Gaza Mondoweiss
Posted By admin on September 3, 2015
Kate on August 26, 2015
Maan and MEMO report: The healthcare system in the Gaza Strip is on the verge of collapse, Gazas Ministry of Health said Monday, warning that hospitals could stop operating within hours due to the territorys energy crisis. Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the ministry, said that Shifa Hospital, Kamal Adwan hospital, the European Gaza Hospital, and Rantisi Hospital could stop offering services because they are about to run out of fuel. The Ministry holds the national unity government accountable for any harm that may befall their patients due to the governments lack of responsibility.
Robert Ross on August 26, 2015
Robert Ross reports from a recent trip to Gaza: Indeed, despite 12 months of relative peace, Gazans are still enduring the aftermath of three Israeli wars in the past six years, an ongoing Israeli and Egyptian imposed blockade, a crippled economy, and internal political strife. Everyone here100 percent of the peopleare suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Hamza said. Just moments earlier, he and his brother instinctively ducked their heads upon hearing a nearby firework explode. This sentiment was echoed numerous times by the doctors, public health officials, journalists, artists, and aid workers I spoke with throughout my visit to Gaza.
Isra Saleh El-Namy on August 21, 2015
Egypt recently opened the Rafah crossing with Gaza for four days; the first time it had been open in over two months. Isra Saleh El-Namy interviews people trying to leave Gaza through Rafah, including families trying to receive medical treatment, students attempting to return to school and workers hoping to return to jobs. Suhaib Sameh, a university student who had been stranded in Gaza says, I started to feel as if I am living in a nightmare.
Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi on August 19, 2015
Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi writes about his friend Ali Abu Afash, who was killed by an unexploded Israeli missile last summer in Gaza: Ali, you were killed by a missile but you still live in my mind and heart. I will continue fight for freedom and defend journalists rights, and in this way your work and journalistic spirit will continue.
Dr. Belal Dabour on August 17, 2015
A new disturbing report released by UNRWA shows once again the toll the Israeli siege exacts on the Gaza population. For the first time in five decades, the infant mortality rate in Gaza has reversed trend and risen. The UN cites the blockade imposed on the strip as a factor which may be contributing to the trend.
Isra Saleh El-Namy on August 10, 2015
Said Al-Yacoubi on August 10, 2015
18 students in Gaza who were supposed to travel to study in Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan and Germany have been prevented from doing so. Said al-Yacoubi was one of the lucky ones.
Shrouq El-Aila on July 24, 2015
Shrouq El-Eila from the We Are Not Numbers project writes about Gaza musicians Ghada Shoman, 20, and her brother Mohammed, 16. Now my voice and my brothers guitar are our weapons, Ghada says. During the last offensive on Gaza (in the summer of 2014), the resistance was inspired by national songs of bravery and a vision of future freedom. And now, so are we.
Jonathan Cook on July 22, 2015
Catherine Baker on July 15, 2015
The spirits of the more than 2,000 Palestinians who were killed in Israels 50-day military operation against Gaza last summer have been immortalized in the posters that have emerged from the conflict. Catherine Baker from the Palestine Poster Project Archives discusses 10 posters created in response to last summers attacks that demonstrate the power with which artists wield their tools to record history, influence the discourse, and effect action.
Josh Ruebner on July 14, 2015
Five children in the Abu Jarad family were killed, and a family erased by an Israeli Apache helicopter attack a year ago. The U.S. funds Israels military machine, and insures that there is never accountability for war crimes. A Capitol Hill briefing on July 29 led by the US Campaign to End the Occupation aims to end that immunity.
Allison Deger on July 10, 2015
For months rumors have circulated that Hamas has held two Israeli citizens and the remains of two soldiers captive in the Gaza Strip for almost a year. Following a motion filed by the Israeli daily Haaretz, a gag order concealing the cases was lifted yesterday prompting Israeli officials to addressed the matter publicly for the first time. Israel confirmed Ethiopian-Israeli Avraham Mengitsu, 28, and one other are detained in Gaza, along with the bodies of two soldier killed during the summer war.
Annie Robbins on July 8, 2015
Dan Cohen on July 7, 2015
Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad on July 7, 2015
In the course of fifty-one dark days last summer, nearly 2,200 Palestinians were killed in Gaza; about a quarter of them were children, many of whom were deliberately targeted during Israeli Operation Protective Edge. Read the introduction to the new book Gaza Unsilenced edited by Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad which seeks to share an accurate and humanistic narration of the Palestinian story that is Gaza.
Dan Cohen on June 29, 2015
Every Monday, Palestinians in Nuseirat refugee camp rummage through piles of secondhand Israeli junk in the cheapest market in the Gaza Strip. Dan Cohen finds several t-shirts that include military insignia for the army that slaughtered so many in Gaza.
Allison Deger on June 25, 2015
Anas Jnena on June 24, 2015
The Palestine News Network announced this week that the suicide rate in the Occupied Territories jumped 68.4 percent last year. In Gaza, Al-Shifa Hospital said that at least one person attempted suicide every day. Gaza writer Anas Jnena shares one story of an attempted suicide in the besieged Gaza Strip that helps sheds light on the statistics.
Allison Deger on June 24, 2015
Jerome Slater on June 22, 2015
The UN Human Rights Commission report on last summers Gaza war is inappropriately balanced. It is more or less equally critical of Israeli and Hamas actions, without regard to the differences between the vast and horrific extent of civilian destruction caused by Israel and the far lesser civilian deaths and destruction that resulted from the largely ineffective Hamas attacks. Scholar Jerome Slater
Allison Deger on June 15, 2015
Dan Cohen on June 13, 2015
Contrary to popular media portrayal of Hamas and IS battling for control of Gaza, IS is a small unpopular group and though it has the capability to make major waves, it is not about to wrest control of the Gaza Strip
Hayley Pearce on June 11, 2015
For 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza, of whom over 1.2 million are refugees, the Israeli siege and cyclical violence are insufferable. And yet, in addition to spreading the stories about suffering, the local and independent media landscape in Gaza has taken to reflecting the areas more multifaceted nature instead of the narrative we commonly see in the West. By alternating between beauty and sadness, journalists in Gaza are providing a jarring but honest representation of what living there really means.
Dan Cohen on June 4, 2015
Dan Cohen on May 22, 2015
Leila Najjar is 25 years old and six months pregnant. She and her husband Mohammed Sulaiman want to be together for their childs birth, but she may not see him for years. Thats because Najjar lives in Gaza and Israeli authorities wont let her pass through the Erez crossing to join Sulaiman who is studying in Australia. Najjar and her husband are not alone. Countless other Palestinian families are separated by Israeli restrictions as well.
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