Tag: Gaza

  • Resident of Rafah refuses to leave home despite Israeli attacks

    29th December 2008, Rafah, Gaza Strip: A resident of Yibna camp is staying in his house despite the evacuation of the camp by the Red Crescent following expectations of intensified Israeli attacks on the area. In Yibna Camp in Rafah, Ahmed Mansour has been forced to choose between his life and his home. “I cannot…

  • Journal: Attacks last night in Gaza

    By Sharon in Gaza To view Sharon’s blog please click here This will be hurried as very short collision of internet, electricity, and me, before we have to head for our night time locations before dark. Last night my group went to Al Awda hospital in order to be in the Jabalia region in case…

  • Red Crescent evacuating neigbourhoods in Rafah

    The Red Crescent in Gaza is evacuating people from the neighborhoods in Rafah located along the border with Egypt. According to the international Human Rights Volunteers in Gaza, people are being mobilized to leave the area as urgently as possible. “Under the guise of humanitarian efforts, people are being informed that their homes are about…

  • Maan: Five Palestinian sisters killed in Israeli raid on Jabalia

    To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 29th December, click here Gaza – Ma’an – No sooner had a Gazan mother run away with her baby boy and two other baby girls seeking shelter did an Israeli airstrike kill her five daughters before she could return and transfer them, as well.…

  • Free Gaza Movement: Dignity leaves for Gaza – Challenges world to “Stop this madness!”

    To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here Monday 29th December 2008 (Larnaca, Cyprus 29 December 2008) – There is a time when silence is complicity and inaction is unacceptable. On Saturday, December 27, Israel began Operation “Cast Lead,” a military onslaught against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip that has – so…