When the first blast sounded, on Saturday at just past 11 a.m., I hardly took notice. I was at work in my office on the second floor of the Palestine Tower in Gaza City, where I write for the local newspaper. Full Story »
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Nowhere do we get a more lucid perspective of what it's like to be a Gazan civilian than in this piece. Hasan Jaber is very introspective here, but an excellent raconteur. A first-person story, this lacks the context of a news report but captures what is probably the sentiment of many Gazans.
The first piece I've read since the beginning of hostilities that truly humanizes Palestinians. Of course, it's a first-person narrative -- but this says as much as many of the news reports I've read.