13 November

During a funeral, sad moments when 18 civilans were killed at once

Palestinian children, Rima Athamneh , 1, and Ala Athamneh , 1, were killed by the Israeli tank shells in gaza togather with most of their family

Palestinian woman walking by a wall riddled with bullets and tank shells in Beit Hanoun

Mosque demolished by the Israeli bullodozers

“How long will Israel be allowed to continue to kill our women, children and old men inside their houses, villages and camps? How long should we continue to be slaughtered while the world watches?” asked Ms. Al Atamneh, one of the survivors of a family recently killed by Israeli Occupation Forces. Through a veil of tears, she then showed the damage to her house caused by Israeli tank shells. “Where is the world, God? Why are we getting killed? My little nephew, Amjad, while sleeping, was killed by the Israelis right here,” she said crying and pointing to where his bed was.

“The child was simply sleeping, possibly having a nice dream. But he never woke up. Neither were ambulance workers allowed to reach him even if there was any hope of saving him. Amjad’s arm was missing. No one could find it.”

Amjad’s younger sister was murdered by Israeli soldiers using rockets as well. Unites States made and paid tank shells splattered her little body all over the house. Her brains were all over her bed. Fingers, arms, legs and pieces of human flesh were all over the place.

"No one can believe the image—I tried to help, but I was also injured in my leg, but everyone is dead by the tank shells which hit all the child and every body, even my mother who's 70 years old woman, a woman who lived peacefully and have nothing to do with the army, she got killed, she did nothing, nothing, nothing, but she got killed by the Israeli tank shell" she added.

Even the animals, cows and goats were killed by the attack when the Israeli bulldozers demolished a small animal farm of the family. The Israeli soldiers also destroyed the van of her father which cost 11 Jordanian Deinar. She said even that would be fine as long as our children and we survive.

"I can believe it, my own mother who raise me, there was a moment where I was not able to see even look at her before she got buried" the young woman said crying. She was obviously angry. " It's not only the tanks shells, but also the drone planes which hit our house from all over see here, look here and there and see our lives—see the wholes and the damaged furniture, look at the blood in the walls, see even the Palestinian flag is a witness on the crimes"

She continued talking with a tone of anger and stress. What really angered her is the fact that the Israelis knew there were children in the house. “It was one day when the soldiers were inside our home and they imposed siege on us, they didn’t let us go out and they kept telling us to shut up or they were going to shoot us. The soldiers purposely kept scaring the children by pointing their weapons at them. The children were not even allowed to go to the bathroom while the soldiers were there.” Holding a Palestinian flag in her hands she said, “This is the reason we are being killed, we are Palestinians. The soldiers are angry because we have the flag of our country.” The Israeli soldiers told her they did not want Palestinians to live. While crying, she put the bullet-ridden Palestinian flag back on the wall saying, “But Israel who kills innocents will not kill the spirit of the Palestinians who remain alive. Shame on America which provides Israel with weapons. Shame on America for remaining silent while their Israeli allies murder innocent civilians and commit crimes against humanity. She then prepared to go to another one of many funerals in occupied Palestine.

After the IDF left Beit Hanoun, the people there face many problems, because the infrastructure and many houses are destroyed and nobody is there to help the families.

According to the Naser hospital, the IDF killed a Palestinian today in the Khan Younis camp, and Al Aksa Hospital added that the IDF killed a 47 year-old man in Rawhi Al Haour — he was injured in his belly while he was walking to his house...

A woman just returning from one of the Israeli prisons told me that 93 women are in the Israeli prisons since the beginning of this Intifada, Seven of them are girls aged less than 17 years.

Their names are: Asmaa Mahmoud (16), Fedaa Ghannam (14), Zenab Al Sholi (14), Tamara Derbas (15), Aisha Abiat (16), Sana Amer (15), and Rabaa Hamil (14).

It is estimated that about 2,000 children were arrested during the recent intifada.



A 13 year old boy, who is now in a prison near Hebron, said to the lawyer:

"They don't allow us to drink water when we need it, and every day they hit us, and do not allow us to have a shower for two months.. Sometimes they exile the one who asks for water and food in a very small room, so this prevents all of us from asking for food or water to avoid this small exile room. The soldiers force me also to sign papers that I don't understand... I want to see my father, I want to see my mother, when will I see them, and what did I do to be in this place?!"

It is hot and dusty in Rafah, and there is a lack of water. Rafah is close to the sea, but for three years, we were not allowed to go to the beach.

Now, since the media reported that some of the checkpoints would have been opened/removed, two buses with schoolchildren tried to go to the beach, but were stopped at the checkpoints. After many hours of waiting at the checkpoint, the children had to return. All of them were very sad, tired and depressed.

The checkpoints are still there, and nothing has changed.

The IDF continues with the Iron Wall, trying to avoid the media, so they do not allow anybody to come close to these building sites.



This week, a young man was shot, and yesterday, again many hundreds of olive trees were destroyed.

Yesterday about 12 tanks and 5 bulldozers attacked Rafah, with massive interventions of helicopters. This attack was only for the entertainment of the soldiers ... they didn't demolish houses in an organized way, but randomly destroyed everything which was in their way.

The soldiers shoot everyone in the streets, it did not matter if it was a child, an old man, or woman — they shoot at everything, and demolished all the olives trees that they found in their way.



Shelling, shooting, bombing, demolishing houses, demolishing olive trees, killing children while they are going to school...and in summer blocking the clean water, demolishing the water stations, destroying power lines, and demolishing the sewage stations...

Every day, we hear about new crimes in our neighbors' cities.

In Khan Younis City, last night, many people were injured, many houses demolished and many streets were demolished.

The same things happed in Beit Hanon, the city which is under curfew for more than a month. This city suffers from lack of food, water and many things.

So where is the peace activism? Where are these people who speak all the time about peace?