Oxygen, and other critical supplies still not arrived
Ram, Palestine 10 April 2002
Up until now, oxygen supplies have still not yet arrived to Rafeedia hospital in Nablus. Read more about Oxygen, and other critical supplies still not arrived
Ram, Palestine 10 April 2002
Up until now, oxygen supplies have still not yet arrived to Rafeedia hospital in Nablus. Read more about Oxygen, and other critical supplies still not arrived
East Jerusalem, Palestine 1 August 2002
From the point of view of a water engineer involved in emergency relief efforts, the latest Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been devastating. The IDF’s April takeover of the West Bank resulted in a total of $342M in physical damages, $7M of that in the water sector alone. Read more about IDF infrastructure destruction by bulldozer
Ram, Palestine 22 July 2002
Ayman missed his second birthday. He was only 18 months old. Mohammad did not pass the age of four, Diana was only five, Mona was killed with her children, four-years old Subhi and six-years old Mohammad, Mohammad al-Shawa died with his five-years old son, Diana Matar was only two months old and Ala Matar did not even get into high school, he was only eleven. Read more about 15 Palestinians killed, Sharon: 'A great success'
Gaza City, Palestine 23 July 2002
Heaps of concrete, broken pillars with wire sticking out, people’s shoes, clothes, bedding, strewn haphazardly among the rubble, dust everywhere, a hole in the landscape where a two-story apartment was just yesterday: ‘the hardest part for me is how familiar it has all become’. Read more about Letter from Gaza: Rising Up from the Dust
Ram, Palestine 26 July 2002
Wednesday night, I went to a concert of Vusi Mahlasela. He was performing in at the Jerusalem festival, a musical festival under the theme of ‘songs of freedom’. Vusi Mahlasela was born in Lady Selbourne in Pretoria, during the apartheid regime of South Africa. Read more about 'When you come back'
Gaza City, Palestine 27 July 2002
“Welcome to the Erez Crossing”. The sign on the way out of Gaza really says this. Yes. Greetings. Welcome to a half a mile of concrete barriers and barbed wire. Welcome to electrical wires and fortified soldiers’ bunkers. Read more about Welcome to the Erez Crossing: Glancing back at Gaza
Hebron, Palestine 29 July 2002
435 Israelis are nestled within the city limits of Hebron in co-habitation with approximately 180,000 Palestinians. The settlers are “guarded” by approximately 1,500 to 2,000 Israeli soldiers costing Israel millions of dollars in operations cost; the ratio is 1 settler to 4 soldiers guarding the post. Read more about Hebron Settlers
Beit Hanina, Palestine 29 July 2002
Armed Israeli settlers who went on a rampage throughout Hebron yesterday shot dead Nevine Musa Jamjoum, a 14-year-old Palestinian from the town. Read more about Settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron killing a child, seriously injuring others
Chicago, Illinois 31 July 2002
Ever since the horrific carnage in Gaza, when Israeli leaders knowingly, willfully and with malice aforethought dropped a 1,000kg bomb on a civilian apartment building killing 15 people, ten of them children, everyone has been expecting a bloody revenge against Israelis. Read more about A Missed Opportunity
Chicago, Illinois 10 April 2002
A 23-year-old mentally retarded man apparently wandered out of the hospital. An eyewitness saw him being chased by eleven Israeli soldiers who shot him dead. Read more about Random killing of civilians by Israeli occupation forces in Ramallah