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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following the discovery of several COVID-19 cases outside designated quarantine areas. Since then, over 1,000 cases have been identified and ten...
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Israel stops providing cleaning products to Palestine detainees
Palestinian prisoners have today rejected their meals in protest against the Israeli Prison Service’s plans to stop supplying 140 products, including cleaning products, from the canteen and halt medical visits for detainees. There are approximately 1,200 prisoners in need of treatment who suffer from medical negligence. Some 700 urgently...
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Women call for Gaza crossings to reopen
Palestinian women protest at the Erez crossing in Gaza calling for an end to the siege ...
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Gaza journalists protest Israel violations, siege
'In Gaza, journalists are banned from their most basic rights - freedom of movement. Media equipment, as well as safety equipment, are also banned from being imported'...