Dear friends,<\/p>\n
Daily we follow the news and as always our heart is with you.
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\nWe enjoyed with you the little bit of freedom you had in the last few days. Of being able to go out, and go to the shops, as normal people. We also know that none of your problems have been solved and there are still hard times ahead.<\/p>\n
But this I want to tell you and share with you: never before have the media been so interested in the Palestinian people. Daily there were big pictures in the papers and lines on the front page like: Gazans will not let themselves be locked up! We saw mothers with children carrying sacks of flour on their heads, we saw donkeys who could not carry the heavy load, we saw children playing on the fallen wall. (I will take the newspapers with me next time I come to Gaza) Conny Mus, the journalist, you met him, was in the middle of the people at the border and showed them on tv. It was wonderful. <\/p>\n
Usually pictures of Gaza are about fighting, we see the images of fighting men with masks and guns and flags and people think those are the real and only Palestinians. But this time all the attention was for the Palestinian people. This is a change. Always I think: how can I show the people in the Netherlands what Gaza is really like, not just te suffering, but also the courage, the endurance, the sumud<\/em>, the pleasure. I show how even in the middle of this prison you made an beautiful birthdayparty for me and we sang together and were happy. <\/p>\n Now you have done the world outside a big favour by showing them who you really are, and even knowing nothing is really solved and the suffering and misery will continue, for a few days me and your other friends were happy.<\/p>\n To-day the head of the UNRWA, Karen Koning Abuzayd visits our parliament, and will tell them about the urgency of the situation. To-night I have an appointment with her. I hope she can convince more parliamentarians about the serious situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n With all my love and God bless you all,<\/p>\n Anja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear friends, Daily we follow the news and as always our heart is with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anjameulenbelt.nl\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}