• It’s a ceasefire…just not on the beach, not in your home

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza On the 5th morning after Israel declared a ‘ceasefire’, Israeli gunboats began shelling, as they had on several mornings since halting the 22 day air and land bombardment of Gaza. The shelling, which began just after 7:30 am off Gaza city’s coast, injured at least 6, including one boy with shrapnel in his head. Yasser Abed, 15, came out from his home in Gaza’s Beach camp, on the coast, to see…

  • Amid destruction, school resumes

    Tara Jensen is an Australian Human Rights Volunteer in Gaza “We have no bathroom, how can we wash ourselves? How can we go to school looking like this?”, implored 13 year-old Shaima al Samouni. It’s a pertinent question, given that schools reopened two days ago for the first time since the Israeli attacks on Gaza started. With 29 family members killed during the attacks on the Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, however, it seems a strange…

  • Two young men killed by Israelis in Salfit and Qalqiliya districts

    January 8th & 13th, 2009 | IWPS Abu Dis; Azzun A 16-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man, from the Qalqiliya and Salfit districts respectively, were killed in unrelated incidents in January during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. On January 8th, Ibrahim Abdulkarim Shamlawi, a student at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, but from the village of Haris in the Salfit governorate, was shot dead by soldiers at an Israeli gas station near…

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