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UNESCO’s visit to IBBY Palestine
UNESCO Delegation Visit to the Library of IBBY Palestine in Gaza
Handing Khitam her prize for winning UNESCO’s "World Tales" competition
Giovanni SCEPI Head of the Culture Unit at UNESCO Palestine, and Youssef Al-Ejla, Head of UNESCO Office visited PBBY Shawka give Khitam al-Hissi the (...)
A Land Fueled by People and Stones
This moving piece by writer Dima Sehwail written during the 2008-9 war on Gaza it was published in IBBY 33rd Congress book and of the few items read in one of the plenary sessions
A land fueled by people and stones
Faces of people in my country
Their fingers
Legs
Hands
And tongues will (...)
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PBBY Gaza Appeal 2012
Monday 10 February 2014
Stop Israeli Atrocities against Palestinian Children and People in Gaza!
On the occasion of the Universal Children’s Day 20 November and - the 23rd Anniversary for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) we, the International Board on Books for Young People-Palestinian Section appeal to (...)
Bibliotherapy
Monday 10 February 2014
Bibliotherapy with learning difficulties.
Children with Hearing Impairment
Monday 10 February 2014
Drama training children with hearing impairment _2nd set.
This training was supported by the United Palestinian Appeal
Creative Writing
Monday 10 February 2014
Creative writing pictures in as- shawka Rafah library.
Drama: Children with Hearing Impairment
Monday 10 February 2014
Pictures of training in drama for young people with hearing impairment.
Children in Crisis/ 2nd stage
Monday 10 February 2014
Children in Crisis Gaza Project Background Information after 2008-9 Israeli Aggression
The children of Gaza are victims of a horrendous situation and of atrocious violations of their children’s rights as a result of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe there. The recent appalling Israeli war on (...)
Two Library Members Killed
Monday 10 February 2014
Testimonies on the killing of two members of IBBY Children Library by Israeli brutal aggression on Gaza
The story of the traumatic death of two children by Israeli war airplanes rockets, who are ‘dedicated and active’ members in al-Shawka IBBY Library
Mousa Yousef Barbakh- 15 years
Yousef Abed (...)
Establishing two libraries
Monday 10 February 2014
IBBY Children in Crisis
The Establishment of two libraries in Gaza - end of 2007
Believing that the book is the best friend and teacher for the child, the International Board on Books for Young People – Palestine supported by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY, (...)
Our Beautiful House
Monday 10 February 2014
We went to school ready to sit for the exams. We did not know then that the Israeli planes will be waging a big and violent war against us and against our Palestinian people.
We finished the first exam. While on our way home rockets from war planes hit the military positions. After wiping (...)
This War Terrified Me
Monday 10 February 2014
I’m a Palestinian child who has suffered a lot since the war began, I heard the sound of airplanes and I was very much afraid. I have become used to invasions, for each time they invade Al-Shawka area many people fall as martyrs, but the fear is not the same each time.
I was afraid each minute (...)
The Beautiful Dream
Monday 10 February 2014
The war on Gaza Strip lasted twenty two days and we were dreaming that it ends well. It left great destruction and killings. It left orphan children with both parents killed. It made many families homeless. Even the schools were not spared from the brutality of the occupation. My school was (...)
Intense Darkness
Monday 10 February 2014
It is night now and darkness is all over our home. In a winter cold night the family gathered around the heater. The head of the family sat and near him sat his youngest son and the other children surrounded him. At that time the mother was preparing dinner in the kitchen. There was a knock at (...)
Dust and Fire
Monday 10 February 2014
Blazing scenes, pages tired of the dust of cries and fire that lit my eyes, the hymns of those cannons, the music of destruction and the sufferings of a sun that allowed monsters from the sky to hunt their prey easily; all this on that “black Saturday” among so many miserable days suffered by the (...)
Diaries From Gaza
Monday 10 February 2014
A very cynical writing by a youth in Gaza combining tragedy and humor (we do not know the name) written during the war on Gaza 2008-9
Diaries by a Youth from Gaza
A youth from Gaza writes spontaneously how he spent his time during the war on Gaza
At first we saw the shelling and bombing on (...)
Demolishing the Mosque
Monday 10 February 2014
On the twentieth day of the war on Gaza, while we were collecting firewood for my mother to prepare our breakfast, the sky lit with fearful sounds and missiles fell all around us on our village mosque. Shrapnels scattered around us here and there. I was screaming. They are falling on our (...)
