Asleep in Gaza

I called Gaza today and briefly spoke to my older sister Hanna, she is doing much better especially that she has a son with disability who's kinds of...

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The Sun Rises on Gaza

I received a call today from the director of Alshorok Association in Gaza, a group that works with children and operates a number of educational programs...

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Cannot Balance The Truth...This Man Can

I went to a lecture with an Israeli scholar because someone had asked me to take part of it and try to ask questions. I normally would not do this, especially...

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Shippment to Gaza

Currently, a personal contact of mine has made me aware of I am working with a group that has collected medical supplies to be shipped to Gaza, here is...

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My Gaza Has My People

My niece Dina in a car rocking the wife beatersMy younger brother resting on a stack of gigantic rice bagsSome random dude kicking it at my family's store,...

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Run Weirdo Run

In my morning run, as I was running into Mount Pleasant area, away from 18th Street...a tall American man waves his hand in the air, I thought he might...

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Alive In Gaza

Grandpa says that people are so disoriented that they no longer recognize each other. "Three weeks of straight carnage, destruction, and horrors can only...

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Isreal Gives UN the Bird

Here is a series of pictures from the school right behind our store, it is the school where at least 7 of my nephews and nieces attend. When not being...

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Israel Get Your Gun

Sorry for the lack of posting, I have been recovering from a terrible case of sore throat, I am hoping it will leave me soon, if it does not then I am...

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A Gazan Morning

A poem written by Palestinian poet Nashwa Jarar will be made into a song. Kathem El Saher, Iraqi musician hit-maker. Kathem Canceled his engagements since...

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Chatting Gaza

The Following is a quick chat I had with a female acquaintance of mine, (she is married with a boy and a girl) This is how the conversation went, no changes...

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Gaza Speaks 2

New interview with Dad from Gaza...he updates us on Gaza and shares his opinions on what's going on.to download or listenclick h...

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How About You?

"How Are you?" asked my youngest brother Mahmoud when I spoke to him last time. Given that people I know have been asking me about my family How are they?...

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Anywhere...Anytime...

Courtesy of Israel, the only Democracy in the regi...

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Calling Gaza

I got few minutes of talk time with the family today, which was nice. The whole family was staying in one bedroom. My niece Roa'a (by far my favorite)...

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Madhoun Watch

An interview with Israel Ynet newsMuhammad Madhoun, a resident of Beit Lahiya said he recently opened a computers' business in which he invested a great...

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GZ Update

Another Madhoun, not sure who he would be....but I have an uncle with that name and a second cousin. Not sure if he is one of them...but I hoping to find...

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Norwegian doctors return after 11 days in Gaza

you know the people of Gaza are on the right side of history when you see both God and the Godless coming to their aid...Posted : Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:21:17 GMTAuthor : DPACategory : Middle East (World) Oslo - Two Norwegian doctors who spent an 11-day...

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Whoever Said You Cannot Beat a Dead Horse

Is dead wrong.Ala'a Almadhoun, a reporter for Alarabiya Network, reported a recent Israeli air strike on Palestinian Cemetery in the Northern Part of...

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Death, Hope and Wishes in Gaza

It was the first relatively quiet afternoon when my sister-in-law Amani (Arabic for Wishes) decided to go back to our house to pick up few items she left...

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Chronicles of My Gaza Family

Being from Gaza these days is a burden. Everyone who knows me is asking about my family. And all I can answer is how they were 4 days ago, when I could...

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People I Know...Not Numbers I Count

The following highlighted names of individuals who I either know or know their fathers....all died Today...كان ثلاثة عشر مقاوما استشهدوا في مواجهات تلت...

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Hajj Yaseen

My grandpa Hajj Yaseen as we call him is the the one in our family that decided our family's destiny. While Hajj Yaseen is still holding out in Beit Lahia...

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GZ Ground Update

Few updates out of Gaza...collected by calling GazaAmal did not want to leave the house, she wanted to stay and take care of my grandparents who have...

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House Mate

Amal Ahmad Almadhoun is 22 years old, we grew up together in the same house. Her father Ahmad is my uncle, as of my father's brother. when I read the name they got it wrong in the news, but when I called Mohammad, my younger brother told me that it was...

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A Song for Gaza....

Calling it as it is....it takes an artista Song by Michael Heart, an LA based musici...

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GZ Update

Still no word from back home, I was able to get a 30 second connection yesterday to my younger brother's cell, but learned nothing in those precious 30 seconds. more death in Gaza....901 fallen so far close to 300 children. Israel still refuses to stop...

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Target....Children

How come there are voices find it in their heard to justify this carnage? Watch this graphic video of a Palestinian father speaking to the Israelis in Hebrew and showing them his family. Watch the anchor choke after the video. Click H...

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Best Seat in the House!

This picture indicates that either Israeli TV sucks and out of good ideas that can get these good Israeli Hasidic Jews entrained or that the view of the...

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Interview With Dad

After five days of not being able to talk to Gaza...we finally broke through (cannot call now) and recorded an interview with Abu Mazin. Please forgive...

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My Dad's School Massacre

PCHRPalestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non profit) Date: 08 January 2009 "I Am Still Alive"Testimonies from the Gaza Strip Testimony 1: Carnage at Al-Fakhoura School, Jabalia. "I was working at the [Kamal Edwan] Hospital here in Jabalia, when...

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Gaza Live Update

It's very thoughtful of you to think of my family, thanks for all your emails and notes! I just gotten through, the service was shaky...but we spoke with...

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Quick Update

Day 12 of attacks, more than 600 now reported dead...many children and if the children are not dead...they are physiologically challenges...I am not keeding if the adults are scared like no time since 1967...imagine the children.Still not able to get...

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Simply.....INSANE

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Gaza wounded dying because ambulances can't reach them: Red Cross

GENEVA (AFP) — People wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip are dying because ambulances cannot reach them, the International Committee of the Red Cross...

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Medical Doctor in Gaza

This is a Norwegian Doctor who volunteers with the Gaza Medical Services. They might be Godless and socialists up in Norway, but they really care for othe...

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True Liars

First rule of reading and watching the news coming formal news channels, or state run propaganda, the Middle East is not new to the game. Whenever, the...

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Last Gaza Quote

"It sucks if you die, but dying with others as a blessing" that's an Arabic proverb that is too familiar for too many Palestinians right now. They all gather together in one place hoping to minimize loss of life since their exposure to risk will be not...

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Subs vs. Supers

I was wondering about the two different ways, two different people view the Palestinian people. The Arab people who are mostly in support of the Palestinian...

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Cousin's Home

My maternal cousin Rabah (how many cousins do I have?) Rabah is a successful 40 something businessman who runs a number of clothing stores in the Northern...

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The 500 Jesus

Christians believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins. He was selfless in that act so that people be forgiven if they repent. so in Christina, Christ died to make our life easier...and this took place in Palestine. But now in Palestine, the only time...

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New Year Fireworks

You know it's not a New Year celebration until you party in the presence of intoxicated people. that's what Israel gave the residence of Gaza, a new year...

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إصابة عدد من المواطنين في سلسلة غارات إسرائيلية على قطاع غزة

التاريخ : 2/1/2009 الوقت : 11:56ح+ . ح- . الإفتراضيغزة 2-1-2009 وفا- شن الطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي اليوم، عدة غارات جوية من أقصى الشمال إلى أقصى الجنوب...

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