GAZA — As protests and gatherings around the world commemorate Israel’s most recent military operation against the Gaza Strip, which killed 2,251 Palestinians, 551 of them children, last summer, a new writing project by young writers in the besieged enclave aims to illustrate not only the human costs of repeated Israeli offensives, but also the daily realities of life in the Strip.(…)
The program, he says, “indicates the fact that each one of us has a story to tell.”(…)
Launched in February by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, which has an office in Gaza City, the program connects local writers, most between the ages of 17 and 29, to mentors with substantial writing experience.