🇵🇸 ‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Israel Made All These People Homeless’ | Voices from Gaza - AJ+

Palestinian families returned to their homes, many of which have been reduced to rubble. More than 60% of homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed and thousands of people are missing under the rubble.

Bisan Owda, a video journalist in Gaza, followed families in the southern town of Khuza’a as they search for remains of their lives under the rubble. Residents of the town are determined to rebuild their homes after surviving previous Israeli airstrikes in 2014 and in 2021.

This video was filmed during the 7 day temporary ceasefire in Gaza.

#Gaza #Testimonies #Journalist #BisanOwda
#Truce #Ceasefire #Destruction #Desolation #Infastructure #IDP #Refugees
01/12/2023

🇵🇸 Israel pushes Gaza's terrified residents from one refuge to another | by Maha Hussaini for Middle East Eye –

With mattresses tied to the roof of their car, Aya Fehmi and her family returned to their first house of refuge in the central Gaza Strip.

They had evacuated it for another place of refuge in the south during the fourth week of Israel's ferocious assault on the Gaza Strip. But, following the end of the pause in fighting on Friday, the Israeli military dropped leaflets in the area of this second refuge, warning people it was to become a "fighting zone" and ordering them to leave.

"We left our home on the sixth day of the attack after we received messages [from the Israeli military] saying that our neighbourhoods would be targeted. We moved to a relative's home in Deir al-Balah and stayed there for three weeks," Fehmi, a 34-year-old mother of three boys, told Middle East Eye.

#Gaza #IDP #Testimonies #ForcedDisplacement #Refugees #Genocide
03/12/2023

🇵🇸 Yara Eid: ‘I lost 60 members of my family in Gaza’ | MEE

In the last six weeks, I’ve lost everything,” says Yara Eid, who has lost at least 60 family members during Israel’s bombardment of #Gaza.

In this Real Talk interview, we spoke with the Palestinian journalist and human rights advocate about the tragedy of losing dozens of family members who were killed due to Israel’s bombing of the Strip following the 7 October Hamas-led attack.

She also recounts the pain of being unable to reach her mother during intermittent communication blackouts, and what she misses most about Gaza.

#Gaza #Testimonies
04/12/2023

🇵🇸 We feel abandoned | The Electronic Intifada –

An American friend asked me recently, “How do you feel, Ghada?”

I paused for a second and then told her I felt afraid, tired and sad.

I could write volumes about the fear that grips us every night, the constant dread that engulfs our hearts.

In the middle of the night, I hear the sounds of children wailing from every direction. They are likely very aware of the imminent danger we face.

My niece Jinan, or Jojo, who is two and a half years old, started speaking some words recently. In addition to “mama” and “papa,” she has newly learned the word “qasef,” Arabic for shelling.

#Gaza #Testimonies #qasef
07/12/2023

🇵🇸 Ahmed Abu Artema calls on the world to stop Israel's genocide in Gaza | Mondoweiss

Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer and activist in Gaza. In 2019, he helped launch the Great March of Return protests. Last month, Ahmed's home in Gaza was targeted by an Israeli airstrike. He was injured, but his son Abdullah and several other members of his family were killed.

Ahmed sent us this audio recording with his call for the international community to end Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.

#Gaza #Genocide #Writer #Intellectual #AhmedAbuArtema #GreatMarchOfReturn #Testimonies
11/12/2023

🇵🇸 Emotional Speech from Lara on how the genocide in Gaza is lived in the hearts of Palestinians living abroad

the Palestinian liberation struggle in the eyes of one Palestinian-American lawyer and activist, Lara Elborno : https://gazangirl.substack.com/
#Gaza #Genocide #Diaspora #Testimonies
13/12/2023

🇵🇸 Naji al-Ali was one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Arab world. Sarcastic, poignant and perhaps too bold, al-Ali’s cartoons were drawn from his experience as a Palestinian refugee since childhood and clearly reflected his political stance, which was often critical of the Arab regimes.

The following extracts are drawn from an interview with Radwa Ashour, novelist and professor of English literature at Ain Shams University, during the summer of 1984 in Budapest.. It was published in the periodical Al Muwagaha in 1985, only two years before al-Ali was assassinated in London in 1987 at the age of 50.

http://kanan48.wordpress.com/naji-al

#Palestine #Handala #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Art #Resistance #Testimonies #NajiAlAli #Intellectual

🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza : This is what 24 hours of our lives in Gaza look like | Close Up

Al Jazeera’s digital documentary series, Close Up, reached out to Palestinians in Gaza in November and asked them to record whatever they could over the course of a day, on any devices that still worked. Because who better to tell the stories of life in Gaza than the people themselves who are living there through the horror of siege and war?

This compilation of people’s moments provides a snapshot of just one of these 70 days of war, where even the most mundane of tasks, like showering, doing laundry, and preparing meals, has become impossibly hard. Where fear is constant and palpable, that at any moment death could strike from above, as Israel relentlessly bombs the entire length of the besieged strip from morning to night.

The result is a story of resilience and courage.

#Testimonies #Gaza
15/12/2023

🇵🇸 “They tortured us, subjected us to electric shocks. We suffered a lot.”

Some 60 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces returned to Gaza on Monday, entering the territory through the recently opened Kerem Shalom crossing.

All of the men said they were tortured in an unspecified facility in southern Israel. One of the released detainees said that many of them were employees of the Palestinian Authority.


This confirms previously cited souces published here

Source : Middle East Eye
#Gaza #Civilians #HR #IOF #Detainees #Prisoners #Detention #Torture #PA #Testimonies
18/12/2023

🇵🇸 ‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Israel Is Forcing Everyone To The Desert'

Israel has shifted the so-called “safe zone” again. First Khan Younis was supposedly safe, but after continuous bombing, Palestinians are now being forced into the barren sands of al-Mawasi.  

The narrow strip of land, about the size of the airport, is where Israel wants Gaza’s 2.3 million civilians to relocate to. But the small, undeveloped zone has no infrastructure for safety or survival.

As Bisan Owda shows us, there is no clean water to drink and not enough fuel to keep people warm.  

#Gaza #Refugees #IDP #BisanOwda #Journalist #Testimonies #NewNakba
18/12/2023