Tag: Cast Lead

  • 31 December 2008: The Abu Areeda family

    31 December 2008: The Abu Areeda family

    31 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “Before my mother’s death we used to be very happy on 1 January, have celebrations and visit people. Now we are all silent in the last hour of each year and on 1 January we don’t celebrate the new year. We visit our mohter’s grave. We…

  • 30 December 2008: The Hamdan family

    30 December 2008: The Hamdan family

    30 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “When I wake in the morning the first thing I do is remember my children.  I come and sit outside and picture them where they used to play. I don’t want to go out and interact with other people anymore. I largely stay inside the home”…

  • 29 December 2008: Balousha family

    29 December 2008: Balousha family

    29 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I miss them all the time, sometimes I even go to look for one of them in the house in the split second before I remember they were killed” At around 00:00 on the 29 December 2008 an Israeli aircraft attacked the Imad Akel Mosque situated…

  • Gaza will not kneel

    Gaza will not kneel

    27 December 2011 | Palestine’s Youth – Local Initiative – the Popular Resistance Activists, Gaza – Palestine Twenty-three consecutive days of horrendous attacks on the Gaza Strip by the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) left more than 1500 Palestinians dead and many more injured.  Most of the victims were women, children and elderly people. According to the…

  • Demonstration in Beit Hanoun three years after Cast Lead

    Demonstration in Beit Hanoun three years after Cast Lead

    27 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Beit Hanoun Local Initiative remembered the 1,414 Palestinians killed by Israel during its 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead” attack on the people of Gaza during a weekly march in the Israel-imposed “no-go zone.”