Caroline Abulibda wrote:

I opened my email with hope to find any email from anyone of you speaking about the situation in Palestine now, but I don't know what to say when I didn't find any , all what I can say is that I was not surprised because after 58 years of occupation we learned not to expect a lot even from friends, do you want to know latest news about Palestine: Israel bombing us every day since I came here which is might be strange for you because you know that Israel pulled out of Gaza almost one year ago but they still controlling the air and their fighting plans always fly and bomb.

I want to tell you about many things happened here so maybe you can imagine what kind of a situation we are living in.  one month ago a Palestinian family were spending the day on the beach they thought for a minutes that they like any human in this life they can go to the beach they were 8 people husband and wife and 6 children and after couple of hours the Israeli fighting ships bombed them why? I need an answer from anyone can answer , 7 died and now there is a lonely girl 12 years old living in this bad world alone she was sleeping far little bet of her family and she wake up on a huge sound of bombing she stayed a minute she didn't understand any thing and then she started to run searching for her family and she found her mother and her 5 sisters and brothers died she found them just a peaces, while she was crying she felt some hope she didn't find her father so she started to run again screaming her voice was broking our heart calling her father and finally she find him ?????????????????????????  I am putting to you her picture with her father and a picture for her youngest brother he was one year old.

Since I came here the Israeli fighting plans and ships and the heavy tanks didn't stop bombing us and all the world were speaking about the Israeli pulling out of Gaza and make all the people think that we live in a free Gaza with peace atmosphere from Israel which is wrong, we didn't have a minute of peace since they pulled out as they were here, just that they take out the check points and that makes us feel better but they continued kill every day at least one or two Palestinian and all the media doesn't speak about it as that we are not a human, after the election comes and the people chose Hamas to be the government and since that time Hamas didn't do any thing against Israel but Israel and USA didn't like the idea of being hamas as the Palestinian government so they punished all the Palestinian people by ordering all the banks in the world not to transfer any money to us so now since 5 months ago we didn't get paid our slayers and I want just to mansion that our salaries is not enough for one month and now we live without money since 5 month and no one talked about it. 

After bombing this family on the beach the Palestinian resistance started to throw  a hand make rockets on Israel as a reaction of this crime so Israel spoke on all the international media as that this is the first thing happened since they pulled out and they make their bombing be all the day and night. So the event that I know that you all know come that the Palestinian resistance take an Israeli solder of course all of you know that but do you know that there is a 9000 Palestinians in the Israeli prisons 2000 of them are children , and some of the women they delivered there babies in the prisons strapped?

Since the resistance take that solder Israel reoccupied Gaza and they bombed the electricity company with all the electricity transes in Gaza it was so difficult for me to find an internet café have an electric generator so I can write to you this letter. Now we are three weeks without electricity and most of the time without water Israel killed since three weeks ago more than 200 Palestinians all civilians they killed yesterday 28 Palestinians just in 15 hours  , they bombed five ministries including the foreign affairs ministry and actually the planning ministry that I work in it is in the same building with the foreign affairs ministry, Israel bombed them before yesterday.

Israel reoccupied the borders between Gaza and Egypt and they close the border while there is 5000 Palestinians are stuck  there 6 of them died tell now last one died was yesterday she is a girl sick of cancer and she was 27 years old. The hospitals in Gaza almost has no medicine there is many sections are closed because there is no treatments there. After all that the Arab countries tried to get a resolutions from the United Nation that Israel must stop its crimes against the Palestinians civilians but guess what the majority  voted to the resolution and the UNITED STATES OF AMIRICA used the VETOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to stop the resolution.

There is hundreds of sad and miserable stores I can write to you but I will write to you the last thing that Israel thought that there is a wanted person from Hamas visiting house, they bombed the house three floors, killing a family 9 people father and mother and 7 children, Israel bombed the house by the f16 fighting plan with a rocket 1000 bounds, and all what happened next day that an Israeli media conference says that they failed to assassinate that person as that those 9 people were nothing. Do you ever heard the crossing sound line from a fighting plan please read or ask about it because Israel do that more than 10 times a day upon Gaza and mostly at night from 1 am till 5 am . My baby is waking up all the night screaming from that voice it is the most awful voice you can ever hear.

My friends peace is not a word it is an action but if peace in this world means weak and injustice we don't want it peace means justice. For me I believe if there is some people could steals others land and life and occupied them for more than 58 years and all what they say is lies so they can do every dirty thing, including killing children. but the question is until when all the world will keep watching us dieing every day without moving, I am living in a lie world when the big countries say that this is a good country it means that they are bad and when they said those people are terrorists that mean they are good people and they resist the occupation, if I am living in a world consider Israel a good country so I am soo happy that the same world conceder me a bad person because I am Palestinian.

Israel is not a country they occupied our land they steal our life and now I believe 100 % that any lie most end and the day light most come and we will resist this bloody gorillas with all our efforts. If the world will stand watching us die we will not stand watching our children die. But I am sooooooo sorry that the peaceful people in this world also just watching others die and keep all that silence. if you think that we are sooo cheap people believe me we are not because we are humans and our children are our treasure.

Now Israel are doing the same in Lebanon they bombed the electricity and they are bombing civilians, my heart with you Mechella and believe me in all that sadness we live in, we think about all the Lebanese people because we know that you relived from this war long time ago but don't worry we have a famous poetry in Arabic say " if the people one day want to live, the destiny most response, and the night most end, and the curb most broken.

The most awful thing in the world to see your child suffer and you can't do any thing I see my baby and all the Palestinians children are suffered and we can't do any thing I think mothers and fathers from you will understand and most of you will understand when you become a mother or father, but I don't wish to any one of you to experience what is the meaning of being under occupation.

Believe me people Palestine is Palestine and we will get it back one day, and now really and honestly we don't care what is the first world countries say just try to be honest and maybe then you can see the reality. Take care,

Caroline

We thank Daniel Horgan, Caroline's friend, for sending this to us.

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