Year: 2012

  • 9 January 2009 – The Abu Oda family

    9 January 2009 – The Abu Oda family

    9 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “The Israeli military say they are the most moral army in the world, but they killed my daughter, they didn’t respect her right to live” On 9 January 2009, the Abu Oda household in the Al Amal neighbourhood of Beit Hanoun came under sustained fire from…

  • The Occupy movement and Palestine

    The Occupy movement and Palestine

    by Yousef Aljamal 9 January 2012 | Center for Political and Development Studies The Occupy movement is an international protest movement directed primarily against economic and social inequality. The first Occupy protest to receive wide coverage was Occupy Wall Street in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, which began on September 17, 2011. It was noticed…

  • 8 January 2009: The Al-Rahel family

    8 January 2009: The Al-Rahel family

    8 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “The other children keep talking about Dima and the memories of both incidents. ‘We wish to die like Dima’ is what the children sometimes say to me because of all the stress and our poor living conditions.” On 8 January 2009, at approximately 11:00, four missiles…

  • Kufr ad-Dik resists by the hundreds

    by Jonathon 7 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The residents of Kufr ad-Dik sent a clear and strong message of resistance to the Israeli authorities,  just the second of planned weekly demonstrations in the village thus far. There were approximately 250 residents who attended the demonstration, with a number of Israeli and…

  • Beit Hanoun commemorates 3 years since operation ‘Cast Lead’

    Beit Hanoun commemorates 3 years since operation ‘Cast Lead’

    by Rosa Schiano 7 January 2012 | il blog di Oliva On Tuesday there was another demonstration in Beit Hanoun against the “buffer zone” imposed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators also commemorated the over 1400 Palestinians killed during operation “Cast Lead”. The demonstration started at about 11.00 am. A drone…