Kawther Salam

Orphaned Childhood during the Peacetime

May 1st, 2003 by kawther.salam

Hello, welcome to my Blog, I hope that you will find it informative. Besides this Blog I also have a picture gallery with thousands of pictures relating to the occupation and many personal pictures - see under 'Sites of Interest' on the right side column. Thank you for your interest, and I hope to see you in the future again.

Peaceful dreams…
Happiness dreams…
Prosperity dreams…
Life dreams…

Olive Branches…
Peace songs…
Peace revolution…
Peace challenge…

Oslo agreement…
Gaza and Jericho first…
Hebron redeployment…
Divided city…
H1 and H2…
Isolated Cells…
Military posts…
Hundreds of posts…
Military Borders…
Hundreds of borders…
Continuous curfew…
Continuous house demolishing…
Continuous confiscating lands…
Continuous building Jewish settlements…
Daily detentions…
Daily arrests…

Children under arrest…
Five years old…
Four years old…
Were killed…
Were screaming…
Were shouting…
Were starving…
Were thirsting…

Children made graves…
Death graves…
Friends graves…
Blood graves…

Children talked…
Children testified…
Murder stories…
Shooting stories…
Arrest stories…
Torture stories…
Children played…
Curfew games…
Arrest games…
Detention games…
Children act…
What they live…
What they see…
Children drew…
Funerals…
Blood…
Soldiers…
M-16…
War tank and…
Children colored walls…
With red and black…
Diverted rooms…
Diverted childhood…
To piece of art…
Sad art…
Tragic art…
Unknown art…
Unknown…
For others…
For occupiers…
For the world…

Children behind barbed wire…
Closed doors…
Under…
House arrest…
House cells…
Children in front of…
Military posts…
Face to face…

Children.
Lived the occupational life…
Oppression life…
Daily terror…
Military terror…
Settlers terror…
And learned violence.

Children lost…
Peaceful life…
Security life…
Social security…
Emotional security…
Family security…
And learned resistance.

Children prohibited…
Education…
Medicine.
Glass of milk…
And learned challenge…

From 1995 - 2000…
Children were victims…
Victims.
What so called “Peace”…
Victims of…
Occupation…
Victims of…
Pressure which…
Exploded the Intifada…
Victims of…
International propaganda…
Victims of…
Zionists which lead the world…
Victims of…
All…
They have their own homeland.
And they deny it to others…
The right of…
Having their own land…
And building…
Their own State…