Back when I lived inside Gaza, when Gaza city stood proud with its Hamams and restaurants, its elegant hotels and its rag-tag beach cafes where we drank coffees or tea with sage till midnight, shared poems and bantered, sometimes fiercely, over who sold the best humus; back when the little city gold market thrived and […]
Don’t suffer the children, help those still alive to survive Gaza
No-one knows how many Palestinian children have died in Gaza since October 2023. Save the Children says at least one child has been killed every hour during the last 23 months, meaning at least twenty thousand girls and boys are dead. The UN estimates seventeen thousand, with more than thirty three thousand other children injured, […]
Israeli government drones on, but not about starving Gaza
Even in these sad days of being held in near-total contempt by our own Government, they excel themselves. Take the recent announcement that the Israeli delegation will not be invited to the forthcoming Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) show in London that will run 9-12 September. This my friends is our country’s ‘flagship defence […]
When victims are perpetrators
This week an organisation called B’tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied [Palestinian] Territories, published two words on the front of its website; our genocide. The accompanying text reads, ‘For nearly two years, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, acting in a systematic, deliberate way to destroy Palestinian society there […]
