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Palestinian mother of 7, bombings survivor, documents Israeli war crimes
This book reveals the names and circumstances of a campaign where Israel was ‘threatened’ by the children, women and seniors of 89 Palestinian families.
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Hamas will not be dragged into Syrian ‘massacre’ – Deputy FM to RT
Dr. Ghazi Hamad, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, tells RT’s Nadezhda Kevorkova that, despite Bashar Assad’s past support for the Palestinians, Hamas does not support his regime and instead welcomes revolutions in Muslim countries, even though new revolutionary governments have not helped to lift the blockade. Dr. Hamad stressed that…
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Americans vs. the Gaza blockade: portraits
Forty American citizens participated in the fleet, a third of them ethnic Jews. They all have different lives, different motifs. All of them are successful in their private lives, and none of them has free time to waste. What makes these people leave their families, friends and jobs, and fly…
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Sector Gaza: happy peasants
Safat Hamduna is 23. He is an agriculture student. We’re standing at his cucumber field in the outskirts of Beit Lahia, a small town in the north of Gaza. I didn’t arrange for a meeting with him. I was driving a narrow road through fields to look at the agricultural…
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Happy Gaza Strip vendors
A vending business in the Gaza strip is not just a shopkeeper’s job as it is in New York or Cairo. It’s much more than a breadwinning enterprise – here it means that you are in fact part of the anti-blockade movement. Most of the stock available for sale in…
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Throwing thoughts into the sea
Gaza is a narrow strip, six-to-twelve kilometers wide and 37 kilometers long along the sea. In theory, any person out of the 1.5 million living here could catch food in the sea if they have a boat. If you drive along the shore, you will see boats on the shore…
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Al Samuni family: 29 killed for no reason
Zeituni village is close to the sea, but not on the shore, far from the refugees’ territory, far from the border wall. In other words, the location is really good. Not too long ago this was a prosperous village, where Gaza farmers lived. The land is very fertile, many rich…
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Children of the underground
They didn’t blindfold me when they took me to look at the tunnel. But I could only take pictures inside, photograph only the walls – not the people who dig and transport cargo. The first tunnel that I saw was in the middle of a residential area. You couldn’t see…
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Lucky prisoners of the Gaza strip
The 20th Century chronographer Alexander Solzhenitsyn made a paradoxical remark in his book “The Gulag Archipelago”: “Be blessed, prison! You’ve made a man of me!” It’s hard to understand this wisdom living in a safe world. It’s easier to understand it in Russia and, strange as it is, in Palestine….
