by Rosa Schiano 7 January 2012 | il blog di Oliva On Tuesday there was another demonstration in Beit Hanoun against the “buffer zone” imposed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators also commemorated the over 1400 ...
Read More »7 January 2009 – The Mattar family
7 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “It would be great if someone could take me to the dessert and leave me there, that way I wouldn’t have to see people” At around 09:30 on 7 January 2009, ...
Read More »6 January 2009: Al-Dayah family
6 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “The bodies of nine of those killed were not found, including the bodies of my wife and my children. I tried my best with the civil defense personnel to find their ...
Read More »5 January 2009: Amal al-Samouni
5 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I have constant pain in my head, eyes and ears. I have been having nose bleeds for the past three years. I can still feel the shrapnel move inside my brain” On ...
Read More »4 January 2009: The Abdel Dayem family
4 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I was told initially that Arafa had been injured in an Israeli strike. Of course I was concerned, but many people get injured in his line of work and what was important ...
Read More »3 January 2009: Motee’ and Isma’il as-Selawy
3 January 2012 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “What affected us a lot psychologically is the fact that we were all praying in the mosque when we were attacked. The mosque is a place where we go when we need ...
Read More »2 January 2009: Eyad al-Astal
2 January 12 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “The second of January is no different from any other day. Every day and every minute feels like the moment when I lost my sons. In everything there is a memory of ...
Read More »1 January 2009: The Nasla family
1 January 12 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “I wish that if our fate is to die, that we die together, I wouldn’t want anybody left to have to bear this sort of pain” On 1 January 2009 at around ...
Read More »31 December 2008: The Abu Areeda family
31 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “Before my mother’s death we used to be very happy on 1 January, have celebrations and visit people. Now we are all silent in the last hour of each year and ...
Read More »30 December 2008: The Hamdan family
30 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights “When I wake in the morning the first thing I do is remember my children. I come and sit outside and picture them where they used to play. I don’t want ...
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