Category: Gaza
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El-Wafa Elderly Nursing Home shelled by the Israeli military
16th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine After a night of heavy shelling in the area, the day is dawning in Gaza. The clock ticks pass 08:00; past the evacuation time the Israeli military gave to el-Wafa hospital the previous evening. The patients were not evacuated; there is nowhere…
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Gaza report: “Colonisation policies will not bring peace and security”
16th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Just one or two hours after the ceasefire talks broke down, Sohil Deeb Mahmoud al Hosris’ house was completely demolished in the densely populated refugee camp of Shati in an air strike. It was a miracle nobody were killed or injured. Where the former house stood,…
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El-Wafa hospital threatened with bombing by Israeli military
16th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Yesterday evening (July 15th) at approximately 23:05 el-Wafa Rehabilitation hospital in Gaza, near Gaza City, received a call from someone claiming to be from the “Defense department of the Israeli forces”. The caller informed the hospital to evacuate everyone by this morning, and then hung…
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Gaza report: War against civilians
14th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The war is now in its seventh day, the death toll is rising briskly, 17,000 people have fled Beit Lahia in the north after the threat of a land invasion, fishermen are prevented from accessing their fishing grounds, and sewer and water…
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Jews Against Genocide hold memorial for Palestinian children at Yad Vashem
13th July 2014 | Jews Against Genocide | Occupied Palestine Yesterday, Saturday, 12th July, Jews Against Genocide (JAG) held a memorial service for Palestinian children killed by Israel in its current attack on Gaza. JAG set aflame to a pile of dolls covered in red paint at Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust memorial museum. JAG is a movement of Jews…
