Tag Archives: Gaza

Published on Thursday, August 17, 2006 by the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) by George Bisharat SAN FRANCISCO – With the spotlight on Lebanon, another Middle East milestone is passing largely unnoticed. However, its lessons are just as important. A year ago ...

Associated Press Palestinian journalists in Gaza protested on Saturday against the kidnapping of a Fox News correspondent and cameraman, as concern about the men’s safety grew. Cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, and American correspondent Steve Centanni, 60, were ...

“Everybody hopes to have a good life and a future. We love our children, mothers, and fathers, we love our families, like you. And we feel sad when somebody is killed. We are humans of flesh and blood. Think of ...

By Mona El-Farra from her blog From Gaza, With Love 12:30 am 4th of August The Israeli army continues its military operation, in the south of Gaza (Rafah town). Army tanks are heading into the refugee camp under the cover ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today on Friday August 4, the people of Bil’in joined by Israeli and international supporters marched to the apartheid wall and attempted to cross the gate which separates villagers from their land. They bore Palestinian and Lebanese ...

On July 30th, the Palestinian NGOs Network “PNGO” organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Lebanese people in front of the United Nations head quarter in Gaza city. Similarly, over twenty international humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organisations have joined ...

from the Observer, Sunday July 30th By Fida Qishtais, a 23 year old community activist and educator from Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She founded Lifemakers Center which serves 300 children in Rafah. July 13th After two weeks of waiting ...

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 22 July 2006, 11:00 GMT Large scale destruction in houses, agricultural fields, infrastructure, and governmental and security buildings In another crime of disproportionate use of lethal force, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 4 members of ...

report from B’Tselem, 20th July 2006 B’Tselem’s initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used ...

By Tanya Reinhart In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising restraint in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam rockets were falling on the Southern Israeli ...