• Palestinian Pain, One Kid at a Time

    From CommonDreams.org By Fareed Taamallah Every day, world leaders think of new ways to punish the Palestinians for electing Hamas. But the people who suffer most are children like my daughter, Lina. Lina was less than 1 year old when she caught a virus that gave her a high fever and caused diarrhea and vomiting.…

  • Jerusalem Post: “Getting carried away”

    Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post, 4th May 2006 The violence typically begins as hundreds of protesters advance on lines of badly outmanned troops trying to block the way to the village’s land, which lies on the other side of the fence. The pushing, shoving and shouting, along with the troops’ inability to keep the protesters back,…

  • Trying to provide health care in Tubas

    By Tom At the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Tubas we heard about the impact of the occupation, the checkpoints, and the road blocks on the ambulance staff. When we heard that ambulance staff had been made to walk on the bodies of dead people by the Israeli Army we didn’t want to believe…

  • Al Nakba Remembered

    By Joharah Baker | MIFTAH On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Although it is not unprecedented in history that countries gain their independence through war, either by conquest or by flinging off the yoke of colonization, there are few examples in history that match the circumstances under which Israel was created. The Palestinians,…

  • Shofat Camp Non violent Demonstration for Right to Worship Successful

    Residents of Shofat refugee camp in Jerusalem, along with international and Israeli supporters, today demonstrated non-violently against the Israeli Border Polices’ often violent suppression of the camps residents’ right to cross the checkpoint at the camp entrance to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque on Fridays. Palestinian men women and children marched peacefully alongside Israeli and international…