Tag: Al Jazeera

  • Evicted Palestinians sleep rough in protest

    Jacky Rowland | Al Jazeera 7 August 2009 The Hanouns, a Palestinian family evicted by Israeli authorities from their home in East Jerusalem, are protesting their eviction by sleeping on the street outside the house that was for decades their home. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem…

  • Israel evicts Palestinian families

    Al Jazeera 2 August 2009 Israeli security forces have forcibily evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem after a court rejected an appeal against their eviction. The al-Ghawi and al-Hanoun families who were evicted on Sunday have been living in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood since 1956. Israel has reportedly set aside the…

  • UN assesses trauma of Gaza conflict

    Al Jazeera 29 June 2009 A UN human rights mission on the Gaza conflict is hearing from a range of experts on the social and the psychological effect of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza. On the second of the two-day inquiry on Monday, a child psychologist told the panel that an estimated 20 per cent…