Smile, You are in Gaza ..(1)

1- If you, after three years of studying, found that your university was not credited even though they say it is, Smile you are in Gaza.

2- If your historical dream was just to win a job for six months only on the unemployment UNRWA scheme, Smile you are in Gaza.

3- If you went to the bank to pick up your salary in USD currency, but the cashier told you that you had to take it in local currency (shekel) with mass loss in agio due to the money siege imposed on all banks in Gaza, Smile you are in Gaza.

4- If your humble salary vanished at the end of the second week of the month because you have taken it after the first week, and you are demanded to repay your debtors whom waiting for you at the bank iterance, Smile you are in Gaza.

5- If you decided to run a business for living, and thought about opening a supermarket at your neighborhood, then you found that your neighbor, and your son in law, and your friend had decided the same thing at the same place, Smile you are in Gaza.

6- If you passed by trash container, and found families of tykes and cats feeding and playing around, Smile you are in Gaza.

7- If you faced the fact that more than 50% of young educated youth are deeply thinking of migration, Smile you are in Gaza.

8- If you thought these items are exaggerated, but they are not, Smile you are NOT from Gaza.

The Children of men have the same start in Gaza

After bombing the house next door, the poor child appeared in video below carrying two stones of the moraine is reliving the same situation of many men whom once were in the same page.

If history repeats itself, it is fact that Legends always emerged from debris even with nonstop tears or unknown future. 

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A Picture & Comment (2): Cruel Innocence

I picked this picture weeks ago in a garden in Gaza city, and got obsessed of it. This magnetic look tells much beyond children borders. I am so eager to know what she was thinking of, and what made her beauty holds that glance of cruelty. 


My comment : As Iceland Volcanic Ash, this is just the beginning ..!
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A Picture & Comment (1): alone on the beach

This Child doesn't know what is waiting for him. Doesn't know that a lot of dream breakers around. He is alone, perhaps needs to shout, yet he wishes for a bright future. If you see this picture, what the first impression will you have ? Please share us your comment.

My comment : I know some will say, " Look.. the beast is emerging from the sea",  just seconds before they shoot me..!

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.

Pictures of Gaza through history

1- Gaza in 1940 :


Yes it is a black and white life, no TV, no mobile, no bank account, but people were so happy, and could sense the life with its ups and downs. Press the link below please to see the collection of that period.

Gaza in that Old Days

2- Gaza before days of 21st Century;


It got colored, wounds from the past were being healed, life moves on.

This is the Unknown Soldier Monument and Yard. One of the most beautiful scenes in Gaza, the place where people spend their time and complain their agony to, usually crowded in summer because it cools the whether and gives a piece of freedom as well.