Tag: Red Crescent

  • Words & Images

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell In their own words: It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day…If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist…Unilateral separation doesn’t guarantee “peace” – it guarantees a Zionist-Jewish state…

  • Jan 18: At the Samouni house

    Sharon Lock | ISM Volunteer The planes are still buzzing overhead, but there have been no explosions near me today. However this supposed ceasefire from Israeli’s side since 2am does not seem to have extended to Beit Hanoun, where there was shelling this morning and F16s were attacking. You can see 4 video clips I…

  • Summary execution in southern West Bank

    Palestine News Network During the killing of over 1,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the demonstrations against them the occupation remains in the West Bank. This week a family lost their father in Hebron. Yasser Saqr Ismail Tameizi had his six year old son with him. They were working on their land in Ithna…

  • Eyewitness from Al Quds Hospital attack

    Sharon Lock | The Independent View from Gaza: The ambulance driver Sharon Lock, an Australian from the International Solidarity Movement, was working as an ambulance driver for the Palestinian Red Crescent when its Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City came under Israeli attack yesterday. One shell landed outside the building about 10 yards from the incubators…

  • UNRWA emergency shelters and bombed schools

    Across Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is setting up emergency shelters in its schools. Despite two such shelters being cynically targeted by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza last week, many families still seek refuge in UNRWA schools simply because they have nowhere else to go. The massacre on 6th January at…