UN-administered schools are now housing thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel's bombardment of Gaza. (Eman Mohamed)
Eman Mohammed writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 19 January 2009
(Eman Mohammed is a Jordanian-Palestinian freelance photojournalist and reporter based in the Gaza Strip since 2005)
""I could not leave my house, it's too priceless to me -- it's home! Although I could hear the missiles hitting the house next door, kids in the family were frightened and wouldn't stop crying. Still we managed to hold on until they destroyed our cousin Sadlah Matar Abu Halemeh's causing the death of his nine-member family. All were killed and no one survived -- then we decided to leave!"
These were the words of Naima Abu Halemeh who moved into the al-Shati school in Gaza City after her husband, Zhaar, and son, Muhammad, were injured while they were trying to evacuate their house in Beit Lahia's al-Siafa neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip......"
(Eman Mohammed is a Jordanian-Palestinian freelance photojournalist and reporter based in the Gaza Strip since 2005)
""I could not leave my house, it's too priceless to me -- it's home! Although I could hear the missiles hitting the house next door, kids in the family were frightened and wouldn't stop crying. Still we managed to hold on until they destroyed our cousin Sadlah Matar Abu Halemeh's causing the death of his nine-member family. All were killed and no one survived -- then we decided to leave!"
These were the words of Naima Abu Halemeh who moved into the al-Shati school in Gaza City after her husband, Zhaar, and son, Muhammad, were injured while they were trying to evacuate their house in Beit Lahia's al-Siafa neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip......"
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