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Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts

Monday, 16 May 2016

chips - film by Jeehad Sharkawi in Gaza, 2015



Chips - Short Film - 2015 - Jeehad Sharkawi Gaza


During the aggression on GAZA , July -2014 , 6 years old child staying close to his tense mother !
Due to sudden shelling ,the family had to leave home quickly !
.. End of the war , family returned back to the destroyed house
, But the mother has no more than caddy of food to give here unhappy son , but he prefers to exchange it with "Chips" from the grocery !
The unlucky Child faces serious difficulties , so he could not enjoy his bag of Chips , finally he lost it ! , The child returned back home at night , picked up two more cans of food, he decided repeat the whole story !!
in the darkness .. , runs again to the grocery .,but the little Child was targeted by drone attack !

فكرة موجزة ن الفيلم :
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أثناء العدوان علي غزة - يوليو 2014 , يلتصق طفل حزين - 6 سنوات - بأمه المتوترة
و فجأة , يتم استهداف المنزل , فتضطر الأسرة للهرب علي عجل
مع انتهاء العدوان ، لم تجد الأسرة بدا" عن الاقامة بمنزلها المدمر
و لا تملك الأم الفقيرة سوي أن تقدم علبة من الطعام لطفلها البائس
فيفضل الطفل الحزين استبدالها ب " Chips " من البقال
يمر الطفل بمواقف صعبة داخل المنزل و خاجه تحول دون تناوله لكيس الشبس !
.. , يعود أدراجه للمنزل المدمر و قد حل الظلام
يقرر الطفل التقاط علبتين اُخريين من أجل الحصول علي شيبس آخر
... لكنه كان هدفا لهجوم ليلي بطائرة بدون طيار !

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https://www.facebook.com/ElSharakawi/media_set?set=a.10203336731234128.1073741849.1086185348&type=1&l=1a07a585b2&hc_location=ufi

Friday, 21 November 2014

I am from Gaza - Maisoon


Maisoon shared her very important life story and reflections on life, forgiveness and determination that would make anyone proud to know her. Please read, reflect and share her important message. Eileen

Maisoon Bashir

I first met Maisoon on the Welcome to Gaza Convoy. She was working voluntarily as a translator with us as she has wonderful English. Maisoon spoke of her pride in her country, her language and religion and we all learned much from her regarding identity as a female living in Gaza. She talked about her family, the painful loss of her Dad and the long occupation of her family home with such feeling that we openly cried as she related so much of her personal life to many of us. She spoke of such emotion, pain and suffering with a dignity, selflessness and an ultimate positivity that I have seldom heard outside of Palestine.

Maisoon told me, at first falteringly, that because many of the people on the Convoy were talking of the deep and intense trauma of the Gazan people that this made her want to talk with me about what had happened to her family. Many of the readers will already know the context of the exit of the Israeli army and settlement of the Gazan strip. However many will not so I will briefly outline Maisoons family’s living conditions before Israeli citizens and military left the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Maisoons father and mother and her six siblings lived in a three storey house prior to 2000 when Israeli soldiers, because of its location bordering an Israeli settlement, occupied the top two floors for five years, until 2005, insisting that the family only access the ground floor. Every night from sunset to sunrise that occupation of their family home, as if it were not difficult enough, became worse as they would then be confined to one bedroom while the soldiers, with guns, either maintained guard outside the bedroom door or worse at times from within the bedroom.
“We don’t eat because you just have 5 munities what can you do in this 5 minutes!. We don’t sleep. We were like prisoners in one bedroom”.

At times Maisoon told me that her mother and father would be too anxious to sleep and so they would stand up all night in fear of anything happening to their children. On a few occasions when her mother went to the bathroom she returned to find soldiers in her bed. Intimate family life was completely disrupted for a full five years. Despite the trauma of this and the intrusion on every aspect of family life and growing up Maisoon said,
“I won’t let them ruin my future. My father always told us that fighting and anger was no solution and that we have to find a way to peace. Peace in our country and peace in our hearts”.

Maisoon explained to me that her father, a school principal who was a very peaceful man studying for his PhD, refused to move from his home despite greenhouses being destroyed, on-going occupation and refusing them freedom of movement. They had been requested by Israeli Occupation Forces to move in order that greater protection could be provided for the nearby settlement of Kfar Darom. Despite all that had happened to his family in terms of on-going humiliation, the shooting of his son in view of members of the United Nations and being shot himself Maisoon told me that her father always maintained that “punishment does not pay”. Maisoon recalls him saying to her, and to visitors to their home who questioned how he could continue to live in this occupied environment that,
“We have to devote ourselves to finding a peaceful solution so that our children can live in peace”.

Maisoon seems to have adopted her father’s philosophical position and the way that he lived as she spoke so fondly of him, of his life, of his work, and of his relationship with all of his children and his wife.
“He was a man of peace and I want to be like him. He was special and I want to be something special like him. I want to be a special star for my family and for Palestine”.
Maisoon was surprised at her father’s death. She spoke about having spoken with him before she had gone to bed that night and he had been well.

“I used to love talking with him and I miss him so much. I just couldn’t believe he had died. My Dad called me for suhoor (breakfast) and after that I went to sleep, then my sister called me to wake up but I was tired and didn’t want to get up. A few minutes later she ran in to tell me that my father had died. I couldn’t believe it. After that I took on the responsibility to be there for my mum and support her in everything that she has to do for our family. It is what I want to do. I want to support my family in every way that I can. My dreams have had to be put on hold for a while because my family is so important. My father always encouraged us to follow our dreams and I will follow them. I am following them but in a different way to the way that I thought it would be but that is ok because I want to do what is right. I want all of my family to be proud of me”

Maisoon says that she feels very different from her friends and from people her age.

“They don’t understand me. They think I am too serious and boring because I am not interested in the things that they like and the things that they do. That is because I haven’t had any practise. When I was growing up I couldn’t go out freely with friends because the soldiers ordered us to be home at sunset. They told us when to eat and when to sleep. Other families also thought that our house was too dangerous for their children to visit so I had no practise in making friends. I’m a sociable person but I have more important things to do with my life. I have my dreams and I have to make them come true. I don’t have my father around to help me so I have to make them happen myself”.
Maisoon says that being with the international convoy was a unique experience.

“For the first time in my life special after the death of my Dad, I felt that people wanted to listen to me”. “She sees that for the first time after the death of my Dad, I am happy. But she is worried that you will all let me down. We find it very hard to trust people. I am sure that you can understand that. We are afraid of being hurt. We have been hurt so much. I have tried not to feel hope for the future but you have made that very difficult because now I feel hope and I feel like I belong again. I used to feel like a fish out of water. Now you have put me back into the water and I feel like I can breathe again”.

Her family are not the only ones who have noticed. Maisoon says that her friends have commented too. They have heard a different tone in her voice.

Maisoon hope that her dreams will come true. She says that she knows that her dreams are big ones. She says that
“They are especially big for a girl who had her childhood taken away from her. From aged nine to fourteen I had soldiers in my home night and day. But I am going to make all of my experience; the family that I come from and my faith in Allah and hard work come together to make my dream come true”. I’m still a strong girl in front of all difficulties , and fighting for my Dreams. I believe that tomorrow will be better, and I always repeat the words" Keeping your Dream alive"

What is your dream Maisoon?

“I want to be a star in the sky for me also for my family. I want to be a star in the sky for Palestine, a girl that all want to hear about and follow her news. I want to be the hand offering a helping hand for anyone in this world regardless of religion, nationality and culture because in the end we are all human beings. Maybe some will see it is impossible to achieve it alone, but I’m sure that there are many people like me who share the same Dream, so I will never be alone, and our message, the message of peace will be realized!

Having spent time with Maisoon and experienced her generosity of spirit and time, her knowledge, professionalism and dedication to all that she does and her love and pride in her family, her religion and her country, despite all that she has endured at a young age, it is clear that Maisoon has already achieved her dream in so many ways.
But I know that there is more to come.

Thank you for sharing your very important life story with me Maisoon
Eileen

Thursday, 9 October 2014

U.S. government: Stop arming Israel - amnesty international

https://campaigns.amnesty.org/campaigns/us-stop-arming-israel#3



     U.S. government: Stop arming Israel

    More civilians have been killed than fighters since the Israeli military Operation “Protective Edge” started on 8 July. Call on the U.S. government, Israel’s largest arms supplier by far, to urgently suspend arms transfers to Israel and to push for a UN arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.

    Photo: Israeli soldiers in position next to an artillery shells from an artillery unit near the Israeli border with Gaza, 21 July 2014. © European Pressphoto Agency


    MUST SEE - go to link ... and ACT please

    https://campaigns.amnesty.org/campaigns/us-stop-arming-israel#3

    Wednesday, 8 October 2014

    Gaza buildings damaged


    In Pictures: The remnants of Gaza

    http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/10/pictures-remnants-gaza-201410585548291895.html


    Israel's bombardment of Gaza has ended, but many Palestinians must now tackle the challenge of
    rebuilding from rubble.

    Eduardo Soteras Jalil Last updated: 07 Oct 2014 10:26
           
    Weeks after Israel ended its bombardment of Gaza, Palestinian residents have started coming back to what remains of their homes and livelihoods. Operation Protective Edge reduced entire neighbourhoods to rubble, flattened iconic buildings and killed more than 2,000 people. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 100,000 people were displaced within Gaza, some of whom have been forced to shelter in schools for months, living on scarce food rations amid unhygienic conditions. Many were left with little more than the clothes on their backs after fleeing their homes. Conditions inside these shelters deteriorate daily, prompting families to venture back to whatever remains of their homes. In some cases, families have erected small huts over the rubble. They lack basic services, such as water and electricity - but even as winter edges nearer, there is no clear solution in sight.


    see more here please: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/10/pictures-remnants-gaza-201410585548291895.html

    Sunday, 5 October 2014

    Eid in Gaza - Ezz Al Zanoon

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202646930601171&set=a.1365005731923.2044779.1435022041&type=1&theater


    Saturday, 6 September 2014

    helping Gaza by selling art - Mohammed Hassona


    http://im7mad.wordpress.com/artworks-for-sale/

    Artworks for Sale

    I am Mohammed from Gaza, graphic designer, blogger and student at Gaza University.
    60 % of the sale of my artworks will go into direct aid for the most needy people in Gaza as my duty and contribution to help my people. Thanks for your solidarity!
    Please show your support!
    Thanks!
    Dear visitors . you can order one or more of the following artworks by sending the artwork ID and the price you want to pay to 
     mohd.hassona@gmail.com
    OR by filling the below form and i will back to you within 24 hours



    taste of freedom

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    Wednesday, 20 August 2014

    B'Tselem petitions Israel’s High Court to oblige Israel Broadcasting Authority to broadcast names of Gazan children killed


    http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20140729_children_name_campaign_petition

    Israeli media is not listing the names of children killed in Gaza. These are their names:

    • Fatmeh Taysir Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 12
      |
    • Ahmad Nael Mahdi
      , 15
      |
    • Basem Salem Kaware'
      , 10
      |
    • Rinat Taysir Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 2
      |
    • Mu'in Muhammad Siyam
      , 5
      |
    • Muhammad Ahmad As'ad al-Bidi, 3 months
      |
    • Nagham Mahmoud 'Abd al-Hamid a-Zweidi
      , 2
      |
    • Amir 'Adel Siyam
      , 12
      |
    • Safaa Malakeh
      , 6
      |
    • Aya Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 12
      |
    • Jawdat Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 13
      |
    • Dina 'Abdallah 'Aziz
      , 5
      |
    • Qasem Rabi'
      , 12
      |
    • Muhammad Khalaf Nawasrah
      , 2
      |
    • Bisan Basem Ahmad Abu Jame', 6 months
      |
    • Tala Akram al-'Atawi
      , 10
      |
    • Mahmoud Jihad 'Awad 'Abdin
      , 12
      |
    • Muhammad Iyad Salem 'Arif
      , 10
      |
    • Saher Abu Namus
      , 3
      |
    • Anas 'Alaa Subhi al-Batsh
      , 10
      |
    • Abd a-Rahman Akram a-Skafi
      , 12
      |
    • Iman Khalil 'Abd 'Amar
      , 9
      |
    • Hadi 'Abd a-Nabi
      , 4
      |
    • Ghaidaa Siyam
      , 7
      |
    • Muhammad Na'im Muhammad Musalam
      , 15
      |
    • Hamzah Ousamah Khalil ak-Hayah
      , 4
      |
    • Marwah Suliman Ahmad a-Sarsawi
      , 12
      |
    • Muhammad Ayman a-Sha'er
      , 5
      |
    • Suhelah Basam Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 3
      |
    • Asil Wisam Marzuq Sheheibar
      , 7
      |
    • Abd al-Karim Anwar Suliamn a-Drazin
      , 5
      |
    • Isma'il Muhammad Subhi Baker
      , 9
      |
    • Adham Ahmad Abu 'Atiyeh
      , 4
      |
    • Hiba Hamed a-Sheikh Khalil
      , 14
      |
    • Rahaf Khalil Hamadah a-Jabur
      , 4
      |
    • Muhammad 'Ali Kaware'
      , 13
      |
    • Yasmin Muhammad al-Mutawaq
      , 4
      |
    • Mariam Shybub a-Shanbari
      , 11
      |
    • Muhammad Ashraf Rafiq 'Ayad
      , 3
      |
    • Siham Muhammad Ibrahim Zu'rub
      , 11
      |
    • Ahmad Ramzi Abu Qadus
      , 13
      |
    • Walaa Na'im Muhammad Musalam
      , 14
      |
    • Abdallah Muhammad Kaware'
      , 12
      |
    • Osamah Mahmoud al-Astal
      , 8
      |
    • Hatem Na'im 'Aqel
      , 14
      |
    • Razan Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 14
      |
    • Muhammad Rajaa Hindem
      , 15
      |
    • Yaser Ibrahim Dib al-Kilani
      , 8
      |
    • Nur al-Islam Ahmad Abu Hweishel
      , 6
      |
    • Amal Bahaa al-Batsh
      , 2
      |
    • Salma Salem a-Radi'
      , 5
      |
    • Ibrahim Jamal Kamal Naser
      , 13
      |
    • Zeinab Safwat Abu Tir
      , 3
      |
    • Omar Jamil Subhi Hamudah
      , 10
      |
    • Fatmeh Mahmoud al-Haj
      , 14
      |
    • Ahmad Khaled Muhammad a-Najar
      , 14
      |
    • Hussein Yusef Kaware'
      , 13
      |
    • Rim Ibrahim Dib al-Kilani
      , 12
      |
    • Mustafa Siyam
      , 9
      |
    • Muhammad Abu Shabab
      , 15
      |
    • Nasmah Iyad al-Qasas
      , 10
      |
    • Amir Hamudah Hussein a-Najar
      , 2
      |
    • Samar Musa Abu Jarad
      , 15
      |
    • Ibtehal Ibrahim 'Ayesh a-Ramahi
      , 4
      |
    • Hatem Zein Nayef al-Yazji
      , 3
      |
    • Dima 'Abdallah Salim
      , 3
      |
    • Qasem Jaber 'Adwan Kaware'
      , 12
      |
    • Muhammad Ziad Saleh a-Rahal
      , 5
      |
    • Bader Siyam
      , 4
      |
    • Sha'ban Jamil Ziyadah
      , 12
      |
    • Mahmoud Ahmad al-Qasas
      , 10
      |
    • Muhammad Iyad al-Qasas
      , 4
      |
    • Saji Hasan Akram al-Halaq
      , 4
      |
    • Amneh Jihad Matar
      , 10
      |
    • Asem Khalil 'Abd 'Amar
      , 4
      |
    • Iman Ibrahim 'Ayesh a-Ramahi
      , 14
      |
    • Hadi Salah a-Din Abu Hasanein
      , 12
      |
    • Ghadah Subhi Sa'idi 'Ayad
      , 13
      |
    • Muhammad Mansur al-Bshiti
      , 7
      |
    • Baraah Saleh Mahmoud a-Raqab
      , 11
      |
    • Manar Majed al-Batsh
      , 13
      |
    • Muhammad Ibrahim Faek al-Masri
      , 14
      |
    • Suha 'Abd Rabu Musleh
      , 2
      |
    • Asil al-Masri
      , 15
      |
    • Abd a-Rahman Mahmoud 'Ab a-Nabi
      , 1
      |
    • Islam Hamudah Hussein a-Najar
      , 3
      |
    • Elyas Ibrahim Dib al-Kulani
      , 4
      |
    • Hiba Akram Saleh a-Sha'er
      , 15
      |
    • Rahaf Isma'il Abu Jam'ah
      , 4
      |
    • Muhammad Salameh Abu Dabagh
      , 12
      |
    • Yasin Ibrahim Dib al-Kilani
      , 9
      |
    • Miriam 'Atiyeh al-'Arja
      , 10
      |
    • Muhammad Anwar Suliman a-Darazin
      , 3
      |
    • Suliman Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 14
      |
    • Ahmad 'Abd Rabu Musleh
      , 14
      |
    • Walaa Muhammad al-Kayed
      , 15
      |
    • Abdallah Yusef Daraji
      , 2
      |
    • Umamah Ousamah Khalil al-Hayah
      , 8
      |
    • Haniyah 'Abd a-Rahman Abu Jarad
      , 3
      |
    • Rawan Ziad Hajaj
      , 15
      |
    • Muhammad Rami Fathi 'Ayad
      , 3
      |
    • Yasmin Nayef al-Astal
      , 4
      |
    • Nujud Taysir Ahmad Abu Jame', 4 months
      |
    • Muhammad Hani Muhammad al-Halaq
      , 2
      |
    • Siraj Yaser Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 4
      |
    • Ibrahim a-Sheikh 'Omar
      , 2
      |
    • Wasim Mustafa Salhiyah
      , 15
      |
    • Abeid Fadel Abu Hweishel
      , 9
      |
    • Fatmeh Ahmad al-'Arja
      , 14
      |
    • Ahmad Walid Nasrallah Samur
      , 9
      |
    • Husam Husam Abu Qainas
      , 7
      |
    • Rayan Taysir Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 5
      |
    • Musa 'Abd a-Rahman Abu Jarad, 8 months
      |
    • Lamyaa Iyad al-Qasas
      , 11
      |
    • Nidal Khalaf 'Awad Nawasrah
      , 4
      |
    • Amir Iyad Salem 'Arif
      , 11
      |
    • Samar al-Qasas
      , 3
      |
    • Ibrahim Ramadan Abu Daqah
      , 10
      |
    • Khalil Ousamah Khalil al-Hayah
      , 5
      |
    • Fares Jum'ah a-Tarabin، 3 months
      |
    • Ahmad Na'Im Muhammad Musalam
      , 11
      |
    • Bader Hatem 'Amish
      , 9
      |
    • Shahd Mu'in 'Ali Qishtah
      , 9
      |
    • Mu'taz Hessein Samir a-Najar
      , 6
      |
    • Arwa al-Qasas
      , 4
      |
    • Sajidah Yaser Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 7
      |
    • Amirah 'Adel Siyam, 8 months
      |
    • Ahed 'Attaf 'Ahed Baker
      , 9
      |
    • Ayub Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 10
      |
    • Jihad 'Isam Marzuq Sheheibar
      , 10
      |
    • Dalal Siyam, 9 months
      |
    • Qusai 'Isam al-Batsh
      , 12
      |
    • Muhammad Mustafa Malakeh
      , 2
      |
    • Bitul Basam Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 4
      |
    • Tawfiq Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 4
      |
    • Maisaa Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 7
      |
    • Muhmmad Ibrahim Antiz
      , 13
      |
    • Sarah 'Omar Sheikh al-'Eid
      , 9
      |
    • Anas Qdeih
      , 7
      |
    • Abd a-Rahman Basam Khatab
      , 5
      |
    • Islam al-Qasas
      , 15
      |
    • Hani Suliman Muhammad a-Najar
      , 7
      |
    • Raed Muhammad Thari
      , 4
      |
    • Muhammad Salem Antiz
      , 3
      |
    • Yamen Riyad al-Hmeideh
      , 4
      |
    • Marah Shaker a-Jamal
      , 10
      |
    • Muhammad Akram al-Kafarneh
      , 15
      |
    • Sawsan Ibrahim Dib al-Kilani
      , 11
      |
    • Ahmad Sufian a-Jamal
      , 9
      |
    • Wisam 'Isam Marzuq Sheheibar
      , 7
      |
    • Abd al-'Aziz Salah a-Din Abu Hasanein
      , 14
      |
    • Israa al-Qasas
      , 7
      |
    • Ulfat hussein Abu 'Atiyeh
      , 4
      |
    • Haifaa Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 9
      |
    • Ru'ya Mhamhmoud 'Abd al-Hamid a-Zweidi
      , 5
      |
    • Muhammad Ramez 'Izat Baker
      , 11
      |
    • Yasmin Mahmoud al-Astal
      , 5
      |
    • Nabil Mahmoud Muhammad al-Astal
      , 13
      |
    • Muhammad Jihad Matar
      , 12
      |
    • Siraj Iyad 'Abd al-'Al
      , 8
      |
    • Ahmad Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 8
      |
    • Walid Sa'id al-Harazin
      , 7
      |
    • Abdallah Ramadan Abu Ghazal
      , 5
      |
    • Fadi Diab Hassan Islim
      , 10
      |
    • Ahmad Ayman Siyam
      , 15
      |
    • Husam Ibrahim a-Najar
      , 14
      |
    • Rizeq Ahmad al-Hayek
      , 2
      |
    • Musa Muhammad Taher al-Astal
      , 15
      |
    • Kinan Hasan Akram al-Halaq
      , 6
      |
    • Nur Yaser Ahmad Abu Jame'
      , 2
      |
    • Amjad Salem Khamis Sha't
      , 15
      |
    • Samih Na'im Abu Jarad
      , 1
      |
    • Ibrahim Khalil 'Abd 'Amar
      , 12
      |
    • Zakariyah 'Ahed Subhi Baker
      , 10
      |