Category: Reports

  • 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…

  • Israel is targeting medics

    Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada On 7 January, as Spanish human rights advocate and documentary filmmaker, Alberto Arce, and I accompanied Palestinian medics to retrieve the body of a man shot earlier by invading Israeli forces, we were also shot at as the medics carried the body towards the ambulance. It was in Dawwar Zimmo,…

  • Two human rights activists denied entry to Israel on claim they plan to enter Gaza

    January 11, Ben Gurion Airport — Israel has stopped one Swedish and one Danish human rights activist from entering the country through Ben Gurion Airport. On Sunday morning, Andreas Kaivarainen and Fie Knutsenwere were taken for questioning. Israeli authorities insisted that the individuals post $5,000 as a guarantee that they would not engage in political…