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16 January 2009 – The Shurrab family

Posted on: January 16, 2012
Mohammed Shurrab (Photo: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights)

16 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

“Can I go to a court to restore my sons? No” says Mohammed. “What is the point in bringing the soldiers who killed my sons to justice when there will simply be more and more after them? When others will lose their sons as well? Soldiers commit these crimes because they know they have immunity.”

On 16 January 2009, Israeli forces positioned in the al Fukhari area, south east of Khan Younis, opened fire on the vehicle of Mohammed Shurrab and his two sons … Continue reading


Updated on January 16, 2012
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2 January 2009: Eyad al-Astal

Posted on: January 2, 2012
2 January 2009: Eyad al-Astal

2 January 12 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights

“The second of January is no different from any other day. Every day and every minute feels like the moment when I lost my sons. In everything there is a memory of them. I miss them all the time.”

On 2 January 2009 at around 14:30 an Israeli drone fired a missile at an open area in Qarara village, close to Khan Yunis. The missile struck and killed two brothers, Mohammed (12) and Abed Rabbo (9) al-Astal, and their cousin, … Continue reading


Updated on January 2, 2012
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Farming with a grain of salt

Posted on: December 22, 2011
Farming with a grain of salt

22 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights

Farming on land that has become almost impossible to farm is now daily reality for 62 year old Naeem El Laham, also known as Abu Mohammed. Together with his wife, 6 sons, 5 daughters and grandchildren he lives on his farm west of Khan Yunis.
“Our farming land stretches out over 2 dunums. My sons help me with the work on the land, just like I helped out my father on the land when I was younger,” says Abu Mohammed.
On … Continue reading


Updated on December 22, 2011
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Israel’s killing zone in Gaza

Posted on: January 7, 2011

6 January 2011 | The Electronic Intifada, Max Ajl

Ahmed Qudaih was skinny, in blue Converse sneakers and a black leather jacket, his mustache oddly making him look younger, not older, than his 27 years. His voice was even, his face rigidly composed, like human stone, as we sat down with him in the martyr’s tent in Khozaa, a rural village slightly to the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Young men moved up and down the rows of plastic seats with brass coffee pots and tiny ceramic cups and platters of dates. Ahmed agreed to speak … Continue reading


Updated on January 7, 2011
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Civilian killed by Israeli military in Gaza

Posted on: January 3, 2011
Civilian killed by Israeli military in Gaza

2 January 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

On Tuesday evening, December 28, 19-year-old Hassan Mohammed Qedeh was killed by the Israeli military in the village of Khoza’a, east of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. According to the Israeli forces, and subsequently repeated by various media outlets, he was a resistance fighter. However, witnesses in the area, as well as relatives, have confirmed that he had civilian status at the time when he was killed.

Sometime before sunset, Hassan had gone into the area of … Continue reading


Updated on January 3, 2011
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Israel bombs Gazan homes, injuring six

Posted on: November 22, 2010
Rubble in place of obliterated house in Deir al-Balah

21 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement
House bombed in Deir al-Balah


The afternoon of November 19th an Israeli fighter plane bombed a house in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The house of the Dar Shorafa family, located 400 meters from the border fence, has disappeared. At the center of the date palm garden is a 3 m deep crater with the rubble of the former house scattered around.

At the time of attack the residents were absent, but the neighbors witnessed … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition

Posted on: September 27, 2010
Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition

A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Sliman Abu Hanza, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the abdomen with a ‘dum dum’ bullet at a demonstration in Al-Faraheen, Khan Younis, on Sunday.

The injury was inflicted during one of three non-violent demonstrations which took place on Sunday; in Beit Hanoun, Maghazi and Faraheen near Khan Younis – four members of the International Solidarity Movement also attended. The explode-on-impact ‘dum-dum’ bullet which hit Abu Hanza is the same type that was shot into the leg of Ahmed Deeb, 20, during a … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Picking pebbles to live somehow

Posted on: March 3, 2010

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service

2 March 2010

They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals, and any bits worth reselling.

They venture dangerously close to the border fence to unlock metal and steel rods from their demolished home heaps. They are Gaza’s recyclers, and in a Strip where unemployment hovers at nearly 50 percent and poverty soars over 80 percent, environmental considerations … Continue reading


Updated on March 3, 2010
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Gaza one year ago: ‘I prayed to my god to be the first in my family to die’

Posted on: December 28, 2009

Khulood Ghanem | Mondoweiss

27 December 2009

Khulood Ghanem, 27, kept a Gaza diary a year ago. What follows is Ghanem’s entry from the first day of the war, 27 December 2008.

I finished my work in Khan Younis at 10 o’clock, and rode a car to Gaza City. I reached there at 11. I decided to drink some coffee with my friend who was working in a company beside the legislative council and the academy for police. I stayed there till 11:30, I decided to leave, my friend told me to stay, it’s early, I stayed for 15 minutes.

At 11:45 … Continue reading


Updated on December 28, 2009
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International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip

Posted on: May 6, 2009

For Immediate Release:

8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line.

Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Beit Hanoun by Israeli forces on the 17th of April.

Several farmers have been shot by Israeli forces while farming their lands.

Mohammed al-Buraim is the fourth Palestinian farmer to be shot … Continue reading


Updated on May 6, 2009
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