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Rescue team delivering urgent humanitarian aid to Maghazi at risk

9th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Palestinian human rights defenders and international volunteers from the UK and the USA are travelling to Maghazi to deliver food parcels, water, and mattresses to 50 families. “Maghazi was attacked once again today, and another two people were killed. A lot of families don’t want to leave their homes and they’re being forced from their land due to the very real threat of shelling and Israeli rocket attacks.…

August 9, 2014

Returning to Beit Hanoun

8th August 2014 | Charlie Andreasson| Gaza, Occupied Palestine We went back to Beit Hanoun almost two weeks after the Israeli military held us captive in the hospital and shelled it for 13 hours. It was the second day of the 72 hours ceasefire, and there was far more traffic on the roads and streets than there had been during the last four weeks, and there were far more people visible. Rina Andolini, a British volunteer, and I…

August 8, 2014

Un Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, stand for law and justice or resign!

7th August 2014 | Badil | Occupied Palestine For humanity and the little remained credibility of international law: Un Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, stand for law and justice or resign! Mr. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, We, the under signed Palestinian human rights and community-based organizations are extremely disappointed by your performance, notably by your biased statements, your failure to act, and the inappropriate justification of Israel’s violations of IHL, which amount to war crimes. Until today, you have taken no explicit and tangible…

August 7, 2014