A Glimpse of Humanity

The Day A Soldier Saved Me From Hate

Disclaimer: This is a personal account of my experience in the Gaza Strip in June/July 2003. Names have been changed for people’s protection.

For a few weeks in 2003, I worked in the Gaza Strip investigating human rights violations — from both the Israeli side and the Palestinian government (believe me, there is a hierarchy within the Strip). I had wanted to live and work in Gaza to see what it was really like. Like Colombia, everything I “knew” about Gaza had come from the media which basically portrayed…