Maghazi refugee camp

How my uncle in Gaza filled me with hope of return

Fidaa Elaydi
Maghazi refugee camp
10 January 2012

Traveling back to Gaza, Fidaa Elaydi finally meets her uncle, who was released from Israeli jail as part of the prisoner swap in October. With his release, and the ability to spend time together, she says it changed the dynamic of her family.

Israel stopped mother visiting prisoner son for 11 years

Rami Almeghari
Maghazi refugee camp
25 October 2011

Eid Misleh spent 19 years in Israel’s prisons until he was released as part of a prisoner exchange agreed between Hamas and Israel. Back home among family in Gaza, Misleh told The Electronic Intifada about life in prisoner and the hardship of being denied family visits for eleven years.

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