1/05/2009

Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza

Tonight there is heavy bombing in Beit Hanoon, and the southern part of Gaza City, Shajiyya. The Israelis have cut the Gaza strip into five sections so no medical or food supplies can come up to us from Rafah. The Israeli navy off the coast is also shelling us here at the Shati'(Beach) camp tonight, and the Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya television stations farther up the hill from the coast here have their generators running ongoing television reports. But for us here on the old refugee camp on the beach, there is no electricity. The Israelis have cut it off.

Our Tea and coffee shop didn't make the map on the New York times.

The December 6 New York times, surprisingly gives the names of one family that was killed near this tea and falafel shop--the best falafel in the Middle East--this Monday night:
"Haitham Dababish, emergency chief at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, said that seven members of the Abu Aeisha family were killed earlier Monday after an Israeli naval shell hit their house in the Beach refugee camp in western Gaza City. The father, mother and five of their children died."

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