Tag: Gaza
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Air strike in south east Gaza City: “For the West, you have abandoned us to death”
by Rosa Schiano 15 February 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Saturday night Israeli F-16’s bombed civilian targets in several areas of the Gaza strip. One of these strikes killed a man and injured his son in the neighborhood of al-Zaytoon, south-east Gaza city. An F-16 dropped a bomb on a farm just before midnight. The watchman…
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Dying to live: A hunger striker speaks in Gaza
by Joe Catron 14 February 2012 | Mondoweiss As hundreds of Palestinians rallied in Gaza today to demand that Israel release Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan, Yassar Salah, a 17-year veteran of Israel’s prison system, spoke about Adnan’s 60-day hunger strike and his own reasons for joining it. “We are on hunger strike to show…
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In photos: On hunger strike in Gaza
by Mya Guarnieri 10 February 2012 | Alternative Information Center A number of Gazans have joined Khader Adnan’s hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions that Palestinian political prisoners face in Israeli jails. Israel often holds Palestinians in administrative detention without charges, depriving detainees of their right to due process. Adnan has been on hunger…
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Entering the deadly zone, demonstration in front of Erez
7 February 2012 | Chroniques de Palestine Since 2008, demonstrations are organized in front of Erez in Beit Hanoun. This is in defiance of the “no go zone” imposed unilaterally by the Israelis. Any person who approaches the Green Line is under risk of being shot at. In fact many farmers; or rubble collectors have…
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Happy birthday, dear Vittorio (RIP)
by Shahd Abusalama 4 February 2012 | Palestine from My Eyes As I realized today’s date, the 4th of February, a stream of memories flooded into my mind. Today, last year, marked my dear friend Vittorio Arrigoni’s last birthday I spent with him. I remember it was a nice, rainy Friday. I felt happy to…
