Author: ISM Media Group

  • NGOs in Gaza Call Attention to Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes

    On July 30th, the Palestinian NGOs Network “PNGO” organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Lebanese people in front of the United Nations head quarter in Gaza city. Similarly, over twenty international humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organisations have joined forces to issue a joint appeal for action on July 27th in response to the…

  • Observer: “We suffer together, we leave together”

    from the Observer, Sunday July 30th By Fida Qishtais, a 23 year old community activist and educator from Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She founded Lifemakers Center which serves 300 children in Rafah. July 13th After two weeks of waiting with my parents and brother at the Egyptian border crossing, I returned home to Rafah,…

  • Soldiers Make Residents Pay to Pass Checkpoint

    by W.B. Asira Al Shamaliyeh, a town of about 12,000 located a few kilometers north of the mountains from Nablus, has come to suffer under a new aspect of occupation. Asira has in recent months been effectively cut off from Nablus by increasing restrictions at the Sabatosh checkpoint. In addition to the weekly incursions by…