October 1, 2003:
Mohammed's younger brother
Issam was seriously injured
and was taken to the hospital
about a week ago. His leg
was amputated and he is
undergoing medical treatment.

October 18, 2003:
Mohammad's younger brother,
Hussam [17 yrs old], was killed
by the Israeli army today.

Hussam was sitting at home
when he was shot in the face,
chest, back, legs. He had
nothing to do with any violent
or even political movement.

Hussam's crime is that he was
a Palestinian.

— The Webmaster

30 May 04

Rafah homeless families were all waiting the tour of international diplomats after the heaviest incursion in Rafah since the beginning of the Intifada.. It was for the first time in Rafah history to have 25 Western, Asian, and Arab diplomat visitors including the UNRWA general commissioner and other UN members in addition to the International Cooperation Minister Dr. Nabil Shaat. Thousands of Palestinians were awaiting this visit with hope and expectations.

The delegation began the tour by visiting Tal Al Sultan area, where they walked among the rubble of the houses and the damaged streets and met with thousands of homeless families.

I had the opportunity to interview the Norwegian representative to the Palestinians Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, who totally condemned what had happened in Rafah and described it as "a violation of international laws." When asked about the demolishing of some public areas that had been funded by the Norwegian government, he answered: "We have heard about the damage of two schools that we donated last year, but we still didn’t see these schools up till now. We will have ongoing projects aiming at supporting Rafah, such as a library which will cost $1.5 million."

The Indian representative said: "We strongly condemn the attack against civilians in Rafah, and the Indian spokesman had made public statements about that incursion."

In one of the UNRWA school where homeless families are now living , Abdelmaje ed Al Neims. a homeless child, was furious talking to the delegation about his life and the life of thousands of children in Rafah. He said to the Egyptian representative to the Palestinian Authority: "We are getting killed in front of our fathers' eyes, but where have you been the last week?! Where you have been when my friend
were killed during a peaceful demonstration?! Now I showed you the way that they killed us, see how they kill us, see this?" He showed a some empty bullet cases and continued: "Is this acceptable?! Sharon is re-creating the 1948 war now, and doing the same as Hitler used to do."

The diplomatic delegation ended by visiting Al Barzil area, or, as Dr. Shaat described it, the earthquake area. I asked him what he wanted with those diplomats, and he said: "Everything. We really need support and help. It is important to show the military failure and the results of the destruction that did away with all values and principles and laws in the world. I wanted them to com e face to face with the destruction and the bulldozers."

The diplomatic delegation continued their tour through other damaged areas in the Rafah Camp, and they visited Al Khansa, which is an UNRWA school. They were able to meet hundreds of homeless families who had lost their homes and who were now living in those schools. They also heard from them about how Israeli bulldozers demolished their homes.

I also interviewed the Tunisian representative to the Palestinian Authority who expressed what he felt as he looked around: "I'm shocked. It's awful and sad that a brother harms his human brother like that, and not allow him to breathe inside his own home."

Rafah families spent the past two hours hoping that they will find a solution to their plight after their homes had been demolished.

12.20 a.m. Rafah Time —
BREAKING NEWS by phone:

The electricity has been cut. Ten tanks, 2 bulldozers and 2 Apache planes are invading Rafah at the moment. Two rockets have fallen from the apaches but the intended area of invasion is not yet known. Electricity is cut.

27 May 04

I interviewed Rafah mayor engineer Saeed Zourb and asked him about the extent of losses following the last incursion into Rafah. "Actually we estimated the loss after the incursion between 15–20 million dollars," he said, "including total infrastructure damage, agriculture, roads, water, electricity and sewage system."

Zourb continued: "We ask for urgent and quick interfervention by all nations who love peace and believe in the right of human beings to live in dignity and security. Please help rescue our citizens in Rafah from the effects of the Israeli aggression."

"Today Rafah is not only a catastrophe," he added, "but also it's a ghost town, and in bad need to financial support."

Everything they built was demolished including most of the Norwegian and Dutch projects, that included the two schools in Al Brazil area..

26 May 04

Still up till now no one knows the exact number of people who were killed in this last massacre. Streets are completely damaged, trees uprooted, a very large number of houses have been demolished, and all vehicles, taxis and cars, are lying damaged in the street.

At about 7 a.m., the news spread among people that the Israeli Occupation Forces have withdrawn from Tal Al Sultan. People ru shed to the damaged areas to see what had happened, and everyone wanted to know what happened to their homes and that of their neighbours. It looked an earthquake had struck.Israel called this incursion " Operation Rainbow." Israeli sources say in the Israeli media that the operation has not ended, and that Israeli troops might get back anytime when they feel it necessary.

The ending of that incursion comes with a very sad beginning of homeless families in every corner of Rafah. Tents have sprung up. One of the homeless children, a 15 years old girl, spoke to journalists and lead them to her room where her books and bedroom had been completely burnt by the Israelis..

It is the first time that one of the attacks and incursions in Rafah takes such full media coverage throughout the world, but still the question remains: does the message of the Rafah homeless families really reach the world?!

Tens of people were killed and over 300 were injured and nearly 1785 Palestinians became homeless, in addition to total damage of the Rafah infrastructure. all streets have been damaged.

I was asked to deliver this urgent appeal: the farmers of Tal Al Sultan area are appealing to the whole world to find a solution for them. They have lost their land and there will be no chance to bring food
for their families.. One of those left homeless was 40 years old Abdurrahman Dahleez who has 13 members in his family, most of whom are children. Only five minutes after his house was demolished he began talking to me saying: "They demolished my house, the y demolished my land, and they took away the future of my family." His wife began collecting some of whatever remained from the rubble of her house, and she asked: "I don’t know where I should go with my children."

Dahleez family were only family out of many homeless families since the beginning of the Intifada, and their lives have rapidly changed. After living in dignity in their humble house that consisted of three rooms and his small land from which he brought food for his family, to nothing now.

Dahleez doesn’t have any kind of political activity. He is a simple man with a simple life. all he wanted was for his children to grow up happy.

24 May 04

11.30 p.m. It has been quite some time now with the dead people lying there in tomato refrigerators. Their bodies were frozen. Palestinians in Rafah decided to break down the Israeli siege by getting out from their homes to burry their people, even though there was shooting towards the procession from one of the Israeli tanks that was participating in the military operation in Al Brazil Camp..

A very large number of dead people were taken to the cemetery in Rafah. Nearly 25 thousand mourners participated in that funeral in the Rafah Football Stadium. People were asking the Arab world to pressure its governments to take action against what is going on and to help the people of Rafah to get out of this bloody circle of violence..

The funeral seemed to be have no end as the people went from street to street, walking through the rubble of the houses to participate in the funeral. It seems Israeli soldiers were chasing even the dead. One of the tanks began shooting towards the demonstration, which brought fear and horror into the hearts of the mourne rs..

	During the funeral
A Palestinians man weeping and kissing the bodies of his relative bidding him farewell as many people were killed during the last 10 days in the Israeli militanry operation in Rafah Refugee Camp

4 p.m. Rafah Time: Israeli soldiers forced Rafah children to remain in their homes, fearing dangerous animals. you see, Rafah people tried hardly to be like other people in all over the world, living a peaceful life, but the Israeli Army killed their hopes and their bulldozers demolsihed the first zoo we had in Rafah. It was one of the few sources of pleasure for the residents of poverty stricken Rafah. Although the town lies just two kilometers off the seacoast, access to the coast is blocked by a cluster of Jewish settlements.

A child holding one of the dead peacocks following the demolishing Al Brazil Zoo in Rafah	Dead animals everywhere...

The jaguars obviously live off a diet of raw meat, and they were among scores of animals that escaped from the zoo in Rafah's AL Brazil area after three bulldozers smashed their way into the grounds as part of an operation to find tunnels allegedly used by Palestinian militants to smuggle in weapons from Egypt.

Fathi Juma, the owner of AL Brazil Zoo said: "what more can I say?!! I lost everything that I have and I was trying to make some changes and let the children escape from their nightmares by visiting my zoo, but it seems that the Israelis don't even want animals to live."

He added: "Most of the colorful birds were killed during the attacks, while other dangerous animals escaped into the camp, which brought fear and horror into the hearts of everyone including the children." He continued:"I'm afraid because I have no idea where these dangerous animals are, and I'm sure will kill someone."

Mr. Jumma said that he lost around $US300.000 in that zoo. He had been planning to go to South Africa and bring more animals for the zoo, but after that incursion he will not be able to build a new one.

Twelve year old Mohammed began chasing a lame ostrich, trying to bring it back to the damaged zoo, and was talking sadly about what had happened: "I'm very sad, because I used to spend most of my time here, but now, I will not be able to see these animals again. But If we are criminals as they said, are these animals also criminals?!"

Ahmed Hussien, a 42 year old taxi driver said: "The zoo was the only entertainment place for the children. I used to drive people in my taxi to visit this zoo a lot, but it's a shame what th e Israelis are doing, killing animals and destroying the whole zoo."

I looked around at Rafah to see the damage that happened here. The demolished areas are all civilian houses, some parts of schools, trees, the zoo and a sports club in Al Brazil where the children used to play sports. This, for sure, shows the Israeli intention: making the life of the people in Rafah more miserable and killing any chance of escaping from the daily aggressive life in Rafah.

And still the attack is continuing up until this moment in Al Brazil Camp and other areas..

2 p.m. Rafah Time: The Israelis are saying in the media that they withdrew from Rafah, but that is not true. They only withdrew from Tal Al Sultan area but they are still demolishing houses in Al Brazil Camp and the families are under a siege. They left Tal Al Sultan and many houses were demolished.. people killed.

Remember also to view Gaza news section for news and pictures from today 23 May 04

23 May 04

8.30 p.m.: She went to buy some sweets from the grocer's. Her mother just gave her pocket money - a half shekel - (10% of 1 dollar) to buy some sweets from the neighboring grocer in Al Brazil Camp. She didn’t know that going to the grocer's would cost her her life. But that was what had happened to 3 year old Rawan Abu Zaed. Two bullets:one in her neck and the other right through her head.

The demonstration following the murder of 3 year old Rawan by an Israeli sniper in Al Brazil Camp.	Children holding signs during the demonstration

Rawan is one of hundreds of children slaughtered by Israelis snipers and her only sin is that she is Palestinian.

Thousands of children in Rafah were calling on the whole world during Rawan's funeral to all free nations to put pressure on Israel to leave Rafah, stop demolishing houses, and to leave Palestinian children live like the rest of the world's children.

Still a large number of tanks and bulldozers are demolishing homes in Tal Al Sultan, Al Brazil and Hay Al Salam area, and other forces are coming towards other different areas in Rafah, in addition to that, the Israeli Apaches are shelling civilian houses with heavy missiles, and ambulances still could not reach the injured and dead.

Many people who were killed were not burried because their families are under siege and have been unable to take them to the cemeteries. Their bodies and body parts were gathered and saved in a Tomato refrigerator in North Rafah.

By telephone 3 p.m. Rafah time: The journalists are surrounded near the Taha Hussein school. The IOF is refusing to let them move and they are all surrounded. Internationals, Israeli, local. All journalists.

The Red Cross today is calling on the world to expose the crimes of the occupation. They were outraged at the murder of people inside their homes. They are not even asking people to come out of their homes before they demolish them.

There is sniper shooting all the time besides the shelling. Anything moving is shot. The worst shooting is at night in particular. Any light in any window is a target for sniper shooting, so we all leave our lights turned off - of course whenever we do have electricity. They just shoot randomly and in all directions, and it does not matter who gets shot.

The situation is far worse than anyone can imagine. Food and water supplies are scarce, and so are medical supplies.

I interviewed a man standing close to me. He seemed in great pain ss he s aid: "I saw her get shot with my own two eyes. Yes I saw that innocent child wearing a blue blouse and trouser and no shoes. My legs could not carry me towards her because of the blood which was pouring out like a fountain."

21–22 May 04

Trying to get an injured child to a hospital

It was 1:30 when nearly thousands of people went out in a very big demonstration carrying bottles of milk and water for the children in Tal Al Sultan area in Rafah which was the first place attacked in Rafah. The children participated in that demonstration, asking the world to stop slaughtering people and starving them. The demonstration did not make it to Tal Al Sultan because the Apache warplanes were faster and they were shelled by direct rockets, leaving nearly 15 dead and 45 injured. It t was very difficult for ambulances to bring the bodies of the children and the dead in the area. Fragments and remains and parts of human flesh arrived at the hospital where hundreds of people had gone searching for their relatives who had participated in the demonstration and hadn't returned. I interviewed one of them and asked about his feelings one day after the killing the of his 13 year old son, Mahmoud Mansour. He said: "Of course I feel sad for the killing of my child, but again the blood of my child has came again to prove to the whole world how criminal the Israeli government is, and I believe that this is enough to let the world know. I don’t understand how they shell a peaceful demonstration for children carrying bottles of milk and water to the hungry children in Rafah. Is it acceptable?!"

Dr. Ali Mussa the director of Abu Youisf Al Najjar hospital appealed to the world to put pressure on Israel to stop targeting ambulances and medical teams. He said that at a press conference in his office only one hour after Israeli soldiers shot at an ambulance carrying a 24 year old who was seriously injured. His name was Hamad Shalula from Rafah, and he was being transferred to the European hospital in Khan Younis. The ambulance driver was forced to leave the area after he was met with the shooting of his tires. This came of course one day after burning one of the ambulances and covering it with sand. The medical clinic of Rafah was closed after the IDF demolished its walls..

Ghost Town:

"Ghosts Town." That is simply what Rafah looks like these days. Enormous destruction and devastation all around. Light posts were torn from the ground, buildings were bullet-ridden tank and spotted with shell holes, pavements and street asphalt were peeled from their place. There are bullets flying in the sky, tanks firing on land, bulldozers demolishing houses and trees, Israeli Apaches occupying the sky, streets are nearly empty specially at night. Markets and shops are still closed in mourning, tents are spread in different parts, schools are closed, there is no food, water or medicine.

But there are plenty of tears everywhere.

From the heart of the events, a live eyewitness: She is one of the many homeless families sitting and surrounded by children in one of the schools. Schools are the only place to live in nowdays. She began talking about her feelings and what had happened to her and her family after demolishing her home and she said: "It was the in the middle of the night when the bulldozers began demolishing my house which was on the second floor . I have 11 children. I got out like this as you see. We have lost all things, nothing remains from the house. I tried to ask the driver of the bulldozer to stop so that I may take the furniture, but the wall fell on my leg and as you see, my leg is broken. I was at the hospital and was surprised after finding one of my children also injured before me and staying inside that class room now "

Israelis: Yes we withdraw.
Palestinians: No they didn’t withdraw.

This morning most of the news agencies published about the IOF withdrew from Al Brazil and Hay Al Salam areas. That withdrawal was only moving back the tanks and bulldozers about 200 meters, but they are still there and the operation is still continuing. The Israelis said they still hadn’t finished their operation, but we are just getting back to shift the tanks and bulldozers. Yet the attack is going to continueas much as it takes.

A few ho urs ago, after the bulldozers left the area, they returned and began shelling again, but the 200 meters that they left was completely full of devastation and destruction, in addition to aother number of injured and dead.. Tal Al Sultan area is still under siege and has been for sometime now, and people are suffering from lack of basic needs and they are appealing to the world to stop the crimes against them..

"We don’t want their food, we don’t want their water!!!"

In spite of the starvation, and after the UN and the Red Cross arrived in Rafah the families who were in very bad need of water, food, medicine and milk for the children refused it all. It was therefore not delivered to the families who said they prefered to die in starvations but not to be under Israeli siege.

In an interview with one of those people here, he said: "We don’t want their food, we don’t want them, we do n’t want any help from them. All we want is to get out now and to end the Israeli siege in order to bury our children and relatives whose bodies are still laying in the streets and vegetable refrigerators."

Destruction everywhere!

A child sitting in what is left of his father's taxi cab in Al Brazil Camp.
The taxi cab was demolished during the incursion

21 May 04

5 p.m.: In regards to the ambulance, we have been told by the Abu Youif Al Najjar hospital that they burned the ambulance in a very big hole. The people who were in the ambulance are Dr. Mohammed Al Nirab, the ambulance driver Adnana Al Nawajha, and a nurse. They were all burnt in the ambulance while they were trying to get out bodies in Al Brazil Camp in Rafah.

14.00 p.m. : By telephone with Mohammed:

"We managed to leave the house, but we received news that the IDF dug a large hole and buried an ambulance with its occupants inside it. We do not have news of the situation any further than that and we do not know if the occupants died. Also, the orphanage continues to be surrounded and the supervisors from inside the orphanage are calling on all the world to help them. They are being shot at randomly.

Today many journalists contacted me for live interviews, from Britain, Canada, France and some African country.

I wish to thank all my supporters. I will write more today"

1.00 a.m.: I'm surrounded right now.. I'm surrounded by soldiers and I have so many problems.. I have no water in the house, no food, but I assume I will find a way to escape form here.. the soldiers are surrounding our house and the bulldozers are going to demolish the whole area.. for sure I will not leave my website and will update it sooooooooooooon.. I will not let my website down.. I might be writing from the hospital.. things are very very bad at these moments..

19 May 04

6 p.m. Rafah Time: I have no time, using the same computer, still things are very bad at the moment..Shelling everywhere here.. This is written from a laptop computer at the hospital.

Two Palestinians were slaughtered by the Israeli soldiers in Tal Al Sultan area in Rafah Refugee Camp. Tthose are Imad Al Moghary (30) and Mahmoud Abu Tuaq (33). They leave behind 12 children

Collective genocide at this moment. No food and no water. People are getting slaughtered, the numbers of the dead is increasing from one minute to the next, and people are getting slaughtered at this moment. Water supplies have been demolished, no water, no food, and tens of people are yelling for ambulances, but the ambulances can't move anymore to bring the injured or the dead bodies because the medical team is surrounded by tanks and bulldozers at this moment.

A children's orphanage!!!! No food, no water………90 orphan are surrounded in one of the orphanages and there is shelling in the building where they are living..

There is no milk for babies in Rafah. The screams are increasing now, many yelling - pregnant women who are about to give birth but don’t have the ability to go to the hospital because many bodies are still spread in the streets and ambulances can't get them into the hospital because the Apaches warplanes are targeting the ambulances..

There is no oxygen tanks in the hospital and all things have run out here, even water and basic needs for the people. Thousands are gathering at these moments in the hospital asking for help, but no one is listening to them.. The apaches are shelling more and more right now and 21 bodies have no place in the hospital refrigerators..

NOW, NOW!!!

THOUSANDS of people began in unorganized demonstration asking the world to stop the attack and to bring water and food for the people in the area.. two rockets have fallen from the Apaches warplanes at this momen t 20 meters from the hospital, still no ………….

[Mohammed's message was interrupted before he continued this posting. This is all I got. Please let us pray for his safety
— the Webmaster]

19 May – 12 p.m. Rafah Time:

I might not be able to write.. I'm using a laptop computer now of a friend here in the hospital.. I will try to send some pictures when I can.. but I might not be able to write. Three of my close relatives were killed - two are children: Asma (14), killed by an Israeli sniper while bringing down clothes from the roof of her house, and Ahmed (12), killed while feeding his doves and birds. Saeed was also killed in the same house... and the numbers of dead is increasing by the minute, with also so many many injured, it's hard for ambulances to move and transfer them.

Must leave now, so I might not be able to write, will see if I can.

17 May 04

BREAKING NEWS:

The Israeli Apaches, F16s began invading the whole Rafah City by heavy weapons and canons, people are running in the streets out of their homes because of the shelling.. remains fragments of so many killed and injured people arrived the hospital…

Israeli warships are shelling the houses of the surrounded civilizes who have been under siege since three years now, as these warships came from the see towards Rafah beach to participate in shelling the houses of the people in Al Mawasi Area Western Rafah Camp.

View also Gaza NOW with images in the Gaza Section

16 May 04

Again, I have more and more to say about that attack which shelled ambulances, but the time is limited and I have to charge the camera right now as the electricity might got off again. This night and the coming ones seem to be bloody nights after the Israeli Supreme Court gave permission to demolish hundreds more houses in the Rafah Refugee Camp.

I apologize that this time I am publishing pictures that I had never published before because I was trying to avoid them. This time, however, I feel those pictures are part of the incursion, and if I didn’t publish them I will not be a good person in telling the truth. So... forgive me for publishing these pictures, but that is the truth although I'm trying not to bring the most outrageous pictures, but I will show some of these pictures, though I have so many pictures from different sides and different areas talking about the attack. All these pictures will be published soon... that is, only if I wasn't brought to the hopsital in pieces as the gathered pieces in these pictures.

WARNING: Click here to view the images. They are extremely graphic.

A Palestinian women in Hay Qeshta Area in Rafah gestures from her window at
an Israeli army bulldozer asking them not to demolish more houses in Rafah. She was waving
many times with a white sheet and yelling at them to stop destroying her houses because
her family was inside, but her house was demolsihed nevertheless, leaving her homless and
sleeping in the streets with hundreds of families in Rafah Camp.

13 May 04

I'm not sure if these parts of a body belong to my close relative Hani (21) who was just killed in that massacre or not. The doctors at Abu Youisf AL Najjar were unable to collect all the body parts of the people who were killed because the ambulances collected three blankets of spreaded parts of flesh and bones belonging to those who wre killed by Apache warplanes in different areas.. Wait. More pictures soon, but not before withdrawing.

12 May 04

10:42 p.m.: < /b>The electrcity just got back now, and might get off again. I had a very bad experiance with the shelling.. I must find a protective jacket to wear, cose bullets were directed towards the camera. Will write more later, if Ididnt die.. I must go to the hospital., shelling nowwwwwwwwwwwww

BREAKING NEWS:

The Israeli warplanes are raining heavy bullets towards the houses of the civilians in Rafah Refugee Camp, during an attack, many killed and injured people.. Rafah Camp is divided into different areas, as the electricity and water supplies are going to be disconnected according to the Israeli government suggestions this morning.

9 May 04

Rami Al Wawi found his chicken after very hard work under his demolished house

In a new attack aimed to demolish Al Brazil and Al Shaer area in Rafah Refugee Camp with the new weapons and bulldozers, 17 houses were demolished partially and/or completely, tens of olive trees were damaged also.

Rami Al Wawi (9) was wearing a red football shirt, his face was marked with clear sadness and worry and his eyes indicated that he hadn't slept the night before.

He sat down in the rubble of his damaged house and said he could hear the sound of his chicken. He was sure he could hear it but wasn’t able to know where the sound was coming from. He kept removing piles of rubble, but could not find it, so the children began helping him. Twenty minutes later they were all able to find it ALIVE . A s ad smile lit up Rami's face when he began talking to it as if he was talking to a person. He was very sad when he later found two of his doves killed in the rubble.

Not very far from Rami, a few metes away, in a neighboring house, I found an old woman with pain clearly written on her wrinkled face. She seemed exhausted, searching for something under the rubble of the house. When I asked her what she was looking for, she answered: "For the future!" For the future? I asked. She answered: "Yes I'm searching for the key of my old house, which is more important than time, this key is for my house which was occupied in 1948 and now lies in what is called Israel these days, but I will ever never throw that key because I believe the day will come when I will get to my home in our occupied land. I'm quite sure there will be a day that I will get back to my home, and if it's not me, then my grandchildren".

Rami Al Wawi found his doves dead in the rubble.

5 May 04

BREAKING NEWS:

It's the beginning of a new massacre in Rafah Refugee Camp, as 26 Israeli tanks, other numbers of bulldozers with coverage by war planes apaches and F16s, the tanks are moving towards Al Brazil Refugee Camp at these moments. And people are filing into streets and escaping with their children from the random shelling.

4 May 04

Still the rubble of the damaged houses in Rafah is an eyewitness on the Israeli crimes that are committed in these days against the civilians whom their only guilt is being Palestinians..

Yesterday's attack was simple; they the IOF tanks and bulldozers invaded the area for two hours leaving three building related to the citizens, Essam Jaber, Saed Barhoum, and Saker Al Sufi, in addition to removing the rubbles of the old houses that get demolished in the last week.

A group of Palestinian poor workers went out in demonstrations
demanding a better life and to save their families from poverty

10 years old get shoot in different parts of his body from the attack, and other unknown old women get wounded also get wounded and transferred into Abu Yousif Al Najjar hospital.

Ahmed Zaroub (12), and Khaled Mutair (22) were seriously injured during shelling in the last n ight in different areas of Rafah, as they were both transferred into Al Shifa hospital for urgent surgical operations.

Thousands of orphans in Rafah Refugee Camp gathered in the center of the City and protest against the Palestinian Authority whom freezing the money of the Relief Organizations by an international orders which began 9 months ago.

As the demonstration went away in Rafah settees by orphan and paralyzed children demanding the PA to give the money to the orphan so they can live like other people..

One of the children was holding a poster written on it" Isn't enough that they killed my father by their money!"

Yesterday, a very large numbers of workers went in a very large demonstration demanding the world and the PA to improve their life and to support them in the time that Israel imposed completely closures in Gaza Strip by militant checkpoints, as the workers were asking for a solution to save them from the brink of poverty which reached 68% in Palestine according to the Palestinian Authority statistics.

This evening also, a very large numbers of people went out in a very big demonstrations demanding the recent Israeli policy of not delivering the bodies of the killed Palestinians into their families, as the demonstrators went in a symbolic funeral for the two Palestinians who were killed during clashes near the Israeli settlements, as a result of that the mourners were asking the international community and the world to stop this policy and to pressure on Israeli to deliver the bodies of the killed Palestinians people ..

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