Tag: Refugees

  • Palestinian, you are on your own!

    Natalie Abou Shakra | Gaza 08 He said, “Your wife is beautiful, I want to sleep with her.” During the interrogation, they would hit us extensively. They prevent us from sleeping, urinating, drinking and eating. During my friend’s interrogation, they brought in his wife. They touched her breasts, her sensitive areas in front of him.…

  • 1967: Abandoned and rejected

    By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent. I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children are grown up and college educated – three of them married with children. I’m far…

  • Al Nakba Remembered

    By Joharah Baker | MIFTAH On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Although it is not unprecedented in history that countries gain their independence through war, either by conquest or by flinging off the yoke of colonization, there are few examples in history that match the circumstances under which Israel was created. The Palestinians,…

  • Israeli soldiers opened fire on a small group of children in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp

    by Kristin Ess Just over an hour ago Israeli soldiers opened fire on a small group of children in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp. The Israeli occupying army entered the camp, as they do most days and nights, in jeeps,with their tanks rumbling on the side roads. The Israeli soldiers were throwing tear gas into the…