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DCI: Child blown to pieces, one maimed and two injured in drone attack

Posted on: May 27, 2010

Defense for Children International

On 7 January 2009, Husam Sobuh (11) decided to bring more food, blankets and clothes to the UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya, where he was taking refuge with his family. On his way, he met with his uncle Osama (36) and his two children, Huda (11) and Luai (9), who were going home for the same reason. During this dangerous journey to their neighbourhood, where combatants were now fighting, Husam sheltered in an empty house with Mahmoud Abu Laila (14) and Luai Sobuh (9). All of a sudden, the building was attacked twice by a drone … Continue reading


Updated on May 27, 2010
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Gaza’s virtual connection to the rest of the world

Posted on: May 23, 2010
The Gazan skyline reveals a particular need to link with the outside world. (Emad Badwan/IPS)

Electronic Intifada

23 May 2010

Eva Bartlett

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – “I’ve learned most of what I know about photo editing and graphic design via the Internet,” says Emad, 27-year-old filmmaker and editor. In Gaza, this sort of thing has become usual in a different way.

“This program isn’t available here,” he says, smiling triumphantly as he finishes downloading the latest edition of an … Continue reading


Updated on May 23, 2010
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Gaza youth learn music and challenge the occupation

Posted on: May 21, 2010
Rita, nine, learning the basics of the violin. (Emad Badwan)

Electronic Intifada

21 May 2010

Eva Bartlett

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – “Why are you rushing? Isn’t it nicer like this?” Mohammed Omer, oud (an oud is similar to a lute) teacher at the Gaza Music School, asks his student. Omer takes the oud and demonstrates, playing the song slowly, gracefully, with the ornamentations that are key to Arab music.

Mohammed Abu Suffiya, the 10-year-old student, has only been studying for six months but has … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2010
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Towards Ending our Ongoing Nakba: Statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

Posted on: May 20, 2010

International Solidarity Movement

20 May 2010

17 May 2010 — For sixty-two years, Palestinians have been denied their dignity and fundamental human rights. The creation and “international” acceptance of Israel in 1948 marked the culmination of a new kind of politics in the region that continues to have devastating consequences. The acceptance of an ethnic Jewish state over the ruins of Palestinian society in a historically pluralistic region meant that indigenous Palestinians were automatically considered superfluous in the land they had inhabited for many generations. Emboldened by external support, Israel carried out its well planned campaign of mass scale ethnic cleansing, dispossessing … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2010
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Open Rafah for Ayman – a request for solidarity and a signature

Posted on: January 25, 2010

January 25, 2009

Together we can make a difference for Ayman,
together we can make a difference for Palestine

Please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/salam123/petition.html

Ayman Talal E. Quader is a Palestinian that was born on July 19, 1986 in Gaza and has lived in Gaza City for his entire life. As a young Palestinian student who truly loves his homeland and has always dreamed of freedom for his people, Ayman has worked very hard to achieve one of his most important goals in life; earning a scholarship for a Masters program in Europe.

Ayman was recently accepted to an academic scholarship program … Continue reading


Updated on January 25, 2010
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Amnesty: Israel’s Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life

Posted on: January 18, 2010

Amnesty International

Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Amnesty International’s briefing paper Suffocating: The Gaza Strip under Israeli blockade gathers testimony from people still struggling to rebuild their lives following Operation “Cast Lead”, which killed around 1,400 Palestinians and injured thousands more.

“Israel claims that the ongoing blockade of Gaza, in force since June … Continue reading


Updated on January 20, 2010
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ISM Gaza: Education under attack

Posted on: January 15, 2010

Bianca Zammit | ISM Gaza

14 January 2010

On December 28th 2008 mid-term examinations had been scheduled to take place at the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) in Gaza. When the day arrived, however, the University College’s rooms, which usually cater for 8000 students, were void of any life. This was the second day of operation Cast Lead. The University remained closed and examinations were postponed. Concentration, patience and motivation; the three pillars to learning were the main targets of operation Cast Lead as it sought to instill a sense of danger in every spot in Gaza. Operation Cast Lead wholly … Continue reading


Updated on January 18, 2010
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New Yorkers demand that Egypt and Israel open Gaza border

Posted on: December 31, 2009
New Yorkers demand that Egypt and Israel open Gaza border

Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East

31 December 2009

Sixty human rights advocates protested outside Egypt’s Mission to the United Nations today to demand that Egypt open its border with the Gaza Strip. The New York protest came as Egyptian riot police in Cairo surrounded and assaulted hundreds of international activists who had been prevented by Egyptian authorities from entering the Gaza Strip. The international activists had planned to protest in Gaza against Israel’s siege as part of the Gaza Freedom March. Following the demonstration at the Egyptian Mission, the New York City protesters marched to … Continue reading


Updated on January 2, 2010
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New year in Gaza reopens wounds of old

Posted on: December 31, 2009
New Year's in Gaza is time to honor the dead. (Eva Bartlett)

Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada

31 December 2009

For many survivors of the last Israeli war on Gaza, time has not healed their wounds, physical or emotional.

Halil Amal Samouni, 10, still suffers vision problems in her right eye. The shrapnel remaining in her head causes her constant pain and she is unable to concentrate at school.

Her concentration is broken, also, by memories of her martyred father and younger brother, both of whom she saw shot dead at close range by Israeli soldiers during the 2008-2009 winter war … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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Hebrew University bans student conference on anniversary of Gaza invasion

Posted on: December 29, 2009

Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News

29 December 2009

A student group affiliated with the socialist ‘Hadash’ party in Israel had organized a conference commemorating and condemning the Israeli invasion of Gaza one year ago, but the Hebrew University administration banned the conference, saying that it violates the University’s principles.

When students from the Hadash party handed out fliers for the event to their fellow students, some students from the right-wing Zionist Likud party took copies of the flier to the school administration, which determined that the event constituted ‘incitement against the state of Israel’ and would not be permitted. The reason … Continue reading


Updated on December 29, 2009
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