Category: In the Media

  • Struggling for water in Gaza

    Struggling for water in Gaza

    22 October 2011 | Mondoweiss, Leila Al-Najar and Ishraq Othman The Beach camp “Al-shate” is located to the west of Gaza City. Small houses are crowded together with an unbearable smell springing from the wastewater running through the alleys. As volunteers in Youth for the Right of Water and Sanitation project (YRWS) we occasionally visit homes…

  • The colonial parade of Hebron

    The colonial parade of Hebron

    18 October 2011 | Free Paly  A crowded Palestinian marketplace, mid-afternoon, the sun is slowly descending, and a cool breeze blows plastic bags past the feet of a jumbled crowd of young men, small boys, women in hijab with their daughters, and old men. They have gathered, this midday mass of Palestinians, with outstretched necks…

  • Palestinian hunger strike continues despite Israeli prisoner swap

    14 October 2011 | The Real News Network Thousands are demanding better treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the release of prominent activists