{"id":811,"date":"2004-04-23T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-23T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T09:00:26","slug":"refugees-of-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/23\/refugees-of-fallujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees of Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Wilding speaks in Baghdad with several of the refugees from Fallujah.<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<ul>\u201cThis is my honeymoon,\u201d Heba said, in the crowded corridor of bomb shelter number 24 in the Al-Ameriya district of Baghdad.  Married just under a month, she fled Falluja with her extended family. \u201cThere were bombs all the time. We couldn\u2019t sleep. Even if you fell asleep, nightmares woke you up. We just gathered the whole family in one room and waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is better here than in Falluja. We hear bombs but they are far away and not so many. But there is no water in here: we have to go outside for water for drinking, cooking and washing ourselves and our clothes and we buy ice. There is no fridge, no fans, no air conditioning, no generator and only one stove for us all. We have to go to the garden for a toilet and that\u2019s a problem at night. Everyone has diarrhoea from the ice that we bought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I am a bride but I couldn\u2019t bring any of my clothes.\u201d As if there would be any privacy anyway, the 88 members of 18 families piled on mattresses in the long narrow passage from the door to the kitchen at the end <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildfirejo.org.uk\/feature\/display\/116\/index.php\"> &#8230; read more<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Wilding speaks in Baghdad with several of the refugees from Fallujah. \u201cThis is my honeymoon,\u201d Heba said, in the crowded corridor of bomb shelter number 24 in the Al-Ameriya district of Baghdad. Married just under a month, she fled Falluja with her extended family. \u201cThere were bombs all the time. We couldn\u2019t sleep. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}