Category: Hossam’s 2014 war blog

HOSSAM MADHOUN’S MESSAGES ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA IN 2014 

8 July 2014

good morning world, good morning from Gaza 

my city is bleeding, do you know that ???

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HOSSAM MADHOUN’S MESSAGES ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA IN 2014 

6 July 2014

Dear Friend

sooooo sorry making you worry, I missed your call today ( I was asleep)

I want very much to tell you that I am fine, but I don’t want to lie on you. I don’t feel well, with all what is happening around us, with the threat of entering another cycle of violence in Gaza, with the threat of having no job and no income within the coming 50 days, with almost zero opportunity to find a job with the high unemployment rate in Gaza (almost 46%), with all my savings I built a home for my mother and sister, with my daughter because I may not be able to pay her school fees, with no horizon of any positive change, with Gaza completely closed and no way out, with my wife also finishing her job at the end of this month, with the shameful silence of the world on what is happening to us, with the shameful attitude of our authority toward what is happening to us, with the shameful hypocritical Hamas who claim that they don’t rule Gaza any more while they still keep 100% control over Gaza, it is very much frustration and despair

i just worry for my Salma, my daughter

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HOSSAM MADHOUN’S MESSAGES ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA IN 2014 

3 July 2014  

Hi Jonathan, can I talk to you.  I guess I can.  We are friends!

( Often the messages were sent to Az Theatre Director, Jonathan Chadwick; Hossam agreed we could publish them)

It is  7am Gaza time and until now I did not sleep, yes, there were bombing, but that was not the reason, I went to bed many times, a mosquito bit me, but also this is not the reason.

I am afraid my friend, afraid of losing my faith, I feel that some of the principles I believed in are shocked, did you see the attached photo, did you see those eyes, I am unable to escape from them, they are invading my soul,

Mohammed Abu Kdeir’s mother was shouting today: bring him to me, I will hug him and he would come back to life … she said it, believing in it, just a hug from a mother and the dead son will come back to life.

Revenge is no more than running after a dog who bit you in order to bite him (Gandhi said), I am sorry, but for the first time in my life I want to bite that dog.

The eyes of this boy and the words of his mother is asking me to do something, and you know what, I am helpless, I can do nothing, but not sleep and sit alone write to you about I don’t know what.

I feel so tired.

Do I ignore that there were 3 Israelis kidnapped and killed with cold blood??!  Do I?

Today, yes I do, i felt so bad for them, I felt very angry against the kidnappers, the killers, but today, I just don’t think about them, I think about Mohammad the 16 years old boy who was kidnapped, killed and burned  by the Israeli settlers, I think about the other 12 Palestinians who have been killed since the kidnap of the settlers, I think about the 100 Palestinian injured since the kidnap of the settlers, I think about the bombing of Gaza, for no reason from Gaza, since the kidnap of the settlers, I think about the 2000 houses searched since the kidnap of the settlers, I think about the 665 Palestinians arrested without being charged or even accused of something but of being Palestinian, since the kidnap of the settlers

I think it is Mahmoud Darwish who said that the dead do not feel pain, only us the living feel the pain, I am in a deep pain, my friend

I am trying my best to find the wisdom and look for any reasonable excuse to overcome my feelings, I know that wars create graves and cemeteries, and that there are no enemies in cemeteries (quote from a movie: heaven and earth!) but help me God, I am unable to be wise

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18 June 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closed like a can of Tuna from the four sides, between the sea and barbed wire, between a wall and the barrel of a gun, and still under attack! Never mind why! No drinkable water in Gaza and no food, no freedom and no future, no in and no out, perfectly like a closed can of Tuna

Children in Gaza grow up believing that things like Paris and London, Great Wall of China and the pyramids, rivers and mountains, snow and travelling, wild animals and jungles and deserts are all fantasies…. There is nothing but planet Gaza!! And the bombing… this is the entire world. Nothing out of Gaza! Nothing entering Gaza! … but the bombing. Bombing from the sky… from the land…from the sea… bombing… bombing. (It sounds familiar… and funny! Hahahaha!)

From time to time there is a bombing for a reason or even… if Gaza launches a stupid handmade rocket to the outside, it will return many smart destructive rockets, if Da’ish invades Mosul or if Assad launches chemical weapons at Damascus, let’s bomb Gaza. If some Israelis are kidnapped somewhere in Gaza or outside Gaza or even get lost, Gaza must be bombed… if Spain loses a game against Holland in the World Cup, let’s bomb Gaza. If the Titanic sinks in the North Sea, let’s bomb Gaza, bombing, bombing, bombing, yes.

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