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A young Palestinian refugee girl stands on the streets of Beach Camp in Gaza City, clutching an x-ray photograph. Beach Camp is one of the world’s longest-standing refugee camps. August, 2008
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Name: Ezzat H
Age at incident: 10
Date of incident: 11 June 2008
Location: Sanniriya, Qalqiliya
Accusation: None
A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who stormed his family’s shop on 11 June, seeking information on the location of a handgun. [...]
By Fidaa Abed
As a young Palestinian from Gaza, I had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to study at the University of California San Diego on a Fulbright scholarship. The chance to escape Gaza’s confines and immerse myself in an American education was deeply thrilling. With Israel controlling Gaza’s border exits, air space and sea access [...]
By Agustín Velloso
When you approach the Erez frontier post to enter Gaza from the north, you notice a concentration camp straightaway even if you may never have seen one like the ones turned into museums or educational centres, or like the ones that appear in documentaries or photographs.
An observation balloon, innocently painted white, rocks gently [...]
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Yvonne Ridley
IT IS NOT every day a boat gets an official escort into port but the Free Gaza and the SS liberty were given the VIP treatment by the Cypriot Coast Guard during the early hours of this morning as we headed towards [...]
By Yvonne Ridley, Press TV
In a few days time, I will be stepping on board a boat in an attempt to sail into the world’s largest open-air prison - known as Gaza - to help break the vicious Israeli siege which has virtually destroyed the economy, health, education and welfare systems there.
Joining me will [...]
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News
Last week, soldiers kidnapped resident Jamal Hussein Ameera, 50, after his daughter managed to capture on film an Israeli soldiers shooting a Palestinian youth after they arrested and handcuffed him. The father was sentenced on Tuesday to one hundred days imprisonment.
The father was kidnapped by the soldiers less than a [...]
By Gideon Levy
He has already seen everything. At 24, he has already been documenting the horrors of his city, Rafah, for six years. He photographs and writes, seeking to be a voice for those who are voiceless, as he puts it. On his Web site Rafah Today (www.rafahtoday.org) - like that of USA Today or [...]
By George S. Hishmeh Special to Gulf News Published: May 22, 2008, 00:07
The US President George W. Bush has just returned from his five-day Middle East trip without any feathers in his hat, primarily because of his tunnel vision regarding the war-or-peace issues in that region.
More so, his lacklustre pronouncements in his waning days at [...]
We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression
As the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (”catastrophe”) - the dispossession and expulsion of most of our people from our land - those remaining in Palestine face escalating [...]
A Palestinian man lies in hospital. (Tom Spender/IRIN)
JERUSALEM, 22 May (IRIN) - Ahmed al-Baghdadi’s doctors said he must leave the Gaza Strip and travel to Israel to receive urgent life-saving medical care if he hopes to fight the tumours in his body. Rada al-Khadir, aged 22, needs to get treatment immediately, her Israeli doctor [...]
Kristen Ess - For the 60 year memorial of Al Nakba, I have been interviewing elderly refugees for months, people who remember their villages and towns, who talk about their old lives and the new ones they have etched out in the camps.
However on Monday I sat in the bedroom of a 21 year old [...]
By Ameen Izzadeen
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution calls for the separation of church and state. Seemingly, the crux of the first amendment, which also upholds the freedom of information, has been observed. But take another look. You will find that the separation of church and state is observed in the breach.
In no [...]
“Terrible human rights crime in Gaza”
Jimmy Carter - The Guardian
The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty
The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An [...]
Whenever Munir Nasrawi opens the door to his house in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, he is faced with a cold reminder of the struggle under way inside this ancient world of twisting lanes, crumbling domes and bustling souks.
Mr Nasrawi’s family has lived inside the Old City for more than 200 years. The [...]
The following is an edited open letter from Gaza lecturer Dr. Haider Eid to Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer:
Dear Ms. Gordimer,
I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen of that beloved country. I [...]
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 22 April 2008 (IRIN) - For families in the Gaza Strip with sons or daughters in Israeli jails, the past 11 months have been especially hard, as they could no longer visit their imprisoned relatives and have only had contact through brief written messages.
“This issue is a humanitarian concern for us, for the families [...]
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM (IPS) - Three decades after he brokered the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has become persona non grata in the Jewish state.
Both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Ehud Barak refused to meet with him during his four-day visit here. [...]
There are No Checkpoints in Heaven
By Ramzy Baroud
I still vividly remember my father’s face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my family’s home in a Gaza refugee camp wearing old yellow pajamas and a seemingly ancient robe. As I hauled [...]
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