🇵🇸 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

🇵🇸 'We have paid a huge price': Palestinian journalists' stories from the frontline

Palestinian journalists found themselves in this war, in the middle of the battle, forced, not willingly.”

Journalists in Gaza talk about the difficulties and struggles they face in doing their job while covering the war.

They describe being displaced multiple times, experiencing a lack of #internet and #communications, and the direct targeting of themselves and their families by the Israeli army.

Over 90 journalists and staff have been killed since the conflict began on 7 October, according to Al Jazeera.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Genocide #Gaza #Testimonies #Journalist
19/12/2023

🇵🇸 Farewell Donia. It was a short life filled with suffering.

Donia Abu Mohsen, 12 years old, was killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.

Please read this Initial Post on Donia's heartbreaking story

Source : https://filastiniyat.org/
#Gaza #Hospital #Amputee #Amputation #IOF #WarCrimes
#Testimonies #NasserHospital
#DoniaAbuMohsen
18/12/2023
وداعاً دنيا، لقد كانت حياة قصيرة مليئة بالعذاب.
الطفلة دنيا أبو محسن، ١٢ عاماً، قتلت يوم أمس في قصف اسرائيلي استهدف مستشفى ناصر في خانيونس.

مشاهد من الاحتلال في غزة ١٩٧٣🇵🇸 Scenes From Under Occupation In Gaza (1973)

Palestine | Documentary | Director: Mustafa Abu Ali | 11 minutes.Short Documentary| Arabic|1973 | 11'| Palestine with English subtitles

The film “Scenes from Occupation in Gaza” is a documentary that presents some of the Israeli occupation measurements against Palestinians, and a profile of the struggle of Palestinian people in Gaza. The film won the Golden prize in the short film competition of the International Baghdad Festival for Films and TV Programs on Palestine 1973. It also won the prize of the International Youth Union at the Leipzig International Film Festival in 1973.

Palestine Film Unit

#Palestine #Gaza #Documentary #Testimonies
#6DayWar #PalestineFilmUnit

🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza : Randa Contemplates Her Uncertain Future | UNRWA

"I lost 11 people of my family, but I don’t have time to think of them. You can’t just think of them because now you have to think of something more important, which is life basics."  Randa (17) was in her final year in high school, preparing for her Tawjihi (end-of-school) exams, preparing for  college abroad. Now she contemplates her uncertain future, questioning whether, if she survives, she'll find the strength to dream again.

#Gaza #Testimonies #Education #School
05/01/2024

🇵🇸 Life in Jerusalem under Israel's military dictatorship | The Greyzone Documentary

Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visits the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a climate of unprecedented repression has descended since October 7. Loffredo documents settler terror attacks on businesses and speaks to local activists who tell him they fear arrest and beatings from Israeli police if they speak out against the assault on Gaza.

#Palestine #WestBank #SheikJarrah #EastJerusalem #OPT #Repression #Settler #SettlerViolence #SettlerTerror
#Testimonies #Documentary
17/01/2024

🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza :This Father Documented His Family's Escape From Israel's Airstrikes

Source : AJ+
#Gaza #Genocide #IOF #WarCrimes #Civilians #Child #Children #NewNakba #ForcedDisplacement #Testimonies #Documentary
17/01/2024

🇵🇸 ‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And People Were Tortured At The Indonesian Hospital’ | AJ+

Video journalist Bisan Owda brings us exclusive eyewitness testimonies from survivors she spoke to in December who described the Israeli army’s torture and killing of wounded patients and doctors at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.

One of northern Gaza’s largest hospitals, the facility was under siege for days in November and may never open again. While some patients in critical condition were allowed to evacuate the hospital, survivors recall torture even on the evacuation route. Israel has targeted more than 150 health care facilities in Gaza since Oct 7. The targeting of hospitals is a violation of international humanitarian law.

Source : Al Jazeera +
#Gaza #Genocide #Torture #IndonesianHospital #Hospital #WarCrimes #IOF #Doctor #Patients #InternationalLaw #Journalist #BisanOwda #Testimonies
19/01/2024

🇵🇸 Video shows aftermath of a summary execution of 15 men in a Gaza apartment | Al Jazeera

A Palestinian family in Gaza says they witnessed the summary execution of 15 men when Israeli soldiers raided their apartment last month.

#Gaza #Genocide #Executions #SummaryExecutions #IOF #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #Testimonies
19/01/2024

🇵🇸 The Gaza refugees stranded in Egypt | Mondoweiss –

Many Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt since the start of the war and suffer from poverty as they struggle to contact their loved ones. "Whenever I watch TV, I die a hundred times a day," says Amnah Alshimbari, whose family remains in Gaza.

The following are stories from some of the many Palestinians who were able to cross into Egypt during or before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Article & Photos by Mohammed Salem
#Palestine #Egypt #Gaza #Refugees #Testimonies
12/01/2024

🇵🇸 Remembering Therese Halasa, Palestinian revolutionary: Rima Tannous’ prison story | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Rima Tannous, Therese’s comrade-in-arms, shared her story of involvement, resistance, torture and oppression inside Israeli prisons in a statement published in 1979 after her release as part of a collection, Palestinian Political Prisoners: Struggle Behind Iron Bars, published by the PLO’s Unified Information Department and the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails.

Rima’s story includes a detailed description of her and Therese’s reunification behind bars, as well as their interaction with international political prisoners jailed by Israel for their involvement in the Palestinian struggle.

#Palestine #Resistance #Prisoners #Detention #Torture #Testimonies #History #Book
#RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa

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