By Sharon in Gaza To view Sharon’s blog please click here Last night E rode with the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jabalia, where attacks have continued to be very heavy, and was witness to the collection of three martyred folks ...
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What the medics see, do, and are subjected to; uncensored
By Eva Bartlett in Gaza To view Eva’s blog please click here On 31st December, around 2 am, two emergency medical services personnel were targeted by an Israeli missile as they attempted to reach injured in the Jabaliya region, northern ...
Read More »Fourth youth killed by Israeli army in West Bank
Mofid Saleh Walwil, a 20 year old resident of Qalqiliya, was killed by Israeli forces at approximately 1pm on Sunday 4th December, making him the fourth Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank in the ...
Read More »ei: “They know no limits now”
By Eva Bartlett To view original article, published by Electronic Intifada on the 4th January 2009, click here In the haze of dust and smoke from the latest F-16 strike, a family self-evacuates. The dispatcher at the Jabaliya Palestine Red ...
Read More »The Guardian: Do Israeli pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children?
By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 3rd January 2009, click here A Palestinian in Gaza chronicles life under Israeli bombardment Saturday 27 December I go to ...
Read More »International Human Rights Activists now working with medical teams in northern Gaza as Israel launches invasion of Gaza Strip
For Immediate Release 7:30pm, 3rd January 2009, Gaza: European, Australian and American Human Rights Activists are now based in northern Gaza as Israel has intensified shelling in what appears to be the beginning of a ground invasion of the Gaza ...
Read More »The Guardian: Land, sea, sky – all will kill you
By Karma Nabulsi To view original article, published in The Guardian on the 3rd January, click here Mohammed is burying his family. So is Jamal. Haider doesn’t feel safe in his flat so is sheltering in his car. In a ...
Read More »Journal: Why we are staying
By Eva Bartlett To view Eva’s blog please click here January 2, 2009, 1:13 pm Israeli authorities benevolently announced that today, January 2nd, the 7th day of Israel’s air attacks throughout Gaza, internationals would be permitted to leave through the ...
Read More »Israeli army attack funeral of Mohammed Khawaje, the second martyr from Ni’lin in four days
1st January 2008 At around 9pm on the 31st December, Mohammed Al-Khawaje died as a result of severe brain damage following being shot in the forehead the previous Sunday. At 10:30, his body was taken from the hospital in Ramallah ...
Read More »Fida Qishta: About my daily life in Gaza Strip, Rafah
Fida Qishta lives in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. She is a freelance journalist, filmmaker and blogger, and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) coordinator for the Gaza Strip. 31st December 2008 For the last year and ...
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