As a result of the ongoing shelling in the Tel al Huwa neigbourhood of Gaza City, many families are attempting to find shelter in the Al Quds hospital. Australian Human Rights Activist Sharon Lock has described the events as Israeli ...
Read More »Women and children in Ni’lin protest against Israel’s war crimes
15th January 2009 On 15th of January women and children in Ni’lin protested against Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people. They were accompanied by international and Israeli human rights activists. The demonstration with approximately 100 participants took place inside ...
Read More »Israeli snipers shooting at families seeking refuge in Al-Quds hospital
Israeli snipers are shooting at families who are attempting to seek refuge in Al-Quds hospital, Gaza City. Palestinian and international volunteers are now on the streets outside the hospital to try and get the families inside the hospital. Australian Human ...
Read More »FGM: Spirit of Humanity resumes humanitarian mission
For Immediate Release Larnaca, Cyprus – The Free Gaza Movement vessel, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, will resume its emergency mission to the besieged Gaza Strip at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The ship will carry desperately needed doctors, journalists, ...
Read More »UNRWA emergency shelters and bombed schools
Across Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is setting up emergency shelters in its schools. Despite two such shelters being cynically targeted by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza last week, many families still seek refuge in UNRWA ...
Read More »Israel is targeting medics
Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada On 7 January, as Spanish human rights advocate and documentary filmmaker, Alberto Arce, and I accompanied Palestinian medics to retrieve the body of a man shot earlier by invading Israeli forces, we were also shot ...
Read More »FGM: Mercy Ship Departs for Gaza, “We are coming in on Tuesday”
For more information, please contact: (Cyprus/Gaza) Huwaida Arraf, +357 96 723 999 or +357 99 081 767 (Gaza) Ewa Jasiewicz, +972 598 700 497 (U.S.) Ramzi Kysia, +1 703 994 5422 UPDATE: The “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY” has returned to port ...
Read More »Vittorio Arrigoni: In Gaza Hippocrates is dead
Published by Il Manifesto, 10th January 2009. Translated from Italian by Daniela Filippin In Gaza, a firing squad put Hippocrates up against a wall, aimed and fired. The absurd declarations of an Israeli secret services’ spokesman, according to which the ...
Read More »Two human rights activists denied entry to Israel on claim they plan to enter Gaza
January 11, Ben Gurion Airport — Israel has stopped one Swedish and one Danish human rights activist from entering the country through Ben Gurion Airport. On Sunday morning, Andreas Kaivarainen and Fie Knutsenwere were taken for questioning. Israeli authorities insisted ...
Read More »Injured, denied access
By Eva Bartlett View Eva’s blog In Gaza Friday night, Red Crescent ambulances in Jabaliya collected numerous victims of smoke inhalation: a strange chemical smoke which seizes the lungs and air passage, and suffocates the victims. Many elderly were collected ...
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