In 2003, we gave a 17 year old named Mohammed a camera, and he documented each and every massacre and each and every incursion every single day and we posted it on a website called Rafah Today with his explanation and in his own words. We did not edit even his English. The site continued until 2016. We are now reposting this entire site which had been offline for several years, only to respond to people who claim this all started on Oct 7th.

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You will see Rachel Corrie, Tom Hundall and many other stories you may have heard of. You will see the level of destruction that led to the rise of Hamas in 2006, and you will see Mohammed’s post following the election of Hamas. You will see deaths, injuries and destruction pretty much the same as is happening today – with incursion after incursion. Read about Huda Ghalia, a child sitting next to her father on a sunny beach in Gaza when the Israelis killed him and 7 others of her family members, in June 2006.

Rachel Corrie’s parents visiting Palestine

Rachel Corrie’s colleagues, ISM activists, trying to save a Palestinian person’s home. The bulldozer ran over American citizen Corrie.

The same images of death, injuries and destruction. Nothing changed.

Huda Ghalia, now all grown up, narrates the horror of that one sunny day on the beach in Gaza

Israeli snipers shot another ISM activist in the head. Tom Hundall from Manchester Britain remained in critical condition and was taken helicopter from Europa Hospital in Khan Younis to a hospital in Bir Sheva. He was 22 years old. He died soon after. Tom was helping children cross the street and shielding them from snipers when he himself was fatally shot.

Access details of life in Gaza and life in Rafah

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