Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-08-20.
By Mohammed Omer, from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Rafah Today via BBSNews 2006-08-20 -- The mobile phone rings and my friend Abed is screaming into the phone: "Mohammed, explosion here in Gaza city, many injured many killed. There are no ambulances and many have been injured and killed." It was the house of Iyad Al Masri, a Palestinian man living in the Eastern part of Gaza City. The explosion killed one person and many were injured.
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Palestinian police officer in Rafah, Gaza Strip.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-08-20. |
The attacks in Gaza are continuing, while the world is busy watching the ceasefire in Lebanon. War is intensifying in Gaza with heavier shelling all over!
In the North of Gaza Strip, three Palestinian farmers were killed by Israeli artillery shelling—the farmers were working in their fields and greenhouses. They were expected to come back to their families with food and some money of what they have managed to sell, but sadly, they were brought as body parts of human flesh, arms, legs and fingers. Palestinian children then have their last farewell moments by looking at the bodies of their family members.
Imagine when you can't get back into your own home:
The Rafah border is still closed, and thousands of people are stuck on the border waiting for Israel to allow the European Union observers come back and continue their mission in Gaza—the Rafah crossing border has been closed for many days and many people have been warning of the humanitarian crisis over there!
In Al Burij, a bomb struck a civilian house — no further information is available about the attack until this moment. The Israeli helicopter fired at least one missile on a workshop — the damage is all over and around the workshop in Gaza City.
Also in Al Burij camp, in a different incident, a Palestinian boy was shot by Israeli soldiers—his body was riddled with bullets and he was brought to his mother.
The war is still going on, the public opinion of the world is falling; the USA and the silence of the governments before Israeli war crimes against humanity can only mean giving the green light to Israel to carry on more and more crimes against civilians while the civilized world is watching!
Mohammed Omer is a young journalist/photographer in the Gaza Strip. He and his family have a very rough time in living day to day and they have lost much. In October of 2003, one of Mohammed's younger bothers, Issam, was injured and had to have a leg amputated. Later in the same month another younger brother, Hussam Al-Mouhagir, was killed in his home; shot to death by the Israeli Army that occupies and regularly devastates Palestine. These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. Visit Mohammed's Web site to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience.
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