My house was occupied by Israeli soldiers
For five years Maisoon Bashir and her family lived on the front-line of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip. Their house was directly opposite one of the Jewish settlements built by Israel after it captured the tiny heavily-populated territory from Egypt in the Six Day war in October 1967. Israeli troops occupied the top floors of Maisoon鈥檚 house, one of the tallest buildings in the neighbourhood, and used it as a military look-out post. Maisoon and her family continued living in the rooms below. They finally re-gained possession of the house in September 2005, when the Israeli Prime Minister withdrew all Israeli soldiers from Gaza and ordered the dismantling of all 21 Jewish settlements.
25-year-old Maisoon speaks to Witness about living with soldiers in her own home.
