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Updates by Zouheir S. Al-Najjar @ 3 August 2014

I went out, in Gaza City, streets still have some people, run toward bakers, stores.. Destruction is everywhere!!

I can brief it as "war-zone".

Few small coffee/restaurants/stores opened, full with people, from around UN schools and the whole area, not to have a coffee! But to use the electricity which is provided from the power generators, the guys occupied the electricity plugs, to recharge their computers, phones, torch lights. And using toilets which is such a dirty and not for human use in the schools they live in.

Others watching news on TV wall-screen. As they haven't since weeks!

Using internet to send/receive messages/emails/Facebook.

I'm writing this post from Delice coffee, which was the place of my daily morning-coffee for the last 10 years.

But today, I came here to check the place, to recharge my phone, before going back to my colleague's office. I feel like I'm dying for one, but to order a coffee it makes me feel like a guilty .. As others cant afford to buy food.

A local TV on the screen. No moment past without breaking news. From all the cities, towns of the strip.

People's faces tell stories, so many different stories, but at end it all shares the same miserable pain/suffering.

I've seen friends .. We hadn't a lot to say. Maybe we do, but we just couldn't talk. As each one felt shame to complain while the one next to him has the same hurt/pain/loss! Maybe even worse.

I jumped from table to table, the only question we could ask each either was: "Thank god you are alive! How's your family!!!"

The answers were short... Very short .."We thank god for what he took, and for what he gives."

Some of you may not understand how people dare to thank god for their loss! Well, I'm not going to explain it from the religious perspective, as it is. But easily they Gaza residents are well-sure that they are left alone by Arab neighbors, and the whole globe "talking here about policies and governments".

And they have no one left to go to but praying for God! And slender to god.

Non-Muslims might think it is a kind of "last moment give-up the hope" but in fact it's the most courage I have ever seen. That to survive with the minimum! With nothing!! Also That despite the "non-trust" of all the world, Gaza and its people stand only with their strong faith in their God, homeland and their selves...

Gaza always in its people hearts .. Gaza always stand.


  • Zouheir Al-Najjar was born in Algeria but has lived and worked as journalist for the last 17 years in Gaza. He studied journalism and public relations at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University.
 

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Updates by Zouheir S. Al-Najjar @ 3 August 2014

I went out, in Gaza City, streets still have some people, run toward bakers, stores.. Destruction is everywhere!!

I can brief it as "war-zone".

Few small coffee/restaurants/stores opened, full with people, from around UN schools and the whole area, not to have a coffee! But to use the electricity which is provided from the power generators, the guys occupied the electricity plugs, to recharge their computers, phones, torch lights. And using toilets which is such a dirty and not for human use in the schools they live in.

Others watching news on TV wall-screen. As they haven't since weeks!

Using internet to send/receive messages/emails/Facebook.

I'm writing this post from Delice coffee, which was the place of my daily morning-coffee for the last 10 years.

But today, I came here to check the place, to recharge my phone, before going back to my colleague's office. I feel like I'm dying for one, but to order a coffee it makes me feel like a guilty .. As others cant afford to buy food.

A local TV on the screen. No moment past without breaking news. From all the cities, towns of the strip.

People's faces tell stories, so many different stories, but at end it all shares the same miserable pain/suffering.

I've seen friends .. We hadn't a lot to say. Maybe we do, but we just couldn't talk. As each one felt shame to complain while the one next to him has the same hurt/pain/loss! Maybe even worse.

I jumped from table to table, the only question we could ask each either was: "Thank god you are alive! How's your family!!!"

The answers were short... Very short .."We thank god for what he took, and for what he gives."

Some of you may not understand how people dare to thank god for their loss! Well, I'm not going to explain it from the religious perspective, as it is. But easily they Gaza residents are well-sure that they are left alone by Arab neighbors, and the whole globe "talking here about policies and governments".

And they have no one left to go to but praying for God! And slender to god.

Non-Muslims might think it is a kind of "last moment give-up the hope" but in fact it's the most courage I have ever seen. That to survive with the minimum! With nothing!! Also That despite the "non-trust" of all the world, Gaza and its people stand only with their strong faith in their God, homeland and their selves...

Gaza always in its people hearts .. Gaza always stand.


  • Zouheir Al-Najjar was born in Algeria but has lived and worked as journalist for the last 17 years in Gaza. He studied journalism and public relations at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University.
 
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1 comment:

  1. Tain Bo4:19 AM, August 05, 2014

    I just got round to reading this wishing I had words for every article but this one deserves to be heard.

    It is remarkable and the author humble who feels like he need explain why they pray when it is the world that owes these people an explanation as to why they are for the most part abandoned.

    If you read this my friend keep on praying there are decent people who can hear you and although we cannot do much but only voice support for you and all the people of Gaza the evil of the world may let you suffer but the good amongst us can hear your prayers.

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