Recently, a friend guided me to a refugee camp in western Gaza by the beach, called the al-Shati Camp. The camp, whose residents include 84,000 Palestinian refugees forced by the Israelis to leave their homes in 1949, is the oldest and largest camp in the Strip.
Read MoreGaza Youth and NGOS use CONFERENCE CALLS to overcome blockade Using Light to Open Markets, Share Culture, Request Emergency Aid
Read MoreA brief update on yesterday’s Israeli High Court hearing on the Khan Al Ahmar Ab al Helu case as provided by OHCHR.
Read MoreBroken down by subject, this is the latest news across the globe on the Khan Al Ahmar crisis.
Read MoreAdv. Shlomo Lecker, summarises Al Khan al Ahmar High Court hearing of 25.4.18, which heard:
Kfar Adumim, Nofei Prat and Alon settlers’ petition to demolish the local school
A petition by the village against demolition and forced relocation
A petition by parents of the pupils against demolition of the school and
A request by 15 settlers from Kfar Adumim demanding a “peaceful solution“ to take the rights and voice of the Bedouin into consideration.
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Read MoreWhen you live mired in poverty, every detail of daily life is a challenge. Abeer and Salah al-Akharsah, along with their seven children (and an eighth on the way), live in a remote area of the Gaza Strip—Eraiba, northwest of Rafah. Salah, 41, used to earn a decent income as a trader of goods transported through the tunnels connecting Gaza with Egypt.
Read MoreI was not prepared for what I found when I visited the al-Malalha family in Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip. Their street was lightless, but the dim glow of the moon helped me see so I could walk without tripping. It was lined with farmland and greenhouses. Nothing could be heard but the sound of crickets.
Read MoreOver the past 10 years, three wars waged on the Gaza Strip have had devastating effects on the population of 2 million in both large and small ways. Since the first war in 2008/09, says Hedaya Abu Lehia, a technician assistant at the El-Amal Audiology Clinic, Gaza has seen a 30 percent increase in hearing impairment. The reason, she reports, is the exposure to loud explosions.
Read MoreThere's an old axiom that says, "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." However, the Women's Programs Centre in Gaza's city of Rafah believes it should be rewritten this way, "Teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime."
Read MoreNo Israeli media outlet sends its reporters to cover this one-sided war. If a year ago we were astonished at the number of house demolitions among Bedouin citizens in the Negev (1,158 in 2016), in the last year it turns out that the number has doubled! The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz has reported that 2,220 Bedouin homes were demolished in 2017! This means that, in the Negev, the government of Israel is waging a unilateral war against its Bedouin citizens. It euphemistically calls the war "law enforcement."
Read MoreIn the West Bank's Jordan Valley settlers often expel Palestinian shepherds from their pasture lands.
On March 6, 2018 settlers from Umm Zuka in the northern Jordan Valley started to expel Palestinian shepherds. Guy Hirshfeld, an activist in the "Ta'ayush" organization, called the police and asked them to arrest the attackers. Instead of arresting the lawbreakers, the police arrested Guy and charged him with making a false claim. He was released a few hours later with an order forbidding him to enter the area for five days and his cell phone was confiscated.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Nov. 21st, the Government of Israel, as required by its High Court, finally responded: they will demolish 20% of the village of Susiya on or before December 6th — before the High Court even hears Susiya's case, leaving dozens of residents (half of them children) homeless. The Government of Israel is waiting to ‘enforce demolition’ of the remaining homes once new rules are in place supporting expansion of illegal Israeli settlements.
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