GZ Ground Update

Few updates out of Gaza...collected by calling Gaza

Amal did not want to leave the house, she wanted to stay and take care of my grandparents who have limited movement. She would not go to stay in another house, her sisters are either living in Jabaliya camp of at our uncle Nafiz in Al Rimal neighborhood. in Gaza City. Apparently, she was in comma for two days because her heart had some activities. She memorizes the Koran and was on her fourth year in the Islamic University of Gaza.

The funeral for Amal is kept on a low profile, since no one dares to leave their homes. People die in the streets because few would gamble their own life to risk someone else's.

Amal means hope in Arabic, it's only proper that the guys who assassinated hope, the Palestinian girl. While the US enjoys it's recent leap of Hope with the elction of Obama; Israel was too busy assassinated hope on the other side.

The only person staying in an entire 6 blocks is one person, my grandpa...he is too old to leave and he actually wants some peace away from people. He is 87, I hope he is well.


Another story of a woman who has just delivered a baby in the local school where she is taking refuge. It was her time to deliver the new born and her family came to our safe (?) house to ask for clothes for the new baby. My sister in law gave her whatever she can find.

Om ElSaid Baba, a homemaker in Beit Lahia was cooking for her kids, and as the smoke from the fire went out, she was cooking Malfoof as gas shortage in Gaza is severe. She was cooking on fire, the Israeli plane saw the fire and that was a good enough reason to take her out. She is survived by a husband and 7 children. One of her boys is in Egypt in a comma due to an Israeli shrapnel.

Kids nowadays go around asking people for fresh tomatoes, bread and whatever they can find to keep them alive. So much for humanitarian aid. On that note, my dad as a teacher for the UNRWA was issued a two 50 Kilos bags of wheat...he has no way of picking them up.

"Medical sources reported that two residents, including a child, were killed in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Their bodies were moved to Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The sources added that a child of Dalloul family died of his wounds in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The child was wounded in overnight Israeli military shelling that targeted al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City; one woman was also killed in the shelling.

Also, Amal Mohammad Al Madhoun and another resident, who remained unidentified, were killed in another Israeli strike. Resident, Shaiboub Shambaly died at a hospital in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, after he was seriously wounded by the Israelis."