Tag: Children
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On the sixth day of Israeli attacks on Gaza
By Rosa Schiano 23 June 2012 | il Blog di Olivia, Gaza The sixth day of Israeli attacks on Gaza. Today we have arrived at 16 deaths, including a child of 5 and a half years, and over 60 injured individuals. This morning in Khan Younis of the southern Gaza Strip an Israeli tank fired…
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Remembering Mamoun, killed by an Israeli missile as he played football
By Rami Almeghari 22 June 2012 | The Electronic Intifada, Gaza City “I can never forget his image with blood all over his little body and both his legs badly injured,” Umm Mamoun Hassouna told The Electronic Intifada as she sat at a relative’s house in Gaza City. “I am a preacher [for women] at…
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20 Palestinian detained children started a hunger strike in Hasharon prison
13 June 2012 | Palestinian Information Center, Gaza Twenty Palestinian children, detained in Hasharon prison, launched on Tuesday June 12, an open hunger strike protesting the harsh prison conditions and the prison administration’s neglect of their demands. A 17-years-old child Ahmed Lafi, who was one of the strikers, told the Ministry of the prisoners in…
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Children’s Day in Khan Younis
by Nathan Stuckey 10 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Poverty is pervasive in Gaza. After 44 years of occupation, and six years of siege the economy is in tatters. Exporting anything is basically impossible, farming is crippled by the no go zones which encircle Gaza leaving over 30% of agricultural land off limits,…
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Qaryut: 8 year old injured by bomb planted by Israelis
by Lydia 2 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Yemams father did not have time to respond to his son before the bomb exploded. Ripping through three layers of clothes and even more layers of skin, his father had to watch the tragedy unfold before his eyes. Yemam Mohammad Fatah Azam is just…
