Tag: Gaza

  • Journal: Late post for Sat night

    By Sharon in Gaza To view Sharon’s blog please click here Last night E rode with the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jabalia, where attacks have continued to be very heavy, and was witness to the collection of three martyred folks – one was 24 year old caretaker of the American school, whose body was in…

  • What the medics see, do, and are subjected to; uncensored

    By Eva Bartlett in Gaza To view Eva’s blog please click here On 31st December, around 2 am, two emergency medical services personnel were targeted by an Israeli missile as they attempted to reach injured in the Jabaliya region, northern Gaza. The first died immediately, the second soon after of complications from his internal injuries.…

  • ei: “They know no limits now”

    By Eva Bartlett To view original article, published by Electronic Intifada on the 4th January 2009, click here In the haze of dust and smoke from the latest F-16 strike, a family self-evacuates. The dispatcher at the Jabaliya Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) receives call after call from terrified residents fleeing their homes. It’s a…

  • The Guardian: Do Israeli pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children?

    By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 3rd January 2009, click here A Palestinian in Gaza chronicles life under Israeli bombardment Saturday 27 December I go to visit friends in the Block J neighbourhood in Rafah in the south of the Gaza…

  • International Human Rights Activists now working with medical teams in northern Gaza as Israel launches invasion of Gaza Strip

    For Immediate Release 7:30pm, 3rd January 2009, Gaza: European, Australian and American Human Rights Activists are now based in northern Gaza as Israel has intensified shelling in what appears to be the beginning of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. They will be accompanying ambulances and medical teams in the Jabaliya, Beit Lahia and…