Gaza: Israeli soldiers desecrated Palestinian homes with faeces
“The last time they invaded (March 2008), it was easy. They broke everything and we fixed it. But this time, they put shit everywhere: in cupboards, on beds – my bed is full of shit.”
There are reasons why 24 hour news media and citizen media through the blogosphere are the worst nemesis of any armed conflict. The fear for invading or occupying forces in any conflict is that the world now gets to see what war is really like in a matter of hours if not minutes. The recent invasion by Israeli forces in Gaza was notable for Israel’s refusal to allow the world’s media into Gaza to witness for the world what is happening.
Citizen media from voices of ordinary people will never be silenced though, as this compilation of stories from Ayesha Saldanha illustrates. They are the stories from ordinary Palestinians who are starting to count the cost of the recent Israeli invasion in Gaza.
Bloggers in Gaza are gathering information about what happened during the recent Israeli attacks. Hhear from families whose homes were looted and left covered with faeces by Israeli soldiers, learn what the effects of Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME) weapons are, and are told the story of a father whose baby daughter was shot, his wife breastfeeding the girl as she bled to death.
Ayesha Saldanha is a contributing author to Global Voices Online, a citizen media portal.
Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East
Posted on Sunday, February 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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