Gazan Mom Experiences

Fidaa Elaydi joins us today to share her personal experiences of Al Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. A grandchild and child of Palestinian refugees to Gaza 76 years ago, she is four generations into a history of colonization and displacement, and now, genocide. As a mom of 4 herself, including a newborn, she has an acute perspective on mothers in Gaza today.

Hear about her family, delivering babies in war, losing everything, trying to evacuate, trying to reunite, and now trying to survive an impending ground invasion on Rafah where they have been seeking shelter. Mothers for 8 months and 76 years have held onto surreal hopes in Palestine, and Gazans in particular have a special coping mechanism we wish we did, too.

Tune in at 6pm EST to Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or head to our website to take a listen. Share this episode with someone who still doesn’t know exactly what’s going on and how to attain peace in the Middle East.

Links:

1. Help transport refugees in Rafah to AlMawasi
   1. @mohamed_elzomar endorsed by @oberlin4palestine
   2. Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-getting-out-of-gaza-death 
2. Help reunite Fidaa’s cousin with her children, and help her other cousins reach safety:
   1. https://gofund.me/eb72560b 
   2. https://gofund.me/63a801df
   3. https://gofund.me/aec0ca32 
3. For an intro to the Palestinian struggle
   1. Said, Edward W. The question of Palestine
   2. Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
   3. Pappe, Ilan. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
4. For a history of Palestine
   1. Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900
5. For Nakba deniers
   1. Abdo,  Nahla, and Nur Masalha, eds. An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba
   2. Assad, Dawud. Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
   3. Khalidi, Walid (ed.), Sharif S. Elmusa, and Muhammad Ali Khalidi. All that remains: The Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948
   4. Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
   5. Masalha, Nur. The politics of denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee problem
6. On resistance
   1. Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement