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Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
15-Oct-04

(Dean Bailey)

(©1992 Magellan Geographics, Madison and Rafah)

A Madison window sign. (Jamey Voss)

Gardening in the Rafah Refugee Camp. An Israeli army bulldozer
works in the background. (©2002 Middle East Times)

Rafah well site (International Solidarity Movement)

Rafah well site (International Solidarity Movement)

Rafah well site (Palestine)

Water by hand (Nisreen 'Alian, B'Tselem), and an Israeli army bulldozer (International Press Center, Jan 2002)

A building in Rafah (UN Relief and Works Agency, Jan 2003)

Palestinian children in Nablus demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Israeli refusal to address Palestinian grievances is increasingly threatening the fragile truce. (Al-Ahram Weekly, 17-23 July 2003)

(Musa Al-Shaer, Electronic Intifada)

(©2002 Ted Rall, 08 Aug 2002)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Rafah Destruction, October 12, 2003 (Rafah Municipality)

Al Brazil after the invasion. Three boys from the area in front of the demolished expanse, the broken water pipes. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

The army broke the entire water system in Al Brazil, Hay es Salaam, and Yibneh during this invasion. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

In the morning after the three-day invasion of Yibneh, Block O, and Block J, the army pulled out incompletely. Here, two tanks are still in position next to the Block O sniper tower. View from Abu Jameel's balcony in Salah el-Deen. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

On the outskirts of Yibneh, people have already set up their UN tents. Many who have nowhere else to go will live in these tents during the winter months. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

Exodus out of Yibneh. Some have come from outside to see, the majority are packing their
bags to leave. 1948 is on everybody's lips. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

The Rafah Municipality, local heros, attempt to repair Kir Street despite threats of the Israeli army to reinvade. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

Ibrahim al-Hams, seven years old and mentally handicapped, walked out of his house when he heard a bulldozer coming and stood in front of it while the bulldozer honked and then left. (International Solidarity Movement, October 2003)

The network of Israeli-only settler highways dividing up Palestine (Israeli State Terrorism)

John Reese (Seattle Community Activist Network)

It's the longest red light in the world. John Reese, describing the check point crossing a settler highway at Khan Younis, Gaza (May 9, 2003). The intersection is open to Palestinians twice a day for one hour. Reese has traveled for 7 months in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Hydrology Group.

(Stop The Wall.org)

(Palestine Media Watch)

terry@palnet.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:32 PM
Subject: Wall around Abu Dis - Pictures
Dear All:
Hope you are able to see how we are living right now. My house is on the way up the hill and every day after so much fighting with the army, I have to go through the mud, near the bulldozers, to send my children to school or just to reach my car on the other side of the mountain.
Terry

(©2002 Ted Rall, 22 Apr 2002)

Olympia, Washington (FreeToDisagree.org, 1 Mar 2004)

A Palestinian woman refusing to leave her land, which is being confiscated by Israeli occupation forces for Israel's separation wall. (MIFTAH, 20 Mar 2004)

(Photo journal: Life in Rafah, Gaza, BBC News, 2004 - Follow link to more photos)

(a.alqudwah@worldnet.att.net)

OCCUPIED PALESTINE An Exhibition of Drawings by Carel Moiseiwitsch 27-May-04

(Carel Moiseiwitsch is a member of the ISM-Vancouver who helped defend the house that Rachel Corrie died protecting. Her artwork from An Exhibition of Drawings by Carel Moiseiwitsch is now online.)
Dear Friends,
Some of the drawings from my exhibition "Occupied Palestine" at the Grunt Gallery last year are now available online at http://www.freexero.com.
The situation in Palestine today, especially Rafah, is much worse than when we were there. Since we left Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip last March, at least 500 more houses have been demolished by the Israeli military. You may have heard about the latest war crime last week when Israeli helicopters and tanks fired on peaceful Palestinian protestors killing and wounding many young children.
We all need to contact our political representatives to protest these appalling violations of Palestinian human rights and demand that our governments and the international community take action NOW to stop the killing and destruction in Occupied Palestine.
In the future I'll be adding some of my black and white graphics to the http://www.freexero.com website so that people can download and reproduce them for free.
Free Palestine!
Carel

Dear friends,

These photos of our lovely child Waleed Abu Qamar and his family

Good bye, Waleed, we miss you terribly

Mini Palestinian Parliament
This was received from the Palestine children's parliament, a group with pen-pal ties to the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project. Waleed was killed by the May 19, 2004 Israeli missile attack on protestors in Rafah. He was 12 years old.

This is an appeal message from our children to the consuls visiting Rafah last week:

An appeal for aid

To International and Arab society, consuls:

Help us � Pick up our children's remains

Abatchi Helicopters, arbitrary shelling, weeping children, dozens of separated little bodies without limbs, diffused burning remains, assassinated dreams, intentionally, in the cradle.

This is the scene of Rafah where children are testing all kinds of bullets, tank shells, Abatchi helicopter rockets, bitterness of the siege and invasion, a state of shock, fear and scare.

All of that is happening while you are interested to find a true definition of terrorism and the right way to fight it, according to the USA, Israel and their allies.

During three years, Zionist tanks deepened the safe homes in Rafah and forced the innocent children to emigrate. These tanks killed their childhood and their dreams of safety and stability.

With all kinds of Racism, American Abatchi helicopters shelled our children in a peaceful demonstration in Rafah. There were a lot of killed and injured children, there were more than 20 children killed during 10 days. It was an awful scene.

We, the Mini Palestinian Parliament or "Mini Palestinian Legislative Council" insist on:

1.    Inviting all consuls of our friendly International, Arab and Islamic countries to intervene immediately to protect our children in Palestine, especially in Rafah.

2.    Denouncing, strongly, the International, Arab and Islamic world's silence and their overlooking of what happened to our children in Rafah.

3.    Inviting all Human and children's rights Organizations to intervene immediately to save our children in Rafah.

4.    Inviting peace lovers to press the Israeli Government to stop the violence.

This is an appeal for aid to all consuls, Security Council, Arab League, Children's Rights Organizations and all peace lovers in the whole world:

Help our children in Rafah and wake up to pick up our children's remains under the Death Tanks.

Mini Palestinian Parliament

"Mini Palestinian Legislative Council"

Mini Palestinian Parliament

A Rafah Kindergarten (Emad Sha'at, Deputy Mayor, 08-Jun-04)

Proposed Rafah Playground Site (31-Jul-04)

Mural on Apartheid Wall at Mas'ha (17-Aug-04)

Picketing Bush & Kerry Headquarters, Madison (13-Oct-04)

visitors since July 13, 2003