Palestine/Israel

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Click here for www.voicesoftheworld.net : similar site from many more countries True Stories click on the links below to listen Audio:Required Listening true story This is one of the most amazing stories I have ever heard; surviving torture and almost certain death in an attempt to bring warm winter clothes to his kids. Kanaan refers to this picture in this interview "Olive trees are like thier kids" Audio: Kanaan Al Jamal A continuation of the Required Listening interview, the story has finished and now he talks about his creative and non-violent ways of dealing with the Israeli military and its checkpoints.  He also talks about the village Bike Club, childhood happiness, olive oil and more.  What a beautiful heart he has, I think it is really worth listening to and is good if you don't understand the conflict very well. Audio:Sick Child Through Checkpoint Just another day in the life; trying to get through a checkpoint to bring a sick toddler to the hospital. The above interviews are from Kanaan Al Jamal in the village Assira Al Shamalya Feel free to contact Kanaan at majdal5@yahoo.com Audio: Field Hospital At age 18, he watched his childhood friends lined up against a wall and shot dead during the invasion of Nablus, 2002.  He worked in a Mosque turned field hospital and faced severe hunger and extreme danger every day, while learning to give advanced medical care 'on the job' From Israel Click on the below links for the audio interviews Audio: Woman from Tel Aviv Audio: Israeli Soldier, Life After Audio:Palestinian Citizen of Israel Audio: Jewish Voice for Peace Audio: Israeli Activist Audio: American/Israeli She tells about growing up in a very Jewish, pro-Israel family and then talks about her trip to the West Bank with Birthright Unplugged, and how that effected and changed her. Audio: Photographer, Lebenon War Freelance Photographer in Northern Israel During Last summer's war. Audio:Photo Activists, Activestills Arab/Israeli Separation in the Bomb Shelter The 2002 Siege of the Church of Nativity, Bethlehem Audio: 40 Day Seige, Bethlehem 2002   Click on the above link to hear the chilling tale of the 2002, 40 day siege of the Church of Nativity, the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem.  "I don't want to die, I want to see my daughter, my wife....ten minutes later he died" The first half of the interview is an account of the siege that is very different than what you read in Time magazine.  The bells of the Church of Nativity start ringing right when he starts his personal reflections and thoughts on Love, God and this conflict.  It was spine tingling and an incredible moment where art collides with coincidence.  "If I can love you and trust you, then I can do so much for you." Gays and Lesbians in Palestine Click on the below link to talk with a gay Palestinian Audio: Gay Palestinian At the Jerusalem Gay Pride March, Fall 2006 Gay Pride participant arrested Androgyny By Dayna I am an androgynous. Although I did not know about the existence of such a concept, but I always confused people regarding my gender/sex. On one of my school trips a friend, who had a crush on me then, saw me jumping from one rock to another and asked me “are you a boy or a girl”? I answered him I am “shakar” or (شَكَر). "Shakar" is a word in Arabic that closely refers to someone who has both sexes or genders. Surprisingly enough, some Palestinian friends of mine did not know this word, which makes me think that it might be a very colloquial word that is used in one region or another in Palestine. I am an androgynous and I “lost” my virginity with my fingers listening on Oum Kolthoum’s (أم كلثوم) song “This is my night” (هذه ليلتي) while imagining myself walking with my lover, from school, and telling her how beautiful she was. She knew that I loved her but she also had a boyfriend then, and still, once we met in my village and I had my first kiss, with her, and she had her fist kiss with a girl. Four years after, when we were students in same university we delivered a militant feminist flyer in the campus titled “Maqas” in Arabic (مقص) or “Scissors” in English, and I declared in it: “I ‘lost’ my virginity listening to Oum Kolthoum’s music”. I always confused people about my gender/sex, and I enjoyed that a lot, while they expected me to be embarrassed, so some would apologize and others would wonder and ask why I do not look like a girl. Sexual harassments, as awful and terrible as they are, were the most interesting part of my whole performance. Living in Jerusalem is never boring due to the Israeli army presence, add to that the fact that I was confused to be a Palestinian boy by the Israeli army, which made me feel always on the edge of being confused to be a suspicious Palestinian militant, and then find myself being chased by a whole troop. Aswatgroup.org, Palestinian Gay Women Website Alqaws.org, Palestinian LGBT website   Ambulances Click on the below links to hear true stories from Palestinian Red Crescent Society EMT's Audio: Joint Medical Team Palestinian and Israeli Emergency Medical Teams work together at the scene of a car crash in front of a settlement. Audio: Yamoun Village Killings Finding dead body after dead body, knowing that one of them was a medical volunteer and first aid teacher. This takes place in the Fall of 2006, you can read about it on the Writings Page. Audio: Old woman shot dead In Dec. 2006, Ambulance crews responded to a nearby village in Jenin area, one man and one elderly woman killed by Israeli snipers. Audio: Ambulance hit by grenade While the ambulance was waiting to go into Jenin camp in 2002, it was hit by an Israeli grenade (shot out of the gun).  The head of Jenin Emergency Medical Services for PRCS, Doctor Khalil, was killed and the driver and 18 year old volunteer were severely burned.  Told by the 18 year old volunteer.  Israel's official comment on the incident was that they thought there were terrorists in the ambulance. Dr.Khalil after the explotion Dr.Khalil's Ambulance after the explotion Delivering Babies Click on the below links to hear interviews Audio: Child delivery nightmare After being turned away from a checkpoint while riding in an Ambulance to the hospital, Kanaan takes his wife over the mountains on his donkey in the middle of the night to give birth in the hospital.  Sadly there was no birth clinic in this part of palestine.  This takes place in the Fall of 2006 Audio: Birth Clinic Doctor Audio: American Volunteer Midwife Village Birth Clinic Delivery Room Intensive Care Unit for Infants  Forestry Click on the below link to listen to the Director of the Palestinian Department of Forestry Audio: Director of Forestry Nurseries between 1971 and 1999. Governorate / Nursery Annual production of seedlings 1971 1971 till 1994 1999 Jenin 500,000 0 100,000 Tulkarem 250,000 0 0 Nablus 0 0 0 Ramallah 250,000 0 0 Jerusalem 0 0 0 Hebron-Wadi Al Quof 200,000 60,000 250,000 Hebron- Arroub 500,000 0 100,000 Gaza-Green Dam 0 0 250,000 Gaza- El Shati 400,000 60,000 150,000 Total 2,100,000 120,000 850,000 CLICK HERE FOR THE HOME PAGE ARCHIVES

Video, "Palestine/Israel 101" a very simplified introduction to the conflict.

Click Here for the 2006 B'Tselem human rights report, documenting casualties in Israel and Palestine, House Demolitions and Checkpoints.