I do not get so many messages from Gaza nowdays. I understand: people are tired, they need all their energy just to survive, get bread, get gas, get fuel, get their kids safely to school, take care their mobiles are recharged when the is electricity is on, worry about the medicine for your old father, entertain the children when they are bored because there is no tv and no internet..And days are short and dark and getting colder. And then Israels threatens with another attack. And there is nowhere to hide or to escape to.
I understand people sometimes are too depressed to tell us how they are: the same as yesterday, last week, last month, last year, only worse, would be the answer.

I put Christmas greetings on my weblog, a few days ago, also for my friends in Gaza who I wanted to thank for not forgetting to send me Christmas wishes, even though they themselves are muslims. It touches me deeply. (Here) This is what one of my friends, Ramadan, answered:

Thank you so much Anja;
For some reason I believe that your wishes are touching my heart and giving us some light to live with. We thought for sometime that we lost the hope, but your words are really meaningful and very supportive. It is the life we got used to but I think this life is not getting used to us. This life is not giving up and not understanding that we are not going to be defeated. We learned our lessons and now it’s very clear that we need to cry as it is the only thing that we can do now to comfort us and our children.
Thank you dear Anja and all our friends who think of us.

Ramadan