Mohammed Asad
Mohammed Asad is an award winning photojournalist in Gaza
Items by Mohammed Asad
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- August 31, 2017 Mohammed Asad
No Eid treats in Gaza
Sellers and vendors have seen a decrease in customers due to the austerity Palestinians are facing due to PA's policies ...
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- August 30, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Protests as UN chief tours Gaza
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived for his first Israel-Palestine visit in the Gaza Strip today amid a cloud of anger from the families of prisoners with whom he refused to meet. The prisoners’ families protested at the Beit Hanoun crossing. Once Guterres arrived, his convoy was obstructed and they condemned...
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- August 21, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza's tailors stitch together uniforms for the new school year
The owners of the factories are complaining. One of them, Khaled Saqer, told MEMO that sales barely cover the cost of the uniforms. ...
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- August 18, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza takes flight
The pigeon race will be heading from Gaza City to Rafah, a distance of approximately 32 kilometres...
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- August 17, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza marks Palestinian victory
Palestinians in Gaza held mark the success of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation forces over the Al-Aqsa Mosque last month....
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- August 15, 2017 Mohammed Asad
The art of giving thrives in Gaza
Organisers of the Lamseh exhibition hope the event will grow and leave them able to help a greater number of orphans and people with special needs in the Gaza Strip...
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- August 14, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Egypt opens Rafah crossing for Gaza’s pilgrims
The first batch of pilgrims from the Gaza Strip have left Gaza via the Rafah crossing and headed to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj. Hisham Adwan, Palestinian director of the crossing, said that Egypt opened the crossing to allow the pilgrims to reach Cairo International Airport and fly to...
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- August 10, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gazans raise their voices and keep their traditions alive
Palestinian youths modernise folklore tales and put them to music...
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- August 9, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Indignation in Palestine at Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera
The Palestinian Ministry of Information stood in solidarity with Al Jazeera media network this morning against the decision of Israeli authorities to shut its offices in occupied Jerusalem and to withdraw the work permits of their correspondents inside Israel. Officials of the Ministry of Information and staff at Al Jazeera’s...
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- July 21, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Demonstrations in support of Al-Aqsa
Palestinians protest against the violations placed on Al-Aqsa Mosque in Gaza ...
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- July 20, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza teen draws with her feet after being born with no hands
Seventeen-year-old Palestinian Aya Masoud is unique; her skill is not only the artwork she produces, but the method she uses to make it. Born with no hands, Aya learnt to write and draw using her feet. She hopes that her drawings will be showcased in a gallery in the future. With...
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- July 12, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Palestinian students raise the bar in 2017
Palestinian achieve higher pass marks in 2017 than in previous years...
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- July 5, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Protests against PA’s policies in Gaza
Palestinians demonstrated outside the Abdul Aziz Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital yesterday in Gaza...
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- July 4, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza theatre gets lucky
When theatre meets politics. Gazan artists have set up a play named after 17 Palestinian governments formed since the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993...
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- June 23, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza builds ‘Wall of Blessings’ for Eid
The 'Wall of Blessings' has been set up ahead of the Muslim celebration of Eid in Gaza ...
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- June 21, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Egypt allows diesel into Gaza
Egypt allows diesel into Gaza to help get the Strip's electricity plant up and running on 21 June 2017...
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- June 19, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gazans knead Afghan bread this Ramadan
Bakers make tamees but with an Arabic twist...
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- June 12, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Ramadan fun in Gaza
The families of Palestinian prisoners were treated to a day out...
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- May 20, 2017 Mohammed Asad
164 Palestinians wounded by Israeli forces in West Bank, Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) reported yesterday that Israeli forces wounded 164 Palestinians as they cracked down on protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in solidarity with hunger strikers. In a statement, the PRC said that one of the Palestinians from Nablus suffered moderate injuries after he was...
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- May 13, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Third ‘Red Carpet’ human rights film festival begins in Palestine
The Red Carpet Festival aims to mark the right of return, the release of hunger strikers imprisoned in Israeli jails, the return of national unity, the end of the internal division between Palestinian factions and the return of the stable lives that Palestinians used to have....
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- April 30, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Palestinians in Gaza head to the coast
The electricity crisis has meant there is limited access indoor entertainment over the weekend... so Gazans head to the beach to cool off and chill out...
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- April 16, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gazan Christians celebrate easter
Many Palestinians from Gaza have been also been given permits to attend Easter celebrations in Jerusalem...
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- April 15, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza: Siege will blow up in Israel's face
Hamas organised a candlelight march throughout Gaza yesterday evening as part of a series of protests...
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- April 7, 2017 Mohammed Asad
Gaza fishermen catch large haul of stingrays
On their first day of sailing following a halt in fishing activity, Gazan fishermen have caught dozens of large stingrays off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Today was their first day to sail after a decision by the Palestinian interior ministry to halt fishing activity and venturing out into...