HOSSAM MADHOUN’S MESSAGES ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA IN 2014
13 July 2014
Hossam sent us this in Arabic. Hassan Abdulrazzak translated it.
One of the hardest nights. A sleepless night. Bombing closer than ever to our home since the start of the aggression. Salma had been able to ignore the bombing and explosions and sleep through the previous nights. This night is different. Black smoke fills the horizon. The smell of gunpowder and pulverised concrete fills our home. After the first bombing, we jumped out of our bed, scared and haven’t been able to sleep ever since. Salma moved into our room. Less than ten minutes after a huge, terrifying explosion – bigger than all the previous ones – shook the entire house. This was accompanied by the sound of smashing glass. We later discovered that it was one of our house windows. We tried to ignore it and decided to go back to bed with the hope that sleep could take us away from this horror. Then after a further ten minutes, the house shook once again and we realised that we cannot sleep tonight. We are still awake. The shattered glass of the window is still scattered in the bathroom and balcony. How lucky we are to have survived on a day when fifty others were martyred.
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