3 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “What affected us a lot psychologically is the fact that we were all praying in the mosque when we were attacked. The mosque is a place where we go when we need ...
Read More »2 January 2009: Eyad al-Astal
2 January 12 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “The second of January is no different from any other day. Every day and every minute feels like the moment when I lost my sons. In everything there is a memory of ...
Read More »1 January 2009: The Nasla family
1 January 12 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I wish that if our fate is to die, that we die together, I wouldn’t want anybody left to have to bear this sort of pain” On 1 January 2009 at around ...
Read More »31 December 2008: The Abu Areeda family
31 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “Before my mother’s death we used to be very happy on 1 January, have celebrations and visit people. Now we are all silent in the last hour of each year and ...
Read More »30 December 2008: The Hamdan family
30 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “When I wake in the morning the first thing I do is remember my children. I come and sit outside and picture them where they used to play. I don’t want ...
Read More »29 December 2008: Balousha family
29 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I miss them all the time, sometimes I even go to look for one of them in the house in the split second before I remember they were killed” At around ...
Read More »Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters
28 December 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza At 10:55 am, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize ...
Read More »Gaza will not kneel
27 December 2011 | Palestine’s Youth – Local Initiative – the Popular Resistance Activists, Gaza – Palestine Twenty-three consecutive days of horrendous attacks on the Gaza Strip by the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) left more than 1500 Palestinians dead and many ...
Read More »Demonstration in Beit Hanoun three years after Cast Lead
27 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Beit Hanoun Local Initiative remembered the 1,414 Palestinians killed by Israel during its 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead” attack on the people of Gaza during a weekly march in the Israel-imposed “no-go ...
Read More »Open letter from Gaza: Three years after the massacre, justice or nothing!
27 December 2011 | Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us ...
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