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My humiliation does not make Israel more secure
The 100-mile journey of leaving Gaza took 12 hours, six checkpoints, and interrogations so humiliating that a year later, I am still reliving the trauma. By Anas Almassri On July 31, 2018 the Palestinian Civil Affairs office called me at 10:08 a.m., while I was sitting at my desk in Gaza on what had begun…
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September 24, 2019
Palestinian battling cancer is denied exit from Gaza for treatment
The medical care Ahlam Abu Musa needs isn’t available through Gaza’s debilitated health system, but the Israeli army has denied all four of her exit requests. By Amjad Yaghi Ahlam Abu Musa was diagnosed with bone cancer last May. The 20-year-old from Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, has since tried to obtain…
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February 8, 2019
From Gaza to Bethlehem: Celebrating Christmas under occupation
Photographer Samar Hazboun captures the subtle, intimate moments of Palestinians celebrating Christmas under siege and occupation, following three families from the Gaza Strip to Bethlehem in the West Bank.
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December 27, 2018
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Escaping Gaza is easier now — for Palestinians who can afford it
Egypt has kept the Rafah crossing from Gaza continuously open since May, diverging from a years-long policy. But leaving the Strip is only the first of many challenges. By Pam Bailey and Fadi O. Al-Naji GAZA CITY — Um Ibrahim tried but failed to persuade her youngest son to reverse his decision to emigrate. The…
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November 27, 2018
Love under siege in Gaza
In honor of Valentine’s Day, three tales from Gaza of the impossible conditions for families and couples created by Israel’s closure of the Strip. By Tania Hary To receive a permit to travel to and from Gaza via Erez Crossing, Israel must determine that your reason for travel is humanitarian in nature or that you…
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February 14, 2017
Turning Gaza’s humanitarian disaster into Israel’s bargaining chip
If Defense Minister Liberman, along the entire political and military echelon, know the extent to which Gaza’s residents are suffering, why do they insist on using that suffering as a bargaining chip? By Rachel Beitarie Something strange happened in the middle of last week: Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman decided to give an interview to the…
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November 3, 2016
West Bank, Gaza gear up for Palestine’s biggest sporting event
This year’s Palestine Cup, the biggest sporting event in the Palestinian territories, pits Hebron’s Ahly al-Khalil against Shabab Khan Younis. Could reconciliation on the field pave the way for national reconciliation? By Yoni Mendel One of Jibril Rajoub’s greatest achievements as the Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association, if not the greatest, took place a year ago. For the…
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July 24, 2016
Every day is a ‘wave of violence’ for Palestinians
Where are Jewish Israelis when Palestinians find themselves under attack? When entire villages are demolished? When health care is conditioned on providing intelligence? When people are imprisoned without even the courtesy of a conviction? By Tom Mehager For Palestinians, every day is a wave of terror. And every day Jews stand idly by. It’s just…
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October 12, 2015
10 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours as deadly attacks continue
A seventh Palestinian succumbs to his wounds following Friday’s deadly clashes on the Gaza border. Further shootings and attacks into Saturday morning show few signs that the surge in violence is abating. A total of seven Palestinians have now been killed as a result of IDF fire at protests along the Gaza Strip’s border fence,…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
October 10, 2015
For the IDF, marriage isn’t a ‘humanitarian need’
What kind of future is Israel offering Palestinian women when they can’t even obtain permits to leave the country in search of a better life? Amira Hass published an article in Haaretz last week about the Israel government rejecting a request by a young woman from Gaza to travel to Turkey in order to get…
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Haggai Matar
March 8, 2015
Israel’s truthiness on Palestinian academic freedom
In denying that Israel limits academic freedom in Palestine, the Israeli embassy in Washington seems to forget about the Palestinian students and academics whose movement it restricts. By Sari Bashi The Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. recently decried as baseless “the accusation that Israel arbitrarily limits the entry of foreign nationals who seek to lecture,…
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January 13, 2015
From Gaza to Salameh: A Palestinian refugee’s journey home
A Palestinian refugee from Gaza journey’s to his family’s hometown in present-day Tel Aviv. Standing on what used to be the village cemetery, he feels the ghosts of the past as he must reckon with the currently reality. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio (translated by Charles Kamen) On International Human Rights Day, he took advantage of his…
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December 14, 2014
Resource: How the Shin Bet holds Gazans’ health ransom
A 2008 report by Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, detailing for the first time the methods Israel’s domestic security services use to exploit the medical needs of Gaza Strip residents in order to extort them into becoming collaborators for Israel. In September 2014, dozens of Israeli army intelligence reservists publicly spoke out…
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September 16, 2014
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