| by guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com ISM Gaza Strip video Footage & editing: Ya9ni (Andrew Muncie): www.youtube.com ISM Gaza: palsolidarity.org Ahmed Abu Hashish, a Bedouin teenager of 18 years from a rural community in the northern Gaza Strip had been missing for 54 days. A shepherd then noticed a murder of crows on a patch of land from which there was also a foul stench emanating, but he could not approach close enough to investigate. This patch of land is in what Israel calls the buffer zone. A strip of land within The Strip which abuts the border with Israel, and in which the Israeli military enforce a no-go decree by shooting, from positions on their side of the border, at anyone who breaks it. It feels like a no-mans land, typically empty of people - or at least the living. Of course most Gazans now choose not to go there. Others go out of necessity, desperation, or a resolve not to be forced off their land. Usually they survive. The soldiers dont always shoot with the firm intent to kill. Often the shootings just very, very close - enough to terrify. Enough to make one believe that the intention of the shots are to kill, and that the next one might. And the fact is that the next one might. Ahmeds father, Abu Ayesh, knew that this patch of land was most likely where his son now lay, slowly decomposing in the hot summer heat. No official organisations could or would help him search for his sons body in this area - even the International Committee of the Red Cross who might ... |
