National Lawyers Guild For Immediate Release—February 5, 2009 Contact: Paige Cram, NLG Communications Coordinator, 212-679-5100, ext.15 Gaza—On its second day in Gaza, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) delegation witnessed the rubble of the American International School in Gaza. An Israeli ...
Read More »Saturday January 17 – Starting again
Sharon Lock | Tales To Tell Let me start with the good news. I found it surprisingly destabilising having to evacuate the hospital. Since the strikes began, I have spent more nights here than anywhere else, and it began to ...
Read More »Israeli military shell UNRWA school
17th January 2009, Beit Lahiya, Gaza: An UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya is being shelled by the Israeli Army. International Human Rights Activists are at the scene, assisting in the evacuation of families to neighboring buildings. Irish Human Rights Activist ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »European MEPs enter Gaza
Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament, and the MEPs delegation entered to Gaza Strip, today 11th January 2009, through Rafah border crossing. The delegation – composed by 8 MEPs belonging to different political groups and by one Member ...
Read More »Jan 5 night shift / UNRWA refugee schools attacked
By Sharon in Gaza talestotell.wordpress.com Evacuated after multiple rocket hits destroyed their home 8pm: I am due at Al Quds hospital for a Red Crescent shift at 8pm, but as I am finishing up writing with the seaside apartment’s generated ...
Read More »23 hours in Jabaliya
By Sharon in Gaza talestotell.wordpress.com January 4, 6pm – January 5, 5pm 6pm: To Al Awda hospital, run by the Union of Health Work Committees. It normally has a 50 bed capacity but has been stretched to 75. E and ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Stop the bombing of Gaza! Prevent a humanitarian crisis!
UPDATE: Since this Action Alert was posted, the shelling of Gaza has continued almost non-stop. Eight days [now 17 days] and thousands of shells later, the assault on Gaza continues. Israel has vowed that it will continue to intensify the ...
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