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Items by Wafa Aludaini
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There is no such thing as protective attire for journalists in Gaza
In a protest against the deliberate Israeli murders of their colleagues, Ismael Alghoul, and Rami Alrifi, in the Gaza Strip, a group of journalists threw their vests emblazoned with “PRESS” down on the ground before a podium, proclaiming that the supposedly protective attire is useless when the Israeli occupation...
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Human shields: Israel’s hidden atrocities in Gaza
Israeli occupation forces have repeatedly used Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the beleaguered Gaza Strip as human shields since 1976, placing civilian lives deliberately and unnecessarily at risk, according to reports by several international human rights organisations. During the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Israeli forces have...
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Famine and the rising death toll in Gaza
Two Palestinian children died last week of starvation, dehydration and lack of medicine amid desperate conditions in the southern areas of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health announced the death of Abdulqader Sirhi, 13, and seven-month-old Fayiz Abu Ataya, from malnutrition and lack of food and medicine at...
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The slaughter of Palestinian scholars in Gaza is a deliberate Israeli tactic
Throughout the 229 days of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has deliberately targeted and assassinated dozens of Palestinian scholars, scientists, academics and researchers along with their families. All were targeted while at home with their families or seeking refuge with relatives. This week, the Gaza...
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‘These airdrops claim our lives’: Aid airdrops reveal international failure and complicity in dehumanising Palestinians
International aerial drops of aid in the Gaza Strip are the result of further policies of collective humiliation and dehumanisation of the besieged population in Gaza. While Israel’s friendly countries race to demonstrate their aerial military capabilities over the Gaza sky to drop humanitarian aid into Gaza, what they...
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In resistance to Israel’s genocide, Palestinians unleash initiatives
Even under the genocidal eliminationist Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people nevertheless uphold their will to strive, to fight, to survive and maintain righteousness on their own land. Hundreds of individual and group initiatives have emerged and are flourishing from within the crucible of Gaza’s destruction and...
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Israel treats Palestinian detainees in a degrading way, in defiance of international law
Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on 27 October, the occupation forces have detained thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians, holding them incommunicado for weeks in unknown locations, refusing to reveal the detention sites and hostage numbers, while also banning the Red Cross, lawyers...
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Gaza exhales: Israel lifts Kerem Shalom export ban
After days of closure and exportation halts, on Friday, Israeli occupation authorities reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing to exports from the besieged Gaza Strip. The prevention of exit of all goods from the coastal enclave via the fully Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, the sole point of commercial import and...
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An extremely dangerous future awaits the West Bank
In the intensive care room in the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR) lies four-year-old Jibreel Sawarka. The Palestinian toddler is in an extremely critical condition after being hit in a car ramming attack by an Israeli settler in the Palestinian village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem in the...
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The UN's plan to cease food aid in Gaza will cause thousands of job losses, increase poverty
Dozens of Palestinian children rallied on Tuesday morning in front of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) headquarters in Gaza City to protest against the halt and suspension of the World Food Program (WFP) in the besieged Gaza Strip. The protesters called on the head of the UNDP to reverse the...
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How Israel targets Palestinian society through family separation
The Israeli occupation state makes every effort to disrupt and break up the social fabric of Palestinian communities, leading to domestic disorder. Sundry procedures have been implemented curbing the ability of separated Palestinian families to reunite. Despite this, Israel fails to break the spirit of the steadfast Palestinians who...
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6-year-old Palestinian dies after Israel denies him access to treatment outside Gaza
Six-year-old Farouq Mohammed Abu Naja died in the Gaza Strip after Israeli occupation authorities denied him access to medical care at Hadassah Medical Centre in occupied Jerusalem. A press release issued by Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights condemned the discriminatory restriction on movement and the arbitrary permit system imposed by...
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The world continues to turn a blind eye to Palestinian victims of torture
Each year on 26 June the world marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, yet turn a blind eye to the ongoing systematic torture and mistreatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails. Despite Israel’s accession to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,...
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Gaza’s fishermen struggling for a catch to feed their families
As International Workers’ Day approaches in the besieged Gaza Strip, the precarity of the fishing industry evokes a sense of persistence and insistence amid obvious anguish and hardship. Fishing along the blockaded coastal enclave is one of the most dangerous professions in the world, as fishermen can come under Israeli...
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On Palestinian Children’s Day, at least 160 of them languish in Israeli prisons
The Israeli occupation authorities detained more than 9,000 Palestinian children between 2015 and the end of March 2022, including 1,300 last year alone, an increase of 140 per cent on the figure for 2020. Indeed, since the outbreak of the Aqsa Intifada (Uprising) in September 2000, around 19,000 Palestinian...
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The healthcare crisis in Gaza demands immediate action to alleviate unnecessary suffering
Eleven-year-old Amal Lubbad was deep in thought when I met her in what has become her second home, Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. It was her third hospital visit this week. Five years ago, Amal was diagnosed with kidney failure, which requires her to have dialysis. A kidney transplant...
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For Gaza, relying on coal is the only way to survive the winter
Producing charcoal in the Gaza Strip is considered one of the most dangerous and demanding professions. There are only a handful of factories that operate in this field in spite of the long-standing practice of charcoal production as a result of the surplus citrus and olive wood. However, as with...
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I felt freedom when I heard my son call me ‘mama’, newly released Palestinian mother says
“After six years, I only felt freedom when I heard the word ‘Mama’ from my little son, who I left when he was only eight months old,” says mother of seven Nisreen Abu Kamil, who was released from the Israeli occupation’s prisons on 17 October. My biggest fear was that Ahmad would...
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Gaza’s students fight back after Israel tried to destroy their future
As Palestinian high school students celebrate their success in the Tawjihi exams and plan for the future, those in Gaza are still trying to rebuild their lives after Israel’s brutal bombing campaign in May. The Tawjihi exams were held just one month after the ceasefire was announced, which brought 11...
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Gaza’s children narrate how they survived the Israeli assault
Wafa Aludaini survived Israel’s latest assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, but it’s the tales of Palestinian children that have moved her to speak up...
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Frustrated by its losses, Israel is once again striking Gaza’s residents
After 11 days of Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday. Throughout the deadly attack on Gaza, Israeli occupation warplanes hit nine high-rise buildings, claiming they were being used as “military infrastructure”. Among the buildings destroyed was the Al-Jalaa Tower, which housed...
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Almond trees risk extinction as Israel’s occupation of Gaza continues
As we headed to the east of Deir AlBalah, a town in the middle of the Gaza Strip, I was shocked to see barren land. The area was once home to thousands of almond trees that dotted the landscape but farmers have been forced to uproot their trees and...
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Tunisia man discovers Palestine origins 30 years after his adoption
In 2005, not long after the death of his mother in Tunisia, Ayman knelt down next to her bed surrounded by her possessions and noticed a piece of paper on top of a box of unsorted items. It read: “According to the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organisation ...
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There’s no childhood in occupied Palestine
As the world marks International Children’s Day, Palestinian minors are still living under the constant threat of war, demolition and dispossession at the hands of the Israeli occupation...
