Sonia Azatyar still has nightmares about her evacuation from Afghanistan. ‘In my dreams, I taste the bitterness of the hasty goodbye of my relatives, several of whom I have already lost.’
Tag: war
Palestinian-Dutch Awni Farhat (35) organised Witness, an exhibition of drawings made by children in Gaza. ‘Children don't lie.’
Dutch-Palestinian schoolchildren are very involved in the events in Gaza, but at school there is often little room for a conversation about the violence.
Heba Diab, a nurse from Gaza, worked at the only hospital in Gaza that specialises in treating cancer patients. In late October, the hospital was bombed by the Israeli army, rendering it non-operational. Since then, Heba has been caring for injured people in a clinic.
What is war? What does war mean? Ask yourself that question. What comes to mind? I will tell you what war is.
‘In my little bag that I brought with me to Holland, I didn't have a picture to remind me of everything I left behind, but I have memories and a heart in which I have engraved all these things.’
Diana Al Mouhamad's Syrian hometown was bombed by the Russian army. She fervently hopes that this time the international community does respond effectively to a dictator's violence.
The life you complain about,
is a dream of others.
Warring factions in Yemen's war kidnap opponents and make them disappear without a trace. Hundreds of Yemeni families lost relatives this way. Women are also abducted. There is a social taboo on this, which makes offering help difficult.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is under pressure from an economic crisis and rapidly increasing poverty in the country. With the free fall of the Syrian lira, demonstrations have been flaring up in the southern city of Sweida for a week and a half, the first protests in government territory in a long time.
