Since November 2008, I have been writing and blogging, with photos and video, from all over Gaza.
During the hellish 23 days of Israeli air, land, and sea bombardment of the entire Strip, other internationals and I (mostly volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement and the Free Gaza Movement) accompanied ambulances, documenting the casualties as well as the Israeli attacks on medical workers. We spoke, wrote, and blogged throughout the massacre, hoping to provide as current and real information to the world outside Gaza as possible.
Prior to and following the Israeli massacre of Gaza, we have been accompanying farmers as they venture onto their land near the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone”, a region Israeli authorities say encompasses the 300m length along the Green Line Gaza-Israel border…but in practise it is a region which extends far beyond 300m, up to 2 km in northern Gaza areas. We work and walk with the farmers, standing with them when the Israeli shooting starts, documenting the aggressions of the Israeli army, and giving more voice to the Palestinian farmers who endure this lethal harassment.
We work with fishermen, accompanying them on the seas, documenting their narratives, taking their testimonies of Israeli naval shooting, shelling, water cannoning, and abduction of the Palestinian fishermen from Palestinian waters.
I’ve also been trying to give voice to the everyday Palestinians living but dying under a siege so brutal that over 350 medical patients have died for want of care unavailable in Gaza and permission to leave the Strip. The siege kills people, education, hope, dreams, livelihoods. It stunts children’s growth, has slaughtered the economy, and renders daily life mundane or desperate.
Much of my writing and all of our accompaniment and reporting work, has been voluntary. Some of my writing for IPS news and Electronic Intifada has been paid, meaning I can stay on in Gaza.
If you feel that my observations have brought information you value and you’d like to see more, on-going reports from Gaza, please consider making a small donation to keep me here. This is a one-time appeal.
For further information, please contact me evabartlett@hotmail.com
Thanks for reading.
Eva/In Gaza
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