🇵🇸 ‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Diseases Are Spreading At These Schools' | Voices from Gaza - AJ+

Bisan Owda, a video journalist in Gaza, takes us inside the UN schools that now act as shelters for over 1 million displaced Palestinians. The schools are severely overcrowded and lack proper sanitation — as many as 160 people are forced to share a single toilet. Some shelters have seen outbreaks of #cholera and #hepatitis.

But even these shelters are not safe — Israel is now demanding that the Palestinians sheltering in #KhanYounis flee farther south to #Rafah.  

#Gaza #HealthCare #Epidemic #Diseases #BisanOwda #Journalist #Testimonies #IDP #NewNakba #Refugees #UNRWA #Schools #UN
09/12/2023

🇵🇸 Roya Hassouna, a displaced Palestinian woman, plays the oud for children at a camp in Rafah, creating a musical circle in a bid to support their mental health and to block out the sound of war planes amid Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza.

According to #Unicef, nearly a million Palestinian #children in Gaza have been forcibly displaced since the beginning of the war.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Gaza #Genocide #Trauma #Music #Oud #Musician #ForcedDisplacement #Rafah #NewNakba #Refugees #IDP #Testimonies
20/12/2023

🇵🇸 Sky News report shows aftermath of Israeli air strike on Rafah

While filming at a hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza, a Sky News team witnessed a deadly Israeli air strike. Rushing to the scene of the strike to document its aftermath, they found people trying to dig out survivors from beneath the rubble.

Sky's Middle East correspondent, Alistair Bunkall, said it is unclear why the area was attacked and that people had been told Rafah was safe.

#Gaza #Hospital #Bombings #Rafah #Genocide
22/12/2023

🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza: 13-Year-Old Nadeen Abdullatif Loses Brother in Gaza City, Takes Shelter in Rafah

13-year-old Nadeen Abdullatif was sheltering with her family near that building in #Rafah. She'd already lost her older brother to an earlier air strike in Gaza City, and had spent weeks fleeing Israeli bombs.

#Testimonies #IDP #Refugees #NewNakba #ForcedDisplacement #EthnicCleansing #Gaza

🇵🇸 Where Should The Birds Fly - Gaza 2012

Documentary by Fida Qishta 2012 - 58 min.

Where Should The Birds Fly is the compelling and moving story of two remarkable young women, the future of Palestine, who personify the struggle to maintain humanity, humor and hope, to find some degree of normality in the brutal abnormality that has been imposed on them.Mona is an 11 year old girl of remarkable wisdom. Her family died under Israeli rockets.

Fida Qishta, a young Palestinian filmmaker and journalist from #Rafah in Gaza has documented the horrific Israeli invasion and bombardment of Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. Working with her crew of young Gazans, they have kept the cameras rolling for months, recording the struggle of the people of Gaza to retrieve some sense of normalcy from the absolute abnormality of life in the world's largest prison camp, sealed off on all sides by Israeli and Egyptian walls, barbed wire and military.

#Gaza #Palestine #Documentary

🇵🇸 Israeli construction signals 'long-term' occupation of Gaza-Egypt border | The Craddle

The IOF is building new infrastructure near the city of Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border to support the long-term presence of Israeli troops, The Guardian reported on 21 July, in a sign that the now nine-month war is nowhere near an end.

The British newspaper reported that satellite images and social media video uploaded by Israeli soldiers stationed around Rafah show that roads have been widened for armored vehicles, and watch towers have been erected for Israeli troops to observe the #PhiladelphiCorridor, which stretches along the Gaza-Egypt border.

According to a 1979 peace agreement between Israel and #Egypt, Israeli troops are not permitted in the corridor. But Israeli forces took control of it and the Rafah #border #crossing, a lifeline to Palestinians in Gaza, in early May.

#IOF #Rafah #Gaza #Occupation