israel bombed the news building I was in (2009, Gaza City)
The building i was in was just bombed. from the 10th floor news studio where i’d had an interview, a series of Israeli strikes against the building –housing numerous TV stations.
The journalists i was with say it was 7 hits, suspect it was shelling from Israeli tanks east of Gaza, it’s hard to say really because it happened very suddenly.
No where is safe from Israeli strikes.
And as the Palestinians say, hek idiniya: that’s life.
S. asks me the question every Palestinian is asking: “Why are they bombing us?” He adds the bit that many here add: “I’m not Fatah, not Hamas.”
Walking through Jdaideh, old Aleppo in late January 2019. My translator points out that in the old areas of Aleppo, stones from damaged buildings have been numbered, in order to reconstruct the building as it originally was.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lKj5AeVm8
I was interviewed on Scott Ritter's Ask the Inspector, October 24, 2023.
Streamed on: Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 109: Ask the Inspector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjHo5tZ2ftc
Related Links:
Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza (My 2014 overview of Israel's brutal siege on Gaza, wars on Gaza, assault of farmers & fishers...)
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/
Observations from Occupied Palestine, part 1 (My overview of what I witnessed in 8 months in the West Bank)
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/
My 2007 West Bank writings:
https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/
When in Syria in June 2017, I gave the following interview on Syria Insider, with a focus on:
-Terrorist attacks on Aleppo, including on a Nov 2016 visit
[https://www.mintpressnews.com/aleppo-how-us-saudi-backed-rebels-target-every-syrian/222594/ ]
-Corporate media's disappearance of over 4,100 doctors in Aleppo
[https://www.sott.net/article/325238-Western-corporate-media-disappears-over-1-5-million-Syrians-and-4000-doctors ]
-Aleppo post-liberation: hospitals occupied, hospitals not destroyed [https://www.mintpressnews.com/syria-war-diary-what-life-is-like-under-moderate-rebel-rule/231201/]
*Shariah court and underground prison in Aleppo's Eye/Children hospital complex
[https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSCN7522-Military-Command-Liwa-Tawhid.jpg]
[https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_20170605_135317-576x1024.jpg]
*Solitary Confinement Cells, Eye Hospital Complex, Aleppo
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-jO2I_ISs]
-Omran Daqneesh: The boy exploited by world media
[https://www.mintpressnews.com/mintpress-meets-father-iconic-aleppo-boy-says-media-lied-son/228722/]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpL6jETGvvI&t=2s
[https://www.rt.com/op-edge/391958-aylan-omran-child-victims-syria-propaganda/]
-TheWhite Helmets (al-Qaeda with a facelift):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAaReVn2I4
-On the ground in Madaya and al-Waer (Homs):
[https://www.mintpressnews.com/order-returns-to-western-syria-civilians-recount-horrors-rebel-rule/232380/]
*Madaya bomb factory:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xl54mHshbs&feature=youtu.be]
*One of armed groups' prisons (and torture rooms):
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXW2Dkk_1Bg&feature=youtu.be]
*Municipality employee shot by terrorists for being government employee.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikgV0O9i36g&feature=youtu.be]
Syria's Reconciliation Minister:
[(2014): https://dissidentvoice.org/2014/08/as-foreign-insurgents-continue-to-terrorize-syria-the-reconciliation-trend-grows/]
Replying to Smear Campaigns Whitewashing Terrorists:
[https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-the-mainstream-media-whitewashed-al-qaeda-and-the-white-helmets-in-syria/5624930]
[https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/a-personal-reply-to-the-fact-challenged-smears-of-terrorist-whitewashing-channel-4-snopes-and-la-presse/]
Related Links:
-on Syrian journalists:
-on two months travel in Syria 2016: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/updates-from-on-the-ground-in-syria-june-to-august-11/
-My articles from/on Syria, 2014-2018
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2017/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTd4JIPxwbM
When in Lugansk in late March, I saw this photo exhibition displaying just a fraction of the crimes Ukraine has committed against civilians in the Donbass republics. This is, of course, only a very limited selection of Ukraine's war crimes. For a more detailed look at Ukraine's crimes against the people of the Donbass republics and also against Ukrainians within Ukraine, see:
https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/Ukrainian_Crimes_2017-2020.pdf
https://www.stalkerzone.org/tornado-battalion-criminals-are-still-being-released/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd1C1VWQU00
Streets of Mariupol, including areas 1 km from the Azovstal plant where Ukrainian forces are bunkered down.
Yes, there is destruction, that's what happens when Ukrainian forces, and Nazis, embed in residential areas & occupy apartment buildings. It isn't Raqqa, and if you aren't aware of the US illegal coalition in Syria's full destruction of Raqqa, look that up.
Now that the fighting is over, rebuilding can begin, stability can return & improve, without the corrupt & dangerous rule of Ukraine & the Nazis in power.
Last day of Eid, busy streets, my bird friend Sabah...
Scenes from old Damascus yesterday, during Eid. Yesterday, the partial curfew that had been in place for around one month was lifted and I was told universities are set to re-open.
The mood was indeed festive yesterday.
That said, even when the curfew was in place, it wasn't a big deal --7:30 pm to 6 am--and wasn't super-strictly enforced, according to friends in different cities. I've written about Syria and Corona before and will post those links below.
-Syria is not under lockdown, is not the dystopian society of war propagandists
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/syria-is-not-under-lockdown-is-not-the-dystopian-society-of-war-propagandists/
-Damascus Streets Early May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyE-ZCAClEA&feature=emb_title
-Damascus walks, April 26-28, Stores Re-Opened, Life in Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ZvkFuX09s
-Syrian: “If we didn’t complete & love each other we wouldn’t have survived this crisis” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJOmbfRIKpY
-Syrian Life in the time of Corona: Calm, not Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8PGoGz_2HA
-Old Damascus streets on April 21, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5np-3vXt48
-Volunteers Distributing Bread in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdyyARWb3E
-Syrian Food Staple Heavily-Subsidized, Now Distributed to Homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjO5Y3ixNJU
-On Bread Distribution in Damascus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWaxWsmyBSU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGCScffDvUw
Sharing from my dear friend Vanessa Beeley our thoughts at opening night of 60th Damascus International Fair, free of the terrorism which killed 6 people at last year's fair.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1EsXWWc07c