electricity

Israel Torture Palestinian Children by Electric-Shocking

by Stephen Lendman October 21, 2010

Gush Etzion settlement interrogator attached car battery jump leads to the genitals of a 14-year old boy in order to obtain a confession to stone throwing. Three documented cases of children reporting being given electric shocks by Israeli interrogators occurred in Ari’el Settlement. Each was accused of stone throwing. Electric shocking extracted confessions although the boys maintain their innocence.

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Israel Denies Gazans Access to Their Own Land and Waters

by Stephen Lendman September 19, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Throughout 43 years of occupation, Israel has waged war on Palestinians’ human rights and civil liberties, a new UN report providing more evidence that keeps mounting exponentially, adding clarity about an out-of-control rogue state operating lawlessly. On August 10, Haaretz writer Akiva Eldar cited it in an [...]

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The lights are going out on Gaza

by Mohammed Omer September 9, 2010

By Mohammed Omer* in Gaza City | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it’s approaching festive time. The prolonged electricity cuts, [...]

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Pitch black under siege

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Saleh Al-Naami | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Dr Moawya Hassanein, head of Emergency Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, warns that the lives of thousands of patients with kidney failure who require dialysis three times a week are at risk because of power failures. “There is little we can do at hospitals for [...]

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Powerless in Gaza

by SR Editor December 13, 2009

By Sharon Weinberger* (Spectrum**) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Palestinian power plant has endured bombings, embargoes and blockades: Can it ever fully power Gaza’s grid? Within days, the plant’s desperate engineers came up with a novel solution: They hooked up 170 twelve-volt car batteries to restart the plant’s turbines. To everyone’s amazement, including the [...]

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Living on a dime

by Omar Ghraieb November 1, 2009

By Omar Ghraieb * Some times “living on a dime” is just an expression we use when we are cutting some stuff off or maybe running some savings but for some people in some places this expression can be a literally a style of living. As we all know the world is divided into three [...]

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