The Electronic Intifada

When saving a life raises questions and doubts.

There is no privacy. There is no sanitation. There is no break from relentless suffering. There is only the love and understanding of others.

Even as Gaza gets smaller, distances expand.

Students, faculty fight administration’s repression and censorship.

Woman could not be identified at first as she had been disfigured by shrapnel.

Would-be mothers share their stories of loss and hope for a better tomorrow.

Israel has failed to destroy the spirit of solidarity.

Even the old methods of delivering babies are undermined by Israel’s genocidal violence that has left Gaza’s health sector in tatters.

The irony of celebrating the birth of Jesus in the middle of Israel’s war of extermination in the land of his birth is not registering among Christmas shoppers.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya says Kamal Adwan hospital faces Israeli threat of forced evacuation.