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Enduring normality
Walking back from the Samouni neighbourhood in Zeitoun, eastern Gaza, a donkey and cart passed, bells jingling. Everything is normal. Except today the bells reminded me Christmas is tomorrow, and toda… more →
In Gaza
enduring normality
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opt2007 wrote 3 days ago: Walking back from the Samouni neighbourhood in Zeitoun, eastern Gaza, a donkey and cart passed, bell … more →
warring on the psyche
opt2007 wrote 6 days ago: while i am not palestinian and have not lived my life under occupation, over the year here in besieg … more →
waiting for war in an oasis of greenery
opt2007 wrote 6 days ago: Conversations with a family living beside the Deir al Balah war cemetary, like it’s Gaza cousi … more →
pulse
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opt2007 wrote 3 weeks ago: Flu season is here, and it’s going around. As I nurse a light case of it, through that haze o … more →
decor
opt2007 wrote 4 weeks ago: *’Eid decorations on Nasser street, the long-torn-up street serving a number of Gaza’s h … more →
'Eid: beautiful, impossible
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: I wake in the early hours of the morning, as the rush of Eid begins: prayers call out from mosques a … more →
one year later, young fisherman still trying to heal
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opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: Just as his leg was healing from a gaping bullet wound in his calf, Mohammed Musleh broke it, settin … more →
the young bird keeper
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opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: It was a lovely story, that of a boy who caught birds in order to protect them. He lives, the boy, b … more →
moving on, until the next massacre
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: Three years after the murder of seventeen from the Athemna family –among them fourteen women and chi … more →
you mean Gaza isn't being rebuilt?
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opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: In East Beit Hanoun yesterday, still roughly 2 km from the eastern border with Israel, we are survey … more →
lost livelihoods
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: East of Gaza city, on some of Gaza’s most fertile land, little to nothing is growing, and what … more →
where is the buffer zone?
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opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: published At 8:30 on November 15, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza’s northe … more →
defunding children
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: In a Rafah-based grassroots community organization serving children, women and impoverished families … more →
graves in Gaza: denied dignity
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: Long denied cement, a sparse few are able to improvise with over-expensive, tunnel-delivered Egyptia … more →
waiting for justice
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: Fourteen people cram into two connected tents covered with plastic sheeting to combat the winter rai … more →
Palestinian volunteerism and defying Israeli occupation policies and attacks
opt2007 wrote 1 month ago: *Amal Nassir, Local Initiative volunteer, harvests olives in the Beit Hanoun border region. 1st publ … more →
pride, dabke, spirit
opt2007 wrote 2 months ago: “Please, have some coffee,” Mahmoud insisted, though I told him I’d just drank an … more →
Gaza Gets Ambitious With Mud
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opt2007 wrote 2 months ago: SHEIKH ZAYED, Gaza, Oct 13 (IPS) – On a searing summer morning, workers are adding layers to t … more →
port art: on the siege, on the massacre, on yearning for life
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opt2007 wrote 2 months ago: In a small studio on a back lane in Gaza City, Salman Nawati hosts his first solo exhibition of pain … more →
