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Dying to live: A hunger striker speaks in Gaza

Posted on: February 14, 2012
(Photo: Joe Catron) - Click here for more images

by Joe Catron

14 February 2012 | Mondoweiss

As hundreds of Palestinians rallied in Gaza today to demand that Israel release Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan, Yassar Salah, a 17-year veteran of Israel’s prison system, spoke about Adnan’s 60-day hunger strike and his own reasons for joining it.

“We are on hunger strike to show our sympathy and solidarity with Sheikh Khader Adnan, who is battling to overcome Israel’s system of administrative detention,” he told me in the protest tent outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) compound.

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Updated on February 14, 2012
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In photos: On hunger strike in Gaza

Posted on: February 10, 2012
In photos: On hunger strike in Gaza

by Mya Guarnieri

10 February 2012 | Alternative Information Center

A number of Gazans have joined Khader Adnan’s hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions that Palestinian political prisoners face in Israeli jails. Israel often holds Palestinians in administrative detention without charges, depriving detainees of their right to due process.

Adnan has been on hunger strike for 55 days and is currently hospitalized in Israel. While Adnan and his lawyers is contesting his administrative detention, the Israeli judge who heard the case yesterday declined to issue an immediate decision. Addameer Prisoner Support … Continue reading


Updated on February 10, 2012
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Happy birthday, dear Vittorio (RIP)

Posted on: February 4, 2012
My drawing of Vittorio Arrigoni

by Shahd Abusalama

4 February 2012 | Palestine from My Eyes

As I realized today’s date, the 4th of February, a stream of memories flooded into my mind. Today, last year, marked my dear friend Vittorio Arrigoni’s last birthday I spent with him.

I remember it was a nice, rainy Friday. I felt happy to be rich, having just gotten my $1,000 share from YouthSchool for my work on the Gaza 2011 calendar “All I Want Is Peace”. My best friend Adie Mormech, an English activist who spent a year in Gaza … Continue reading


Updated on February 4, 2012
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Music against the No Go Zone

Posted on: January 31, 2012
Music against the No Go Zone

by Rosa Schiano

31 January 2012 | il Blog di Oliva
Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern  Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11:00 AM. We headed for the No Go Zone. The No Go Zone is an area taken by Israel that extends along Gaza’s entire northern and eastern border inside Palestinian territory. For all intents and purposes, the No go Zone imposed by Israel is illegal and prevents the farmers from working part of their lands. Those who enter the area are attacked by Israel with live rounds…. Continue reading


Updated on February 3, 2012
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West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount difficult years in Israeli prison

Posted on: January 30, 2012
Obada Saed Bilal and Nili Zahi Safad (Joe Catron)

by Joe Catron

30 January 2012 | The Electronic Intifada

“This is the life of Palestinian people,” Obada Saed Bilal said one recent morning. “If I hadn’t been detained, I would have been wounded or martyred. I was in detention for over nine years, but I still resist. My marriage and university studies are my ways to keep fighting now.”

Obada and his wife, Nili Zahi Safad, sat in the lobby of the Commodore Gaza Hotel. The Ministry of Detainees in Gaza has temporarily housed them there, along with a number of other former … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2012
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Arraf to CPDS: Israel losing the PR battle

Posted on: January 30, 2012
Arraf to CPDS: Israel losing the PR battle

by Yousef M. Aljamal
30 January 2012 | Centre for Political and Development Studies
For the third week in a row, the Centre for Political and Development Studies (CPDS), a Gaza-based think tank, held a video link to explore issues related to the Palestinian cause, with the presence of Palestinian and international activists. Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of  the International Solidarity Movement, chair of the Free Gaza Movement, and a prominent Palestinian-American activist, talked to Gaza activists about “The Palestine solidarity movement: Countering Zionist propaganda globally.”
Choosing discourse … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2012
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Beit Hanoun demonstration under fire

Posted on: January 25, 2012
Beit Hanoun demonstration under fire

by Nathan Stuckey
25 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip
Gaza was treated to a strange new sight today, not really new, but something that has not been seen in Gaza in a long time: tear gas.  In Gaza protests are not smashed with tear gas and clubs like in the West Bank, they are met with live ammunition.  In a continuation of Israel’s policy to separate the West Bank from Gaza, nothing is overlooked.  The sub-human status they wish to cement in the world’s mind when it comes to the people of Gaza … Continue reading


Updated on January 25, 2012
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Connect with the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI)

Posted on: January 23, 2012
Connect with the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI)

23 January 2012 | US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

A collective of students in Gaza has formed the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI). These students are seeking to expand their collaboration and participation in events and activities with solidarity activists at international universities.

PSCABI members participate in many activities here in Gaza and are heavily involved in supporting the international student solidarity movements, especially with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns. PSCABI members frequently write letters out of Gaza, some of which … Continue reading


Updated on January 23, 2012
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2 youth dead in attack on Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip

Posted on: January 22, 2012
Mohammed Shaker Abu Auda, martyred at the age of 20

by Rosa Schiano

22 January 2012 | il Blog di Oliva

Israeli Apaches and land forces shelled an area east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday morning, January 18 2012.

Two young men were killed and another was injured. As we hurried to the scene we met an ambulance driving at high speed. Upon arriving we heard immediately that one of the young men, 20 year old Mohammed Shaker Abu Auda, had died instantly, while the other man was rushed to the hospital.

We went to the Beit Hanoun hospital morgue, and we saw the massacred body of Mohammed. … Continue reading


Updated on January 24, 2012
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Further into the No Go Zone

Posted on: January 19, 2012
Further into the No Go Zone

by Nathan Stuckey

19 January 2012

Every Tuesday we gather next to the half destroyed Beit Hanoun Agricultural College.  At eleven o’clock, we set out into the no go zone.  This week there were about thirty of us, members of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative, the International Solidarity Movement, and other activists from Gaza.  At eleven o’clock the megaphone starts to play Bella Ciao and the flags are hoisted in the air, soon we start to march down the road into the no go zone.  Today feels strange, something is different, there is only one body in the sky, the Israeli blimp … Continue reading


Updated on January 21, 2012
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