i haven’t been updating. it’s really hard on me not to be able to return to palestine during this. it’s the first time since i first went to palestine that i am in europe when attacks, horrors on this scale happen. during cast lead, i was at least in egypt, with people who felt similar outrage, trying to get to gaza, fighting with the egyptian state/police/military machinery there. here… i don’t have a network of people who feel the rage (how can they not feel it?), that know. and the contrast between daily life and my feelings and thoughts is so stark that it’s paralyzing me, i am struggling to remain somewhat functional.
that said, i want to briefly sum up SOME f the shit that happened in the past few days:
two hospitals were attacked since friday night.
on friday, beit hanoun hospital was shelled for over seven hours. a group of people including internationals in shifa hospital held an emmergency press conference while in touch with their friends in beit hanoun hospital, trying to generate enough pressure to stop the shelling. here is an account of an international in the hospital, here another one, and here is an article.
saturday
just before the truth, on saturday, the occupation army escalated their bombing and shelling and killed at least 20 members of one family among others. read pchr report here. and this article.
on saturday, two more palestinians were assaulted by fascists in jerusalem.
haaretz infograph published yesterday
Sunday
on sunday, there was a longer ceasefire and palestinians went into sheja’iya, into khoza’a, into other areas that were flattened and retrieved bodies (at least 150) of their loved ones, of friends of strangers from under the rubble. here are anne’s pictures from sheja’iya and here is anne and ala qandil’s photostory.
photostory by anne and ala qandil on women in gaza at the moment. more pictures from sheja’iya here and here on fb.
neihborhood in sheja’iya before
neihborhood in sheja’iya after
Shejaiya Cemetery, Gaza. Relatives frantically digging graves in an open lot being used as a cemetery. The stream of bodies was too fast for gravediggers to keep up with number of bodies being brought from nearby hospitals. The graves were being marked with cinder blocks from the rubble of nearby buildings destroyed by Israeli shelling. All that identifies where the dead are buried are the pieces of hand-written cardboard. (ayman mohyeldin)
also on sunday, two palestinian teenagers were shot dead by a settler colonist and by an occupation soldier in two separate incidents in huwwara, northern west bank.
monday
yesterday was the first day of eid.
at least 10 children were killed in al shati refugee camp yesterday near shifa hospital. the outclinic of shifa hospital was also bombed
in the west bank, settlers and army attacked burin (nablus area).
and generally:
mohammad suliman’s article on the attack/killing of paramedics in gaza.
refaat alareer writes about his brother mohammad, who was killed.