Two weeks ago, while Beit Zatoun hosted “A Child's View from Gaza,” a series of drawings made by Palestinian school children in Gaza, I spoke to a small audience about the lives of Palestinians, particularly children, in occupied Palestine, occupied Gaza under siege.
Anyone who knows of Gaza under the Israeli-led…
*The Amal Institute for Orphans cares for 120 of Gaza City's orphans.
GAZA CITY, Dec 23, 2011 (IPS) -By Eva Bartlett
Yousef walks barefoot into a children's room with four beds and points to a snoopy-blanketed bed by the window. "That's where I sleep," he says. A red remote-controlled toy racecar sits atop a new mini-laptop. The closet is full of clothes, a pot of soup simmering on the gas range in the spacious kitchen, and the wooden dining table is piled with seasonal fruit.
From December 27th to January 18, Israel waged a bloody war on Gaza, killing over 1400 Palestinians and sparing no one: not women, not children, not the elderly, not medics.
One Of reveals the shooting of an emergency medical worker on January 7th, during the period which Israel declared a ‘cease-fire’ period. The medics were subject to no less than 15 shots while they attempted to evacuate the body of a man already sniped by Israeli soldiers.
One Of poses the question: how would you feel if your loved one died because ambulances were prevented from reaching the wounded.
