• Life is blind

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5 May 2009 In this series of personal testimonies, PCHR looks at the aftermath of Israel’s 23 day offensive on the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing impact it is having on the civilian population. Mahmoud Mattar spent his 15th birthday in February this year, lying in the intensive care unit of Egypt’s Sheikh Zayid hospital. He is one of the 1,606 children who were injured during Israel’s military offensive on Gaza,…

  • Police negligent in probing fence protest casualties

    Dan Izenberg & Yaakov Katz | The Jerusalem Post 5 May 2009 The death of Palestinian Bassem Ibrahim in Bil’in two-and-a-half weeks ago might have been prevented had the police carried out orders to investigate previous incidents in which protesters against the separation barrier were hurt by grenade canisters, a senior Justice Ministry official told the police on Monday. Ibrahim, 30, died when a border policeman fired a canister directly at him and hit him in…

  • Palestinian patients ‘interrogated before leaving Gaza for treatment’

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 4 May 2009 An Israeli medical human rights group said today that an increasing number of Palestinian patients from Gaza were being interrogated by Israeli security services before being allowed to leave the strip for treatment. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said at least 438 patients had been summoned for interrogation by the Shabak, the Israeli general security service, at the Erez crossing out of Gaza between January 2008 and March this…

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