Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 3 months ago at 7:04 pm.
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“Sabr,” he called over to me, pointing to the little green discs protruding from the piles of rubble, “nihna hek el’sabr.” His comparison was correct when he said that that the people of Johor El’Deek are like the small cactus that grows regardless of location, sprouting from dunes of wreckage left over from demolished homes. The plant is known to grow all across Palestine, from the rocky desert to the hills. [...]
Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 3 months ago at 8:09 pm.
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The bus ambled down the waterfront road past beautifully designed houses, canvas tents erected as temporary shelters, beachfront stores and businesses, massive piles of rubble heaped along the roadside, houses pocked with a plethora of bullets and shrapnel scars, and collapsed houses sitting like messy stacks of giant gray pancakes. We could see Israeli gunships in the distance, glinting in the morning sun with black plumes of smoke hanging over them [...]
