Mohammed Omer Reports on Occupied Gaza

Palestinian journalist, Mohammed Omer, age 22, shares his experiences reporting from Israeli Occupied Gaza. He talks about how his brother was shot to death with seven bullets by the IOF, and the killing of activist Rachel Corrie, via an Israeli bulldozer. Omer spoke at the Palestine Center in Washington, D.C. His lecture tour is sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine-a highly respected news journal.


Levensverhaal van Mohammed Omer

Mohammed is a very special young man. He was forced to start working at the age of six to help support his family living in the Rafah Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. His father was languishing at the time in an Israel jail. One day on his way home from school he found an Israeli bulldozer standing in the spot where his home stood that morning. The home was on the Rafah/Egyptian border and was ‘in the way’ of the wall being built to separate the two. Not long after that his younger brother was shot dead by Israeli troops, another brother lost a leg. In ‘retaliation’, Mohammed decided at the age of 17 to ‘arm’ himself with a camera and a pen and become a photojournalist. He felt that if the truth about the situation in Gaza was known to the world, something would be done about it. More about Mohammed can be read in THIS interview.