Samouni family

5 January 2009: Amal al-Samouni

Posted on: January 5, 2012

Amal al-Samouni (11) sitting in front of her house in Zeitoun neighborhood (Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights)

5 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights

“I have constant pain in my head, eyes and ears. I have been having nose bleeds for the past three years. I can still feel the shrapnel move inside my brain”

Amal al-Samouni (11) sitting in front of her house in Zeitoun neighborhood (Photo: Palestinian Center for Human Rights)

On 4 January 2009 at around 6:00 Israeli forces surrounded the house where Amal al-Samouni (11) and 18 members of her extended family were sheltering, in Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City. Israeli soldiers ordered the owner … Continue reading

Updated on May 22, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Samouni family, Zeitoun

Samouni family responds to Goldstone backtrack on Israeli war crimes

Posted on: April 7, 2011

6 April 2011 | Ken O’Keefe

During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with no military justification and the infamous massacre of the Samouni family… among many other crimes.

In the aftermath of Cast Lead, Justice Richard Goldstone, a Zionist Jew, was commissioned by the United Nations to write a report on the alleged war crimes. Although the report did not go nearly … Continue reading

Updated on April 7, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Samouni family

Daily life in Gaza

Posted on: February 5, 2011

4 February 2011 | Nathan Stuckey, International Solidarity Movement Gaza

After spending six weeks waiting in Cairo I entered Gaza two weeks ago. I never would have guessed that Egypt would explode so soon after I left. Congratulations to the people of Egypt. The trip from Cairo to the border at Rafah was uneventful; we weren’t stopped at a single military checkpoint. The border was easy, no questions from the Egyptians and the Palestinians only wanted to know where I would be staying, what I would be doing, and how long I would be here. They were very friendly.

Life … Continue reading

Updated on May 1, 2011
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Buffer zone, Cast Lead, Gaza, Khuza'a, Samouni family

Two Palestinian Stories: Mona Samouni and Dr Mona El Farra

Posted on: November 11, 2010

Majdy performing magic tricks for the Samouni Children

11 November 2010 | Adie Mormech

When the story of the Samouni family of Zeytoun broke, news stations and media gathered to cover what was the epitome of the tragedy that hit Gaza during Operation Cast Lead – the Israeli military’s 3 week bombing and … Continue reading

Updated on April 29, 2011
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Samouni family

Family who lost 29 members in Gaza war: We envy the dead

Posted on: October 18, 2009

Amira Hass | Ha’aretz

18 October 2009

Richard Goldstone visited the Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun in late June to tour the compound of the extended Samouni family, the subject of coverage here in recent weeks (“‘I fed him like a baby bird,’” September 17; “Death in the Samouni compound,” September 25). Twenty-nine members of the family, all of them civilians, were killed in the Israel Defense Force’s winter assault – 21 during the shelling of a house where IDF soldiers had gathered some 100 members of the family a day earlier.

Salah Samouni and the owner of the house that was … Continue reading

Updated on October 18, 2009
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Amira Hass, Cast Lead, Gaza, Richard Goldstone, Samouni family, United Nations

UN’s Gaza war crimes investigation faces obstacles

Posted on: June 9, 2009

YNet News

9 June 2009

After interviewing dozens of war victims and poring through the files of human rights groups, a veteran UN war crimes investigator acknowledged that his probe into possible crimes by Israel and Hamas is unlikely to lead to prosecutions.

Israel has refused to cooperate, depriving his team access to military sources and victims of Hamas rockets. And Hamas security often accompanied his team during their five-day trip to Gaza last week, raising questions about the ability of witnesses to freely describe the militant group’s actions.

But the chief barrier remains the lack of a court with … Continue reading

Updated on June 9, 2009
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Samouni family, United Nations, War crime

Speaking Truth to Power

Posted on: March 21, 2009

Giving up on irrigating parsley too dangerous to pick

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

We were back at Faraheen this morning accompanying farmers again, eying the jeeps driving along the Israeli border while our farmers removed the irrigation pipes from one of the fields we have visited regularly. Since Mohammed was shot in the leg, the farmer here has decided to give up on this field, its convenient well, and its half-grown parsley crop – 200,000 shekels worth – in case of further injury or death of harvesters. It was a quiet morning, thank goodness.

Tristan is conscious and was breathing on his own until he caught pneumonia. … Continue reading

Updated on March 21, 2009
Posted under: Journals, Press Releases
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, International Criminal Court, Medical International Surgical Team, Red Crescent, Samouni family, Sharon Lock

Amid destruction, school resumes

Posted on: January 27, 2009

Samouni family loses many members and means of survival

Tara Jensen is an Australian Human Rights Volunteer in Gaza

“We have no bathroom, how can we wash ourselves? How can we go to school looking like this?”, implored 13 year-old Shaima al Samouni. It’s a pertinent question, given that schools reopened two days ago for the first time since the Israeli attacks on Gaza started.

With 29 family members killed during the attacks on the Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, however, it seems a strange concern. But life marches on, and the other children have gone back to school. Tugging at the clothes they were wearing, the … Continue reading

Updated on March 20, 2012
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Samouni family, Zeitoun

Jan 18: At the Samouni house

Posted on: January 19, 2009

Sharon Lock | ISM Volunteer

The planes are still buzzing overhead, but there have been no explosions near me today. However this supposed ceasefire from Israeli’s side since 2am does not seem to have extended to Beit Hanoun, where there was shelling this morning and F16s were attacking.

You can see 4 video clips I took during the attacks on the Al Quds hospital and local people, including my medic mates rescuing Jasmeen after she’d seen her sister and dad shot.

This morning the Al Quds Red Crescent headed out to Zaytoun, to the area we had a few approved evacuations and … Continue reading