Oakland, California 17 April 2002
As a Palestinian-American I enjoy the rights of my country of citizenship. This makes it difficult for me to understand what it must be like to watch another nation’s tanks roll into your community and destroy everything in their path—your car, your neighbor’s house, electrical poles, gardens and community businesses. Read more about A letter from Oakland
Tel Aviv 17 April 2002
While hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are currently at risk for infectious diseases, still lack running water, electricity, or a working sewage system, and while the IDF is still denying relief workers access to some areas (mainly around Jenin), Israel is celebrating its Independence Day. Read more about Disturbing parallels and unbearable dissonances
Ram, Palestine 17 April 2002
‘There is a curfew,’ says somebody at the office. I look at him and continue my work. ‘Yes, they have imposed a curfew on a number of neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, including Issawiye and Beit Hanina,’ he says. Read more about How appropriate !
Jenin, Palestine 17 April 2002
He called to me from his doorway: ‘Please, come and look at my house. I want you to see what they have done to my home!’ Read more about Short story from Jenin refugee camp
Jenin, Palestine 17 April 2002
Photograph 1. Rows of silvery, green olive trees in a carpet of wild poppies. And a tank, like a big, angry, metal beetle, its gun pointing at the refugee camp. Read more about Snapshots: In and around Jenin refugee camp
Ramallah, Palestine 17 April 2002
So quiet in Ramallah these days, but from time to time we hear explosions because the army is blowing the doors off of ministries, schools, kindergartens, development agencies and houses. Tonight, it is exceptionally noisy. Read more about Independence day
Ramallah, Palestine 16 April 2002
How ironic is it that the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East, places the residents of its ‘eternal capital’ under curfew for an undetermined period of time, while it celebrates its glorious 54th anniversary as a state? Read more about 'Independence' day: the view from Ramallah
Jenin, Chicago 15 April 2002
‘I’m at the edge of the camp right now; we’re hemmed in by two APCs and a lot of soldiers. We were trying to help just a handful of people take a gurney loaded with food and water across a destroyed road to get to people who need it. The soldiers have stopped us and they’re not giving us permission to pass.’ Read more about Eyewitness Jenin: 'Post-apocalyptic' devastation
Bethlehem, Palestine 15 April 2002
On the evening of April 3, 2002, US Federal Embassy Security Agents rescued me from Bethlehem. The entire episode felt comical. And it pretty well summed up my impressions of the US’s involvement in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Read more about Rescue from Bethlehem - April 3, 2002 (epilogue)
Beit Hanina, Palestine 14 April 2002
Since Israeli troops invaded Palestinian towns and cities on March the 29th, the civilian population has suffered and come under attack. Scores of people have been killed and injured; civilians trapped in their own homes by the soldiers are the sad casualties of the Israeli aggression. Read more about Deaths of Palestinian civilians continue