“Palestine IDP Figures Analysis IDMC estimates that there are at least 263,000 IDPs in Occupied Palestine (West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem) as of 03 October 2014 This figure includes Palestinians who were displaced within the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem since the start of Israel’s occupation in 1967. The figure…

Still no news of the civilians taken as prisoners by the IOF during their occupation of Khuzaa and other border regions during the 51 day assault on Gaza. Khuzaa in the South East of Gaza suffered one of the most brutal and viciously inhumane attacks on a defenceless civilian population. Over 300 prisoners were reported…

The mass traumatization of children in Gaza during the 51 day Israeli offensive. This is shocking & harrowing testimony. “In Gaza those who have suffered most, inevitably say the least. It is the hallmark of victims everywhere but in the teeming coastal enclave the reminders of Palestinian dispossession, of repeated military assaults, of irreplaceable loss…

Omar Mohammed Shaheen, a father of four, describes what it was like returning to his neighborhood in Beit Lahiya, Gaza after taking shelter in an UNRWA school during Israel’s latest assault. “During the first humanitarian ceasefire, I set out to go back home to check on the area and to collect more clothes and necessities for my family. I drove my car from the UNRWA school shelter where we were…

Threads that connect us all If you ask me what i remember of the Israeli assault on Gaza November 2012, there is one memory that springs immediately to my mind. It had been a night of relentless bombing. The constant whine of F16s returning with yet another cargo of death. Hearing their engines, harbingers of…

Help Age International. This article was in fact written in April 2013 prior to the Israeli Offensive that began on the 8th July 2014 and rained bombs down on Gaza for 51 days. There are 191,000 people aged 60 or over living in the occupied Palestinian Territory, thats 4.4% of the total population. These are…

There are very few photographers who create art in the way that Ezz Al Zanoon does. His photographs are astounding in both composition and vision.  For me, this is an artist expressing his deepest inspiration that unfurls skywards from the rubble and dust of an apocalyptic devastation that is Gaza. Every photograph inspires me to write…

“Palestine was an innocent child bride sold into marriage by its adopted family and then abused, violated, beaten and raped by an enforced husband who invaded her body and took what is precious to her and left her to slowly bleed to death in a room without light or hope. We as her family are…

When pain paralyses your heart and grief tears at your soul you scream to God for the power to turn back time. You wish it could have been you who was taken, not your child. Not the child you brought into this world with the wish that their lives could be better than yours, the…

Every child in Gaza has a story to tell. Through the cracks in the walls they see the world as a prism of fear and grief. They clamber through the jagged entrails of their homes. They watch the skies for death. They write the names of their dead friends in the dust. They are alive…