It was Rafah Refugee Camp. Rafah, the area that continued to be attacked day after day, at a time when there is no media, because many were killed already.. This is the result of the international silence that supports Israel in its invasion of Rafah and Gaza Strip every day. Who are the victims?!

Yes, the victim is already known to you and me and to all the governments of the world.. Hanan Abu Anza was one of hundreds of victims of those attacks.. She wasn’t able to get into her house for a long time even after her house had been demolished. Her child was killed just four days before her house was demolished.. She was trying hard to dig out clothes for her children and get out some furniture from under the rubble.

Hanan in the rubble of her house

Hanan’s house will show and prove to you the real intention of Israel.. Israel's media which is quick to get coverage in international media, announced that they were demolishing houses in Rafah for building a new border line, and Hanan's house which is located in Block “O” area in Rafah Refugee Camp, lies on this border line. It was the first area that they began demolishing houses in, and they killed 7 people in the border line massacre. So demolishing new 9 houses with another 8 partially demolished together with many trees. In the past they claimed it was because of the new iron wall that they are doing and after building that iron wall what is the reason for continuing to demolish hundreds of houses?!!

Even during Eid el Fitr, after fasting the Ramadan month which ended last Monday, and now the Arab countries are celebrating with new festivities while the children in Rafah are visiting their fathers, brothers, and relatives in the cemeteries..

It was clearly showing on the faces of the children, from their eyes that were full of questions and bewilderment... Six year old Osama Redwan asked his grandmother while sitting in the rubble of their home: ”Why have they demolished our houses?" She had no answer.

Osama in the rubble of his home

18 November

Sudden strange shelling, shooting, bombing.. Where from? No one knows from where these bullets are coming from. Yesterday at 12 p.m., most of the areas had no electricity because of shelling.. People were leaving their houses, and many groups of women were leaving their houses even forgetting their children. A red line appears in the dark sky and explodes in a house, and ambulances begin transferring more and more children at first, then when the area was surrounded by tanks and bulldozers they were unable to get to the injured people who were shot by the apaches and the tanks..

It was not enough for the Israeli army to kill her 12 year old, now they also demolished her house.. Her name is Hanan Abu Anza, a woman with 7 children. She was leaving her home when they killed her child a few days ago, and now her house is being demolished by Israeli bulldozers..

Soldiers are just shooting and shelling children, women and old men.. demolishing a large number of houses.. it seems like these bulldozers do not have drivers. How come? When a women is weeping and waving her white sheet to the bulldozer yet the bulldozer still does not respond to her.. This is what happened to Hana Abu Anza, when she tried to get out of her home to a safe place yesterday in Block O area..

The situations wasn’t so much different in other parts of Rafah like East Rafah, where they demolished five houses two days ago, killed an old man and arrested another, in addition to demolishing a large number of houses.

Hay Al Salam also was attacked, and it was the worst day for the people who are living there.. Ehab Al Arjja, Kahlil Al Aker and his uncle and son Alaa were victims of the Israeli soldiers. They planted their orange and olive trees for a year, but they were unable to reap it, as their houses, trees, and properties were demolished.. Ala Al Aker’s wife and her aunt were arrested by the Israeli soldiers in that attack when they was decided not to leave their houses..

The attack is still continuing as I write. Block area refugee camp is still under curfew
and attack. The soldiers are shooting at a large number of people.. Dr. Al Mussa, the Director of Abu Yousif Al Najjar hospital said: ”There is a large number of injured people right now and we are unable to get our ambulances into those areas because Israelis soldiers are targeting us with their snipers”

This is life in the Rafah Refugee Camp..The ”bullet” is the language of the Israeli soldiers..
The attack is still continuing since yesterday night, and there is a large number of injured people, demolished homes, in addition to this old man who died of a heartattack this morning upon hearing the Apaches shelling near his home..

To view more pictures of today's report, please click here

11 November

This is the situation in the Rafah Refugee Camps: after invading Yebna Camp in Rafah and demolished all it's houses, after Hai Al Salam area that was also demolished, and after Al Brazil refugee camp had been demolished, yesterday, they demolished 21 houses, and killed a child, Shadi Abu Anza - 14 years old. He was killed while trying to get out of his house when Israeli bulldozers attacked. Many others were injured in the same attack.

Yes, demolishing houses has become something normal for this world.. demolishing
houses means killing dreams. They are demolishing 21 newly built houses right now while the driver of the bulldozer was in his bulldozer and the people were running in the streets. It was raining heavily.

I forget all things, but I can't forget yesterday's attack which still, up till this moment, I cannot erase the image of this women who was carrying her baby child and running in the street about few meters from the Israeli bulldozers. She was running in the heavy rain, and then she stopped in the middle of the street when the small blanket that covered her baby child fell. She stopped to pick her small blanket up from the ground but the bullets were shooting all around her hands.. A question came in my mind during those moments: what did she do to deserve all this torture?

It is now raining in Rafah. The weather is getting colder and colder, and it is really hard to understand. Yesterday this man before me was living in his house, but this morning, his life has been completely changed when I found him living in his small tent with no clothes, water, food, electricity or anything.. just the things that they have is this tent that he got from UN which wasn’t able to protect him from the rain or the cold wither..

It is time for you just to feel in the tragedy and how l iving in tents during winter is going to be.

9 November

Waiting at the checkpoint today.
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Abdullah Hussein (29 yrs) works in one of the associations in Gaza City described the checkpoints by saying: "Daily life.. it's as you see ... every day I have to cross this checkpoint and I have so many problems because crossing it means waiting many hours. It depends on the soldiers' mood. If I didn’t go to Gaza and work I will not bring food for my wife and child. Waiting makes me really exhausted."

Abdullah was one of thousands of people who were waiting at Abu Holly checkpoint, and I was waiting with them too.. It is Gaza Strip, the worst place in the entire world. It has professional soldiers with great experience in how to make life miserable for innocent people in Palestine..

Yes, forcing people to take off their clothes, forcing them to sit in cold weather for hours, preventing ambulances from going to hospitals, shooting people while waiting at checkpoints... No words can describe thess soldiers.. They know how to make life
miserable for Palestinians. Look at these pictures. The soldiers choose rush hour when employees, workers, and students leave their work on their way back to their homes.. Yes.. it is 1 o'clock. When I arrived at the checkpoint, I found thousands of people waiting with thousands of vehicles just to cross a few meters that would normally take less than 10 minutes. Naturally because of the checkpoints, they now take several hours if not several nights sleeping here.

I tried to take pictures of these bulldozers that make me lose all hope of ever crossing this
checkpoint.. These bulldozers was digging holes in order to prevent Palestinian cars from passing through. I tried to take pictures but two bullets were faster than my third picture. The first bullet came very close to my leg while I saw the smoke of the sand when the second hit the ground about one meter from my leg.

I moved to another area, trying to get other pictures, and I succeeded as you can see. People lost all hope of getting to their homes now, when the light of the sun was slowly fading. I despaired when I studdenly realized that sleeping at the checkpoint was precisely the soldiers' plan. In the evening people tried to find water and food but no one found any.. This road was like a jungle place, no markets to sell food and water.. It was hard even when
they tried to transfer 8 injured people to the hospital who were injured because of the shooting.

It is now very cold, and it is getting darker. Thousands of people are lying on the ground. At the same moment there is so much light in the Israeli military points/settlements, as though it was daylight. .. This is coming from the electricity in the settlements and checkpoints while most of the time there is no electricity in the hospitals and houses of Palestinians..

My mind is crowded with many questions... how long is this suffering going to continue?
Does the international community know about those crimes?

4 November

Mawia Youseif: a child whose house was attacked by IDF soldiers and occupied for about 4 days. After the Israeli soldiers withdrew from his house, he found fragments of this rocket and as you see I took a picture of him while playing with it.

1 November

Um Ali Radwan - 65 year old - has become homeless

When visitors of the Rafah refugee Camp saw the camp, they thought that it was struck with an earthquake, but when they took their tour in the area after the partial withdrawal of the IDF which had been under attack those past three weeks, they discovered that it's the Israeli Army which demolished houses, demolished trees, demolished agricultural houses, demolished water stations, demolished electricity stations, cut the phone lines, killed about 17 people and over 124 injured, most of them were seriously.

It seems international officials hadn't heard about Rafah.. they haven't heard about those children who were seeking water day and night at a time that the Israeli bulldozers and tanks had been demolishing their water stations..

Peter Henson, UNRWA spokesman, was the only person who visited the area and took a tour between the rubble of the houses after the withdrawal from Yebana Refugee Camp. When he saw these crimes he described them by saying: "We have very very significant damage to the refugee camp."

Many people are still unaccounted for, and it is not known whether they were demolished together with their houses or were arrested by Israeli soldiers.. Feeling the plight of the people is something easy while walking in the camps which has all turned into rubble. I interviewed an old woman sitting in one of the tents at sunset and she had her hand on her face. Her name is Um Ali Redwan, a 65 year old woman who has 33 members to her house which had consisted of three floors. When I asked her about what was wrong, she answered me by saying:" Thinking! Thinking of this time when I was yesterday with my family living in our house and now I am sitting in this tent which is not protecting me from the cold weather.. This time we lost everything. Children lost their clothes, I lost all my furniture, and all things turned to rubble. In the meantime, everyone is watching us. My sons and their children have all become homeless, and me and my old husband who is ill also..". The tears began to fall down her cheeks and she said: "The occupation didn’t respect this white hair... Israeli bulldozer drivers did not respect my old age and my old man's age. How I will be after this?"

"Tent". This word became really famous now, spoken about by all the children in Rafah Refugee Camp.. The people go to the moon nowadays while the families in Rafah are still sleeping on the ground even sometimes without beds, just under this white sheet that is called a tent. They had been living in their homes, but Israeli bulldozers did not leave anyone in the Rafah Refugee Camp. They were partially withdrawing from the area leaving a large numbers of homeless families, and many paralyzed and innocent children..

Wedad's relatives [she was killed with Mohammed's brother]