Tag: UNRWA
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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 electricity, the strangest noise arrives from the sea. It is a whooshing sound like a…
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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 Mo interview Ala’a, the medic from Jabalia RC who was injured when Arafa was killed…
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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,…
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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 attack. Eighteen people are dead, including at two children, and many more are injured. Amnesty…