Gaza
‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in their eyes
The New Arab 20 Dec by Tareq Hajjaj & Pam Bailey — Media coverage and social media posts went wild when Palestinian photojournalist Muath Amarneh was blinded in his left eye after he was hit by a rubber bullet while covering a protest in the West Bank. However, Amarneh was far from unique; Israeli snipers targeting
“I am still getting used to my new place and living alone.
“Many people supported and motivated me along the way and I am glad that I did not let them down, ” she said when met at her house on Monday.
Esah first applied to buy a low-medium-cost apartment in 2014 but the form was misplaced.
Aarron Zayd Burgin lost his vision through retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 10 but today he is a black belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu and teaches and competes with able bodied people. After he converted to Islam at the age of 18 he started to learn the Quran with a sheikh and Alhamdulillah has memorized almost one third of the Quran. It is inspiring to meet someone who doesn’t let his blindness hold him back.
AlFitrah Foundation was happy to gift him a copy of Imam Nawawi’s collection of 40 Hadith and inshaa Allah will be sending him a Braille Quran very soon.
You can watch a video about Zayd here https://youtu.be/h67dsifotu4
Alhamdulillah a young brother in Scotland is learning to read the Quran using the Braille Quran primer we posted to him last month.
Alhamdulillah the 2 Braille Qurans and 8 books of Juz 30 of the Quran have been received by our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. Thank you to brother Wasiqullah Naseri of the Kabul school for the Blind for distributing the holy books to the blind Muslim community in Afghanistan.