a mother from gaza
If the current Hamas-Israel truce in Gaza breaks down, the NSC recommends that Israel launch a wide-ranging operation to topple Hamas in Gaza. [1]
Her son, Yousuf, was less than a year old when she returned to her Gaza home from a visit to the United States, where her husband, Yassine, lives. [...] This is because Israel has stopped issuing family reunification and residency cards/ID cards to Palestinians for several years now, prior to the second intifada. [2]
Four children, the oldest just five years old, and their mother were among seven people killed by Israeli forces in Gaza Monday as Palestinian factions headed to Egypt for talks on a possible truce. [3]
My husband is a Palestinian refugee denied his right of return to Palestine, and thus OUR right to family life. [...] Is it only when Israeli deputy minister Matan Vilnai used “shoa” to describe what will come to Gaza that some media outlets took note. [4]
Gaza is used to violence, but the murders of Balousheh’s children marks a dangerous turning point in the Palestinian struggle for statehood: This time it’s Palestinians killing Palestinians. [5]
?Some of us have been waiting more than six years to visit our sons in Israeli prisons” says one woman, “and we have all been forbidden to visit the prisoners in Israel for a year now. [...] Mothers in Gaza hold a weekly vigil at the Red Cross, to highlight the number of Gazan men and women held in Israeli jails, and to demand the right to visit their jailed husbands, sons and daughters. [6]
The study found that AP reported on Israeli children’s deaths more often than the deaths occurred, but failed to cover 85 percent of Palestinian children killed. [4]
LAILA EL-HADDAD, Al-Jazeera International’s correspondent from Gaza, made her Washington, DC speaking debut June 23 alongside Timothy Rothermel, former United Nations Development Program (UNDP) chief in Jerusalem. [...] Speaking 10 days after the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, El-Haddad described the Israeli response as “disproportionate, with 8,000 shells fired into civilian areas.” Many in Gaza, she added, believe it is no coincidence that the June 8 assassination in Rafah of Jamal Abu Samhadana, who had just been appointed chief of the Palestinian security services in April, came on the heels of a May 11 Palestinian prisoners document advocating national unity. [7]
She is confirming what another nurse said earlier, anecdotally: Mothers in Gaza are having trouble breast-feeding their babies. [8]
Like I feel sorry for your son, I feel sorry for my Palestinian children who are born and will die in Gaza, unable to have the chance of seeing other worlds, and who have to face F-16s, Apache helicopters and the Israeli army’s brutal invasions into Gaza. [9]
He tells Dick Gordon about what life is like for him now that his city is under siege, and about the hope that a new U.S. administration might mean new policies in this troubled region. [1]
Sources:
[1] Raising Yousuf and Noor: diary of a Palestinian mother
[2] A mother’s resistance - Haaretz - Israel News
[3] The Daily Star - Politics - Israel kills four children, mother in Gaza
[4] Raising Yousuf and Noor: diary of a Palestinian mother: The Gaza Genocide
[5] Mother in Gaza: ‘Enough is enough’ - CNN.com
[6] Palestinian Center for Human Rights
[7] Waging Peace: A Mother from Gaza Speaks at the U.S. Capitol
[8] PC(USA) News Release Number - 04262 - Intimate Implications
[9] ei: A letter from a mother in Gaza to a mother in Sderot