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Yousuf's birthday

We celebrated Yousuf's fourth birthday today. We ate cake. And we counted the bodies. We sang happy birthday. And my mother sobbed. We watched the fighter jets roar voraciously on our television screen, pounding street after street; then heard a train screech outside, and shuddered. Yousuf tore open his presents and asked my mother to make a paper zanana, a drone, for him with origami. And we were torn open from the inside, engulfed by a feeling of impotence and helplessness; fear and anger and grief; despondence and confusion.
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2008/03/gaza-genocide.html

The numbers

These are the raw numbers. Believe it or not, human lives are not equal. We are not all created the same. Some of us are
worth more than others. The loss of some lives are worth international condemnation, while others are not even worth those empty words. One Israeli civilian is killed by rocket fire from Gaza, and the Israeli war machine decided it had been sitting idly for a couple days and was excited to get to work. One of the most advanced militaries in the world still could not "hit the mark'' it claimed to be targeting, Hamas rocket launchers. A disproportionate number of the dead have been civilians, with childrenm taking the brunt of the attacks. A hole in the roof of an Israeli home means the destruction of dozens of homes in the Gaza strip.
http://myoccupiedterritory.net

Israel intensifies raids

On my way walking to the Red Crescent Society, (I do not have fuel in my car), it is only 25 mintues. While walking, I can clearly hear successive explosions from different parts of the city and the drone in the sky, and also I can clearly see the
security forces soldiers outside their headquarters as it is under threat of bombing by the Israeli military forces. I had to
walk very fast, expecting the worst, arriving at my work to find out that we do not have enough fuel for the ambulance and
the other work vehicles.
http://fromgaza.blogspot.com/

Let the world know

Put this on your social networking profile page (eg Facebook and MySpace) to help raise awareness of the massacre in Gaza and notify those who might not have seen/heard of this yet (especially in the West). Please spread the word. Tell your friends and redistribute this picture.
http://www.za3tar.net/

Sheer agony

I haven't written about Gaza because I don't think my words can do justice. How do you translate into words the feeling that you have when you see the limp bodies of children being rushed to emergency vehicles? Or when you see young boys digging through the rubble of a destroyed residential building, looking for survivors? Or when witnessing the sheer agony experienced by the mothers and fathers who lost their dear children?

How do you translate the anger that you feel when you hear the UN Secretary General mention the "terrorist rocket attacks'' before mentioning the "disproportionate'' response by the Israelis?
http://omars2cents.blogspot.com

The fifth day

The day after one of the bloodiest days in Gaza's history was comparatively calm. That's the most optimistic way of comparing the 62 Palestinians murdered yesterday by Israel's Occupation Forces with the 11 killed today. Apparently that's what the international community had in mind when it asked Israel to please, if you don't mind, make your violence a bit more proportional with that of the Palestinian resistance fighters.
You can't expect much from the world when the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, begins his address of Israel's crazed
slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by condemning Palestinian violence against the occupation, and then equating the two, so that the life of the one Israeli killed by Palestinians on Wednesday equals the 113 Palestinians killed by Israel since that day.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/03/shoah-watch-fifth-day.html