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Stories of Two Little Girls From Gaza

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Here are two stories from two very bright young ladies from Gaza, Occupied Palestine.

The first one is a moving clip taken from an Arabic TV show where she tells her story.

Watching it made me and my family cry, so I decided to translate it and share it with you. (Hat tip: Rasheed)

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Narratives Under Siege: We Could not Even Bury our Daughter

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Two eight year old girls have been killed by the IOF in the Gaza Strip in less than a week.

Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar (right) was killed by a rocket fired from an Israeli helicopter.

On June 11, eight year old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in south eastern Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Occupation [...]

Narratives Under Siege: Gaza’s 700 Stranded Students

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Hadeel Abu Kwaik is one of 7 students whose Fulbright scholarships were recently withdrawn, then swiftly reinstated by the US State Dept. But almost 700 other students remain stranded in Gaza

Few days ago, on 1 June, Hadeel Abu Kwaik was sitting in her computer lab at Al-Azhar University in Gaza looking worried, and perplexed. Today, [...]

Freedom Rider: Slow Death in Gaza

Friday, June 6th, 2008

By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and Nobel [...]

URGENT APPEAL TO ALL ACADEMICS: CONDEMN U.S. GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN BLOCKING PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO MOVEMENT AND ADVOCATE MEASURES TO PRESSURE ISRAEL

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

The news that the US State Department has decided to cancel all previously approved Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza is deeply shocking. In yet another clear demonstration of US complicity with the Israeli occupation regime, the State Department has decided to withdraw the grants for graduate studies in the US because Israel has [...]

Gaza blockade is ‘human rights crime’: Carter

Monday, May 26th, 2008

In a speech at a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, in Wales, the 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said: “There is no reason to treat these people this way,” referring to the blockade, in place since the Islamist Hamas movement seized Gaza in June 2007.

While president from 1977 to 1981, Carter was the architect of the [...]

Special Needs Children in Gaza Denied Their Education Because of Chronic Fuel Shortages

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children runs a school for 275 non-hearing children, but the classrooms have been empty for almost 6 weeks, because there isn’t enough fuel to transport the pupils to school.
The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children runs a school for 275 non-hearing children, but the classrooms have been empty for almost 6 [...]

Gaza’s suffering children

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The Israeli occupation and its relentless attacks destroy the mental health and lives of children of Gaza, writes Saleh Al-Naami.

Every once in a while Ibrahim Hawash, 42, calls his wife Noha from his nightshift job to make sure that she has followed the treatment course prescribed by their family doctor for the involuntary urination of [...]

Animals of Gaza protest against Siege!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Gaza Strip, Tuesday, 11th of March 2008 (PCAS)- As siege of Gaza Strip still hitting all life aspects, some activists against siege expressed their anger towards the silent world. Tens of horses, camels, sheep, goats and donkeys rallied in front of the UN headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday in protest of Israel’s crippling blockade [...]

US sought to oust Hamas, sparking civil war

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Oh, what a surprise!?

(AFP) - US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice covertly sought to oust Hamas after the 2006 polls triggering a bloody Palestinian civil war, a US magazine alleged Tuesday.

Vanity Fair (full report below) said it had obtained confidential documents, which had been confirmed by US and Palestinian sources, [...]