Greetings educators!

We’re a little late posting this month’s Teach Youth Radio segment, in part because Youth Radio’s newsroom has been swamped with deadlines, and as a result it’s been extra hard to pick which story to feature here as a centerpiece for our curriculum ideas.

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by Rocky Tayeh

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23-year-old blogger Sameh Habeeb reports on the continued fighting in Gaza City where the homes of his relatives have been hit, and his home has been damaged by shrapnel. His family is now debating leaving their neighborhood but there’s no safe place to go. He also weighs in on the media coverage about the tunnels in Gaza, which have been used for smuggling weapons, but also goods and food for civilians. Most tunnels are now shut since the war and the black market for food distribution has been impacted.
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Fida Qishta is a 26-year-old freelance journalist and blogger living in Rafah City, in the Gaza strip. She is also an International Solidarity Movement Gaza strip coordinator
In this interview Fida comments on the recent events in the Gaza strip, her experiences and her views.

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As heard on BBC/PRI's The World.

23 year old Sameh Habeeb lives in Gaza City and is one of many young bloggers who have been writing about what’s happening in the area. His blog is at www.gazatoday.blogspot.com Youth Radio reached him after today’s brief ceasefire.

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Freelance journalist Safa Joudeh lives in Gaza City and in the past two weeks her home has become a warzone.  She has been keeping a journal since the first day of the war.

December 27th, 2008

It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion.  I rushed to my window and barely did I get there and look out when I was pushed back by the force and air-pressure from another explosion.

What followed seems pretty much surreal.
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Not long before the Gaza assault, 26-year-old Israeli Nir Kouris had the idea to create a blog with some teens he’d met through summer camp. The young people live in Sderot, Ashkelon, and other areas of Israel targeted by Hamas rockets. Read more...

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Eric Yellin, 43, is a member of a group called Other Voice which was formed about a year a go. It’s a group of people from towns in Israel like his – Sederot – and other communities which are close to the border with Gaza. During his time with Other Voice Yellin made contact with Sameh Habeeb, whose work we've featured earlier.

Yellin on his work with Other Voice: 
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[Note: All photos for this article are courtesy Sameh Habeeb.]

Sameh Habeeb, a 23-year old freelancer, has been reporting from Gaza every day at his blog Gaza Today.  He spoke with our Senior Producer, Lissa Soep via Skype yesturday. In the audio clip above, Sameh tells about witnessing the aftermath of an attack on one of the U.N. schools, and the difficulty of remaining a detached observer when your home ahs been turned into a warzone.

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We have fled for too long, Gaza is our last refuge and our home after we were displaced from what is now called Israel. All this happened 60 years ago. What more could they want? We have nowhere left to go.” – Safa Joudeh, January 5th 2009. Read more...

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