Appealing to the Waves: Children of Gaza Prisoners Make Their Case to the Mediterranean

By Palestine Chronicle Workers

‘Letters by means of the Waves’ was the title of the marketing campaign, whose organizers hoped will ship a symbolic message to the world, and also will function a type of remedy for these youngsters.

It’s one factor for Israel to punish Palestinian prisoners for resisting the army occupation and apartheid. However why punish the kids of these prisoners? 

For Israel, the denial of household visitations to Palestinian prisoners is a tactic used to interrupt the desire of a few of these prisoners. Probably the most disaffected by this technique are Gaza prisoners, a few of whom are denied the precise to see their very own youngsters for years at a time. 

Interesting to the Sea

And for years, these households have appealed to the worldwide group, to the Pink Cross, to the United Nations, to no avail. So, a gaggle of Palestinian youngsters determined to write down to their imprisoned fathers and moms by means of the waves. 

‘Letters by means of the Waves’ was the title of the marketing campaign, whose organizers hoped will ship a symbolic message to the world, and also will function a type of remedy for these youngsters, all of whom have been born after the imposition of the Israeli siege. 

The Palestine Chronicle visited the kids throughout the letter-writing occasion on the seashore and skim a few of their notes. 

One baby wrote,

“I really like you, baba, and I miss you a large number. I hope you can be profitable in your life and you’ll end your research. Holidays don’t make me joyful since you are away from me.”

One other baby began her letter with: “I’m prevented from visiting my baba, the prisoner in Israel ..”

The kids then positioned their notes in bottles and threw them into the Gaza Sea. 

Israel Should Be Pressured 

“Israel continues stopping lots of of youngsters from visiting their dad and mom within the occupation prisons,” Abdullah Qandil, director of the Wa’ed Affiliation for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners, advised The Palestine Chronicle.

“Time has come for worldwide establishments to stress it to permit these youngsters to go to their households.”

Qandil defined that he hopes such occasions will put stress on Israel by means of worldwide establishments.

(All Pictures: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)