Saturday, March 6
Demonstration against police violence in Jaffa today
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Friday, February 12
Ajami, ethnic cleansing one step further, unless the high court stops it
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Sunday, February 7
A dead dog, police and a few kids: Ajami the sequel?
In addition, the arrest was carried out right in front of press photographer Muhamad Babai's home so there is evidence to the contrary.
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Sunday, January 24
Stormy weather
The wind is howling around my house. When i just went outside to have a look at the sea, i was almost blown from the garden steps. And one look at the sea confirmed the other noise i had been hearing: the waves are huge!
It's very cold outside.
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Monday, January 18
Black forces in a not so orange orange grove
When demolished, a home makes an awful sound. Yesterday it went on for hours, the slow demolition process of the second floor of the Dake home. Large yellow machines slowly crunched away at the building. Huge blocks of falling concrete demolishing the garden in the same go.
The people watching on helplessly. Their possessions, clothes, furniture, kids' schoolbooks etc. out in the dust.
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Monday, January 11
And a little more
Hell, two very loud volleys of automatic gun fire really close by just now.
Coming from a slightly northern direction as in "the other side of the building", as in my building, the one i live in.
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Violence by the authorities, no one seems to care very much
In any case, little is left of the small home, the wooden ceiling partially removed, holes made in the wall, all electricity points removed, cooking stove and new fridge damaged beyond repair, after the police finished their search. Nothing was found, the damage done is huge: the bathroom basically taken apart, sewage pipes connecting the toilet all broken, the shower cubicle taken apart, all taps leaking. Furniture broken, but all of that is nothing compared to the traumatized children, who woke up choking on tear-gas. When i visited the family today the sligtly older kids were still crying, scared of any stranger entering what was left of their home.
Hikmat was the only one peacefully sleeping, perhaps she's forgotten, who knows what goes on inside baby heads.
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Saturday, January 9
Hamude Shakra, victim, yet another murder victim in Jaffa.
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Friday, January 8
Murder in Jaffa
About an hour and a half ago an as yet unidentified man apparently in his late twenties was shot and killed in the area close to the Wolfson Hospital. Initially he appeared to be wounded lightly but upon arrival in the hospital he died of his wounds.
The drive-by shooting took place in a car wash place in south Jaffa.
The police claim the victim "is known to them", but what does that exactly mean in Jaffa?
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Sunday, January 3
The Metropolitan Public Transport Plan
But then without a budget and a clear implementation table i have my doubts.
Another question s of course the ever rising cost of public transport. Bus tickets in Tel Aviv cost 5.80 NIS as of the beginning of this month. When the minimum hourly wage stands at 20 NIS an hour and many people need to take more than one bus to their place of work, that's very expensive.
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No, that ain't fireworks
Just a volley of automatic gunshots made me sit up and feel very scared last night. This time it was really really close by. No screaming right afterwards, so it must have been a warning volley. For whom and what? No idea, although i can make a guess.
Nothing in the news later on, but then, unless there are dead they don't bother to publish, shooting being nothing new here.
I used to live on the top floor, so i always felt somewhat protected from shots going into the wrong direction by mistake. Having moved to the bottom floor has somewhat taken away that -perhaps false-sense of security. Happy New Year Ajami is what one could call it, i guess.
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Tuesday, December 29
The 2010 municipal budget - good for the wealthy and who cares about the rest?
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Sunday, December 27
Jaffa for Gaza Demonsration
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Saturday, December 26
The crime of being poor as defined by the Tel Aviv municipality
Of course the tiny and by now quite old homes were (and are) heavily morgaged and the monthly payments weigh heavy on the population many of whom have become unemployed and dependent on ever shrinking social security payments or on minimum wages. Food isn't always secure. Medicine cannot always be bought when necessary. Very few children have all the school books they need, but at least their families own their own homes. And that gave many of the people living in the Yafo Gimmel's Saharon street a (false) sense of security.
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Today at 5 p.m. "Break the Siege" demonstration in Jaffa, from 163 Kedem Street
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Wednesday, December 23
Another Ajami home demolished today
Street gossip says the guy who bought the plot next door pressured the municipality into quickly carrying out the demolition, because he wants the planned road to be constructed ASAP, before he starts his own building plans. If indeed this story is true, one wonders how he thinks he can live there, next to the people whose home he caused to be demolished.
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Sunday, December 20
Phoenix Torcina
Mr. Torcina decided he would do his own demolition, in order to save paying the municipal bulldozing bill and salvage some of the building materials for recycling. And "recycling" he did.
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