Tag: Gaza

  • WAC: “Beit Hanoun’s wounded at Ichilov Hospital”

    by Nir Nader, Workers Advice Centre Imad Abu Amara leads me through the corridors of the Ted Arison Tower of Ichilov Hospital, to the wounded victims of the massacre at Beit Hanoun. Imad, 50, is not among Beit Hanoun’s wounded. He is from Rafah, and already very familiar with hospital admissions. For 16 years he…

  • When Human Rights Watch Equates Aggressor with the Aggrieved

    from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Three Palestinian human rights organizations (PCHR, Al-Mezan, and Addameer) sent the below letter to Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson (Middle East Director of Human Rights Watch) in response to the Human Rights Watch position against Palestinian civilians exercising their right of peaceful, unarmed resistance against the illegal demolition of…

  • Police Target Tel Aviv Anti-Occupation Rally

    by aspiringnomad, December 4th In Tel Aviv on Saturday, a peaceful rally of several hundred people demonstrating at the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine and the recent Beit Hanoun massacre was marred by the arrest of a 20-year old Israeli peace activist. The rally began peacefully with the predominantly Israeli contingent creating a convivial atmosphere…

  • Humanity lost

    by Laila El-Haddad, November 29th We stood and we waited and we cried and we returned back to Egypt yesterday, and again today. Us and thousands of others. It was anguish. Anguish and misery and desperation personfied in every woman, man and child. One hour turned into two, then three, then five, as we stood…

  • Nonviolent Resistance is not Illegal: HRW Should Retract Statement

    On Sunday, Nov. 19, hundreds of Palestinian civilians crowded into the building where the family of Mohammed Baroud and a number of other families live in Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Israeli military forces had warned that the building would be attacked. The planned Israeli attack was deterred by this action. Two hours…