When speaking with children in Gaza “your heart is going to break one billion times a day,” Abubaker Abed told The Electronic Intifada Livestream on 13 February.
A regular contributor to The Electronic Intifada, Abed has been touring Gaza to see the destruction – and the efforts to restore a semblance of normality – for himself.
He has been posting his video reports from across Gaza on his Twitter/X account.
This past week Israel fully dismantled and left the so-called Neztarim corridor, a wide-swath of land it had occupied south of Gaza City, completely severing the north of the Gaza Strip from the territory’s south.
Contributing editor Jon Elmer talked about the significance of this withdrawal – which has allowed displaced Palestinians to return en masse to their devastated neighborhoods in northern Gaza.
According to Hallel Biton Rosen on Israel’s Channel 14, some Israeli soldiers left Netzarim in tears, feeling that “everything they did for more than a year in the Gaza Strip was in vain.” ….more
