidated, and Israel&#8217;s campaigns of violence have killed thousands, many of them university-aged young&nbsp;men.</p>\n<p>Tamari explains that she realized that students had “no way of making contacts with Arab, international, and even Palestinian artists because of movement restrictions,” and so she “started resorting to the Internet.”  She started giving her students assignments that required use of the Internet as a resource in researching art, encouraging them to take virtual tours of museum galleries, the likes of which the vast majority of her students had never seen.  This capability of cultural change through the web inspired Tamari.  Receiving funding for three years from the Palestinian communications company Paltel, Tamari and Sherwell began working on Birzeit&#8217;s own virtual art&nbsp;space.</p>\n<p>Noting that Palestinians in the occupied territories are burdened with a “physical and cultural isolation,” Shrewell says that the gallery has potential to break that.  The website will advertise deadlines for grants and call for entries for exhibitions, which isolated young Palestinian artists are not necessarily privy to.  And since <span class=\"caps\">DSL</span> will soon be mass-implemented in the territories, more and more young Palestinians will be able to reasonably access the Internet and come to the&nbsp;website.</p>\n<p>And while some sections of the website are under construction, and those who don&#8217;t use Internet Explorer as their Internet browser will be disappointed when they can&#8217;t properly view images on the website, the website is an attractive, user-friendly one that has significant potential as a resource for both Palestinians in the territories and those abroad interested in Palestinian&nbsp;art.</p>\n<p>Indeed, both this double-goal is an important one to develop.  There is little interest in or understanding of fine art that isn&#8217;t transparently political in Palestine, nor is there any real art market.  As Tamari puts it, “artists cannot survive unless they&#8217;re very well-known.”  And then there is the “baggage” that Palestinian art carries, as Sherwell explains.  The international art scene “see ‘Palestinian’ before seeing the artwork,” she says, and that Palestinian art “comes with a framework.”  Giving as an exception to the rule Lebanese-born Palestinian world-renowned artist Mona Hatoum, Sherwell points out that even Hatoum has struggled to avoid being pigeonholed into the Palestinian context, and being denied other meanings to her&nbsp;work.</p>\n<p>In any event, as there is so much ignorance of Palestinian life and culture outside the Middle East, the Paltel Virtual Gallery is a welcome step towards cultural understanding.  And at a time when the West Bank is on the verge of developing a high-speed Internet infrastructure, the web has great potential as a means of bridging the isolation Palestinians experience as a result of the&nbsp;occupation.</p>\n<p><b>Related&nbsp;links:</b></p>\n<li><a href=\"http://virtualgallery.birzeit.edu/home\" target=\"_blank\">The Paltel Virtual&nbsp;Gallery</a>\n</li><li><a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/artsmusicculture.shtml\"><span class=\"caps\">BY</span> <span class=\"caps\">TOPIC</span>: Arts, Music and Culture</a>\n<p><i>Maureen Clare Murphy, currently based in occupied Palestine, is Arts, Music and Culture Editor for the Electronic&nbsp;Intifada</i></p>\n</li>\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A//electronicintifada.net/content/birzeits-virtual-gallery-universitys-latest-means-cultural-exchange/5580\" class=\"popup\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-official fa-2x\"></i><span> 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field-author\">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-03-26T23:55:44+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">26 March 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-16436 node node-review view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/moving-forward-while-celebrating-palestinian-arts-past/16436\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/moving-forward-while-celebrating-palestinian-arts-past/16436\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2016-04/khalil.jpg?itok=iRrq66Ie&amp;timestamp=1461615748 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if 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+This spring Palestine’s Birzeit University launched its latest means of cultural exchange.  The new Paltel Virtual Gallery, which serves as an Internet portal for Birzeit students, Palestinians, and anyone else interested in Palestinian art, will also feature academic courses on Palestinian, Arab, and contemporary international art.  In addition to highlighting a different Palestinian artist each month, the multiple functions of the bilingual Paltel Virtual Gallery intend to serve both those curious about Palestinian art, as well as Palestinians thirsting for more exposure to international art, which doesn’t enjoy a high priority in Palestinian schools.
+Spearheaded by artist and lecturer in Islamic art Vera Tamari, and scholar Tina Sherwell, the gallery was formally launched at the gallery’s physical space at Birzeit University on March 17.  But the gallery continues to be developed, with new features such as the virtual exhibition space, which will host both Palestinian and international art works that can be viewed online; a keyword-searchable online library of Palestinian art; as well as an artist-in-residency program.
+The launch of the Paltel Virtual Gallery comes at an exciting time for the community at Birzeit — the end of this month will find the anticipated opening of a new physical gallery space at the campus, and will feature the university’s permanent collection.  Also in the gallery space will be archived materials such as the Tawfiq Canaan amulet collection, and Birzeit’s collection of Palestinian costumes.
+The virtual gallery is the latest product of Birzeit University’s history as a point of cultural exchange between Palestine and the international community.  Just next to cosmopolitan Ramallah, which boasts successful cafes and restaurants, Birzeit has in the past attracted internationals interested in learning about Palestine or wanting to bequeath gifts to Palestine through the institution.  The Syrian artist currently living in Berlin Marwan Qassab Bashi donated 75 works to the university, and the director of a museum of modern art in Berlin curated a show through Birzeit that was taken to Gaza, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and Jerusalem.
+Birzeit has also hosted workshops with international artists, though it has no formal art department.  Indeed, because of the economic and other hardships the Palestinian school system has faced, coupled with cultural values, the creative arts has never been considered a main concern of the educational curricula.  But Tamari, who teaches an introductory course to the elements of arts at the university, has found that despite her students’ complete lack of background in the arts, they are longing to do creative work.  Noting that they are “starting from zero,” Tamari comments that the students “come up with amazing results in their projects.”  Indeed, having been so starved for creative endeavors, they “go wild with their ideas.  It’s nice for them to start scratching their imaginations.”
+Despite the lack of formal arts education in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestine boasts a large number of filmmakers, painters, sculptors, and musicians for such a small population.  And if the old adage is true that hardship breeds creativity, then Palestinians have a large well in which to tap into.  Tightened Israeli-imposed movement restrictions in the past four years of intifada have left Palestine’s economy dilapidated, and Israel’s campaigns of violence have killed thousands, many of them university-aged young men.
+Tamari explains that she realized that students had “no way of making contacts with Arab, international, and even Palestinian artists because of movement restrictions,” and so she “started resorting to the Internet.”  She started giving her students assignments that required use of the Internet as a resource in researching art, encouraging them to take virtual tours of museum galleries, the likes of which the vast majority of her students had never seen.  This capability of cultural change through the web inspired Tamari.  Receiving funding for three years from the Palestinian communications company Paltel, Tamari and Sherwell began working on Birzeit’s own virtual art space.
+Noting that Palestinians in the occupied territories are burdened with a “physical and cultural isolation,” Shrewell says that the gallery has potential to break that.  The website will advertise deadlines for grants and call for entries for exhibitions, which isolated young Palestinian artists are not necessarily privy to.  And since DSL will soon be mass-implemented in the territories, more and more young Palestinians will be able to reasonably access the Internet and come to the website.
+And while some sections of the website are under construction, and those who don’t use Internet Explorer as their Internet browser will be disappointed when they can’t properly view images on the website, the website is an attractive, user-friendly one that has significant potential as a resource for both Palestinians in the territories and those abroad interested in Palestinian art.
+Indeed, both this double-goal is an important one to develop.  There is little interest in or understanding of fine art that isn’t transparently political in Palestine, nor is there any real art market.  As Tamari puts it, “artists cannot survive unless they’re very well-known.”  And then there is the “baggage” that Palestinian art carries, as Sherwell explains.  The international art scene “see ‘Palestinian’ before seeing the artwork,” she says, and that Palestinian art “comes with a framework.”  Giving as an exception to the rule Lebanese-born Palestinian world-renowned artist Mona Hatoum, Sherwell points out that even Hatoum has struggled to avoid being pigeonholed into the Palestinian context, and being denied other meanings to her work.
+In any event, as there is so much ignorance of Palestinian life and culture outside the Middle East, the Paltel Virtual Gallery is a welcome step towards cultural understanding.  And at a time when the West Bank is on the verge of developing a high-speed Internet infrastructure, the web has great potential as a means of bridging the isolation Palestinians experience as a result of the occupation.
+Related links:
+The Paltel Virtual Gallery
+BY TOPIC: Arts, Music and Culture
+Maureen Clare Murphy, currently based in occupied Palestine, is Arts, Music and Culture Editor for the Electronic Intifada

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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-13198 node node-review view-mode-full node-is-page image-portrait" about="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+                  <span property="dc:title" content="A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="10" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/sarah-irving" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sarah Irving</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publisher"><a href="/people/electronic-intifada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-02-25T09:10:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">25 February 2014</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-26710" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-right file file-image file-image-jpeg" style="width:300px"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2014-02/storytellerofjerusalem.jpg?itok=EsGG8yzQ&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2014-02/storytellerofjerusalem.jpg?itok=EsGG8yzQ&amp;amp%3Btimestamp=1448949295" width="327" height="490" alt="" title="" /></picture></figure><p>It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of <em>The Storyteller of Jerusalem</em> (Olive Branch Press) &#8212; <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/wasif-jawhariyyeh">Wasif Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s</a> memoirs in English &#8212; is a very significant event.</p>
+<p>This is not because Jawhariyyeh was a major figure in Palestinian history or that he had great political influence. Quite the reverse.</p>
+<p>It is Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s lack of status that makes his memoirs so unusual, revealing new facets of Palestinian life before the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/nakba">Nakba</a> &#8212; the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ethnic-cleansing">ethnic cleansing</a> that led to Israel&#8217;s establishment &#8212; and challenging many preconceptions and stereotypes.</p>
+<p>He grew up in an era when education was just starting to spread through society, so the vast majority of personal accounts come from the upper classes, often from members of well-known families such as the Husseinis and the Khalidis.</p>
+<p>Indeed, another recent ground-breaking publication in English was that of <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/memoir-challenges-stereotypes-arab-women/12501">Anbara Salam Khalidi&#8217;s memoirs</a>, one of the first accounts of life from a pre-Nakba woman, albeit one from <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/lebanon">Lebanon</a> who married into the Palestinian elite.</p>
+<p>Wasif Jawhariyyeh was not from those elite families but his father was associated with the Husseinis, performing administrative jobs for the family alongside his activities as a merchant and silk farmer.</p>
+<p>According to Wasif&#8217;s account, his father was a close and trusted advisor to Salim al-Husseini and his son Musa Kazem.</p>
+<p>This association with a well-off family meant that, although the Jawhariyyehs’ financial situation was sometimes precarious, gifts from his father&#8217;s patron ensured that Wasif and his siblings rarely noticed.</p>
+<p>The descriptions of his childhood center around a large house shared with tenants, situated around a courtyard and with communal facilities.</p>
+<p>“If you entered the house on a Sunday,” writes Jawhariyyeh, “you would find families and relatives of both sexes with their children, some playing cards or backgammon, others singing or playing music with their friends, some smoking <em>argileh</em> [water pipe], or telling stories and anecdotes&#8230; . Our Muslim neighbors, both men and women, used to join us at times of sorrow or joy alike. On the&#8230; first night of Lent, we would all dress up &#8212; men and women.”</p>
+<p>This is a rare glimpse into “middle-class” life in <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> at the end of the Ottoman period, where the important things are food, family and getting an education, not palatial homes and political goings-on.</p>
+<h2>Talented musician</h2>
+<p>Wasif, however, was found at a young age to be a talented musician, playing instruments such as the <em>oud</em> and the <em>rababah</em> or <em>rebeck</em>. This ability gives his autobiography an extra perspective, because he often worked as a personal musician to members of the Jerusalem elite, including men of the Husseini and Nashashibi families.</p>
+<p>We may be used to seeing these names in history books, making decisions which affected the political fate of Palestine.</p>
+<p>Wasif Jawhariyyeh, however, played his <em>oud</em> in the bachelor pads &#8212; called <em>odas</em> &#8212; of the young men of elite families, and in the cafes they frequented, and taught music and singing to their mistresses.</p>
+<p>Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s access to the upper echelons of Jerusalem society, as well as his formidable memory for anecdotes, also deliver personal insights into Britain&#8217;s colonial governors.</p>
+<p>They include the “cunning” Ronald Storrs and the eccentric Edward Keith-Roach, who cycled round the roof of the government building in his pyjamas and locked his beloved cat in to protect her from the advances of felines from the neighboring Morcos Hotel.</p>
+<h2>Vibrant nightlife</h2>
+<p>Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/location/cairo">Cairo</a> and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/beirut">Beirut</a>, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.</p>
+<p>Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/british-mandate">British Mandate</a>, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.</p>
+<p>As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.</p>
+<p>Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other&#8217;s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.</p>
+<p>According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.</p>
+<p>The Jewish festivities included a procession from Jerusalem to the shrine of Moses near <a net="" tags="">Jericho</a>, which was also the destination for Muslim pilgrims during the Islamic festival of Nabi Musa.</p>
+<h2>Sense of darkness</h2>
+<p>Perhaps there is an element of nostalgia to Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s reminiscences of the earlier years of his life. Even allowing for this, there is a growing sense of darkness throughout the latter part of his memoirs, as political events &#8212; Zionist immigration and growing discrimination against the local population by the British Mandate authorities &#8212; start to impinge on everyday life.</p>
+<p>Music &#8212; including technological innovations such as radio &#8212; remained central to Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s professional and personal existence but even this was touched by the impending crisis.</p>
+<p>Jawhariyyeh recounts, for example, how a Jewish musician who had represented his home country, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/iraq">Iraq</a>, at the 1931 Arabic music conference in Cairo went to play in a new orchestra, separate from the Palestinians, after political clashes split the artists.</p>
+<p>With the exception of a few minor inconsistencies in transliteration, this is a book about which one can be unequivocally enthusiastic. For those with background knowledge of Palestine under Ottoman and Mandate rule, it will be source of fresh perspectives and details.</p>
+<p>For those new to the period, the book &#8212; edited by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar, and translated by Nada Elzeer &#8212; provides a highly readable, intimate account of life for urban Palestinians.</p>
+<p>And for all readers, its portrayal of a diverse, vibrant society is a bitter-sweet glimpse into what Palestine might have been, in a world without European and Zionist colonialism.</p>
+<p><em><a href="http://www.sarahirving.wordpress.com">Sarah Irving</a> worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the occupied West Bank in 2001-02 and with Olive Co-op, promoting fair trade Palestinian products and solidarity visits, in 2004-06. She is the author of a <a href="http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745329512&amp;">biography of Leila Khaled</a> and of the <em><a href="http://www.bradtguides.com/Book/181/Palestine.html">Bradt Guide to Palestine</a></em> and co-editor of <em><a href="http://www.freightbooks.co.uk/a-bird-is-not-a-stone.html">A Bird is not a Stone,</a></em> a collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry in translation. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+        <h2 class="comments__title title"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i> Comments</h2>
+  <a id="comment-18197"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous first odd" about="/comment/18197#comment-18197" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAc0lEQVRYhe3XsQnAIBBA0VzIQBkhI2UUR8oIjmST5he5QoRc8V8rwkfh0OhX2wrY/w542UF2kB1kB0Wylo/a87kX7qpyHnaQHWQHHdM71z7ksjk2HfE1rBJV7sUOsoPsoPBfCXaQHWQH2UH+K8kOsoPsoAH/ORQ4d7HGvQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18197#comment-18197" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Thanks and a correction</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18197#comment-18197" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-25T17:05:29+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Issam Nassar</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-25T17:05:29+00:00">Tue, 02/25/2014 - 17:05</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>As the co-editor of the book, I am happy to see this excellent review. Just one correction regrarding the nabi Musa procession during easter. This was a Muslim, not Jewish events.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<div class="indented"><a id="comment-18198"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-node-author even" about="/comment/18198#comment-18198" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAc0lEQVRYhe3X0QmAIBRA0YwGaKRGapRGaqRG6PtCvg8pe8I9n4JyQXho2bdrqjvO9XH99V1zcFxPdpAdZAdl6SjxROpmad7ZNmprstyLHWQH2UGDzDHfhT+xg+wgO8gOsoPsIDtokPdYwH/ll+wgOyhLxw0/5RjdE4GHOQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18198#comment-18198" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Thanks Issam. We’ll check on</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18198#comment-18198" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-25T17:48:20+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" about="/user/24" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Ali Abunimah</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-25T17:48:20+00:00">Tue, 02/25/2014 - 17:48</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/comment/18197#comment-18197" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>Thanks Issam. We&#8217;ll check on this and make the appropriate correction.</p>  </div>
+  </article>
+</div><a id="comment-18199"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous odd" about="/comment/18199#comment-18199" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAcElEQVRYhe3XsQnAIBgF4RgySEZw/ykcwVHSpDlI/oBNXnFfqQiHgmjrfW4B9r8DbnaQHWQH2UF2kB1kB9lBKR1HPT3G+ThevyYXVqXshx1kB9lBLeRf+XGPFdauuDcp52IH2UF2kB1kB9lBdlBKxwXTZwvdtS+hyAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18199#comment-18199" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Small correction</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18199#comment-18199" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-25T18:09:42+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Amr Tamimi</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-25T18:09:42+00:00">Tue, 02/25/2014 - 18:09</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>Excellent review.  I need to move the Arab version I have from Lebanon so I can read it properly.</p>
+<p>I haven&#039;t read the part in question, but I&#039;m fairly certain that the Cairo Congress on Arabic Music, in which there was an almost exclusively Jewish Iraqi delegation (the sole exception was the singer, Muhammad al Gubbanchi), was in 1932, not 1931.</p>
+<p>Most of the delegation did end up in Israel in the fifties.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<a id="comment-18201"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous even" about="/comment/18201#comment-18201" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAaklEQVRYhe3YwQnAIBAF0WxIYZZgqSkhpeWSy4Ag7CX/MO8oLAwKgtZzHwnOvwM+dpAdZAfZQXaQHWQH2UF2kB1kB9lBdtDVnhxzvd57MKfshx1kB9lBFfI/trnHepdVYyrlXOwgO8gOegHoSgk9s2S9wQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18201#comment-18201" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Cultural Importance</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18201#comment-18201" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-26T04:33:50+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Millar</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-26T04:33:50+00:00">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 04:33</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>Fascinating. I did a course at University on the Arab Israeli conflict, what it lacked was a systematic articulation of Palestinian culture. I did a bit of reading around and discovered that there was a thriving icon industry in Palestine that had existed since the Byzantine Empire. There is a vital need to propogate Palestinian heritage and culture, to show the world that Palestinians are a people of heritage and not just the victims of fate. It would be great if online sources, like for example, Electronic Intifada could publish more articles and links to sites that explore the culture of Palestine. Thankyou.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<div class="indented"><a id="comment-18217"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous odd" about="/comment/18217#comment-18217" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAdElEQVRYhe3WwQmAMAxAUSsO1NEcxdE6kucPJoegEOG/Y0vph0Lo2GJrnsluzVzX4/r++k01dpAdZAd16RhfDKuCI9+Oxl9eXzjV5V3sIDvIDrKD7CA7yA7q0vGT/1ii9lWLdHkXO8gOsoPsIDvIDrKDunTcuEQPPOQa9yYAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18217#comment-18217" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">I think this might be what</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18217#comment-18217" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-26T20:38:44+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Paul</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-26T20:38:44+00:00">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 20:38</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/comment/18201#comment-18201" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>I think this might be what you are looking for: <a href="http://btd.palestine-studies.org/">http://btd.palestine-studies.org/</a></p>
+<p>&quot;Before Their Diaspora is a visual journey into Palestine before 1948. Every important aspect of Palestinian society comes to life in the nearly 500 photographs, carefully selected from thousands available in private and public collections throughout the world. Descriptive, analytical texts, introduce each of the five historical periods into which the book is divided. Carefully researched, captions identify the time, place, personalities and context of each photograph.&quot;</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+</div><a id="comment-18208"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous even" about="/comment/18208#comment-18208" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAdklEQVRYhe3YQQqAIBBA0SY6QEf1KB61I7T+0LiQlFn8tzSUj0Jk0e525PrTP8d/n3UOltvJDrKD7KAqHTF+I21TZT/sIDvIDrKD7CA7yA6yg6p0xODZik/G7OpbZT/sIDvIDqpyr7ymZ879wstUORc7yA6yg177PA8pPF7KNwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18208#comment-18208" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">&quot;Hell entered the Land of Israel with Herzl.&quot;</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18208#comment-18208" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-26T13:39:45+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Alec</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-26T13:39:45+00:00">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 13:39</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>&quot;The chief rabbi of the Jewish Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, (1930) Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld, often referred to the Zionists as &quot;evil men and ruffians&quot; and claimed that &quot;Hell had entered the Land of Israel with Herzl.&quot; Sonnenfeld did not want the Orthodox Jewish community to become subject to secular Zionist authority. </p>
+<p>The spokesman for the anti-Zionist Ashkenasi community in Jerusalem, Dr Jacob Israël de Haan, endeavoured to form an alliance with the Arab nationalist leadership and hoped to reach an agreement that would allow unrestricted Jewish settlement in Arab lands in return for the relinquishment of Jewish political aspirations. In June 1924, de Haan was assassinated by the Haganah after having conveyed his proposals to King Hussein and his sons, Faisal and Abdullah.&quot;    ....Wikipedia</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<a id="comment-18209"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous odd" about="/comment/18209#comment-18209" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAdUlEQVRYhe3XQQqAIBQG4YwO1lE8WkfpaK1n0Q+JxlvMtxV0UHhg24Zc/Qyr/bq/briPdUxnB9lBdlCVjmP6RArCWVXuww6yg+ygKh0tz7HftLC2IvFtQFd5FzvIDrKDqnSkORb4v13MDrKD7CA7yA6yg+ygB2gQDtlYuvyLAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18209#comment-18209" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Crocodile tears</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18209#comment-18209" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-26T13:56:53+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Anthony Shaker</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-26T13:56:53+00:00">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 13:56</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>While you have most of your facts straight, your interpretation is nonsensical. In fact, the early Jewish colonists served a precise purpose--to prepare the ground for the seizure of Palestine by violent terrorists imported from the Pale, Eastern Europe and Western states. This went hand-in-glove with a strategy of lies by Great Britain and France with regard to the &quot;Arabs,&quot; a new tribal fiction invented by the West and swallowed whole by an Arabic speaking world pocked by the Saudi Wahhabism, a plague whose consequences we are witnessing today.</p>
+<p>Those early colonists infiltrated Palestinian society and tried hard to create &quot;relations&quot; where it suited them; they learned how to survive in a land unsuited for large citied populations and which hadn&#039;t infinite resources, especially water. They built their &quot;agriculture&#039; right in the midst of this growing mayhem. And then the calamity.</p>
+<p>A faceless little man called Harry Truman, the nearest thing to a black hole and the man who nuked Japan, was instrumental to getting Israel recognized as a state. But he stood on the shoulders of others in the UK, France and last but not least that little friend of Israel&#039;s, Lester Pearson, a Canadian. All drew their inspiration from a monster from England, Winston Churchil, who developed the use of carpet bombing on German cities in WWII and insisted on compliance by the US, who later applied this experience to Southeast Asia.</p>
+<p>Clearly, we can see what it took to establish the Zionist race colony people still call &quot;Israel.&quot; Lies, theft and murder on a grand scale. Those peachy local arrangements which the early Zionists sought with the Palestinians, just before their ruin, have been too well documented for journalists to go on babbling about how it might have been in Jerusalem.</p>
+<p>Just state it clearly: the concept Israel is based on a forged biblical document and a craven decision by the West to exculpate itself by imposing a tribal order in the Middle East they hope might stem the collapse of its short-lived Western empires.</p>
+<p>The West established a vicious colony of terrorists with genocide on their minds to carry out their work. This is why it is the end of the road for Israel as a race state. The whole design, imposing a tribal order on the region just to safeguard Israel is going up in smoke. Israel as a Zionist concept has no future and certainly no rosy past to cheer about, for heaven&#039;s sake!</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<div class="indented"><a id="comment-18295"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous even" about="/comment/18295#comment-18295" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAZUlEQVRYhe3YsQ2AMAwAQcwEjJLRGIXRMgojpH4JUlhBuPgr48JfRVFie9fvazLNacf5eL4v35RjB9lBdpAdkrRGfPHoSqhyn9pBdpAdZAfZQXaQHWQHVemIycx/uv/YQXZQlY4BsfEImK+GgGYAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18295#comment-18295" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">What a Totally Irrelevant Comment</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18295#comment-18295" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-03-06T21:24:41+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><a href="http://www.mockman.com" rel="nofollow foaf:page" class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Jason Thompson</a> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-03-06T21:24:41+00:00">Thu, 03/06/2014 - 21:24</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/comment/18209#comment-18209" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>I &quot;like&quot; how your comment has NOTHING to do with the content of the post, which doesn&#039;t mention Ashkenazi Jews AT ALL. What a completely random, ranting digression. There&#039;s absolutely zero in the post that serves as a justification or defense of the crappy modern apartheid state of Israel, but regardless, you just open up some canned rant attacking general targets in &quot;the West,&quot; exactly as some lame-ass white American CNN commentor might hijack a post that has some vague Islam/Arabic connection, in order to deliver an Islamophobic rant.</p>
+<p>In short: thank you for contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+</div><a id="comment-18221"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous odd" about="/comment/18221#comment-18221" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAd0lEQVRYhe3XwQmAMBAFUSMWYIkpLSVaguc5uOCi8A/zrgsyRlji2FqutYrpOefbB+69js/ZQXaQHZTSMYpZvax6nlZcynnYQXaQHZTSMf5YVg1HPW7c8ArFO6d8FzvIDrKDUvZYynnYQXaQHWQH+X9LdpAdZAfdz7wQuJFa37wAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18221#comment-18221" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">By Way of Deception</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18221#comment-18221" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-26T23:42:21+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Deïr Yassin</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-26T23:42:21+00:00">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 23:42</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>&quot;Those early colonists infiltrated Palestinian society and tried hard to create &quot;relations&quot; when it suited them&quot;</p>
+<p>Miguel Littin, the famous Chilean film director of Palestinian origin, made a film &quot;La Ultima Luna&quot; (Arabic/Spanish) that describes the deceit of some of the early Zionists. The final scenes are worth the whole film<br />
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcXKT_8DugI">www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcXKT_...</a></p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<div class="indented"><a id="comment-18225"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous last even" about="/comment/18225#comment-18225" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAd0lEQVRYhe3XwQmAMBAFUSMWYIkpLSVaguc5uOCi8A/zrgsyRlji2FqutYrpOefbB+69js/ZQXaQHZTSMYpZvax6nlZcynnYQXaQHZTSMf5YVg1HPW7c8ArFO6d8FzvIDrKDUvZYynnYQXaQHWQH+X9LdpAdZAfdz7wQuJFa37wAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/18225#comment-18225" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">Reply</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/18225#comment-18225" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2014-02-27T09:43:14+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Deïr Yassin</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2014-02-27T09:43:14+00:00">Thu, 02/27/2014 - 09:43</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/comment/18221#comment-18221" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>Sorry, that was a reply to the comment made by Anthony Shaker.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+</div>
+  </section>
+</article>
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+            <span property="dc:title" content="Poetry steeped in sarcasm and politics" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Sarah Irving</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-09-19T15:55:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">19 September 2017</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
+      <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even">
+      <article class="node-21316 node node-review view-mode-compact image-portrait" about="/content/palestinian-art-after-darwish/21316" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
+  <figure class="field field-image">
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+<img  src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2017-08/170704-rahman.jpg?itok=6B0wo0UW&amp;timestamp=1501880600" width="240" height="384" alt="" title="" />
+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/palestinian-art-after-darwish/21316">Palestinian art after Darwish</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Palestinian art after Darwish" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Sarah Irving</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-08-04T20:52:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">4 August 2017</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
+      <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last">
+      <article class="node-21191 node node-review view-mode-compact image-portrait" about="/content/nostalgia-political-edge/21191" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
+  <figure class="field field-image">
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/content/nostalgia-political-edge/21191">Nostalgia with a political edge</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Nostalgia with a political edge" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Sarah Irving</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2017-07-25T19:05:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">25 July 2017</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
+      </div>
+</div><article class="node-14074 node node-blog view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/blogs/sarah-irving/best-books-newcomers-palestine-and-its-literature" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
+  <figure class="field field-image">
+    <a href="/blogs/sarah-irving/best-books-newcomers-palestine-and-its-literature"><picture >
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/blogs/sarah-irving/best-books-newcomers-palestine-and-its-literature">Best books for newcomers to Palestine and its literature</a></h2>
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+<span class="field field-author">Sarah Irving</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-12-08T22:07:17+00:00" class="date-display-single">8 December 2014</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
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+      <header>
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+<span class="field field-author">Sarah Irving</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-12-09T21:16:37+00:00" class="date-display-single">9 December 2013</span></span>        </p>
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class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"10\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/sarah-irving\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Sarah Irving</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2014-02-25T09:10:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">25 February 2014</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-26710\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-right file file-image file-image-jpeg\" style=\"width:300px\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2014-02/storytellerofjerusalem.jpg?itok=EsGG8yzQ&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2014-02/storytellerofjerusalem.jpg?itok=EsGG8yzQ&amp;amp%3Btimestamp=1448949295\" width=\"327\" height=\"490\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture></figure><p>It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of <em>The Storyteller of Jerusalem</em> (Olive Branch Press) &#8212; <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/wasif-jawhariyyeh\">Wasif Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s</a> memoirs in English &#8212; is a very significant event.</p>\n<p>This is not because Jawhariyyeh was a major figure in Palestinian history or that he had great political influence. Quite the reverse.</p>\n<p>It is Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s lack of status that makes his memoirs so unusual, revealing new facets of Palestinian life before the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/nakba\">Nakba</a> &#8212; the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ethnic-cleansing\">ethnic cleansing</a> that led to Israel&#8217;s establishment &#8212; and challenging many preconceptions and stereotypes.</p>\n<p>He grew up in an era when education was just starting to spread through society, so the vast majority of personal accounts come from the upper classes, often from members of well-known families such as the Husseinis and the Khalidis.</p>\n<p>Indeed, another recent ground-breaking publication in English was that of <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/memoir-challenges-stereotypes-arab-women/12501\">Anbara Salam Khalidi&#8217;s memoirs</a>, one of the first accounts of life from a pre-Nakba woman, albeit one from <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/lebanon\">Lebanon</a> who married into the Palestinian elite.</p>\n<p>Wasif Jawhariyyeh was not from those elite families but his father was associated with the Husseinis, performing administrative jobs for the family alongside his activities as a merchant and silk farmer.</p>\n<p>According to Wasif&#8217;s account, his father was a close and trusted advisor to Salim al-Husseini and his son Musa Kazem.</p>\n<p>This association with a well-off family meant that, although the Jawhariyyehs’ financial situation was sometimes precarious, gifts from his father&#8217;s patron ensured that Wasif and his siblings rarely noticed.</p>\n<p>The descriptions of his childhood center around a large house shared with tenants, situated around a courtyard and with communal facilities.</p>\n<p>“If you entered the house on a Sunday,” writes Jawhariyyeh, “you would find families and relatives of both sexes with their children, some playing cards or backgammon, others singing or playing music with their friends, some smoking <em>argileh</em> [water pipe], or telling stories and anecdotes&#8230; . Our Muslim neighbors, both men and women, used to join us at times of sorrow or joy alike. On the&#8230; first night of Lent, we would all dress up &#8212; men and women.”</p>\n<p>This is a rare glimpse into “middle-class” life in <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jerusalem\">Jerusalem</a> at the end of the Ottoman period, where the important things are food, family and getting an education, not palatial homes and political goings-on.</p>\n<h2>Talented musician</h2>\n<p>Wasif, however, was found at a young age to be a talented musician, playing instruments such as the <em>oud</em> and the <em>rababah</em> or <em>rebeck</em>. This ability gives his autobiography an extra perspective, because he often worked as a personal musician to members of the Jerusalem elite, including men of the Husseini and Nashashibi families.</p>\n<p>We may be used to seeing these names in history books, making decisions which affected the political fate of Palestine.</p>\n<p>Wasif Jawhariyyeh, however, played his <em>oud</em> in the bachelor pads &#8212; called <em>odas</em> &#8212; of the young men of elite families, and in the cafes they frequented, and taught music and singing to their mistresses.</p>\n<p>Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s access to the upper echelons of Jerusalem society, as well as his formidable memory for anecdotes, also deliver personal insights into Britain&#8217;s colonial governors.</p>\n<p>They include the “cunning” Ronald Storrs and the eccentric Edward Keith-Roach, who cycled round the roof of the government building in his pyjamas and locked his beloved cat in to protect her from the advances of felines from the neighboring Morcos Hotel.</p>\n<h2>Vibrant nightlife</h2>\n<p>Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/location/cairo\">Cairo</a> and <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/beirut\">Beirut</a>, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.</p>\n<p>Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/british-mandate\">British Mandate</a>, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.</p>\n<p>As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.</p>\n<p>Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other&#8217;s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.</p>\n<p>According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.</p>\n<p>The Jewish festivities included a procession from Jerusalem to the shrine of Moses near <a net=\"\" tags=\"\">Jericho</a>, which was also the destination for Muslim pilgrims during the Islamic festival of Nabi Musa.</p>\n<h2>Sense of darkness</h2>\n<p>Perhaps there is an element of nostalgia to Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s reminiscences of the earlier years of his life. Even allowing for this, there is a growing sense of darkness throughout the latter part of his memoirs, as political events &#8212; Zionist immigration and growing discrimination against the local population by the British Mandate authorities &#8212; start to impinge on everyday life.</p>\n<p>Music &#8212; including technological innovations such as radio &#8212; remained central to Jawhariyyeh&#8217;s professional and personal existence but even this was touched by the impending crisis.</p>\n<p>Jawhariyyeh recounts, for example, how a Jewish musician who had represented his home country, <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/iraq\">Iraq</a>, at the 1931 Arabic music conference in Cairo went to play in a new orchestra, separate from the Palestinians, after political clashes split the artists.</p>\n<p>With the exception of a few minor inconsistencies in transliteration, this is a book about which one can be unequivocally enthusiastic. For those with background knowledge of Palestine under Ottoman and Mandate rule, it will be source of fresh perspectives and details.</p>\n<p>For those new to the period, the book &#8212; edited by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar, and translated by Nada Elzeer &#8212; provides a highly readable, intimate account of life for urban Palestinians.</p>\n<p>And for all readers, its portrayal of a diverse, vibrant society is a bitter-sweet glimpse into what Palestine might have been, in a world without European and Zionist colonialism.</p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http://www.sarahirving.wordpress.com\">Sarah Irving</a> worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the occupied West Bank in 2001-02 and with Olive Co-op, promoting fair trade Palestinian products and solidarity visits, in 2004-06. She is the author of a <a href=\"http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745329512&amp;\">biography of Leila Khaled</a> and of the <em><a href=\"http://www.bradtguides.com/Book/181/Palestine.html\">Bradt Guide to Palestine</a></em> and co-editor of <em><a href=\"http://www.freightbooks.co.uk/a-bird-is-not-a-stone.html\">A Bird is not a Stone,</a></em> a collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry in translation. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.</em></p>  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/jerusalem\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Jerusalem</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/nakba\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Nakba</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/memoir\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">memoir</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/palestinian-music\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Palestinian music</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/cairo\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Cairo</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/beirut\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Beirut</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/wasif-jawhariyyeh\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Wasif Jawhariyyeh</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/salim-tamari\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Salim Tamari</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/issam-nassar\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Issam Nassar</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/nada-elzeer\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Nada Elzeer</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/zionism\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">zionism</a>    </li>\n  \n</ul>\n\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A//electronicintifada.net/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"popup\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-official fa-2x\"></i><span> Facebook</span></a></li>\n<li class=\"ei_twitter last\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=A%20bitter-sweet%20glimpse%20into%20what%20Jerusalem%20might%20have%20been&amp;url=https%3A//electronicintifada.net/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"popup\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter fa-2x\"></i><span> Twitter</span></a></li>\n</ul><ul class=\"links inline donate\"><li class=\"donate-now first last\"><a href=\"/%23\" class=\"kindful-donate-btn\" id=\"kindful-donate-btn-2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb\">Donate Now</a></li>\n</ul><script src=\"https://middleeastculturalandcharitablesociety-bloom.kindful.com/embeds/2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb/init.js?type=button\" data-embed-id=\"2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb\" data-lookup-type=\"jquery-selector\" data-lookup-value=\"#kindful-donate-btn-2c0d716f-8ac3-4989-95af-b03d53a459cb\" data-styles-off=\"true\"></script>\n\n  <section id=\"comments\" class=\"comments comment-wrapper\">\n        <h2 class=\"comments__title title\"><i class=\"fa fa-comments\"></i> Comments</h2>\n    \n  <a id=\"comment-18197\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous first odd\" about=\"/comment/18197#comment-18197\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAc0lEQVRYhe3XsQnAIBBA0VzIQBkhI2UUR8oIjmST5he5QoRc8V8rwkfh0OhX2wrY/w542UF2kB1kB0Wylo/a87kX7qpyHnaQHWQHHdM71z7ksjk2HfE1rBJV7sUOsoPsoPBfCXaQHWQH2UH+K8kOsoPsoAH/ORQ4d7HGvQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18197#comment-18197\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Thanks and a correction</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18197#comment-18197\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-25T17:05:29+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Issam Nassar</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-25T17:05:29+00:00\">Tue, 02/25/2014 - 17:05</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>As the co-editor of the book, I am happy to see this excellent review. Just one correction regrarding the nabi Musa procession during easter. This was a Muslim, not Jewish events.</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n\n<div class=\"indented\"><a id=\"comment-18198\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-node-author even\" about=\"/comment/18198#comment-18198\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAc0lEQVRYhe3X0QmAIBRA0YwGaKRGapRGaqRG6PtCvg8pe8I9n4JyQXho2bdrqjvO9XH99V1zcFxPdpAdZAdl6SjxROpmad7ZNmprstyLHWQH2UGDzDHfhT+xg+wgO8gOsoPsIDtokPdYwH/ll+wgOyhLxw0/5RjdE4GHOQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18198#comment-18198\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Thanks Issam. We’ll check on</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18198#comment-18198\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-25T17:48:20+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" about=\"/user/24\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Ali Abunimah</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-25T17:48:20+00:00\">Tue, 02/25/2014 - 17:48</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/comment/18197#comment-18197\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>Thanks Issam. We&#8217;ll check on this and make the appropriate correction.</p>  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n</div><a id=\"comment-18199\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous odd\" about=\"/comment/18199#comment-18199\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAcElEQVRYhe3XsQnAIBgF4RgySEZw/ykcwVHSpDlI/oBNXnFfqQiHgmjrfW4B9r8DbnaQHWQH2UF2kB1kB9lBKR1HPT3G+ThevyYXVqXshx1kB9lBLeRf+XGPFdauuDcp52IH2UF2kB1kB9lBdlBKxwXTZwvdtS+hyAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18199#comment-18199\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Small correction</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18199#comment-18199\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-25T18:09:42+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Amr Tamimi</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-25T18:09:42+00:00\">Tue, 02/25/2014 - 18:09</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>Excellent review.  I need to move the Arab version I have from Lebanon so I can read it properly.</p>\n<p>I haven&#039;t read the part in question, but I&#039;m fairly certain that the Cairo Congress on Arabic Music, in which there was an almost exclusively Jewish Iraqi delegation (the sole exception was the singer, Muhammad al Gubbanchi), was in 1932, not 1931.</p>\n<p>Most of the delegation did end up in Israel in the fifties.</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n<a id=\"comment-18201\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous even\" about=\"/comment/18201#comment-18201\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAaklEQVRYhe3YwQnAIBAF0WxIYZZgqSkhpeWSy4Ag7CX/MO8oLAwKgtZzHwnOvwM+dpAdZAfZQXaQHWQH2UF2kB1kB9lBdtDVnhxzvd57MKfshx1kB9lBFfI/trnHepdVYyrlXOwgO8gOegHoSgk9s2S9wQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18201#comment-18201\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cultural Importance</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18201#comment-18201\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-26T04:33:50+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Millar</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-26T04:33:50+00:00\">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 04:33</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>Fascinating. I did a course at University on the Arab Israeli conflict, what it lacked was a systematic articulation of Palestinian culture. I did a bit of reading around and discovered that there was a thriving icon industry in Palestine that had existed since the Byzantine Empire. There is a vital need to propogate Palestinian heritage and culture, to show the world that Palestinians are a people of heritage and not just the victims of fate. It would be great if online sources, like for example, Electronic Intifada could publish more articles and links to sites that explore the culture of Palestine. Thankyou.</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n\n<div class=\"indented\"><a id=\"comment-18217\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous odd\" about=\"/comment/18217#comment-18217\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAdElEQVRYhe3WwQmAMAxAUSsO1NEcxdE6kucPJoegEOG/Y0vph0Lo2GJrnsluzVzX4/r++k01dpAdZAd16RhfDKuCI9+Oxl9eXzjV5V3sIDvIDrKD7CA7yA7q0vGT/1ii9lWLdHkXO8gOsoPsIDvIDrKDunTcuEQPPOQa9yYAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18217#comment-18217\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">I think this might be what</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18217#comment-18217\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-26T20:38:44+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Paul</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-26T20:38:44+00:00\">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 20:38</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/comment/18201#comment-18201\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>I think this might be what you are looking for: <a href=\"http://btd.palestine-studies.org/\">http://btd.palestine-studies.org/</a></p>\n<p>&quot;Before Their Diaspora is a visual journey into Palestine before 1948. Every important aspect of Palestinian society comes to life in the nearly 500 photographs, carefully selected from thousands available in private and public collections throughout the world. Descriptive, analytical texts, introduce each of the five historical periods into which the book is divided. Carefully researched, captions identify the time, place, personalities and context of each photograph.&quot;</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n</div><a id=\"comment-18208\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous even\" about=\"/comment/18208#comment-18208\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAdklEQVRYhe3YQQqAIBBA0SY6QEf1KB61I7T+0LiQlFn8tzSUj0Jk0e525PrTP8d/n3UOltvJDrKD7KAqHTF+I21TZT/sIDvIDrKD7CA7yA6yg6p0xODZik/G7OpbZT/sIDvIDqpyr7ymZ879wstUORc7yA6yg177PA8pPF7KNwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18208#comment-18208\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">&quot;Hell entered the Land of Israel with Herzl.&quot;</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18208#comment-18208\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-26T13:39:45+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Alec</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-26T13:39:45+00:00\">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 13:39</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>&quot;The chief rabbi of the Jewish Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, (1930) Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld, often referred to the Zionists as &quot;evil men and ruffians&quot; and claimed that &quot;Hell had entered the Land of Israel with Herzl.&quot; Sonnenfeld did not want the Orthodox Jewish community to become subject to secular Zionist authority. </p>\n<p>The spokesman for the anti-Zionist Ashkenasi community in Jerusalem, Dr Jacob Israël de Haan, endeavoured to form an alliance with the Arab nationalist leadership and hoped to reach an agreement that would allow unrestricted Jewish settlement in Arab lands in return for the relinquishment of Jewish political aspirations. In June 1924, de Haan was assassinated by the Haganah after having conveyed his proposals to King Hussein and his sons, Faisal and Abdullah.&quot;    ....Wikipedia</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n<a id=\"comment-18209\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous odd\" about=\"/comment/18209#comment-18209\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAdUlEQVRYhe3XQQqAIBQG4YwO1lE8WkfpaK1n0Q+JxlvMtxV0UHhg24Zc/Qyr/bq/briPdUxnB9lBdlCVjmP6RArCWVXuww6yg+ygKh0tz7HftLC2IvFtQFd5FzvIDrKDqnSkORb4v13MDrKD7CA7yA6yg+ygB2gQDtlYuvyLAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18209#comment-18209\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crocodile tears</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18209#comment-18209\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-26T13:56:53+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Anthony Shaker</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-26T13:56:53+00:00\">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 13:56</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>While you have most of your facts straight, your interpretation is nonsensical. In fact, the early Jewish colonists served a precise purpose--to prepare the ground for the seizure of Palestine by violent terrorists imported from the Pale, Eastern Europe and Western states. This went hand-in-glove with a strategy of lies by Great Britain and France with regard to the &quot;Arabs,&quot; a new tribal fiction invented by the West and swallowed whole by an Arabic speaking world pocked by the Saudi Wahhabism, a plague whose consequences we are witnessing today.</p>\n<p>Those early colonists infiltrated Palestinian society and tried hard to create &quot;relations&quot; where it suited them; they learned how to survive in a land unsuited for large citied populations and which hadn&#039;t infinite resources, especially water. They built their &quot;agriculture&#039; right in the midst of this growing mayhem. And then the calamity.</p>\n<p>A faceless little man called Harry Truman, the nearest thing to a black hole and the man who nuked Japan, was instrumental to getting Israel recognized as a state. But he stood on the shoulders of others in the UK, France and last but not least that little friend of Israel&#039;s, Lester Pearson, a Canadian. All drew their inspiration from a monster from England, Winston Churchil, who developed the use of carpet bombing on German cities in WWII and insisted on compliance by the US, who later applied this experience to Southeast Asia.</p>\n<p>Clearly, we can see what it took to establish the Zionist race colony people still call &quot;Israel.&quot; Lies, theft and murder on a grand scale. Those peachy local arrangements which the early Zionists sought with the Palestinians, just before their ruin, have been too well documented for journalists to go on babbling about how it might have been in Jerusalem.</p>\n<p>Just state it clearly: the concept Israel is based on a forged biblical document and a craven decision by the West to exculpate itself by imposing a tribal order in the Middle East they hope might stem the collapse of its short-lived Western empires.</p>\n<p>The West established a vicious colony of terrorists with genocide on their minds to carry out their work. This is why it is the end of the road for Israel as a race state. The whole design, imposing a tribal order on the region just to safeguard Israel is going up in smoke. Israel as a Zionist concept has no future and certainly no rosy past to cheer about, for heaven&#039;s sake!</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n\n<div class=\"indented\"><a id=\"comment-18295\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous even\" about=\"/comment/18295#comment-18295\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAZUlEQVRYhe3YsQ2AMAwAQcwEjJLRGIXRMgojpH4JUlhBuPgr48JfRVFie9fvazLNacf5eL4v35RjB9lBdpAdkrRGfPHoSqhyn9pBdpAdZAfZQXaQHWQHVemIycx/uv/YQXZQlY4BsfEImK+GgGYAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18295#comment-18295\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">What a Totally Irrelevant Comment</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18295#comment-18295\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-03-06T21:24:41+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><a href=\"http://www.mockman.com\" rel=\"nofollow foaf:page\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Jason Thompson</a> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-03-06T21:24:41+00:00\">Thu, 03/06/2014 - 21:24</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/comment/18209#comment-18209\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>I &quot;like&quot; how your comment has NOTHING to do with the content of the post, which doesn&#039;t mention Ashkenazi Jews AT ALL. What a completely random, ranting digression. There&#039;s absolutely zero in the post that serves as a justification or defense of the crappy modern apartheid state of Israel, but regardless, you just open up some canned rant attacking general targets in &quot;the West,&quot; exactly as some lame-ass white American CNN commentor might hijack a post that has some vague Islam/Arabic connection, in order to deliver an Islamophobic rant.</p>\n<p>In short: thank you for contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion.</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n</div><a id=\"comment-18221\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous odd\" about=\"/comment/18221#comment-18221\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAd0lEQVRYhe3XwQmAMBAFUSMWYIkpLSVaguc5uOCi8A/zrgsyRlji2FqutYrpOefbB+69js/ZQXaQHZTSMYpZvax6nlZcynnYQXaQHZTSMf5YVg1HPW7c8ArFO6d8FzvIDrKDUvZYynnYQXaQHWQH+X9LdpAdZAfdz7wQuJFa37wAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18221#comment-18221\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">By Way of Deception</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18221#comment-18221\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-26T23:42:21+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Deïr Yassin</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-26T23:42:21+00:00\">Wed, 02/26/2014 - 23:42</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>&quot;Those early colonists infiltrated Palestinian society and tried hard to create &quot;relations&quot; when it suited them&quot;</p>\n<p>Miguel Littin, the famous Chilean film director of Palestinian origin, made a film &quot;La Ultima Luna&quot; (Arabic/Spanish) that describes the deceit of some of the early Zionists. The final scenes are worth the whole film<br />\n<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcXKT_8DugI\">www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcXKT_...</a></p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n\n<div class=\"indented\"><a id=\"comment-18225\"></a>\n<article class=\"comment comment-by-anonymous last even\" about=\"/comment/18225#comment-18225\" typeof=\"sioc:Post sioct:Comment\">\n\n  <header>\n    <span class=\"user-picture\"><img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAd0lEQVRYhe3XwQmAMBAFUSMWYIkpLSVaguc5uOCi8A/zrgsyRlji2FqutYrpOefbB+69js/ZQXaQHZTSMYpZvax6nlZcynnYQXaQHZTSMf5YVg1HPW7c8ArFO6d8FzvIDrKDUvZYynnYQXaQHWQH+X9LdpAdZAfdz7wQuJFa37wAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"picture\" /></span>              <h3 property=\"dc:title\" datatype=\"\" class=\"comment__title comment-title\">\n        <a href=\"/comment/18225#comment-18225\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\">Reply</a>              </h3>\n        \n    <p class=\"comment__submitted\">\n      <a href=\"/comment/18225#comment-18225\" class=\"permalink\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property=\"dc:date dc:created\" content=\"2014-02-27T09:43:14+00:00\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" rel=\"sioc:has_creator\"><span class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" typeof=\"sioc:UserAccount\" property=\"foaf:name\" datatype=\"\">Deïr Yassin</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime=\"2014-02-27T09:43:14+00:00\">Thu, 02/27/2014 - 09:43</time></span>    </p>\n\n      </header>\n\n  <span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/content/bitter-sweet-glimpse-what-jerusalem-might-have-been/13198\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span rel=\"sioc:reply_of\" resource=\"/comment/18221#comment-18221\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n  <div class=\"field field-comment-body\">\n    <p>Sorry, that was a reply to the comment made by Anthony Shaker.</p>\n  </div>\n\n  \n  </article>\n</div>\n  </section>\n  \n</article>\n</div><div class=\"sumud-region-sidebar\"><div class=\"view view-author-nodes view-id-author_nodes view-display-id-panel_pane_2 view-dom-id-8385c9d0ef48b6501c9c7d6119399128\">\n        \n  \n  \n      <div class=\"view-content\">\n          <div class=\"views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first\">\n      <article class=\"node-21671 node node-review view-mode-compact image-portrait\" about=\"/content/poetry-steeped-sarcasm-and-politics/21671\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/poetry-steeped-sarcasm-and-politics/21671\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2017-09/31ngrinrx7l._sx326_bo1204203200_.jpg?itok=rcymukf5&amp;timestamp=1505159835 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  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class=\"date-display-single\">19 September 2017</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-21316 node node-review view-mode-compact image-portrait\" about=\"/content/palestinian-art-after-darwish/21316\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/palestinian-art-after-darwish/21316\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2017-08/170704-rahman.jpg?itok=6B0wo0UW&amp;timestamp=1501880600 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2017-08/170704-rahman.jpg?itok=6B0wo0UW&amp;timestamp=1501880600\" width=\"240\" height=\"384\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/palestinian-art-after-darwish/21316\">Palestinian art after Darwish</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Palestinian art after Darwish\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Sarah Irving</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2017-08-04T20:52:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">4 August 2017</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last\">\n      <article class=\"node-21191 node node-review view-mode-compact image-portrait\" about=\"/content/nostalgia-political-edge/21191\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/nostalgia-political-edge/21191\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2017-07/water-salt-cvr-website.jpg?itok=QvzGvQls&amp;timestamp=1500927298 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\" />\n<!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]-->\n<img  src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_240w/public/2017-07/water-salt-cvr-website.jpg?itok=QvzGvQls&amp;timestamp=1500927298\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Cover of Water &amp; Salt book shows opened doors in frame of destroyed cinderblock home\" title=\"\" />\n</picture></a>  </figure>\n\n      <header>\n                    <h2 class=\"node__title node-title\"><a href=\"/content/nostalgia-political-edge/21191\">Nostalgia with a political edge</a></h2>\n            <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Nostalgia with a political edge\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node_compact__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Sarah Irving</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2017-07-25T19:05:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">25 July 2017</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      </div>\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n</div><article class=\"node-14074 node node-blog view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/blogs/sarah-irving/best-books-newcomers-palestine-and-its-literature\" 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+It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.
+This is not because Jawhariyyeh was a major figure in Palestinian history or that he had great political influence. Quite the reverse.
+It is Jawhariyyeh’s lack of status that makes his memoirs so unusual, revealing new facets of Palestinian life before the Nakba — the ethnic cleansing that led to Israel’s establishment — and challenging many preconceptions and stereotypes.
+He grew up in an era when education was just starting to spread through society, so the vast majority of personal accounts come from the upper classes, often from members of well-known families such as the Husseinis and the Khalidis.
+Indeed, another recent ground-breaking publication in English was that of Anbara Salam Khalidi’s memoirs, one of the first accounts of life from a pre-Nakba woman, albeit one from Lebanon who married into the Palestinian elite.
+Wasif Jawhariyyeh was not from those elite families but his father was associated with the Husseinis, performing administrative jobs for the family alongside his activities as a merchant and silk farmer.
+According to Wasif’s account, his father was a close and trusted advisor to Salim al-Husseini and his son Musa Kazem.
+This association with a well-off family meant that, although the Jawhariyyehs’ financial situation was sometimes precarious, gifts from his father’s patron ensured that Wasif and his siblings rarely noticed.
+The descriptions of his childhood center around a large house shared with tenants, situated around a courtyard and with communal facilities.
+“If you entered the house on a Sunday,” writes Jawhariyyeh, “you would find families and relatives of both sexes with their children, some playing cards or backgammon, others singing or playing music with their friends, some smoking argileh [water pipe], or telling stories and anecdotes… . Our Muslim neighbors, both men and women, used to join us at times of sorrow or joy alike. On the… first night of Lent, we would all dress up — men and women.”
+This is a rare glimpse into “middle-class” life in Jerusalem at the end of the Ottoman period, where the important things are food, family and getting an education, not palatial homes and political goings-on.
+Talented musician
+Wasif, however, was found at a young age to be a talented musician, playing instruments such as the oud and the rababah or rebeck. This ability gives his autobiography an extra perspective, because he often worked as a personal musician to members of the Jerusalem elite, including men of the Husseini and Nashashibi families.
+We may be used to seeing these names in history books, making decisions which affected the political fate of Palestine.
+Wasif Jawhariyyeh, however, played his oud in the bachelor pads — called odas — of the young men of elite families, and in the cafes they frequented, and taught music and singing to their mistresses.
+Jawhariyyeh’s access to the upper echelons of Jerusalem society, as well as his formidable memory for anecdotes, also deliver personal insights into Britain’s colonial governors.
+They include the “cunning” Ronald Storrs and the eccentric Edward Keith-Roach, who cycled round the roof of the government building in his pyjamas and locked his beloved cat in to protect her from the advances of felines from the neighboring Morcos Hotel.
+Vibrant nightlife
+Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.
+Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.
+As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.
+Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.
+According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.
+The Jewish festivities included a procession from Jerusalem to the shrine of Moses near Jericho, which was also the destination for Muslim pilgrims during the Islamic festival of Nabi Musa.
+Sense of darkness
+Perhaps there is an element of nostalgia to Jawhariyyeh’s reminiscences of the earlier years of his life. Even allowing for this, there is a growing sense of darkness throughout the latter part of his memoirs, as political events — Zionist immigration and growing discrimination against the local population by the British Mandate authorities — start to impinge on everyday life.
+Music — including technological innovations such as radio — remained central to Jawhariyyeh’s professional and personal existence but even this was touched by the impending crisis.
+Jawhariyyeh recounts, for example, how a Jewish musician who had represented his home country, Iraq, at the 1931 Arabic music conference in Cairo went to play in a new orchestra, separate from the Palestinians, after political clashes split the artists.
+With the exception of a few minor inconsistencies in transliteration, this is a book about which one can be unequivocally enthusiastic. For those with background knowledge of Palestine under Ottoman and Mandate rule, it will be source of fresh perspectives and details.
+For those new to the period, the book — edited by Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar, and translated by Nada Elzeer — provides a highly readable, intimate account of life for urban Palestinians.
+And for all readers, its portrayal of a diverse, vibrant society is a bitter-sweet glimpse into what Palestine might have been, in a world without European and Zionist colonialism.
+Sarah Irving worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the occupied West Bank in 2001-02 and with Olive Co-op, promoting fair trade Palestinian products and solidarity visits, in 2004-06. She is the author of a biography of Leila Khaled and of the Bradt Guide to Palestine and co-editor of A Bird is not a Stone, a collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry in translation. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Black Weekend, Bloody Mud, and White Sand  </h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-6017 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-portrait" about="/content/black-weekend-bloody-mud-and-white-sand/6017" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/sami-abu-salem" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sami Abu Salem</a></span>
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+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2006-06-11T13:23:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">11 June 2006</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-8017" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/huda-ghalia.jpg?itok=-9xseyQf&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/huda-ghalia.jpg?itok=-9xseyQf&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="592" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Huda Ghalia, 12, a survivor of the attack, at Kamal Udwan Hospital, north of Gaza after losing her family, (Sami Abu Salem/<span class="caps">WAFA</span>)</p>
+</figcaption></figure><p>The tears have not yet left the innocent face of one astonished girl, Huda Ghalia, 12, who lost 7 members of her family yesterday, while they enjoyed their weekend at the shore in the town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza.</p>
+<p>Huda and her sisters and brothers were happily enjoying their first weekend together without thinking of homework, as they recently completed their school exams.</p>
+<p>The Ghalia family went to a less populated area at the northern part of the beach, where white sand dunes and little wild plants were scattered.</p>
+<p>They preferred to sit close to the shore, where the children were happy to play with water and the white, clean sand, and their mothers were happy to see the rare smiles on the children&#8217;s faces.</p>
+<p>Huda&#8217;s father, Ali, 45, a farmer, cooked corn before playing cards with other family members. Hanadi, 18 months old, was laying in her cradle as her mother rocked it.</p>
+<p>These enjoyable moments did not continue for long. Soon, the Israeli navy gunboats shot two bombs among the beachgoers.</p>
+<p>Ali hailed a taxi and called for his family members to leave quickly, as soon as possible, and they collected their luggage, the children collected their toys, and they fled the now-dangerous beach.</p>
+<p>Huda, who was lightly wounded in the arm, said that after her family left the scene of bombardment, they sat between sand dunes, waiting for a taxi.</p>
+<p>“I was eating corn and my mother was breast-feeding Hanadi. Other children were playing with toys, and my sister Amani was hugging her baby, Mohammed,” said Huda, as she cried.</p>
+<p>“My sister Sabreen was making domes with sand and Ilham was laughing at her. Ilham was trying to pick up a piece of corn and asked me to not go far because the taxi was on its way.”</p>
+<p>“Suddenly, a rocket hit our family. I was only several meters away. The rocket fell among my mother, father, sisters and brothers. The dust was so intense that I couldn&#8217;t see anything,” she said, while laying on her bed at Kamal Udwan Hospital.</p>
+<p>Seven members of the family were killed on the spot - the father Ali, 45, his son Haitham, 6 months, daughter Hanadi, 18 months, daughter Sabreen, 3, daughter Ilham, 7, daughter Alia, 25 and Ali&#8217;s second wife, Raifa, 26. Several other women and children were wounded.</p>
+<p>“I was so scared and ran away for several meters, and then I came back. I saw my brothers and sisters bleeding. I saw a head and hands but did not realize to whom they belonged. I saw my father - he was dead, lying on the dunes.”</p>
+<p>Eyewitness, Moneer Ghabin, said that he saw the “unbelievable and horrible” scene at the sea soon after the bombardment.</p>
+<p>“My friends and I had just arrived at the sea to spend the weekend. We heard a strong explosion and went to inspect what happened. It was unbelievable and horrible,” Ghabin said.</p>
+<p>“Huda was running between the sand dunes as if she were looking for something. She was weaving between the bodies, and the body parts, of her family. She was scared, astonished, surprised and crying,” Ghabin said.</p>
+<p>Ayham, 20, another of Ali&#8217;s sons, said that he was talking to his father just seconds before the attack.</p>
+<p>“When the shell hit us, I do not know what happened. Within seconds, I realized that my family had been turned into a heap of flesh. Unconsciously, I carried someone&#8217;s hand or leg - I&#8217;m not sure whose. I did not know what to do, and do not know why it happened,” Ayham said.</p>
+<figure id="file-8018" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/beach-toys-2.jpg?itok=0xtgpZkl&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/beach-toys-2.jpg?itok=0xtgpZkl&amp;timestamp=1448949295" width="483" height="559" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>The toys and the shoes of children in the bloody sand at Beit Lahia beach, after the Israeli attack. (Sami Abu Salem/<span class="caps">WAFA</span>)</p>
+</figcaption></figure>
+At the scene, yellow corn was covered with red mud. Pink and orange children&#8217;s shoes lay among different toys, scattered near a mattress saturated with blood.
+<p>The white sand was turned into red mud where a tuft of little girl&#8217;s hair and pieces of flesh were covered with a kite.</p>
+<p>Tens of people gathered at the scene gazing at the shoes and children&#8217;s toys. They wers shocked and appalled by what had happened.</p>
+<p>Samir Kullab, 33, was carrying his bag leaving the shore. As his children followed, he said that the Israelis committed this crime because “they feel angry to see Palestinians enjoying their lives.”</p>
+<p>Kullab said that he could not understand why it happened and promised that he will never come, or allow his children to come, to see the sea again.</p>
+<p>Sami Abu Salem lives in Jabalia Refugee Camp and works as an English news and features writer at the <a href="http://english.wafa.ps/" target="_blank">Palestine News Agency (WAFA)</a>. This article is reprinted by permission from WAFA. He has also worked at the <a href="http://ipc.gov.ps" target="_blank">International Press Center</a> of the Palestinian Authority State Information Service, and works as a freelance writer for local newspapers, focusing on literature and arts.</p>
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                <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Black Weekend, Bloody Mud, and White Sand  </h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-6017 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-portrait\" about=\"/content/black-weekend-bloody-mud-and-white-sand/6017\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Black Weekend, Bloody Mud, and White Sand  \" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/sami-abu-salem\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Sami Abu Salem</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2006-06-11T13:23:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">11 June 2006</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-8017\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/huda-ghalia.jpg?itok=-9xseyQf&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/huda-ghalia.jpg?itok=-9xseyQf&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"592\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Huda Ghalia, 12, a survivor of the attack, at Kamal Udwan Hospital, north of Gaza after losing her family, (Sami Abu Salem/<span class=\"caps\">WAFA</span>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure><p>The tears have not yet left the innocent face of one astonished girl, Huda Ghalia, 12, who lost 7 members of her family yesterday, while they enjoyed their weekend at the shore in the town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza.</p>\n\n<p>Huda and her sisters and brothers were happily enjoying their first weekend together without thinking of homework, as they recently completed their school exams.</p>\n\n<p>The Ghalia family went to a less populated area at the northern part of the beach, where white sand dunes and little wild plants were scattered.</p>\n\n<p>They preferred to sit close to the shore, where the children were happy to play with water and the white, clean sand, and their mothers were happy to see the rare smiles on the children&#8217;s faces.</p>\n\n<p>Huda&#8217;s father, Ali, 45, a farmer, cooked corn before playing cards with other family members. Hanadi, 18 months old, was laying in her cradle as her mother rocked it.</p>\n\n<p>These enjoyable moments did not continue for long. Soon, the Israeli navy gunboats shot two bombs among the beachgoers.</p>\n\n<p>Ali hailed a taxi and called for his family members to leave quickly, as soon as possible, and they collected their luggage, the children collected their toys, and they fled the now-dangerous beach.</p>\n\n<p>Huda, who was lightly wounded in the arm, said that after her family left the scene of bombardment, they sat between sand dunes, waiting for a taxi.</p>\n\n<p>“I was eating corn and my mother was breast-feeding Hanadi. Other children were playing with toys, and my sister Amani was hugging her baby, Mohammed,” said Huda, as she cried.</p>\n\n<p>“My sister Sabreen was making domes with sand and Ilham was laughing at her. Ilham was trying to pick up a piece of corn and asked me to not go far because the taxi was on its way.”</p>\n\n<p>“Suddenly, a rocket hit our family. I was only several meters away. The rocket fell among my mother, father, sisters and brothers. The dust was so intense that I couldn&#8217;t see anything,” she said, while laying on her bed at Kamal Udwan Hospital.</p>\n\n<p>Seven members of the family were killed on the spot - the father Ali, 45, his son Haitham, 6 months, daughter Hanadi, 18 months, daughter Sabreen, 3, daughter Ilham, 7, daughter Alia, 25 and Ali&#8217;s second wife, Raifa, 26. Several other women and children were wounded.</p>\n\n<p>“I was so scared and ran away for several meters, and then I came back. I saw my brothers and sisters bleeding. I saw a head and hands but did not realize to whom they belonged. I saw my father - he was dead, lying on the dunes.”</p>\n\n<p>Eyewitness, Moneer Ghabin, said that he saw the “unbelievable and horrible” scene at the sea soon after the bombardment.</p>\n\n<p>“My friends and I had just arrived at the sea to spend the weekend. We heard a strong explosion and went to inspect what happened. It was unbelievable and horrible,” Ghabin said.</p>\n\n<p>“Huda was running between the sand dunes as if she were looking for something. She was weaving between the bodies, and the body parts, of her family. She was scared, astonished, surprised and crying,” Ghabin said.</p>\n\n<p>Ayham, 20, another of Ali&#8217;s sons, said that he was talking to his father just seconds before the attack.</p>\n\n<p>“When the shell hit us, I do not know what happened. Within seconds, I realized that my family had been turned into a heap of flesh. Unconsciously, I carried someone&#8217;s hand or leg - I&#8217;m not sure whose. I did not know what to do, and do not know why it happened,” Ayham said.</p>\n\n<figure id=\"file-8018\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-center file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/beach-toys-2.jpg?itok=0xtgpZkl&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2006-06/beach-toys-2.jpg?itok=0xtgpZkl&amp;timestamp=1448949295\" width=\"483\" height=\"559\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>The toys and the shoes of children in the bloody sand at Beit Lahia beach, after the Israeli attack. (Sami Abu Salem/<span class=\"caps\">WAFA</span>)</p>\n</figcaption></figure>\nAt the scene, yellow corn was covered with red mud. Pink and orange children&#8217;s shoes lay among different toys, scattered near a mattress saturated with blood.\n\n<p>The white sand was turned into red mud where a tuft of little girl&#8217;s hair and pieces of flesh were covered with a kite.</p>\n\n<p>Tens of people gathered at the scene gazing at the shoes and children&#8217;s toys. They wers shocked and appalled by what had happened.</p>\n\n<p>Samir Kullab, 33, was carrying his bag leaving the shore. As his children followed, he said that the Israelis committed this crime because “they feel angry to see Palestinians enjoying their lives.”</p>\n\n<p>Kullab said that he could not understand why it happened and promised that he will never come, or allow his children to come, to see the sea again.</p>\n\n<p>Sami Abu Salem lives in Jabalia Refugee Camp and works as an English news and features writer at the <a href=\"http://english.wafa.ps/\" target=\"_blank\">Palestine News Agency (WAFA)</a>. This article is reprinted by permission from WAFA. He has also worked at the <a href=\"http://ipc.gov.ps\" target=\"_blank\">International Press Center</a> of the Palestinian Authority State Information Service, and works as a freelance writer for local newspapers, focusing on literature and arts.</p>\n\n<p>Related Links\n</p><li><a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4791.shtml\">Serious Escalation in Israeli Attacks: 14 Palestinians killed in past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, including 2 parents, 5 of their children and 2 brothers; 36 injured</a>, Field Report, PCHR (11 June 2006)\n</li><li><a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4793.shtml\">Gaza: On the Beach</a>, Mona Elfarra (11 June 2006)</li>\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A//electronicintifada.net/content/black-weekend-bloody-mud-and-white-sand/6017\" class=\"popup\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook-official fa-2x\"></i><span> Facebook</span></a></li>\n<li class=\"ei_twitter 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                  \n<span class=\"field field-author\">Sami Abu Salem</span>                              \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2010-04-09T10:31:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">9 April 2010</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  \n    \n</article>\n    </div>\n      <div class=\"views-row views-row-2 views-row-even\">\n      <article class=\"node-7684 node node-story view-mode-compact image-landscape\" about=\"/content/ramattan-reporter-reaches-gaza-board-liberty/7684\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n  \n  <figure class=\"field field-image\">\n    <a href=\"/content/ramattan-reporter-reaches-gaza-board-liberty/7684\"><picture >\n<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]-->\n<source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/square_150w/public/2008-08/080826-fgm-ramattan.jpg?itok=Imsi_Gfm&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1.5x, 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+  "articleTitle": "Black Weekend, Bloody Mud, and White Sand"
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+Huda Ghalia, 12, a survivor of the attack, at Kamal Udwan Hospital, north of Gaza after losing her family, (Sami Abu Salem/WAFA)
+The tears have not yet left the innocent face of one astonished girl, Huda Ghalia, 12, who lost 7 members of her family yesterday, while they enjoyed their weekend at the shore in the town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza.
+Huda and her sisters and brothers were happily enjoying their first weekend together without thinking of homework, as they recently completed their school exams.
+The Ghalia family went to a less populated area at the northern part of the beach, where white sand dunes and little wild plants were scattered.
+They preferred to sit close to the shore, where the children were happy to play with water and the white, clean sand, and their mothers were happy to see the rare smiles on the children’s faces.
+Huda’s father, Ali, 45, a farmer, cooked corn before playing cards with other family members. Hanadi, 18 months old, was laying in her cradle as her mother rocked it.
+These enjoyable moments did not continue for long. Soon, the Israeli navy gunboats shot two bombs among the beachgoers.
+Ali hailed a taxi and called for his family members to leave quickly, as soon as possible, and they collected their luggage, the children collected their toys, and they fled the now-dangerous beach.
+Huda, who was lightly wounded in the arm, said that after her family left the scene of bombardment, they sat between sand dunes, waiting for a taxi.
+“I was eating corn and my mother was breast-feeding Hanadi. Other children were playing with toys, and my sister Amani was hugging her baby, Mohammed,” said Huda, as she cried.
+“My sister Sabreen was making domes with sand and Ilham was laughing at her. Ilham was trying to pick up a piece of corn and asked me to not go far because the taxi was on its way.”
+“Suddenly, a rocket hit our family. I was only several meters away. The rocket fell among my mother, father, sisters and brothers. The dust was so intense that I couldn’t see anything,” she said, while laying on her bed at Kamal Udwan Hospital.
+Seven members of the family were killed on the spot - the father Ali, 45, his son Haitham, 6 months, daughter Hanadi, 18 months, daughter Sabreen, 3, daughter Ilham, 7, daughter Alia, 25 and Ali’s second wife, Raifa, 26. Several other women and children were wounded.
+“I was so scared and ran away for several meters, and then I came back. I saw my brothers and sisters bleeding. I saw a head and hands but did not realize to whom they belonged. I saw my father - he was dead, lying on the dunes.”
+Eyewitness, Moneer Ghabin, said that he saw the “unbelievable and horrible” scene at the sea soon after the bombardment.
+“My friends and I had just arrived at the sea to spend the weekend. We heard a strong explosion and went to inspect what happened. It was unbelievable and horrible,” Ghabin said.
+“Huda was running between the sand dunes as if she were looking for something. She was weaving between the bodies, and the body parts, of her family. She was scared, astonished, surprised and crying,” Ghabin said.
+Ayham, 20, another of Ali’s sons, said that he was talking to his father just seconds before the attack.
+“When the shell hit us, I do not know what happened. Within seconds, I realized that my family had been turned into a heap of flesh. Unconsciously, I carried someone’s hand or leg - I’m not sure whose. I did not know what to do, and do not know why it happened,” Ayham said.
+The toys and the shoes of children in the bloody sand at Beit Lahia beach, after the Israeli attack. (Sami Abu Salem/WAFA)
+At the scene, yellow corn was covered with red mud. Pink and orange children’s shoes lay among different toys, scattered near a mattress saturated with blood.
+The white sand was turned into red mud where a tuft of little girl’s hair and pieces of flesh were covered with a kite.
+Tens of people gathered at the scene gazing at the shoes and children’s toys. They wers shocked and appalled by what had happened.
+Samir Kullab, 33, was carrying his bag leaving the shore. As his children followed, he said that the Israelis committed this crime because “they feel angry to see Palestinians enjoying their lives.”
+Kullab said that he could not understand why it happened and promised that he will never come, or allow his children to come, to see the sea again.
+Sami Abu Salem lives in Jabalia Refugee Camp and works as an English news and features writer at the Palestine News Agency (WAFA). This article is reprinted by permission from WAFA. He has also worked at the International Press Center of the Palestinian Authority State Information Service, and works as a freelance writer for local newspapers, focusing on literature and arts.
+Related Links
+Serious Escalation in Israeli Attacks: 14 Palestinians killed in past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, including 2 parents, 5 of their children and 2 brothers; 36 injured, Field Report, PCHR (11 June 2006)
+Gaza: On the Beach, Mona Elfarra (11 June 2006)

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+                    <h1 class="page__title title balance-text" id="page-title">Blockade leaves Gaza&#8217;s firefighters badly equipped</h1>
+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-36761 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape" about="/content/blockade-leaves-gazas-firefighters-badly-equipped/36761" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/ghada-al-haddad" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ghada Al-Haddad</a></span>
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+  <figure id="file-126931" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-12/gazafirefighters.jpeg?itok=5eBpn_ae&amp;timestamp=1670324736 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-12/gazafirefighters.jpeg?itok=5eBpn_ae&amp;timestamp=1670324736" width="800" height="533" alt="Firefighters tackle a blaze" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>FIrefighters in Gaza tackle a fire caused by an Israeli misile strike on an UNRWA storehouse in 2014.</p><small class="credit">
+<span class="field field-author">Ashraf Amra</span>
+<span class="field field-publisher">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>Kamel Arafa’s family is in constant fear that something bad could happen to him. Relatives of the firefighter from the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jabaliya-refugee-camp">Jabaliya refugee camp</a> in Gaza City have therefore decided to try to stay in constant touch with him during emergencies.</p>
+<p>It doesn’t quite suit Arafa, 38, even if he appreciates the concern.</p>
+<p>“It is better not to call. I’ve asked my family to calm down. They just can’t. They are right as well. What we go through is brutal.”</p>
+<p>The father of four has been an emergency responder for 15 years. He joined rescue crews during all recent major Israeli aggressions against Gaza, starting in <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/2008-09-gaza-assault">2008</a>.</p>
+<p>“Every time I hear my phone ringing during escalations, I instantly understand it is work with a new emergency and probably more casualties,” he told The Electronic Intifada.</p>
+<p>He answers such calls with mixed feelings.</p>
+<p>“We throw ourselves into dangerous situations to rescue people from death but we know we might be dead ourselves at any moment.”</p>
+<p>During Israeli offensives, Arafa works from early morning until late night to rescue people and their belongings, especially those buried under rubble. He sometimes does not return to his house for five or more consecutive nights.</p>
+<p>“Once we get a chance to rest before heading to a new task, we nap anywhere. Anywhere. On any piece of cloth, on the sidewalk, in the car.”</p>
+<p>Despite all the challenges, he said, they will continue to work. No matter the danger, every first responder will only work harder when they hear people crying for help from under rubble, he said.</p>
+<h2>2014 trauma</h2>
+<p>During challenging times, Arafa wants to be next to his children, aged between 6 and 12, and wife to reassure them. “I sometimes hug them so hard before leaving home, a goodbye hug as if I might not return.”</p>
+<p>First responders usually carry traumatic memories around with them. Arafa has his share.</p>
+<p>The 2014 massacre which Israel carried out in the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/shujaiya-massacre">Shujaiya</a> neighborhood of Gaza City proved particularly harrowing.</p>
+<p>“In 2014, we were able to enter Shujaiya after Israel declared a humanitarian truce. The truce was violated immediately by the Israeli forces. The whole scene was awful. Many bodies were strewn on the ground. Some were fully burnt. There were also the bodies of animals.”</p>
+<p>During the same assault, he still vividly remembers the aftermath of the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/gazas-ruins-we-will-think-those-we-lost/14724">Wahdan family</a> massacre in the northern Gaza town Beit Hanoun. Israeli soldiers had kept the family inside and used their home as a military base.</p>
+<p>Twelve people died there, and Arafa vividly remembers specifically how the women’s bodies were burnt.</p>
+<p>“I cannot forget at all. It was horrifying,” he told The Electronic Intifada.</p>
+<p>“We saw women besides their children, all dead under the rubble. I sometimes think of their last moments, what they were thinking of, and how they felt. It is a bad ending.”</p>
+<p>Like Arafa, Mohammad Abu Shaqfa worked throughout all Israel’s wars on the Gaza Strip. He remembers them all simply as bloody conflicts filled with people in need of his help, except for 2014, when it got more personal, and he lost two of his closest colleagues in front of his eyes.</p>
+<p>Abu Shaqfa, 34, and five of his colleagues had been called to the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/shujaiya">Shujaiya</a> neighborhood, and thought at first that the shelling had stopped.</p>
+<p>“All of a sudden, a series of heavy explosive tank shells were fired directly at us. Our colleagues Rami Thaher and Ahed Dahduh were killed in front of my eyes,” said Abu Shaqfa.</p>
+<p>He took a small pause to collect himself before he continued.</p>
+<p>“It was a shock. I was in disbelief,” Abu Shaqfa told The Electronic Intifada. “It was a huge loss for me.”</p>
+<h2>No protection</h2>
+<p>For Abu Shaqfa, the job is just that, a job.</p>
+<p>“I have no difficulty rescuing people I don’t know.”</p>
+<p>But it was different with his colleagues. “It was much harder,” he said. “We were six on that mission. Only four came back.”</p>
+<p>He had done his best to deal with the situation and continue working. But he concedes that “I did not give myself enough time” to process what he had just seen.</p>
+<p>There were other people to rescue, he said. “Under pressure, I returned to reality and started to work again.”</p>
+<p>With limited staff and equipment, Gaza’s civil defence sometimes calls on volunteers to assist in a rescue operation, like in the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/al-wihda-street-massacre/33366">Wihda Street massacre</a> in Gaza City last year, where residential buildings belonging to the Abu al-Ouf and al-Qawlaq families were bombed at nearly the same time.</p>
+<p>“Calling more people to join us was important as the destruction was massive, and we needed to avoid a high rate of civilian casualties,” Abu Shaqfa said.</p>
+<p>It is the ever-present danger of Israeli aggression, and the high price such aggression exacts, that makes the work of first responders in Gaza so demanding and dangerous. Add to this, an Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza prevents necessary equipment from helping the civil defense forces modernize.</p>
+<p>Thus, Gaza’s firefighters are unable to secure vital items like fire hoses, firefighter lights or spears under Israel’s so-called <a href="https://gisha.org/UserFiles/File/publications/Dark_Gray_Lists/Dark_Gray_Lists-en.pdf">dual-use</a> lists of banned products.</p>
+<p>The poor resources available to Gaza&#8217;s firefighters were briefly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-strip-fire.html">noted</a> by Western media last month.</p>
+<p><em>The New York Times</em> reported, for example, that the first two fire trucks which reached the scene of a major fire in Jabaliya refugee camp did not even have a ladder between them. That was despite how the building where the fire occurred had a number of floors.</p>
+<p>A total of 21 people were <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/fire-gaza-will-never-forget/36731">killed</a> in the Jabaliya fire.</p>
+<p>Better equipment could allow first responders in Gaza to “save thousands of lives,” Samir al-Khatib, deputy director of Gaza’s civil defense, said.</p>
+<p>“We have not been able to keep pace with developments abroad. “</p>
+<p>In all, according to al-Khatib, Gaza has between 450 and 500 emergency responders, including firefighters.</p>
+<p>First responders are supposed to be protected under the Geneva Conventions. However, according to al-Khatib, 34 have been killed during Israel’s aggressions against Gaza since 2008.</p>
+<p>“We have been targeted multiple times even though we always wear our uniforms. Our cars are known to the Israeli side,” said al-Khatib. But, “we cannot trust the Israeli soldiers. We fear the treachery of the occupation forces.”</p>
+<p><em>Ghada Al-Haddad is a journalist based in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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class=\"breadcrumb\" role=\"navigation\" prefix=\"v: http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#\"><h2 class=\"element-invisible\">You are here</h2><span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"/\" rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\" content=\"Home\"></a></span></nav>      <a id=\"main-content\"></a>\n                    <h1 class=\"page__title title balance-text\" id=\"page-title\">Blockade leaves Gaza&#8217;s firefighters badly equipped</h1>\n                                          \n\n\n<div class=\"sumud-region-main\"><article class=\"node-36761 node node-story view-mode-full node-is-page image-landscape\" about=\"/content/blockade-leaves-gazas-firefighters-badly-equipped/36761\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n\n      <header class=\"node__header\">\n                  <span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Blockade leaves Gaza&#039;s firefighters badly equipped\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span><span property=\"sioc:num_replies\" content=\"0\" datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/ghada-al-haddad\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Ghada Al-Haddad</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2022-12-06T16:10:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">6 December 2022</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-126931\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-jpeg\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-12/gazafirefighters.jpeg?itok=5eBpn_ae&amp;timestamp=1670324736 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-12/gazafirefighters.jpeg?itok=5eBpn_ae&amp;timestamp=1670324736\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Firefighters tackle a blaze\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>FIrefighters in Gaza tackle a fire caused by an Israeli misile strike on an UNRWA storehouse in 2014.</p><small class=\"credit\">\n<span class=\"field field-author\">Ashraf Amra</span>\n<span class=\"field field-publisher\">APA images</span></small></figcaption></figure><p>Kamel Arafa’s family is in constant fear that something bad could happen to him. Relatives of the firefighter from the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jabaliya-refugee-camp\">Jabaliya refugee camp</a> in Gaza City have therefore decided to try to stay in constant touch with him during emergencies.</p>\n\n<p>It doesn’t quite suit Arafa, 38, even if he appreciates the concern.</p>\n\n<p>“It is better not to call. I’ve asked my family to calm down. They just can’t. They are right as well. What we go through is brutal.”</p>\n\n<p>The father of four has been an emergency responder for 15 years. He joined rescue crews during all recent major Israeli aggressions against Gaza, starting in <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/2008-09-gaza-assault\">2008</a>.</p>\n\n<p>“Every time I hear my phone ringing during escalations, I instantly understand it is work with a new emergency and probably more casualties,” he told The Electronic Intifada.</p>\n\n<p>He answers such calls with mixed feelings.</p>\n\n<p>“We throw ourselves into dangerous situations to rescue people from death but we know we might be dead ourselves at any moment.”</p>\n\n<p>During Israeli offensives, Arafa works from early morning until late night to rescue people and their belongings, especially those buried under rubble. He sometimes does not return to his house for five or more consecutive nights.</p>\n\n<p>“Once we get a chance to rest before heading to a new task, we nap anywhere. Anywhere. On any piece of cloth, on the sidewalk, in the car.”</p>\n\n<p>Despite all the challenges, he said, they will continue to work. No matter the danger, every first responder will only work harder when they hear people crying for help from under rubble, he said.</p>\n\n<h2>2014 trauma</h2>\n\n<p>During challenging times, Arafa wants to be next to his children, aged between 6 and 12, and wife to reassure them. “I sometimes hug them so hard before leaving home, a goodbye hug as if I might not return.”</p>\n\n<p>First responders usually carry traumatic memories around with them. Arafa has his share.</p>\n\n<p>The 2014 massacre which Israel carried out in the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/shujaiya-massacre\">Shujaiya</a> neighborhood of Gaza City proved particularly harrowing.</p>\n\n<p>“In 2014, we were able to enter Shujaiya after Israel declared a humanitarian truce. The truce was violated immediately by the Israeli forces. The whole scene was awful. Many bodies were strewn on the ground. Some were fully burnt. There were also the bodies of animals.”</p>\n\n<p>During the same assault, he still vividly remembers the aftermath of the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/gazas-ruins-we-will-think-those-we-lost/14724\">Wahdan family</a> massacre in the northern Gaza town Beit Hanoun. Israeli soldiers had kept the family inside and used their home as a military base.</p>\n\n<p>Twelve people died there, and Arafa vividly remembers specifically how the women’s bodies were burnt.</p>\n\n<p>“I cannot forget at all. It was horrifying,” he told The Electronic Intifada.</p>\n\n<p>“We saw women besides their children, all dead under the rubble. I sometimes think of their last moments, what they were thinking of, and how they felt. It is a bad ending.”</p>\n\n<p>Like Arafa, Mohammad Abu Shaqfa worked throughout all Israel’s wars on the Gaza Strip. He remembers them all simply as bloody conflicts filled with people in need of his help, except for 2014, when it got more personal, and he lost two of his closest colleagues in front of his eyes.</p>\n\n<p>Abu Shaqfa, 34, and five of his colleagues had been called to the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/tags/shujaiya\">Shujaiya</a> neighborhood, and thought at first that the shelling had stopped.</p>\n\n<p>“All of a sudden, a series of heavy explosive tank shells were fired directly at us. Our colleagues Rami Thaher and Ahed Dahduh were killed in front of my eyes,” said Abu Shaqfa.</p>\n\n<p>He took a small pause to collect himself before he continued.</p>\n\n<p>“It was a shock. I was in disbelief,” Abu Shaqfa told The Electronic Intifada. “It was a huge loss for me.”</p>\n\n<h2>No protection</h2>\n\n<p>For Abu Shaqfa, the job is just that, a job.</p>\n\n<p>“I have no difficulty rescuing people I don’t know.”</p>\n\n<p>But it was different with his colleagues. “It was much harder,” he said. “We were six on that mission. Only four came back.”</p>\n\n<p>He had done his best to deal with the situation and continue working. But he concedes that “I did not give myself enough time” to process what he had just seen.</p>\n\n<p>There were other people to rescue, he said. “Under pressure, I returned to reality and started to work again.”</p>\n\n<p>With limited staff and equipment, Gaza’s civil defence sometimes calls on volunteers to assist in a rescue operation, like in the <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/al-wihda-street-massacre/33366\">Wihda Street massacre</a> in Gaza City last year, where residential buildings belonging to the Abu al-Ouf and al-Qawlaq families were bombed at nearly the same time.</p>\n\n<p>“Calling more people to join us was important as the destruction was massive, and we needed to avoid a high rate of civilian casualties,” Abu Shaqfa said.</p>\n\n<p>It is the ever-present danger of Israeli aggression, and the high price such aggression exacts, that makes the work of first responders in Gaza so demanding and dangerous. Add to this, an Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza prevents necessary equipment from helping the civil defense forces modernize.</p>\n\n<p>Thus, Gaza’s firefighters are unable to secure vital items like fire hoses, firefighter lights or spears under Israel’s so-called <a href=\"https://gisha.org/UserFiles/File/publications/Dark_Gray_Lists/Dark_Gray_Lists-en.pdf\">dual-use</a> lists of banned products.</p>\n\n<p>The poor resources available to Gaza&#8217;s firefighters were briefly <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-strip-fire.html\">noted</a> by Western media last month.</p>\n\n<p><em>The New York Times</em> reported, for example, that the first two fire trucks which reached the scene of a major fire in Jabaliya refugee camp did not even have a ladder between them. That was despite how the building where the fire occurred had a number of floors.</p>\n\n<p>A total of 21 people were <a href=\"https://electronicintifada.net/content/fire-gaza-will-never-forget/36731\">killed</a> in the Jabaliya fire.</p>\n\n<p>Better equipment could allow first responders in Gaza to “save thousands of lives,” Samir al-Khatib, deputy director of Gaza’s civil defense, said.</p>\n\n<p>“We have not been able to keep pace with developments abroad. “</p>\n\n<p>In all, according to al-Khatib, Gaza has between 450 and 500 emergency responders, including firefighters.</p>\n\n<p>First responders are supposed to be protected under the Geneva Conventions. However, according to al-Khatib, 34 have been killed during Israel’s aggressions against Gaza since 2008.</p>\n\n<p>“We have been targeted multiple times even though we always wear our uniforms. Our cars are known to the Israeli side,” said al-Khatib. But, “we cannot trust the Israeli soldiers. We fear the treachery of the occupation forces.”</p>\n\n<p><em>Ghada Al-Haddad is a journalist based in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class=\"field-label field field-tag\">\n    <i class=\"fa fa-tags\"></i> <span>Tags</span>\n  </h3>\n\n<ul class=\"field field-tag\">\n\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-siege\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza siege</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-blockade\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza blockade</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/gaza-firefighters\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Gaza firefighters</a>    </li>\n      <li>\n      <a href=\"/tags/civil-defense-directorate\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Civil Defense Directorate</a>    </li>\n  \n</ul>\n\n  <ul class=\"links inline\"><li class=\"ei_facebook first\"><a 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+FIrefighters in Gaza tackle a fire caused by an Israeli misile strike on an UNRWA storehouse in 2014.
+APA imagesKamel Arafa’s family is in constant fear that something bad could happen to him. Relatives of the firefighter from the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza City have therefore decided to try to stay in constant touch with him during emergencies.
+It doesn’t quite suit Arafa, 38, even if he appreciates the concern.
+“It is better not to call. I’ve asked my family to calm down. They just can’t. They are right as well. What we go through is brutal.”
+The father of four has been an emergency responder for 15 years. He joined rescue crews during all recent major Israeli aggressions against Gaza, starting in 2008.
+“Every time I hear my phone ringing during escalations, I instantly understand it is work with a new emergency and probably more casualties,” he told The Electronic Intifada.
+He answers such calls with mixed feelings.
+“We throw ourselves into dangerous situations to rescue people from death but we know we might be dead ourselves at any moment.”
+During Israeli offensives, Arafa works from early morning until late night to rescue people and their belongings, especially those buried under rubble. He sometimes does not return to his house for five or more consecutive nights.
+“Once we get a chance to rest before heading to a new task, we nap anywhere. Anywhere. On any piece of cloth, on the sidewalk, in the car.”
+Despite all the challenges, he said, they will continue to work. No matter the danger, every first responder will only work harder when they hear people crying for help from under rubble, he said.
+2014 trauma
+During challenging times, Arafa wants to be next to his children, aged between 6 and 12, and wife to reassure them. “I sometimes hug them so hard before leaving home, a goodbye hug as if I might not return.”
+First responders usually carry traumatic memories around with them. Arafa has his share.
+The 2014 massacre which Israel carried out in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City proved particularly harrowing.
+“In 2014, we were able to enter Shujaiya after Israel declared a humanitarian truce. The truce was violated immediately by the Israeli forces. The whole scene was awful. Many bodies were strewn on the ground. Some were fully burnt. There were also the bodies of animals.”
+During the same assault, he still vividly remembers the aftermath of the Wahdan family massacre in the northern Gaza town Beit Hanoun. Israeli soldiers had kept the family inside and used their home as a military base.
+Twelve people died there, and Arafa vividly remembers specifically how the women’s bodies were burnt.
+“I cannot forget at all. It was horrifying,” he told The Electronic Intifada.
+“We saw women besides their children, all dead under the rubble. I sometimes think of their last moments, what they were thinking of, and how they felt. It is a bad ending.”
+Like Arafa, Mohammad Abu Shaqfa worked throughout all Israel’s wars on the Gaza Strip. He remembers them all simply as bloody conflicts filled with people in need of his help, except for 2014, when it got more personal, and he lost two of his closest colleagues in front of his eyes.
+Abu Shaqfa, 34, and five of his colleagues had been called to the Shujaiya neighborhood, and thought at first that the shelling had stopped.
+“All of a sudden, a series of heavy explosive tank shells were fired directly at us. Our colleagues Rami Thaher and Ahed Dahduh were killed in front of my eyes,” said Abu Shaqfa.
+He took a small pause to collect himself before he continued.
+“It was a shock. I was in disbelief,” Abu Shaqfa told The Electronic Intifada. “It was a huge loss for me.”
+No protection
+For Abu Shaqfa, the job is just that, a job.
+“I have no difficulty rescuing people I don’t know.”
+But it was different with his colleagues. “It was much harder,” he said. “We were six on that mission. Only four came back.”
+He had done his best to deal with the situation and continue working. But he concedes that “I did not give myself enough time” to process what he had just seen.
+There were other people to rescue, he said. “Under pressure, I returned to reality and started to work again.”
+With limited staff and equipment, Gaza’s civil defence sometimes calls on volunteers to assist in a rescue operation, like in the Wihda Street massacre in Gaza City last year, where residential buildings belonging to the Abu al-Ouf and al-Qawlaq families were bombed at nearly the same time.
+“Calling more people to join us was important as the destruction was massive, and we needed to avoid a high rate of civilian casualties,” Abu Shaqfa said.
+It is the ever-present danger of Israeli aggression, and the high price such aggression exacts, that makes the work of first responders in Gaza so demanding and dangerous. Add to this, an Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza prevents necessary equipment from helping the civil defense forces modernize.
+Thus, Gaza’s firefighters are unable to secure vital items like fire hoses, firefighter lights or spears under Israel’s so-called dual-use lists of banned products.
+The poor resources available to Gaza’s firefighters were briefly noted by Western media last month.
+The New York Times reported, for example, that the first two fire trucks which reached the scene of a major fire in Jabaliya refugee camp did not even have a ladder between them. That was despite how the building where the fire occurred had a number of floors.
+A total of 21 people were killed in the Jabaliya fire.
+Better equipment could allow first responders in Gaza to “save thousands of lives,” Samir al-Khatib, deputy director of Gaza’s civil defense, said.
+“We have not been able to keep pace with developments abroad. “
+In all, according to al-Khatib, Gaza has between 450 and 500 emergency responders, including firefighters.
+First responders are supposed to be protected under the Geneva Conventions. However, according to al-Khatib, 34 have been killed during Israel’s aggressions against Gaza since 2008.
+“We have been targeted multiple times even though we always wear our uniforms. Our cars are known to the Israeli side,” said al-Khatib. But, “we cannot trust the Israeli soldiers. We fear the treachery of the occupation forces.”
+Ghada Al-Haddad is a journalist based in Gaza.
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+  <figure id="file-170423" class="media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-png"><picture class="media-element file-figure"><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/250813_-_picture.png?itok=YfkcyeGp&amp;timestamp=1755150144 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class="media-element file-figure" src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/250813_-_picture.png?itok=YfkcyeGp&amp;timestamp=1755150144" width="800" height="450" alt="" title="" /></picture><figcaption class="group-caption field-group-html-element"><p>Hussein Odeh pictured with his brother Omar; Omar was subsequently killed by Israel. (Via Facebook) </p></figcaption></figure><p>Hussein Odeh, 33, is a well-known bodybuilder from Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. He has been passionate about his sport since childhood.</p>
+<p>“I developed my physique through years of continuous training and won several local awards in bodybuilding, securing top rankings in competitions across the Gaza Strip since 2013,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>With his wife Riwa, Hussein had four children: Khaled, 10, Yousef, 7, Eman, 6, and Muhammad, 4.</p>
+<p>In 2022, Hussein opened his gym in Jabaliya &#8211; 100 meters from his house &#8211; with the support of his father Khaled’s retirement savings. Khaled had been employed by the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA).</p>
+<p>Hussein’s gym was equipped with training machines and gear, brought to Gaza from abroad after a long wait and with great difficulty. Israel has subjected Gaza to a full blockade since 2007.</p>
+<p>Hussein would wake up early in the morning with great energy and enthusiasm. He was the manager of his own gym.</p>
+<p>There were special periods and sections for children, women and men in the gym &#8211; focusing on bodybuilding and weight management.</p>
+<p>“We also organized special celebrations for those who advanced and developed themselves in this sport,” he said.</p>
+<p>Hussein offered symbolic membership fees considering the dire economic conditions.</p>
+<h2>Omar the director</h2>
+<p>Hussein’s brother Omar, 19, had Down Syndrome.</p>
+<p>Hussein was very supportive of Omar from a young age and took him to the gym as soon as it was opened.</p>
+<p>“I gave him a respected status at the gym,” Hussein said. “I would even address him as ‘Omar the director.’”</p>
+<p>Between 200 and 300 people came to the gym daily, Hussein said.</p>
+<p>His brother Omar engaged with everyone at the gym, and anyone who interacted with Omar ended up loving him.</p>
+<p>“We would hold birthday celebrations for him,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>Hussein wanted people to see that Omar &#8211; and others with genetic disorders &#8211; can live their lives normally.</p>
+<p>“They are simple and kind-hearted people,” Hussein said. “They are God’s beloved creatures.”</p>
+<h2>Championship and loss</h2>
+<p>In May 2023, Hussein &#8211; representing Palestine &#8211; won first place among his category in an international bodybuilding championship in Lebanon.</p>
+<p>He then secured top rankings in the Asian Pro Championship in the same sport, also held in Lebanon in August that year.</p>
+<p>“Our life was very beautiful and organized, and we kept up with the advanced players outside the Strip, despite the difficult economic conditions before the war on Gaza,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>When Hussein returned to Gaza in September 2023, his neighbors and friends in Jabalyia welcomed him with flowers, carried him on their shoulders through the camp’s narrow alleys and handed out sweets to children in celebration.</p>
+<p>Twenty days after returning from Lebanon, the Israeli genocide on Gaza erupted.</p>
+<p>On 17 October 2023, a heavy Israeli airstrike <a href="https://www.aljazeeramubasher.net/news/2024/2/4/حسين-عودة-بطل-كمال-الأجسام-الذي-دمر">destroyed</a> Hussein’s gym.</p>
+<p>“I felt great pain and sadness after seeing my big dream lying in ruins before my eyes,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>He tried to recover some of the equipment but failed, especially with the repeated bombing on the same place in November.</p>
+<p>On 29 October 2023, another Israeli airstrike <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/at-least-130-palestinians-killed-on-23rd-day-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza/3036664">targeted</a> Hussein’s family home, killing his only daughter Eman, his mother, his two sisters Hala, 34, and Maysa, 35, and his brother Omar.</p>
+<p>Hussein’s father sustained moderate injuries while Hussein, his three sons, his wife, and his brothers Muhammad, 30, and Mahmoud, 25, were lightly wounded.</p>
+<p>After that, Hussein endured dire humanitarian conditions and deprivation of food and basic necessities, alongside constant displacement, eventually relocating to Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabaliya.</p>
+<p>Then in May 2024, Hussein was displaced again to Gaza City&#8217;s Beach refugee camp until the ceasefire came into effect on 19 January 2025.</p>
+<p>Hussein then returned to rebuild the remains of his damaged house despite the severe destruction Israeli incursions inflicted on Jabaliya.</p>
+<p>He lived there with his wife and surviving children until May 2025.</p>
+<h2>Futile evacuation plan</h2>
+<p>On 16 May 2025, Hussein planned to evacuate with his family to the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City as Israeli shelling on Jabaliya intensified.</p>
+<p>Hussein phoned the driver &#8211; who had agreed beforehand to transport them &#8211; and headed to wait for him on the street.</p>
+<p>Hussein said, “My sons accompanied me as I went to get the driver.”</p>
+<p>His sons ran to the house ahead of Hussein to tell their mother to get ready, as the driver was on his way.</p>
+<p>“I was on my way back home when an <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/16/live-israeli-attacks-kill-more-than-100-palestinians-across-gaza">airstrike hit</a>,” he said.</p>
+<p>Hussein sprinted back, filled with fear and dread that it might be his house that had been hit.</p>
+<p>“I reached my house before anyone else,” he said. “Black smoke still hung in the air from the explosion.”</p>
+<p>“All I found was rubble.”</p>
+<p>Hussein dropped to his knees and called out for his children, his wife and his brother Muhammad.</p>
+<p>“No one answered,” he said.</p>
+<p>Neighbors and bystanders began to gather, trying to help.</p>
+<p>“People, world &#8211; please save even one of my children!” Hussein pleaded then.</p>
+<p>He then ran to the northern side of the house and called out again, until a voice answered from beneath the rubble: “I can hear you.”</p>
+<p>“I thought that was my eldest son, Khaled &#8211; it sounded like his voice,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>The civil defense teams arrived, and Hussein pointed them toward the spot where he had heard the voice.</p>
+<p>After great efforts by the civil defense team and neighbors, they managed to retrieve Riwa, Hussein’s wife.</p>
+<p>“She was unconscious,” Hussein said. “She answered me &#8211; and then faded away.”</p>
+<p>Then they recovered the bodies of Muhammad, his youngest son, and his brother Muhammad, 30, who had been on the second floor of the house.</p>
+<p>But they were unable to retrieve the bodies of his other two sons, Khaled and Yousef, due to the rescue teams lacking the necessary equipment.</p>
+<p>Seven of his neighbors near the house were killed.</p>
+<p>His wife, Riwa, was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZr47XD0S4">critically injured</a> and taken to Al-Quds Hospital, a facility run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in southwest Gaza City.</p>
+<p>She has fractures in both her right and left pelvis, nerve damage in her left leg and bruises on both feet.</p>
+<p>Given the dire health conditions in Gaza, doctors are unable to provide any effective treatment for Riwa, who urgently needs medical care outside Gaza.</p>
+<h2>Mourning</h2>
+<p>“Eman [Hussein&#8217;s daughter] was hardworking and wished to become a teacher like her aunt Hala. Yousef hoped to become a bodybuilding champion like me. And little Muhammad wanted toys, not rockets falling from the sky for no reason or justification,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>“My eldest son, Khaled &#8211; 10 days before he was martyred, we celebrated his birthday. I brought him a birthday cake, despite the difficult circumstances and high prices, but I wanted to create an atmosphere of joy.”</p>
+<p>“Khaled dreamed of becoming a doctor like his uncle Mahmoud, 25, who evacuated to Egypt to continue his medical studies.”</p>
+<p>“Their wishes and dreams eased my pain,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>On 21 July, after the occupation army withdrew from Jabaliya a little, Hussein &#8211; along with a number of friends &#8211; was able to recover the body of his son Yousef and bury him.</p>
+<p>“I want nothing more than to retrieve my son Khaled from beneath the rubble of my destroyed home and bury him with the dignity he deserves,” Hussein said.</p>
+<p>“I cannot bear to see my wife mourning our children while at the same time suffering from her injuries, and I am powerless to help.”</p>
+<p>Hussein hopes she will have the chance to travel outside Gaza to receive the necessary treatment.</p>
+<p>“I appeal to every conscious heart in this world to help her,” he said.</p>
+<p><em>Imad Abu Saif is a journalist in Gaza.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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datatype=\"xsd:integer\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"></span>\n              <p class=\"node__submitted\">\n                              \n<span class=\"field field-author\"><a href=\"/people/imad-abu-saif\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">Imad Abu Saif</a></span>          \n<span class=\"field field-publisher\"><a href=\"/people/electronic-intifada\" typeof=\"skos:Concept\" property=\"rdfs:label skos:prefLabel\" datatype=\"\">The Electronic Intifada</a></span>                    \n<span class=\"field field-publication-date\"><span  property=\"dc:date\" datatype=\"xsd:dateTime\" content=\"2025-08-14T05:29:00+00:00\" class=\"date-display-single\">14 August 2025</span></span>        </p>\n      \n          </header>\n  \n    \n  <figure id=\"file-170423\" class=\"media media-element-container media-figure file file-image file-image-png\"><picture class=\"media-element file-figure\"><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source srcset=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/250813_-_picture.png?itok=YfkcyeGp&amp;timestamp=1755150144 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 72rem)\"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img class=\"media-element file-figure\" src=\"https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2025-08/250813_-_picture.png?itok=YfkcyeGp&amp;timestamp=1755150144\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" /></picture><figcaption class=\"group-caption field-group-html-element\"><p>Hussein Odeh pictured with his brother Omar; Omar was subsequently killed by Israel. (Via Facebook) </p></figcaption></figure><p>Hussein Odeh, 33, is a well-known bodybuilder from Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. He has been passionate about his sport since childhood.</p>\n\n<p>“I developed my physique through years of continuous training and won several local awards in bodybuilding, securing top rankings in competitions across the Gaza Strip since 2013,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>With his wife Riwa, Hussein had four children: Khaled, 10, Yousef, 7, Eman, 6, and Muhammad, 4.</p>\n\n<p>In 2022, Hussein opened his gym in Jabaliya &#8211; 100 meters from his house &#8211; with the support of his father Khaled’s retirement savings. Khaled had been employed by the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA).</p>\n\n<p>Hussein’s gym was equipped with training machines and gear, brought to Gaza from abroad after a long wait and with great difficulty. Israel has subjected Gaza to a full blockade since 2007.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein would wake up early in the morning with great energy and enthusiasm. He was the manager of his own gym.</p>\n\n<p>There were special periods and sections for children, women and men in the gym &#8211; focusing on bodybuilding and weight management.</p>\n\n<p>“We also organized special celebrations for those who advanced and developed themselves in this sport,” he said.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein offered symbolic membership fees considering the dire economic conditions.</p>\n\n<h2>Omar the director</h2>\n\n<p>Hussein’s brother Omar, 19, had Down Syndrome.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein was very supportive of Omar from a young age and took him to the gym as soon as it was opened.</p>\n\n<p>“I gave him a respected status at the gym,” Hussein said. “I would even address him as ‘Omar the director.’”</p>\n\n<p>Between 200 and 300 people came to the gym daily, Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>His brother Omar engaged with everyone at the gym, and anyone who interacted with Omar ended up loving him.</p>\n\n<p>“We would hold birthday celebrations for him,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein wanted people to see that Omar &#8211; and others with genetic disorders &#8211; can live their lives normally.</p>\n\n<p>“They are simple and kind-hearted people,” Hussein said. “They are God’s beloved creatures.”</p>\n\n<h2>Championship and loss</h2>\n\n<p>In May 2023, Hussein &#8211; representing Palestine &#8211; won first place among his category in an international bodybuilding championship in Lebanon.</p>\n\n<p>He then secured top rankings in the Asian Pro Championship in the same sport, also held in Lebanon in August that year.</p>\n\n<p>“Our life was very beautiful and organized, and we kept up with the advanced players outside the Strip, despite the difficult economic conditions before the war on Gaza,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>When Hussein returned to Gaza in September 2023, his neighbors and friends in Jabalyia welcomed him with flowers, carried him on their shoulders through the camp’s narrow alleys and handed out sweets to children in celebration.</p>\n\n<p>Twenty days after returning from Lebanon, the Israeli genocide on Gaza erupted.</p>\n\n<p>On 17 October 2023, a heavy Israeli airstrike <a href=\"https://www.aljazeeramubasher.net/news/2024/2/4/حسين-عودة-بطل-كمال-الأجسام-الذي-دمر\">destroyed</a> Hussein’s gym.</p>\n\n<p>“I felt great pain and sadness after seeing my big dream lying in ruins before my eyes,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>He tried to recover some of the equipment but failed, especially with the repeated bombing on the same place in November.</p>\n\n<p>On 29 October 2023, another Israeli airstrike <a href=\"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/at-least-130-palestinians-killed-on-23rd-day-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza/3036664\">targeted</a> Hussein’s family home, killing his only daughter Eman, his mother, his two sisters Hala, 34, and Maysa, 35, and his brother Omar.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein’s father sustained moderate injuries while Hussein, his three sons, his wife, and his brothers Muhammad, 30, and Mahmoud, 25, were lightly wounded.</p>\n\n<p>After that, Hussein endured dire humanitarian conditions and deprivation of food and basic necessities, alongside constant displacement, eventually relocating to Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabaliya.</p>\n\n<p>Then in May 2024, Hussein was displaced again to Gaza City&#8217;s Beach refugee camp until the ceasefire came into effect on 19 January 2025.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein then returned to rebuild the remains of his damaged house despite the severe destruction Israeli incursions inflicted on Jabaliya.</p>\n\n<p>He lived there with his wife and surviving children until May 2025.</p>\n\n<h2>Futile evacuation plan</h2>\n\n<p>On 16 May 2025, Hussein planned to evacuate with his family to the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City as Israeli shelling on Jabaliya intensified.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein phoned the driver &#8211; who had agreed beforehand to transport them &#8211; and headed to wait for him on the street.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein said, “My sons accompanied me as I went to get the driver.”</p>\n\n<p>His sons ran to the house ahead of Hussein to tell their mother to get ready, as the driver was on his way.</p>\n\n<p>“I was on my way back home when an <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/16/live-israeli-attacks-kill-more-than-100-palestinians-across-gaza\">airstrike hit</a>,” he said.</p>\n\n<p>Hussein sprinted back, filled with fear and dread that it might be his house that had been hit.</p>\n\n<p>“I reached my house before anyone else,” he said. “Black smoke still hung in the air from the explosion.”</p>\n\n<p>“All I found was rubble.”</p>\n\n<p>Hussein dropped to his knees and called out for his children, his wife and his brother Muhammad.</p>\n\n<p>“No one answered,” he said.</p>\n\n<p>Neighbors and bystanders began to gather, trying to help.</p>\n\n<p>“People, world &#8211; please save even one of my children!” Hussein pleaded then.</p>\n\n<p>He then ran to the northern side of the house and called out again, until a voice answered from beneath the rubble: “I can hear you.”</p>\n\n<p>“I thought that was my eldest son, Khaled &#8211; it sounded like his voice,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>The civil defense teams arrived, and Hussein pointed them toward the spot where he had heard the voice.</p>\n\n<p>After great efforts by the civil defense team and neighbors, they managed to retrieve Riwa, Hussein’s wife.</p>\n\n<p>“She was unconscious,” Hussein said. “She answered me &#8211; and then faded away.”</p>\n\n<p>Then they recovered the bodies of Muhammad, his youngest son, and his brother Muhammad, 30, who had been on the second floor of the house.</p>\n\n<p>But they were unable to retrieve the bodies of his other two sons, Khaled and Yousef, due to the rescue teams lacking the necessary equipment.</p>\n\n<p>Seven of his neighbors near the house were killed.</p>\n\n<p>His wife, Riwa, was <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PZr47XD0S4\">critically injured</a> and taken to Al-Quds Hospital, a facility run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in southwest Gaza City.</p>\n\n<p>She has fractures in both her right and left pelvis, nerve damage in her left leg and bruises on both feet.</p>\n\n<p>Given the dire health conditions in Gaza, doctors are unable to provide any effective treatment for Riwa, who urgently needs medical care outside Gaza.</p>\n\n<h2>Mourning</h2>\n\n<p>“Eman [Hussein&#8217;s daughter] was hardworking and wished to become a teacher like her aunt Hala. Yousef hoped to become a bodybuilding champion like me. And little Muhammad wanted toys, not rockets falling from the sky for no reason or justification,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>“My eldest son, Khaled &#8211; 10 days before he was martyred, we celebrated his birthday. I brought him a birthday cake, despite the difficult circumstances and high prices, but I wanted to create an atmosphere of joy.”</p>\n\n<p>“Khaled dreamed of becoming a doctor like his uncle Mahmoud, 25, who evacuated to Egypt to continue his medical studies.”</p>\n\n<p>“Their wishes and dreams eased my pain,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>On 21 July, after the occupation army withdrew from Jabaliya a little, Hussein &#8211; along with a number of friends &#8211; was able to recover the body of his son Yousef and bury him.</p>\n\n<p>“I want nothing more than to retrieve my son Khaled from beneath the rubble of my destroyed home and bury him with the dignity he deserves,” Hussein said.</p>\n\n<p>“I cannot bear to see my wife mourning our children while at the same time suffering from her injuries, and I am powerless to help.”</p>\n\n<p>Hussein hopes she will have the chance to travel outside Gaza to receive the necessary treatment.</p>\n\n<p>“I appeal to every conscious heart in this world 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+Hussein Odeh pictured with his brother Omar; Omar was subsequently killed by Israel. (Via Facebook) Hussein Odeh, 33, is a well-known bodybuilder from Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. He has been passionate about his sport since childhood.
+“I developed my physique through years of continuous training and won several local awards in bodybuilding, securing top rankings in competitions across the Gaza Strip since 2013,” Hussein said.
+With his wife Riwa, Hussein had four children: Khaled, 10, Yousef, 7, Eman, 6, and Muhammad, 4.
+In 2022, Hussein opened his gym in Jabaliya – 100 meters from his house – with the support of his father Khaled’s retirement savings. Khaled had been employed by the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA).
+Hussein’s gym was equipped with training machines and gear, brought to Gaza from abroad after a long wait and with great difficulty. Israel has subjected Gaza to a full blockade since 2007.
+Hussein would wake up early in the morning with great energy and enthusiasm. He was the manager of his own gym.
+There were special periods and sections for children, women and men in the gym – focusing on bodybuilding and weight management.
+“We also organized special celebrations for those who advanced and developed themselves in this sport,” he said.
+Hussein offered symbolic membership fees considering the dire economic conditions.
+Omar the director
+Hussein’s brother Omar, 19, had Down Syndrome.
+Hussein was very supportive of Omar from a young age and took him to the gym as soon as it was opened.
+“I gave him a respected status at the gym,” Hussein said. “I would even address him as ‘Omar the director.’”
+Between 200 and 300 people came to the gym daily, Hussein said.
+His brother Omar engaged with everyone at the gym, and anyone who interacted with Omar ended up loving him.
+“We would hold birthday celebrations for him,” Hussein said.
+Hussein wanted people to see that Omar – and others with genetic disorders – can live their lives normally.
+“They are simple and kind-hearted people,” Hussein said. “They are God’s beloved creatures.”
+Championship and loss
+In May 2023, Hussein – representing Palestine – won first place among his category in an international bodybuilding championship in Lebanon.
+He then secured top rankings in the Asian Pro Championship in the same sport, also held in Lebanon in August that year.
+“Our life was very beautiful and organized, and we kept up with the advanced players outside the Strip, despite the difficult economic conditions before the war on Gaza,” Hussein said.
+When Hussein returned to Gaza in September 2023, his neighbors and friends in Jabalyia welcomed him with flowers, carried him on their shoulders through the camp’s narrow alleys and handed out sweets to children in celebration.
+Twenty days after returning from Lebanon, the Israeli genocide on Gaza erupted.
+On 17 October 2023, a heavy Israeli airstrike destroyed Hussein’s gym.
+“I felt great pain and sadness after seeing my big dream lying in ruins before my eyes,” Hussein said.
+He tried to recover some of the equipment but failed, especially with the repeated bombing on the same place in November.
+On 29 October 2023, another Israeli airstrike targeted Hussein’s family home, killing his only daughter Eman, his mother, his two sisters Hala, 34, and Maysa, 35, and his brother Omar.
+Hussein’s father sustained moderate injuries while Hussein, his three sons, his wife, and his brothers Muhammad, 30, and Mahmoud, 25, were lightly wounded.
+After that, Hussein endured dire humanitarian conditions and deprivation of food and basic necessities, alongside constant displacement, eventually relocating to Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabaliya.
+Then in May 2024, Hussein was displaced again to Gaza City’s Beach refugee camp until the ceasefire came into effect on 19 January 2025.
+Hussein then returned to rebuild the remains of his damaged house despite the severe destruction Israeli incursions inflicted on Jabaliya.
+He lived there with his wife and surviving children until May 2025.
+Futile evacuation plan
+On 16 May 2025, Hussein planned to evacuate with his family to the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City as Israeli shelling on Jabaliya intensified.
+Hussein phoned the driver – who had agreed beforehand to transport them – and headed to wait for him on the street.
+Hussein said, “My sons accompanied me as I went to get the driver.”
+His sons ran to the house ahead of Hussein to tell their mother to get ready, as the driver was on his way.
+“I was on my way back home when an airstrike hit,” he said.
+Hussein sprinted back, filled with fear and dread that it might be his house that had been hit.
+“I reached my house before anyone else,” he said. “Black smoke still hung in the air from the explosion.”
+“All I found was rubble.”
+Hussein dropped to his knees and called out for his children, his wife and his brother Muhammad.
+“No one answered,” he said.
+Neighbors and bystanders began to gather, trying to help.
+“People, world – please save even one of my children!” Hussein pleaded then.
+He then ran to the northern side of the house and called out again, until a voice answered from beneath the rubble: “I can hear you.”
+“I thought that was my eldest son, Khaled – it sounded like his voice,” Hussein said.
+The civil defense teams arrived, and Hussein pointed them toward the spot where he had heard the voice.
+After great efforts by the civil defense team and neighbors, they managed to retrieve Riwa, Hussein’s wife.
+“She was unconscious,” Hussein said. “She answered me – and then faded away.”
+Then they recovered the bodies of Muhammad, his youngest son, and his brother Muhammad, 30, who had been on the second floor of the house.
+But they were unable to retrieve the bodies of his other two sons, Khaled and Yousef, due to the rescue teams lacking the necessary equipment.
+Seven of his neighbors near the house were killed.
+His wife, Riwa, was critically injured and taken to Al-Quds Hospital, a facility run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in southwest Gaza City.
+She has fractures in both her right and left pelvis, nerve damage in her left leg and bruises on both feet.
+Given the dire health conditions in Gaza, doctors are unable to provide any effective treatment for Riwa, who urgently needs medical care outside Gaza.
+Mourning
+“Eman [Hussein’s daughter] was hardworking and wished to become a teacher like her aunt Hala. Yousef hoped to become a bodybuilding champion like me. And little Muhammad wanted toys, not rockets falling from the sky for no reason or justification,” Hussein said.
+“My eldest son, Khaled – 10 days before he was martyred, we celebrated his birthday. I brought him a birthday cake, despite the difficult circumstances and high prices, but I wanted to create an atmosphere of joy.”
+“Khaled dreamed of becoming a doctor like his uncle Mahmoud, 25, who evacuated to Egypt to continue his medical studies.”
+“Their wishes and dreams eased my pain,” Hussein said.
+On 21 July, after the occupation army withdrew from Jabaliya a little, Hussein – along with a number of friends – was able to recover the body of his son Yousef and bury him.
+“I want nothing more than to retrieve my son Khaled from beneath the rubble of my destroyed home and bury him with the dignity he deserves,” Hussein said.
+“I cannot bear to see my wife mourning our children while at the same time suffering from her injuries, and I am powerless to help.”
+Hussein hopes she will have the chance to travel outside Gaza to receive the necessary treatment.
+“I appeal to every conscious heart in this world to help her,” he said.
+Imad Abu Saif is a journalist in Gaza.
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+<div class="sumud-region-main"><article class="node-12855 node node-review view-mode-full node-is-page image-portrait" about="/content/bombing-victims-spouse-acknowledges-palestinians-pain-new-memoir/12855" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<span class="field field-author"><a href="/people/maureen-clare-murphy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maureen Clare Murphy</a></span>
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+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-10-17T19:22:00+00:00" class="date-display-single">17 October 2013</span></span>        </p>
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+  <figure id="file-25981" class="media media-element-container media-figure media-wysiwyg-align-right file file-image file-image-jpeg" style="width:320px"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]--><source srcset="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2013-10/131017-harris-gershon-cover.jpg?itok=anuIjBna&amp;timestamp=1448949295 1x" media="(min-width: 72rem)"></source><!--[if IE 9]></video><![endif]--><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2013-10/131017-harris-gershon-cover.jpg?itok=anuIjBna&amp;amp%3Btimestamp=1448949295" width="800" height="1231" alt="Cover of What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife" title="" /></picture></figure><p>David Harris-Gershon&#8217;s memoir <em>What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?</em> pivots around a deadly bombing at Jerusalem&#8217;s <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hebrew-university">Hebrew University</a> in 2002 where the author and his wife, Jamie, both Americans, were then studying ancient Jewish texts.</p>
+<p>Jamie was at the university&#8217;s cafeteria with two of their friends when the bomb went off. Her life was spared as she happened to reach down to pick up a book from the floor when the bomb went off, the formica tabletop shielding her from the force that killed her friends.</p>
+<p>Though the book may appear to be about Israel and the Palestinians or Jewish identity and the conflict (and indeed these are major themes of the book), the heart of Harris-Gershon&#8217;s memoir is his processing of the traumatic event.</p>
+<p>In the months immediately after the bombing, Harris-Gershon&#8217;s auto-pilot focus was on his wife&#8217;s excruciatingly painful recovery (30 percent of her body was covered in second- and third-degree burns). The bombing was something that “just happened,” causing neither grief nor anger, but only guilt as Harris-Gershon “knew about the dangers all along” but had withheld them from Jamie, not wanting to disrupt their graduate studies.</p>
+<p>Once the pair were able to return to the US, where they started a family, Jamie embarked on her own psychological recovery and moved on with her life. Meanwhile, Harris-Gershon became ruled by his own severely disruptive symptoms.</p>
+<p>The psychotherapy techniques that worked for Jamie were not enough for Harris-Gershon. He eventually realized that he had to write about what happened: “This was all I had left &#8212; a sense that only through storytelling, I could reclaim myself.”</p>
+<p>During his research of the bombing, Harris-Gershon came across an Associated Press report stating that the bomber, a Palestinian from the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/silwan">Silwan</a> neighborhood of occupied <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/east-jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a> named Mohammed Odeh, had expressed remorse for the deaths of those he killed.</p>
+<h2>Humanity</h2>
+<p>This, coupled with news reports that Odeh&#8217;s horrified family expressed disbelief that he had committed the act, compelled Harris-Gershon to acknowledge Odeh&#8217;s humanity, and that of the Palestinian people as a whole, whom he came to recognize that he had only viewed as the enemy in a zero-sum game.</p>
+<p>Earlier in his memoir Harris-Gershon gives an anecdote illustrating the inhumanity of this viewpoint. While walking to the hospital where Jamie was being treated, he callously walked by a Palestinian man who had collapsed and obviously needed medical attention.</p>
+<p>Harris-Gershon writes: “And so the irony: being personally affected by the inhumane brutality of Palestinian terror &#8212; of this murderous element woven into the outer fringes of their social fabric by ideological extremists &#8212; forced me to consider Palestinians’ humanity.”</p>
+<p>This led Harris-Gershon to the history stacks at the library, where he read about the Palestinian narrative of Israel&#8217;s founding in 1948, coming to the understanding that the Palestinians were the victims of colonization and occupation for more than a hundred years.</p>
+<p>Harris-Gershon eventually sets out to meet Odeh in an Israeli prison, but is frustrated by dishonest and uncooperative Israeli authorities, and so his moment of reconciliation would come during a meeting with Odeh&#8217;s family in Silwan.</p>
+<p>Throughout the book, Harris-Gershon weaves his personal experience with political analysis; the political theater leading up to the Hebrew University bombing aptly presented as a play in five acts.</p>
+<p>However, the enlightened Harris-Gershon&#8217;s analysis is still plagued by mythology, often discussing what he acknowledges to be a settler-colonial conflict as a religious one. When the author conflates the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians as “a bloody sibling rivalry” between Muslims and Jews, one gets the impression that Harris-Gershon knows his audience of fellow liberal Jews, and has watered down his analysis for their sake.</p>
+<h2>Morally inconsistent</h2>
+<p>Harris-Gershon&#8217;s morally inconsistent use of the term “terrorist” is also worth mentioning; Palestinians who target Israeli civilians are labeled as such but not Israeli commanders like <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/ariel-sharon">Ariel Sharon</a>, who was Israel&#8217;s defense minister during the 1982 invasion of <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/lebanon">Lebanon</a> which claimed the lives of 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinans (mostly civilians), and whose forces looked on as their Lebanese proxies butchered 2,000 defenseless Palestinians in the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/sabra-and-shatila-massacre">Sabra and Shatila</a> refugee camps.</p>
+<p>This is certainly not the book for political analysis on Israel and the Palestinians, yet Harris-Gershon does offer a keen insight. He writes about psychological studies of Israelis and Palestinians which demonstrate a “zero-sum game perception &#8212; the perception that each side can profit only to the extent that the other side loses, that there is no possibility of an agreement that would leave both sides better off.”</p>
+<p>Harris-Gershon adds: “When there was a fear that Israel could be destroyed, when the threat-perception was near zero-sum regarding the group, there was little motivation for compromise with Palestinians. However, and this is the really interesting part, fear for personal safety had absolutely no relationship to such resistance in our study. Israeli Jews who expressed fear for personal safety were just as likely to support compromise solutions.”</p>
+<p>In other words, there was a correlation between the ideological construct of the state and uncompromising fear which impedes the possibility to “envision a situation in which both sides can reconcile for the good of everyone,” dependent on “the perception that there is a possible future in which both groups are better off.”</p>
+<h2>Brutal confessions</h2>
+<p>This zero-sum perception is seemingly manifested in the attitudes Harris-Gershon meets when he returns to <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> to meet the Odeh family. He is warned by Israeli Jews who boast expertise on Palestinian society who say that no good could possibly come out of the meeting, and a rabbi who actually issues a religious decree that Harris-Gershon may break the Sabbath by using a phone after the meeting so his friends know he wasn&#8217;t harmed.</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, the Odeh family, though nervous, welcome him into their home and would repeatedly ask their peace activist intermediary about Harris-Gershon, extending an open invitation for him to visit again.</p>
+<p>There is plenty of beauty and humor in Harris-Gershon&#8217;s brisk page-turner, as well as some brutal confessions; prior to his process, he had thought of Palestinians as monsters, something to be feared.</p>
+<p>It is incredibly sad that it was only after a major trauma that scarred his wife and killed his friends that Harris-Gershon questioned his assumptions about Palestinians and was able to overcome his fears and prejudices.</p>
+<p>But <em>What Do You Buy</em> doesn&#8217;t claim to make any prescription toward wider reconciliation between Palestinians and Israeli Jews, nor is it an interrogation of Zionism; this book&#8217;s value is in Harris-Gershon&#8217;s personal experience demonstrating humanity&#8217;s capacity for reconciliation, despite its extreme flaws.</p>
+<p><em>Maureen Clare Murphy is managing editor of The Electronic Intifada.</em></p>  <h3 class="field-label field field-tag">
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+        <h2 class="comments__title title"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i> Comments</h2>
+  <a id="comment-16689"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous first odd" about="/comment/16689#comment-16689" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAXklEQVRYhe3XsQkAIQxA0ctN6CiO4Ag3iiPa2HwQC+EwxX9lbD4pAsbX+pPAeztgsoPsIDvIDrKD7CA7yA7K0iFJp8J/JdhBdpAdZAfF5u2PU1tbWc6z7MMOsoPsoAENtgbIm+9+BgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/16689#comment-16689" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">This is a well-reasoned, insightful and absolutely fair review. </a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/16689#comment-16689" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2013-10-17T20:40:22+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><a href="https://twitter.com/David_EHG" rel="nofollow foaf:page" class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">David Harris-Gershon</a> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2013-10-17T20:40:22+00:00">Thu, 10/17/2013 - 20:40</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bombing-victims-spouse-acknowledges-palestinians-pain-new-memoir/12855" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>As the author, I just want to commend Maureen for one of the most insightful reviews I&#039;ve read of my book. Yes, she critiques some of the political aspects -- but those critiques are wholly legitimate and are set against the larger, and more central, contexts of the book. </p>
+<p>Needless to say, I&#039;m impressed, and want to say a public thank you.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+<div class="indented"><a id="comment-16694"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous even" about="/comment/16694#comment-16694" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAbklEQVRYhe3WsQnAIBBAUZUM4mgZxVEyWkZJk+aDGrgmV/xXCsLniuPqfY6SQPs74GUH2UF2kB10hH/2a0zfYws6yzzsIDvIDqreY2AH2UF2kB30cY+tjq6Yze7OMg87yA6yg7zHyA6yg+ygLB0P2lALnHD7eIMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/16694#comment-16694" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">How does your wife feel about this?</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/16694#comment-16694" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2013-10-18T17:34:43+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><span class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Larasky</span> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2013-10-18T17:34:43+00:00">Fri, 10/18/2013 - 17:34</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bombing-victims-spouse-acknowledges-palestinians-pain-new-memoir/12855" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/comment/16689#comment-16689" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>I mean, you being so friendly with the family of the man who killed her friends and practically ruined her life?</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+</div><a id="comment-16699"></a>
+<article class="comment comment-by-anonymous last odd" about="/comment/16699#comment-16699" typeof="sioc:Post sioct:Comment">
+  <header>
+    <span class="user-picture"><img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAAXklEQVRYhe3XsQkAIQxA0ctN6CiO4Ag3iiPa2HwQC+EwxX9lbD4pAsbX+pPAeztgsoPsIDvIDrKD7CA7yA7K0iFJp8J/JdhBdpAdZAfF5u2PU1tbWc6z7MMOsoPsoAENtgbIm+9+BgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="picture" /></span>              <h3 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="comment__title comment-title">
+        <a href="/comment/16699#comment-16699" class="permalink" rel="bookmark">She supports me</a>              </h3>
+    <p class="comment__submitted">
+      <a href="/comment/16699#comment-16699" class="permalink" rel="bookmark"><i class="fa fa-link"></i><span> Permalink</span></a>      <span property="dc:date dc:created" content="2013-10-18T19:56:38+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime" rel="sioc:has_creator"><a href="https://twitter.com/David_EHG" rel="nofollow foaf:page" class="username" xml:lang="" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">David Harris-Gershon</a> replied on <time pubdate datetime="2013-10-18T19:56:38+00:00">Fri, 10/18/2013 - 19:56</time></span>    </p>
+      </header>
+  <span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/content/bombing-victims-spouse-acknowledges-palestinians-pain-new-memoir/12855" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+  <div class="field field-comment-body">
+    <p>This was not her process -- it was my own. However, she fully supported my efforts while keeping a distance from them, principally because she saw how badly I was paralyzed by PTSD post-attack. </p>
+<p>And that last line isn&#039;t written to evoke sympathy, nor to compare suffering on either side. It&#039;s simply a fact.</p>
+  </div>
+  </article>
+  </section>
+</article>
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/no-truce-horizon-gazas-children-starve">No truce on horizon as Gaza&#039;s children starve</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="No truce on horizon as Gaza&#039;s children starve" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="2" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-06-27T18:01:31+00:00" class="date-display-single">27 June 2025</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
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+      <article class="node-50754 node node-blog view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-forced-choose-between-being-killed-or-starved-un-says" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+</picture></a>  </figure>
+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-forced-choose-between-being-killed-or-starved-un-says">Palestinians forced to choose between being killed or starved, UN says</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="Palestinians forced to choose between being killed or starved, UN says" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-06-19T00:02:26+00:00" class="date-display-single">19 June 2025</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
+      <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last">
+      <article class="node-50536 node node-blog view-mode-compact image-landscape" about="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/least-830-killed-more-aggressive-israeli-offensive" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
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+<!--[if IE 9]><video style="display: none;"><![endif]-->
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+      <header>
+                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/least-830-killed-more-aggressive-israeli-offensive">At least 830 killed in “more aggressive” Israeli offensive</a></h2>
+            <span property="dc:title" content="At least 830 killed in “more aggressive” Israeli offensive" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>
+              <p class="node_compact__submitted">
+<span class="field field-author">Maureen Clare Murphy</span>
+<span class="field field-publication-date"><span  property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2025-03-26T23:55:44+00:00" class="date-display-single">26 March 2025</span></span>        </p>
+          </header>
+</article>
+    </div>
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