Tag: Gaza

  • Bil’in Mourns 1,000 Dead in Lebanon and Gaza

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today on Friday August 4, the people of Bil’in joined by Israeli and international supporters marched to the apartheid wall and attempted to cross the gate which separates villagers from their land. They bore Palestinian and Lebanese flags alongside black flags of mourning in memory of over 1,000 people who have been…

  • NGOs in Gaza Call Attention to Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes

    On July 30th, the Palestinian NGOs Network “PNGO” organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Lebanese people in front of the United Nations head quarter in Gaza city. Similarly, over twenty international humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organisations have joined forces to issue a joint appeal for action on July 27th in response to the…

  • Observer: “We suffer together, we leave together”

    from the Observer, Sunday July 30th By Fida Qishtais, a 23 year old community activist and educator from Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She founded Lifemakers Center which serves 300 children in Rafah. July 13th After two weeks of waiting with my parents and brother at the Egyptian border crossing, I returned home to Rafah,…

  • PHCR: “Four from One Family Killed and 3 Injured in Gaza City, 20 Killed and 193 Injured in El-Maghazi and Nablus”

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 22 July 2006, 11:00 GMT Large scale destruction in houses, agricultural fields, infrastructure, and governmental and security buildings In another crime of disproportionate use of lethal force, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 4 members of one family on Friday, 21 July 2006. A mother, her 2 sons, and the sons’…

  • B’Tselem: Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields

    report from B’Tselem, 20th July 2006 B’Tselem’s initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield. After seizing control of the buildings, the soldiers held six residents,…