Image Credit: Mohammed Omer - Rafah Today 2007-07-08.
BBC reporter Alan Johnston freed by Hamas intervention with kidnappers
BBSNews 2007-07-08 -- By Mohammed Omer. The Rafah border remains closed, despite promises on July 3 from the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to open it. They instead retracted their promises. So, in an unlawful and unnecessary effective detainment of thousands of civilians, Palestinians remain trapped there, immobile after three weeks of waiting without adequate food, water, shelter, or washing facilities at the closed crossing.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh receives Alan Johnston in his office after he had been released by Hamas intervention.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer - Rafah Today 2007-07-08. |
The number of deaths has risen to 28, a direct result of their arbitrary imprisonment in limbo.
In other news, Alan Johnston has recently been freed, unharmed, largely due to the help of Hamas and the Palestinian government in Gaza. The question remains, as ever, when will Gazans be freed from the hellish open-air prison imposed upon them by Israel and the West?
When will the thousands of desperate and destitute civilians waiting at Gaza's border be permitted to re-join their families, even with this on-going prison state?
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. In 2006 Mohammed won the New American Media National Ethnic Media Award for best Youth Voice. On May 18th, 2007, Mohammed was shot at by unknown militants in Gaza yet he continues to report. Visit Mohammed's Web site, or write to him to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience. We are proud to feature articles from Mohammed Omer here at BBSNews, his reporting is some of the only original, on the ground reporting available from the Israeli Occupied Territories.
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