Newspaper Article about Tamer Tue
8 Aug 06
Tamers story from Palestine has made the news.
The following is an extract from a front-page
article in the Dunedin newspaper 'Otago Daily Times'
on 4 August 2006:
A year-long correspondence
between a Dunedin language school and a Palestinian teenager has
fallen chillingly silent but only after a final terrifying
crescendo.
"Bombs were everywhere. Bullets
were in the house. They shot fire in all homes", 16 year old
Tamer El-Nakhal says in short staccato sentences in the last
email he sent from his Gaza home, six days ago.
Since then, English
Language Matters principal Sharron
Verberne-Heazlewood has been unable to make contact.
"Really it was
horrible here," Tamers last email reads. "I with my
parents were in the kitchen floor for more than 50
hours without food or water! I was so scared".
The onslaught
leaves his world scorched.
"I was shocked then
with the scene when they withdrawal from our area
with a 100 hectares or more have been damaged. It
was so green with olive trees. Now it is like the
desert!".
This is the email that prompted the newspaper
story above.
It is the email Sharron received from Tamer after
his area was attacked:
29 July 2006 Hello.
Really it was horrible here... I with my parents
were in the kitchen floor for more than 50 hours
without food or water! I was so scared..There was
Tanks and helicopters.. They were shelling
everywhere.. We didn't have any shelter... Sowe
struggled with death.. Bombs were everywhere...
Bullets were in the house ... they shot fire in all
homes... in my uncles house it is like a web or
net... The wall is full of bullets... The bullets
came from everywhere. I was shocked then with the
scene when they withdrawl from our area.. with a 100
Hectaries or more have been damaged... It was so
green with olive trees. Now it is like the desert!!
I will tell you
More when I will have access to the internet..
because till now there is no electrecity and water
in our home.!!
Our ceilling is
damaged.. so there is no water system
... I hope that
peace will be every where..
.. I didn't wish
for any Young person even my enemy to feel like in
my situation!
Love Tamer
Since then we have recieved the following message
from him:
9 August 2006
Dear Sharron,
I am Okay Thanks
God.! Moreover, I am some positive. However, it is
unbelievable that the situatio nwill be changed! I
am LUCKY to know you ... REALLY .. these nice and
kind words make me crying and in the same time make
me feel that there are people thinking about me ...
and are near me !! About USA .. it is a big problem
in crossing borders.. here all the borders are
closed since last May .. so that (insects) can't
move through!! I hope to come to New Zealand .. I
read alot about it ... I know that it is incredible
... ! Hope some day I wake up in there!! Kind
regards for all nice students!!
Love Tamer
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