by Sheikha Sajida, March 17 “Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes the adrenaline acts as an anesthetic for weeks and then in the evening ...
Read More »Palestinian children commemorate Rachel Corrie
by Mohamad Al Jamal, March 16th Rafah: Children commemorate the fourth anniversary for the loss of solidarity member Rachel Corrie by opening a permanent exhibit for her memorabilia Children from the Palestinian Youth Parliament commemorated the fourth anniversary of the ...
Read More »Counterpunch: “What Rachel Saw”
by Sonja Karkar, March 15th A slip of a girl faced one of Israel’s most feared war machines in the Occupied Palestinian Territories–the armed bulldozer–and died. This deliberate killing was no accident. Maybe the Israeli authorities would have preferred it ...
Read More »Haaretz: “A mother’s resistance”
by Ofri Ilani, February 14th Laila El-Haddad’s blog took shape in a very unusual way. Her son, Yousuf, was less than a year old when she returned to her Gaza home from a visit to the United States, where her ...
Read More »The Guardian: “A doctor’s call”
by Victoria Brittain, January 30th Mona el-Farra, a Palestinian doctor working in Gaza should have been in London this evening, launching a campaign for peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on recognition of international law. The campaign, simply called “Enough”, ...
Read More »PALESTINIANS ARE INVISIBLE…in the US press
American Hummus – CNNI: Extensive report on injured Israeli teen, no mention of Palestinian deaths CNN International, Israel to resume “pinpoint” targeting of militants in Gaza. With dramatic footage of Israeli teenagers injured by a Palestinian rocket, Mathew Chance reports ...
Read More »The Independent – Gaza City: ‘Free the women and you free the whole country’
by Johann Hari, December 15th There are many things you expect to find in the cratered, cramped heart of Gaza City, but a group of proto-Germaine Greers and Betty Friedans would be low on the list. Yet, I am sitting ...
Read More »Letter from Raed Sharif
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Early this morning, I received the sad news that my mother (54 years old) passed away after serious health complications last night. I am sending this message to you and many other people around the world ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Elbow to Elbow, like Cattle”
by Gideon Levy, December 10th Laila El-Haddad spent the last three weeks in a dismal apartment she was forced to rent in El Arish, Egypt, together with her son Yusuf, who is two years and nine months old. Every few ...
Read More »WAC: “Beit Hanoun’s wounded at Ichilov Hospital”
by Nir Nader, Workers Advice Centre Imad Abu Amara leads me through the corridors of the Ted Arison Tower of Ichilov Hospital, to the wounded victims of the massacre at Beit Hanoun. Imad, 50, is not among Beit Hanoun’s wounded. ...
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