“Who outside of Syria knows the names Yara Abbas, Maya Naser, Mohamed al-Saeed…? The corporate media has inundated us with news of the two American journalists allegedly beheaded, the first of whose execution video has been deemedfaked. But what of the non-Western journalists and civilians beheaded and murdered by ISIS, al-Nusra, and associated terrorists in…
“Here is my KOBANI story: Jehan is a widow who has lived in Ayn Al Arab for 15 years. The western mainstream press insists on using the Kurdish name for the place, Kobani. They want to establish that the area is Kurdish, not Syrian.Regardless of ethnicity, the country it is located in the Syrian Arab…
Gaza Smile Project ~ The Magic Bus https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gaza-smile-project-the-magic-bus–2/x/8485984 As a result of the success of our campaign to raise money for school bags for the children of Gaza we are now working on a project to ensure that more of these children can get to school from their UN shelters. Many families have been…
“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…
“Most days Amal sits near the window and looks out at the street. She smokes too many cigarettes and drinks too many cups of coffee, but what else is there for her to do? She is past middle age, retired and has time to sit and think about those happy days gone by before the…
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…
The Wall Will Fall 