Website review: Rafah - Palestine
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Draconis discovered 40 months ago- Israeli troops are shooting children again.
- Junglist999 rated 14 days ago
- I first went to Israel/Palestine in 92 to find out with my own eyes what the conflict was about, little has changed since then.
- TOMTHUMB rated 4 months ago
- War is hell
- TylerMC rated 4 months ago
- Nowhere to run is the latest article I edited with Mohammed. It was also picked up by the Statesman in the UK 2 weeks ago. Pictures speak for themselves. This is from my previous post 10 months ago: This is where Mohammed posts his daily blog and pictures. This came in today on what is happening: I'm scared, i was almost killed or at least bleeding till death. three militants were closing all roads and they sudden, they said to me stop during the curfew, i stop and then the masked-men open fire under my feet hitting the ground under my feet. i thought I'm killed, and i could not explain or scream as the shooting was louder than my scream, so I said, :" No, don't do that, stop stop, please" oh, i was in tears, this is the first time I'm begging someone not to kill me, and then the other guy who's also militant was standing in my side and said, we don't want to kill him, lets shoot him in his legs and leave him bleed. I said, what? why? and then he said, your ID, I show it with the press card and then they let me go. I was scared that they would shoot at me once I turn my back, but alhamdllah this didn't happen, I was scared, scared, scared to death. this was not pleasant experience, and they were doing this, as I got stuck and could not find transport back home, so I went walking in the streets. I'm scared to death. those are just evil and terrible people. I don't wish to be in that position again. i can't stand in my feet anymore, I feel pain and scared. those are working for preventive security, which is working closely with Israelis. I was wearing my bullet proof vest, but this didn't protect me enough. today, more than 10 were killed and tens were injured, many by Israelis, but still some by Palestinian clashes between Hamas and Fateh. they don't want this to be reported. I didn't tell my mother, she will be scared again!! sad greetings! Mohammed First thing this morning I checked with another journalist, trying to find out about the 30 journalists under siege in Gaza by Israeli F16's, (trapped from what Mohammed said yesterday). Here's what Jeff let me know: "Yesterday, I heard a report right from the journalists building on BBC. It was frightening. What we are seeing is the legacy of the years of corruption of Fatah led by the corrupt Arafat in which genuine political education was non-existent. This, of course, is what the US and Israel planned, with Egypt's cooperation, and those idiots in Fatah, who seem to prefer killing their fellow Palestinians than Israelis are just playing into their hands. These are a very sad days for Palestine and indeed for the world."--JB
- doncalladito rated 6 months ago
- From the blog (posted a week ago): "So Many Tragedies in Such Little Time "Where to start..., what to talk about...? The crippling electricity shortages, affecting hospitals as well as civilians? The air strikes & on-going, daily bombings by the Israeli army, their indiscriminate targeting of civilians and police stations...? Israel's non-accidental, enforced starvation of 1.5 million people by closing off ALL borders and not allowing in even UN aid, let alone basic medicinal, food, and construction needs...? "Shortages of fuel have re-surfaced in Gaza: most of Gaza has no electricity and even more importantly, the shortage of medicine in Palestinian hospitals continues to increase, with the Ministry of Health reporting a looming humanitarian catastrophe. "Or should I begin with the bomb which just hit a wedding close to the Ministry of Interior building in Gaza City, with 15 apartment buildings within the bomb's target range? One woman was killed and 47 others were injured -mostly children and women who had been inside their homes or playing on the street!! Scenes of children injured, bleeding and crying just moments after they had been enjoying a wedding celebration in a Gaza wedding hall...a horrific sight likely to go without mention of that in most news sources." Palestinian youngman running from an Israeli rocket which hit one of the houses in Gaza City
- Jackanapes rated 14 months ago
From the page: " The stench of blood is rife: it is awash in the streets, the markets, in homes,...all over the Gaza Strip. There are no safe havens any longer in Gaza, and even journalists on the job have been targeted. "
Palestinians would like to portray them selves as products of Zionist racism and occupation. Refuges who have had there land stolen and a endless litany of crimes committed against them. I can see a thin thread of truth in there somewhere. I can acknowledge the presence of injustices.
This site and its intrepid 22 year old journalist Mohammed Omer is attempting to chronicle the sentiment I wrote above.
Here is an excerpt from his bio: "Mohammed has experienced more pain, death, fear, destruction, hatred and despair in his 22 years than most people experience in a lifetime. He rises each day and, in spite of the pain, grabs his camera, pen and paper, and heads out into the war zone he calls home."
You will not find balance and true journalistic detachment from this site but regarding what he has been through I don't see how one would expect it. I would only wish to point out that Israel is not to blame for every thing. Human nature being what it is there are few who would want to take responsibility for there own actions. Be it the so called Zionist entity or the occupied and oppressed Arab victims known as Palestinians.
Palestine will continue there endless intifada as long as they do not inventory there own actions and continue to focus on others as explanation for all there pain and suffering. The cry for justice is loud. If one continues to defecate in your own living space demanding others clean it up what then would be justice unless you start to clean it yourself. So long as there is endless lust for violence masked in the name of justice few others will care or be deceived enough to want to help.
- Tookietoo rated 21 months ago
- They showed the shooting on television late last night while I was folding my laundry. I saw one of the women in close up, both of us hold fabrics in our hands, me a freshly ironed pillow cover, she the scarf of her friend, who just got shot by Israeli soldiers. There were two hands full of brain on the scarf and pieces of it dropped down to the floor. She cried. I cried. * * *
- TraceTHC rated 23 months ago
- Fox news, an ardent supporter of Israel and its murderous policies, never told the story of the Palestinians. The two kidnapped journalists, who serve as media soldiers to further obscure the truth about Israel's murderous nature, have appealed to the Palestinians that they are to show the plight and suffering of the Palestinian people. I am glad that they are released but sure do hope that Fox news is thrown out of Gaza.
- ginajudd rated 25 months ago
- My son is about his age. This makes me sick. Not because I'm a so called left wing liberal either. It isn't political. It ho's maternal. As a mother this turns my stomach and breaks my heart. I haven't prayed in a while, maybe it would help to do that. Maybe other people could also pray for peace if not that at least give thanks for who you are and what you do have.
- ingozi rated 25 months ago
- "The Wall at the Rafah Refugee Camp"
