Category: In the Media
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A generation traumatized
Rami Almeghari | The Electronic Intifada 21 October 2009 Ten-year-old Hiba Hammad at the center. Like many other children in the region, 10-year-old Hiba Hammad from the northern Gaza Strip witnessed atrocities by the Israeli army against the population of Gaza during its assault on the coastal strip last winter. Hiba’s smiled returned only after…
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Israeli intelligence pose as Arabs to spy on citizens
Jonathan Cook | The Electronic Intifada 21 October 2009 Civil rights groups in Israel have expressed outrage at the announcement last week that a special undercover unit of the police has been infiltrating and collecting intelligence on Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority by disguising its officers as Arabs. It is the first public admission that the…
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Quartet envoy’s eight-year-old niece sees the real Palestine
22 October 2009 | Ma’an News Eight-year-old Alexandra Darby, the niece of Quartet envoy Tony Blair, toured the West Bank this week on a bicycle, peddling an estimated 200 kilometers from Amman to Jerusalem. Asked what she will tell her school friends about the Peace Cycle journey, Alex reflected, “I’ll tell them that the people…