Tag: Gaza

  • European Union failing its obligations to protect human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

    28 January 2009 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) demands that the European Union (EU) immediately takes action in order to protect human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The EU is currently failing in its obligations to effectively intervene in order to protect the lives of civilians…

  • Ezbet Abed Rabbo area: Remnants of houses and soldiers’ presence

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza January 28, 2009 Two of her boys worked to pull pieces of clothing, books, and anything reachable from under the toppled cupboard. Every item is sacred. She led me through her house, pointing out the many violations against their existence, every graffitied wall, each shattered window and glass and plate,…

  • Israeli gunboat sprays Palestinian fishing boat with bullets

    27th January 2009, Gaza: On the morning of the 27th of January 2009, a Palestinian fishing boat left Gaza City port in one of the first attempts to work after the recent onslaught on Gaza, and the following ceasefire announced by Israel. While fishing in Palestinian territorial waters, about 1 mile off the northern Gaza…

  • Israeli navy wounds Palestinian fisherman

    26th January 2009 – Gazan territorial waters: Despite a ceasefire, and despite the fact that their target was a civilian vessel, the Israeli navy open fire on a Palestinian fishing boat to the severe injury of the captain Alaa Alhabel.

  • At Al Wafa – Saja and Ceasefiring

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell Yesterday E and I went back to see Amer at his Zaytoun house. He told us his brother Abdullah is back home from the Egyptian hospital, and showed us his hospital records; his wounds (two shots to abdomen, one to arm), are healing ok. He was worried about Saja,…