From “Blogging beneath the bombs,” Sharyn Lock’s words in interview with Arwa Aburawa, posted December 30, 2009, on the Electronic Intifada
“I want to see the occupation end. I want to see the siege end.
“… Palestinians have said to me ‘I don’t care whether it’s one state or two states; I just want to be on what’s historically our land ─ in peace, with equal rights to whoever is living with us… We don’t mind who that is.’
There is no “sense of ‘us against them’ .
They just want there to be justice for all.”
”Notes and sources
Sharyn Lock is among many ‘citizen journalists’ in Gaza and internationals living in the midst of conflict and reporting a story vastly different from mass media accounts and carefully controlled Israeli narratives. Lock originates from Australia and currently lives the UK. She has worked in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement since 2002 when she shot in the stomach by an Israeli soldier. Refused entry into Palestine from 2005 to 2006, Lock entered Gaza on the first ‘Break the Siege’ boat sponsored by the Free Gaza Movement. She was in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s 22-day invasion in late 2008 into early 2009. Sharyn Lock’s “Tales to Tell,” which were later published in the book Gaza: Beneath the Bombs, documents daily events she witnessed during the conflict.
Interviewer Arwa Aburawa (http://arwafreelance.wordpress.com/) is a freelance journalist also based in the UK. [electronicIntifada.net]
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