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- Another Week Under Israeli Occupation: June 18-24, 2009
Five Palestinian civilians, including a journalist, and an international human rights defender were wounded. IOF conducted 19 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including two children, in the West Bank. IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from [...]
- Raji Sourani on Inter-Palestinian Repression
“We as Palestinians have experienced political detention and abuse for 41 years under the Israeli occupation, and now we are doing it to ourselves.” (more…)
- Israeli War Crimes
Amer al-Dayah, 28, is the only member of a family of 23 who survived the bombardment of his parents’ house. The dead included his parents, three brothers, three sisters-in-law, two sisters and 12 nieces and nephews. Al-Alami shows some of the photos in the files. One depicts a child’s head in the rubble, eyes wide [...]
- From the Palestinian Center for Human Rights
War Crimes Against Children: new report on the 313 children killed during Gaza offensive
- “I Know Every Inch of This Land…”
Jamal says his land has been bulldozed many times. ‘When our trees were first destroyed in 2002 we replanted them’ he says. ‘But our land was bulldozed again in 2003, then 2004, and the following years as well. Every time we replanted, the bulldozers would come back and destroy our work again. We had been [...]
- The Only BMW Shop In Gaza
Nasser Al ‘Amoudi, with his biker’s jacket and sunglasses, embodies the essence of a car enthusiast. For years he has been the proud owner of the only BMW spare parts shop in the Gaza Strip. People would travel from every corner to purchase second hand parts from his shop. Now Nasser’s workshop and garage, which [...]
- Zionist Moral Relativism: We Only Killed 295 Civilians
The tally says 295 civilians lost their lives — about a third of the figure of 926 reported by Gaza’s Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (www.pchrgaza.org), which published a full list of names earlier this month. (more…)
- Kris Petersen: Waiting To Enter Gaza
If there is a single act that characterizes the plight of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation, it is waiting: waiting in lines to pass through the hundreds of checkpoints scattered across the West Bank, waiting for Israel to issue an identification card, waiting for permission to travel to the next village or out of [...]
- Standards of the IDF
‘My impression is that IDF behaved ethically and morally. If there were incidents, they were limited,’ says Gabi Ashkenazi in his first response to soldiers’ testimonies on wrong doings in Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead. (more…) Limited? 960 of 1,434 dead?
- Gaza’s Aftermath
The three week long shooting-fish-in-a-barrel exercise killed, on the Palestinian side, 280 children and minors, 111 women, and 503 male noncombatants. Gaza police accounted for 167 of the dead; can you just read off Gaza police as “Hamas militants”? Or were they traffic cops & etc.? The Palestinian Center for Human rights estimated that the [...]
- Our Humanity is At Stake
International Humanitarian Law represents a bare minimum, a threshold which, in the interests of humanity, must not be crossed. It is apparent that IOF have systematically and repeatedly violated this humanitarian threshold, and in doing so are committing war crimes against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. The 194 High Contracting Parties to the [...]
- PCHR: 19th Day of Continuous Attacks
47 Palestinians killed during reporting period, including 40 civilians: Victims include 11 Children and 3 Women: Overall Gaza death toll mounts to 983, including 673 civilians, of whom 225 are children: IOF continue to fire incinerating bombs across the Gaza Strip: IOF continue to destroy houses and raze agricultural land, forcing families to flee their [...]
- The Bloodiest Day in the History of Israel’s Occupation
PCHR condemns in the strongest terms the war waged by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against the Gaza Strip through a wide scale aerial offensive, which has so far targeted dozens of police headquarters and stations, public and governmental buildings and security sites throughout the Gaza Strip. PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High [...]
- PCHR: Israel Violates Gaza Truce
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of six Palestinians carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza Strip yesterday evening and this morning. The victims were all killed by air strikes. This escalation is the first of its kind since the Tahdi’a (the Egyptian-brokered [...]
- Louisa Waugh: Life Inside the Siege of Gaza
Karim, the Palestinian who drove me to the Gaza Strip, was very quiet. As we sped out of Jerusalem in his comfortable private taxi, he said very little, except to ask if I would give his friend Rami a box of cigarettes when I arrived. “I’ve worked with Rami for eight years now,” he said, [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: Harvesting in Hope
On a hot afternoon during the month of Ramadan, there are few better places to be than resting beneath the shade of an orchard of guava trees, with the scent of fresh ripening fruit wafting around you. Farmer Sa’id Al-Agha sits quietly, his eyes resting on his fruit trees. ‘My father and my grandfather both [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: Deadline Looms For Another Student Trapped Inside Gaza
During the last two days of August, the Egyptian authorities permitted approximately 3,300 people to cross the Gazan border at Rafah into Egypt ‘for humanitarian reasons’. Those who entered Egypt included Gazan patients, students, and an undisclosed number of Egyptians who had been stranded inside the Gaza Strip. The sight of more than fifty busloads [...]
- In Greece, Again.
I must excuse myself, yet again, for the recent lack of content on this site – but I am in Athens with Ilektra. As we know, Greece has only recently ben introduced to the internet and they haven’t yet graduated to broadband, so I am stuck with a crappy dial-up connection for now. Believe me, [...]
- Luisa Morgantini: Tony Blair Is Not Performing His Duty
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 [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: “We Could not Even Bury our Daughter”
On June 11, eight year old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in south eastern Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Less than a week earlier, eight year old Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF helicopter. These two young girls had been living just a [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: Eighteen Years of Work Destroyed in Four Hours
“They came at four in the morning, with two bulldozers, and they left before 8am. I own this chicken farm with my three brothers, and we worked day and night for eighteen years to build up our business. The Israelis destroyed everything in less than four hours.” Nasser Jaber’s chicken farm was bulldozed by the [...]
- PCHR: 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing
May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically cleansed en masse in a premeditated and organized campaign carried out by armed Zionist militia. Historical accounts indicate that the forced migration of Palestinians from their homeland had been planned well in advance. The establishment [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: Abu al-Kass Mini-Market, Gaza City
“There have been rapid price increases over the last few months because of the closure. Three months ago, for instance, a litre of corn oil cost 19 Shekels (the equivalent of $4.5). Now it costs 29 Shekels ($7). The price of flour has also doubled; three months ago a kilo of flour was 2 Shekels. [...]
- Narratives Under Siege: Abed Rabbo St., East Jabalia
“I heard shooting, then screaming. I rushed upstairs to see what had happened, and they were both on the floor. Jaqueline was already dead, but Iyad was still alive. The neighbours called an ambulance and we ran to the hospital with him, but he died as soon as we arrived.” East Jabaliya in the northern [...]
