Gaza City Diary: Safa Joudeh

[babylonsister]

Gaza City Diary: Safa Joudeh


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We prayed for rain, and at last rain came tonight. A heavy, tumbling shower of clear refreshing beautiful rain.

We prayed for rain hoping that it would blind the visual capacity of Israeli warplanes and gunships. We prayed for rain to combat the fires that have been rising from homes, due to the attacks.

We also prayed for rain to cleanse our street of the sewage water that has started to seep from the drains. For over a week now, waste pumps have stopped working in Gaza city because of the lack of electricity. We don't know whether we should close our windows to keep out the stench, or open them so they don't blow in during an attack.

Israel announced a 3 hour ceasefire today, in order to allow trucks of aid to enter Gaza, loaded with food and medicine. Our joy was unbound, and we quickly readied ourselves to go to shopping for necessary items and even some not so necessary ones, such as chocolate and chips.

But the ceasefire was not what was promised…close artillery fire kept us from leaving our house.

We spent the rest of the day trying to get over our disappointment, and wondering about what kind of state we’ve been reduced to. It’s a sad thing to become overjoyed at the opportunity of walking in the street and shopping for necessities. But to feel unworthy of even that, is a sad thing indeed.

Today is the 12th day of the Israeli air and ground raids on Gaza and the only change we have witnessed is the steady rise in the intensity and ferocity of the attacks.

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http://www.youthradio.org/news/gaza-city-diary-safa-joudeh-full-audio

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[babylonsister]

2. That was helpful, and educational. Thanks for sharing such deep

thoughts. Bye now, George.

[bemildred]

3. Yeah, fuck yourself, fuck everybody.

Being stupid and hateful will have that effect.

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[bemildred]

5. LOL.

Enjoy your short stay here, Sir.

[ShortnFiery]

6. How lovely.

:eyes:

[FirstLight]

7. I can't bring myself to click the link...

:cry: this is so horrible, and needs to stop NOW
nobody should have to endure that kind of life, nobody should lose their family members in such raw unbridled agression. I am dissapointed beyond words. Israel has people who wish is was not a nation, the US and others coddle it like it is a religious relic to be kept no matter the harm to others... but Israel seems
to me to have taken their carte blanche to a new level...like they are ordained to exist as a country, so everyone else be damned... isn't that the attitude that got them in trouble with God in the first place?

just.so. sad.
tribes and people and nations and races, why can't we just be humane?