Category: Features
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Patients and refugees evacuated as Al-Quds hospital burns
1am, 16th January 2009, Gaza City Al-Quds hospital has been evacuated after the central building of the hospital was set ablaze. Patients and those seeking refuge in the hospital have been transferred to Al-Shifa hospital. Al-Quds hospital has been surrounded by Israeli forces since 1:30am, 15th January. The fire is spreading too fast to be…
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Israeli snipers shooting at families seeking refuge in Al-Quds hospital
Israeli snipers are shooting at families who are attempting to seek refuge in Al-Quds hospital, Gaza City. Palestinian and international volunteers are now on the streets outside the hospital to try and get the families inside the hospital. Australian Human Rights Activist Sharon Lock is assisting medical teams at the hospital, Israeli snipers are shooting…
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Free Gaza Movement stopped in international waters by Israeli navy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The latest reports are of four Israeli gunboats saying they will use their weapons if the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY does not turn back to Greece. The boat is asserting its right to continue in international waters. The Free Gaza mercy ship, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, left port in Cyprus this morning on an…
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FGM: Spirit of Humanity resumes humanitarian mission
For Immediate Release Larnaca, Cyprus – The Free Gaza Movement vessel, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, will resume its emergency mission to the besieged Gaza Strip at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The ship will carry desperately needed doctors, journalists, human rights workers, and members of parliaments as well as medical supplies donated by the…
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UNRWA emergency shelters and bombed schools
Across Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is setting up emergency shelters in its schools. Despite two such shelters being cynically targeted by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza last week, many families still seek refuge in UNRWA schools simply because they have nowhere else to go. The massacre on 6th January at…