Archive for September, 2003

From Nablus to Yanoun

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 | Posted in Journals, Nablus Region

by Aron

Yesterday I returned from the village of Yanoun, which is Southeast of Nablus. The village is split into upper and lower, separated by a 1/2 km dirt road. The total population of the village is about 97, mainly children. In the past residents of the village have fled under threats of death, so now there is a constant international...

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Occupational Hazards

Thursday, September 11th, 2003 | Posted in Journals, Gaza Region

To my friends,

I have been in Rafah now for two weeks, and it is still very hard for me to communicate to the outside world what I am seeing here. It’s hard to explain the feelings, tastes, and smells of my days here. It seems that we are in this strange in between period, that everyone here is waiting until the silence ends, and Israel...

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Weddings and Martyrs

Friday, September 5th, 2003 | Posted in Journals, Gaza Region

Friends,

I am sorry my reports have been slow. Sometimes it is so hard to find the words to write about the things that I see everyday in Rafah. In the last two weeks there have been seven assasinations in the Gaza Strip. These are done with missles that are fired from F16s. Sometimes as many as seven missles are fired in one assasination,...

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