Eva Bartlett: In Gaza
how will your kids pass summer? lemonade stand? ymca courses? family vacation?
...here’s how a vast number of kids spend summer (and others fall, winter, spring) in Gaza....... The farmers had returned two days after their land was again ravaged by Israeli military bulldozers and tanks: 2 and 4 of each respectively. The war machines ate up the land, finished off a house they’d not quite destroyed the last time, and tore up a water source, the farmers’ well.
The day after the incursion, Yousef, one of the farmers, had dared to peek at the well, doing so furtively although it is on their land. The Israeli army incursion into Abassan Jeddida, just east of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, had ended the same afternoon it started –July 21st –but the farmers knew all too well that Israeli military jeeps, hummers, tanks and military bulldozers lay just 400 metres away over the Green Line border, and that the Israeli soldiers running the machines are generous with their gunshots......
From his assessment of the well, Yousef gathered that the reason he couldn’t water his crops was that the motor had been destroyed... Full story
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