Gaza Motorcycle Diaries

My name is Mohannad, I was born in 1982. Two years ago, I was exciting to buy a motorcycle, it is fast and beautiful and gives the sense of adventure. Month a go my dream came true, the price was 800 USD, and I felt lucky because years before it cost more than 1500 USD.

Motorcycles have not been famous in the Gaza Strip since 2008, but after siege they have become a kind of necessities. They have been brought through tunnels from Egypt, and have become cheaper since they have been interred Gaza by enormous amounts.

The Cell that contains 1.5 million innocent prisoners

Have I ever talked about siege on Gaza before? Not yet..!. I find talking about siege like talking about the sun. It is up and clear to every single soul on the earth.  Siege has been imposed on Gaza since the earlier days of 2007 soon after the government changed. In simple words, it means nothing goes in or out, perfectly as being trapped in a prison without conviction. I wish I could put in details the influence of this siege on people, but history described it quite well and I have nothing left to add, perhaps the unique things only.

The songs of Electricity Generators have been beaten by the silence of pretty candles

Since June 2006 electricity supplying in Gaza has been changed for ever, and for the worst. In the early days of that period electricity was cut out for four hours per day, and that was bearable. Soon after that the hours has been extended to eight hours per day and sometimes twelve. Ranking between that hours, people has fed up with the situation which has become an endless nightmare. To compensate the shortage in electricity supplying, people has returned to the primal means of generating light : Candles.