I could not find the right words to put as introduction for this short clip.

Just watch and listen to what this little girl (and millions like here, including me) says:

Millions of Palestinians died, millions are living, but more million will be born.

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"My father was not a fighter. He was not armed. The [Israeli] soldiers took him from our house and tortured him without any mercy, they killed him and gave us his body, my brothers and I are orphans now. Where is the international conscience, where is the United Nations that puts the victim and the attacker on the same scale? My father was a peaceful man supporting his six children."

by Translated by; Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - By Palestine News Network

With these words, Mustafa Husny Fayid, 13, started talking about the tragedy that beset his family when the Israeli army carried out the Jenin refugee camp massacre in 2002, during an invasion that Israel calls "Operation Defensive Shield".

Five years after the massacre, the child was finally able to talk about what happened when he was seven. He expressed his anger that "the world is still unable to stop the Israeli atrocities".

"The world is talking about justice, peace and human rights but when it comes to us, and to what Israel is doing to us, they change their concepts and principles. We are refugees dreaming of a stable life, a country and a humble home", Mustafa stated, "Where is the world justice, were is the international law, how come the committee set up to investigate the massacre in our camp was never allowed to be formed? They should come here and see how we are living, and the destruction inflicted on us and on our future. The occupation is the cause of all our problems, but nobody wants to see the truth, they want us to be silent".

The misery of the child and his family started when the Israeli army invaded the camp in April 2002. "When the army invaded the camp, soldiers started occupying homes and started ambushing the fighters, then they started shelling all the houses after totally surrounding the camp", Mustafa said, "Everything became dangerous, danger was all around us. We were hiding in one room for a whole week, while planes and tanks were firing shells and missiles at the whole camp. We lived in fear and my younger brothers never stopped crying the whole time. My father asked us not to be afraid, and he read us verses of the holy Quran".

At that, Mustafa stopped talking for a while. His eyes were filled with tears as he looked at his fathers' picture hanging on the wall. Finally he continued, "Several days after the invasion began, we knew that the soldiers had the whole camp surrounded, and that the invasion was getting more violent and fierce. Then the shelling intensified and the soldiers shelled the mosque near our house".

The next morning, the army started advancing into the camp, and the soldiers started knocking on the doors ordering all men to leave the houses and surrender themselves to them.

"We heard violent knocking on our door, and we became so scared. My father opened the door and saw more than 30 military jeeps outside on the street. The soldiers then broke into our house and started searching it, they stepped with their dirty feet on the bread, and started breaking the dishes, smashing the windows and then they started hitting my father violently before taking him to the yard, we heard him screaming from the pain, before they took him away".

According to other eyewitness accounts, Mustafa's father was used as a human shield by the soldiers, who forced him to knock on the doors of neighboring houses before they broke into them and abducted the inhabitants.

"Later on, the soldiers returned. They had my father and my uncle, and locked them in a small room in our house. The soldiers saw drawings that my kid brothers had painted on the wall in our house, maps of Palestine and other drawings, and the soldiers were angry and said that those drawings are maps for the fighters to escape and started hitting my father on his head", Mustafa added.

"They were violently hitting my father on his head, and were screaming and shouting at him, he started bleeding and they took him out in spite of his injuries and pain".

Eyewitnesses told Mustafa that they saw the soldiers torturing his father as they were taking him to an armored vehicle, then they transferred him to a location where the soldiers gathered with their vehicles. According to local accounts, Israeli troops took dozens of residents to the temporary camp where Mustafa saw them taking his father.

There, the soldiers tortured and interrogated the men. At one point, according to eyewitnesses, Mustafa's father pleaded to be taken to a hospital, but the soldiers refused to provide him with any medical treatment.

Later on, soldiers took the man to an unknown destination; some residents said that they saw him at a Civil Administration Office which belongs to the Israeli army. The residents said that they heard him screaming, and then he stopped.

"He wasn't breathing, and the people told me when that happened they started shouting at the soldiers, he is dead, the man is dead", Mustafa said, "Then the soldiers gave him first aid and took him to a hospital, after that we never knew where he was".

"We were told by the army that my father was at Al Foula Israeli hospital, but when we phoned the hospital, they told us that he was not there, we contacted the Red Crescent and the Red Cross and they told us that the soldiers took my father to Ofer prison. We searched for him for three months".

"The Prisoners Society, the Red Crescent and several organizations helped in the effort to locate my father. They were informed by the army that my father was taken prisoner, but when medical institutions and the lawyer of the prisoners' society contacted the army officers, they said that his name was not among the list of detainees".

Different stories regarding the destiny of Mustafa's dad increased the worries of his family, and three months later, after extensive efforts by the family and several institutions, the army admitted that the father was dead.

"We lived through tough times, as the army was waging its cruel war against the camp, against us, we were unable to hide our fears, our tears, my little brothers and I were crying day and night". Mustafa stated.

But when the news finally arrived about the whereabouts of the father, it was shocking to know the truth, that he was a dead body at Abu Kbeer Israeli morgue. When the army handed the body of the father to his family, their grief was even greater, it was in a closed coffin.

Nobody was allowed to see him because his body was severely mutilated and deformed. And now, five years after his father was killed, Mustafa is speaking.

"I insist that those responsible for his death should be prosecuted, I appeal to the international organizations to adopt the case of my father and file charges against the Israeli army, I want to know how did he die in their prisons, he left the house on his feat, and return to us a dead body, they took him away from us, forever".

[Hat tip: Yolanda]

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The answer is simple: NOTHING!

What do you expect the Palestinian reaction to what the Israeli terrorists are doing in Nablus and today morning in Jenin?

Palestinians are always asked to hold and not attack, otherwise… But who ever asked Israel to hold its crimes? No one! So why the hell do you blame Palestinians? They have the “right to defend themselves.” Just like any human being.

Israeli terrorist gang’s spokeswoman said they will continuing “Hot Winter” operation against “terrorist infrastructure”, but who will stop the Israeli state terrorism?

Here are two clips from the current military operation (named “Hot Winter”) in Nablus, Palestine.

On February 25 2007, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invaded the West Bank city of Nablus with massive forces. The IOF focussed especially on the Yasmine and Qariyon neighborhoods in the old city. During the first day of the operation, tens of thousands of people were confined to their homes. The Israeli army raided dozens of houses, detaining and arresting scores of people. This military operation is one of the biggest of its kind in the last two or three years that happenend in Nablus.

Operation “Hot Winter” - Day 1

Here’s the clip of the second day of the IOF’s operation “Hot Winter” in Nablus. The Israeli army kept going from house to house, looking for what they call “wanted” people. However, they haven’t found those they were actually looking for but instead arrested and detained scores of other residents.

Operation “Hot Winter” - Day 2

Update (March 01, 2007):

After temporarily withdrawing part of their troops, the Isrsaeli Occupation Forces (IOF) re-invaded the city and particularly the Old City around 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Since then, the IOF have resumed their operation in the Old City and the Ras al-Ein area right above it. The footage of this clip was filmed on Wednesday, 26th of February 2007. [Hat tip: Nadia Hasan]

Operation “Hot Winter” - Day 4

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I can't afford to pay millions to promote Western people to visit Palestine like Israel did with Arsenal to promote Israel as the oasis of the East. I don't think that the whole Palestinian nation can afford a fraction of that figure. However, if you still can't see Palestine through my eyes and hundreds of other Palestinian and pro-Palestine bloggers (a lot of registered bloggers here are non-Palestinian, pro-Palestine and peace bloggers), maybe you can see Palestine through the eyes of eyewitnesses like the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

The following documentary video makes you wonder: what prompts a young, well-educated Westerner to risk life and limb as a peace activist in the Middle East? With her striking red hair and bright lipstick, Caiomhe Butterly defies initial expectations of the 'typical' activist. Motivated by idealism, she blocks bullets with her body and ignores threats to her own safety to alleviate the suffering that surrounds. Her story provides a rare insight into the everyday lives of Palestinians, moving beyond usual depictions of one-dimensional heroes or victims. During a siege of Jenin, Caiomhe's luck finally runs out and she is shot and wounded. With its harrowing frontline footage and intimate character portraits, this is surely one of the most powerful films to come out of Palestine in recent years.

A BIG Salute to all ISM and pro-Palestine, pro-Peace activist.

Hat tip due to Robin for sharing the link to this video. She also quoted in her email, few words from Mother Teresa. After I read it, I could not but alter it to a Palestinian perspective, so here it is (Palestinian words in italic):

Mother Teresa wrote:

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. (If I stay alive tomorrow)
Life is beauty, admire it. (I'll try to look through the tear gas)
Life is bliss, taste it. (Let me taste some bread and meat first)
Life is a dream, realize it. (If Israeli jets don't visit our skies tonight)
Life is a challenge, meet it. (On continuous meeting since I was born)
Life is a duty, complete it. (Until last moment in my life, I will)
Life is a game, play it. (Say that again! If you mean fun, we are counting Israeli bullets)
Life is a promise, fulfill it. (I promise not to give up my rights)
Life is sorrow, overcome it. (Let me see... Israel kidnapped my father, killed my two brothers... OK, I will)
Life is a song, sing it. (Yeah.. I know this one.. Palestine national Anthem)
Life is a struggle, accept it. (You bet!)
Life is tragedy, confront it. (What does tragedy mean?)
Life is an adventure, dare it. (You dare half of what I dare ;-))
Life is luck, make it. (Luck?! Ingredients please?)
Life is too precious, do not destroy it. (Worthless if you are taken all your rights)
Life is life, fight for it. (Welcome to Palestine!)
Mother Teresa.

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Update: As usual, YouTube removed the origional clip I posted (three parts) below. Anyway, I found this (five parts) while searching YouTube again:

To see all parts, check the archive of this user:
http://www.youtube.com/user/immonly
or download a full copy from here:
http://www.aswatalislam.net/search.aspx?strSearch=Life+in+Palestine

Childs, adult and elders, no one is spared, but the uncensored cameramen was there.

In this three parts documentary, you will see how Palestinians are living their daily life under the terrorist Zionist occupation.

See how healthcare staff and patients are treated at checkpoints. Humiliated, beaten, stopped to bleed and die during hours of halt at Israeli Terrorist Forces checkpoints.

Life in Palestine (1 of 3):

Remember the famous incident of British MP who was held in an ambulance at an Israeli checkpoint for more than an hour after he suffered a stroke. Ian Gibson, the Labour MP for Norwich North, said that soldiers stopped him for about 90 minutes.

Now, have a look how innocents kids are shoot dead in Jenin while they are shopping in the market with their father.

Life in Palestine (2 of 3):

"The two brothers Jamil Chazawi, 6 years and Ahmad Ghazawi, 12 years and the medic Hilal Shita, 60 years was also killed in this incident.

The Israeli "terrorist" Forces first claimed that they responded when they where fired upon while declaring curfew. When contradicted by several eyewitness reports and video material they issued a statement with an apology to the residents of Jenin."

Last but not least, have a look at these brave members of International Solidarity Movement, protecting Palestinians by standing in front of the artillery tanks and machineguns of the Israel Terrorist Forces.

Citizens of Jenin, curfew!

But the kids of Jenin wants to play their games. The game that is called, Resistance! Can any Zionist terrorist force stop them? Find out yourself.

Life in Palestine (3 of 3):

This is the daily life in Palestine!

[Hat tip: Robin]

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PNN - Jenin, Palestine
by Ali Samoudi

As the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's popularity has grown, so has bizarre Israeli behavior. It is difficult to find another adjective to represent what is happening. Israeli soldiers are attacking Palestinian young people with Nasarallah's photo as their mobile phone screen saver.

And this is not because the Israeli administration believes these to be people working with Hezbollah or even to be members of the armed Palestinian resistance. It is that there is pride and respect for someone who stood up to the occupation that must be destroyed, according to Mahmoud Ibrahim. He is among the young men recently attacked for his cell phone photo.

On Saturday morning Israeli soldiers attacked a group of young men and broke their mobile phones at the southern entrance of Jenin for having pictures of Hassan Nasrallah on them.

The young man, Mahmoud Ibrahim, was among them, and reported to PNN that the soldiers imposed a barricade along the main road between Jenin and Nablus in the northern West Bank. The concern was not to check identification, but rather to check cell phones. Anyone with a Nasrallah photo was detained, and that meant a lot of cars lined up in the detention area.

Ibrahim added, "The request was strange, but then I realized what the occupation soldiers' goal was. They said the screen saver incited riots and after beating people for an hour, they destroyed the cell and threatened everyone with arrest."

"This is funny, sad, and strange, being treated like children and seeing the height of the warped nature of Israeli paranoia," one West Bank journalist from Bethlehem said when asked for comment Saturday. He is a Palestinian man working for an international news agency and continued with the simple statement, "Screen savers do not incite riots, but restored pride does sometimes incite revolution against oppression."

Another young man, Abdullah Riyad, said, "Israeli soldiers detained several young men at the same barrier and examined their cell phones. There were ten youths with his photo. Five soldiers were kicking and beating them, screaming, 'You support Nasrallah and that means you are against Israel.' What do they think? Who is with the occupation?"

Riyad added, "The rest of the detained people faced the same fate, with the soldiers using abusive words, their aggressive energy at a high level, and then besides the verbal abuse and the beatings, the punishment is not being allowed to travel and having their cellular phones destroyed."

The young man concluded by telling PNN, "Israeli soldiers are also searching cars for cassettes as many sad songs for Beirut and Lebanon were released and other older songs became popular again. Several songs were written for Nasrallah also and then the regular nationalist music and the Allah victory song tapes too. Anyone found in procession of those now gets brutalized."

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