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From The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2006 News reports stating that the parents of slain American human rights activist Rachel Corrie were the intended targets of an attempted kidnapping Wednesday in Gaza are ...
Read More »IWPS: “I am getting tired of occupation now.”
Marisol’s Blog Originally published by the International Women’s Peace Service On the second day of the bombing in Gaza, Mahmoud Al Zahar, a leader from Hamas, made a call to end rocket attacks on israelis. Even so, israel has continued ...
Read More »One Palestinian Killed an Another Injured as Military ‘Disengages’
By the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Today as Israeli forces completed their redployment to the border areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday the 12th of September, 2005 one Palestinian youth was killed and another was injured while they ...
Read More »Gaza occupation continues after disengagement
From the CNI Foundation The Israeli settlers have left, but the siege of Palestinian towns and villages in Gaza that lie near the old settlements continues unabated, according the latest report of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. The Israeli ...
Read More »In Gaza, we don’t yet see the peace that’s supposed to be in the plan
by Khaled Nasrallah If you asked me about the withdraw from Gaza, I would tell you that sure, it’s a step ahead. That is, if it really is something that is a start toward real peace. Is it? Real peace ...
Read More »The Gaza Disengagement Plan’s Impact on the West Bank
by the Palestine Center staff It is difficult to imagine a situation more terrifying and bleak. Isolated and without any means to determine their own destiny, Palestinians will soon be forced to live their lives as prisoners in a cell. ...
Read More »All Eyes On Gaza Disengagement
What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip? A Warning from Israel By Uri Davis, Ilan Pappe, and Tamar Yaron We feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may ...
Read More »Letters from Rafah
Written by K and M Special greetings again from Rafah. There is just no way to describe life here at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. We are the only International people in all of Rafah and the news ...
Read More »Occupational Hazards
To my friends, I have been in Rafah now for two weeks, and it is still very hard for me to communicate to the outside world what I am seeing here. It’s hard to explain the feelings, tastes, and smells ...
Read More »Weddings and Martyrs
Friends, I am sorry my reports have been slow. Sometimes it is so hard to find the words to write about the things that I see everyday in Rafah. In the last two weeks there have been seven assasinations in ...
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