Articles in the Beit Lahia Category
Beit Lahia, Chemical Warfare, Gaza, Hamas, Health, Israel, Military Occupation, Palestine »
I went to the burns department in Shifa hospital. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. These phosphorus burns. Their bodies were black. One person has stitches everywhere. It’s worse than killing people. They look like the living dead. I also went to the north, to Beit Lahiya. This was one of the most beautiful areas of farmland. Now it’s gone, you can’t recognise the place. I wanted to cry. (more…)
Beit Lahia, Gaza, Israel, Military Occupation, War Crimes »
On 4 Jan., the Israeli army shelled a home in Beit Lahiya. Ghadah Abu Halima reported that the house went up in flames and five of its occupants burned to death, four of them children. As the survivors made their way to hospital, soldiers fired at them. (more…)
Beit Lahia, Gaza, Israel »
A Palestinian man has been killed and two others injured in an Israeli air raid on the town of Beit Lahiya, Gazan medics have said. (more…)
Beit Lahia, Blair, Tony, European Union, Gaza, Health, Israel, Military Occupation, Palestine, Palestinian Center for Human Rights »
It’s a very negative signal that the International Quartet Envoy Tony Blair’s planned trip to the Gaza was cancelled yesterday, Tuesday 15th July, following what was described as “specific security threats that made the visit impossible”.
As a delegation of the European Parliament we visited, last June, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem. Our visit in Gaza was perfectly coordinated by UNRWA, and we didnt feel any sort of insecurity, but only despair and responsibility looking at the living conditions of the Palestinian population under an illegal siege (dont worry we also went to see the danger and the damages of the rockets fired on Sderot).
I really hope that the Israeli authorities’ pressures or other forces are not behind this decision by Tony Blair not to go to Gaza Strip, using the threat of security in order to prevent to witness the disaster of the blockade.
Palestinians, both in West Bank and in Gaza Strip, deplored the fact that Tony Blair had never visited the Strip, despite of the duties related to his role as Quartet Representative that include mobilizing international assistance to the Palestinians, working closely with donors and others, as well as helping to implement plans and concrete projects aimed to promote Palestinian economic development. (more…)
