"Parents would be able to identify with Ms Nassrawi, when she tries to reassure the children with the pretense of a thunderstorm and earthquake. It reminds me of what one of the researchers for Defense for Children International Palestine (dci-Palestine) wrote: " give me another story to tell my children" .The thunderstorm story only goes so far."
November 9, 2023
To:
Fakiha Baig, Reporter-Editor, Canadian Press
Anne-Marie Owens,Editor-in-Chief, Toronto Star,
Donovan Vincent, Public-Editor, Toronto Star
.Andrea Baillie, Editor-inChief, Canadian Press
Dear Ms Baig, Ms Owens, Ms Bailie and Mr Vincent,
I write on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East,(https://cjpme.org), Saskatoon Chapter, to thank you for your article describing a Canadian Palestinian's flight from Gaza with her two small children.
I appreciate the accompanying photo showing people traveling on foot to the south of Gaza with only what they can carry.
Ms Rana Nassrawi, after a harrowing journey, found safety. There is no safety for the crowd in the photo.They will find no shelter,food, water, healthcare or the other necessities of life in the south where bombings continue as your article points out.
One wonders how the elderly, injured, wheelchair- bound and amputees are supposed to manage this journey.
Parents would be able to identify with Ms Nassrawi, when she tries to reassure the children with the pretense of a thunderstorm and earthquake. It reminds me of what one of the researchers for Defense for Children International Palestine (dci-Palestine) wrote:. " give me another story to tell my children" .The thunderstorm story only goes so far.
Your story helps readers to see Palestinians as human, not as terrorists or numbers.as they have so often been portrayed, if at all, in mainstream media.
I look forward to more stories like this that put a human face on a people that is undergoing unimaginable suffering.
Renée Nunan-Rappard
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