by Gideon Levy. Ha’aretz, Wednesday, May 31 2006 The entire family of Hamdi Aman, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who spent his youth in Tel Aviv’s Carmel market, was hit in the assassination of Islamic Jihad operative Mohammed Dahdouh in ...
Read More »JPost: “UK downplays Gaza damages bid”
by George Conger, London. Jerusalem Post, May 27, 2006 Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall, parents of Tom Hurndall, arrive at St. Pancras coroner’s court, London for an inquest into their son’s death in Gaza. Photo: Associated Press Spokesmen for Britain’s Attorney-General ...
Read More »IMEMC: “Five Palestinians, including three teens, killed by Israeli artillery shells in the Gaza Strip”
Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies – Friday, 26 May 2006, 21:56 As the Israeli army continued its shelling of Palestinian neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday night, five Palestinians, including three teens – two of them members of ...
Read More »Arab American News: “Palestinian activist tours U.S., explains pain and suffering”
by Danielle Smith For the past month, Palestinian activist Fida Qesta has toured the United States speaking about Nonviolent Resistance and the occupation of Palestine. After her stops in Detroit, Port Huron, Grand Ledge, Lansing and Ann Arbor, she will ...
Read More »This Is Apartheid
By Rann The Israeli Supreme Court approved a law yesterday denying West Bank and Gaza Palestinians married to Israeli Palestinians residence or citizenship in Israel. As the linked Ha’aretz editorial states, this is a disgrace. Moreover, this is yet another ...
Read More »“That terrible feeling inside “
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ Ok I admit I’ve been a little lazy this week. Part of that is has to do with the fact that, wrapped up in my pre-travel anxiety as it were, and my mad rush to tie up as many ...
Read More »Laila’s Journal: I don’t exist!
By Laila el-Haddad I don’t exist! …well, at least not according to British Airways. I was attempting to enter in my “passenger details” and country of citizenship and residence on their website for a flight I have booked next month ...
Read More »Hamas forms new security branch
By Laila el-Haddad Something strange is happening in Gaza. Municipality workers are actually working. The streets seem a bit cleaner. And for once, I actually saw a policeman arresting a criminal in a dramatic pick-up the other day, much to ...
Read More »Palestinians commemorate Prisoners Day, as all hell breaks loose
By Laila el-Haddad Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 I’m very tired so instead of posting something on how all hells break loose here between one second and the next, and how just when you say to yourself-well how about that, ...
Read More »The party line: ‘Palestinians attack, Israelis respond’
By Asa In an attempt to disguise the current Israeli military operations in Nablus as a response to the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, the Israeli media are either directly lying that the military entered Nablus “in response to the ...
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