Palestinian Man Self-Immolates to Protest Poverty and Unemployment in Gaza

 Tuesday September 04, 2012 09:44 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News A 20-year old Gazan man killed himself in a public act of protest Sunday, dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire. Palestinians at the Gaza border (image by Klearchos) The family of Ihab Abu Nada said that he was frustrated at being […]

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300 captives in Nafha desert prison on hunger strike for second day

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 12:11 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian sources said on Wednesday afternoon that 300 Palestinian captives in the Nafha desert prison are on hunger strike for the second day running. According to the sources the open-ended strike started on Tuesday and is lead by 300 Palestinian captives to protest the solitary confinement […]

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Palestinian girl “subjected to cruel treatment” in Israeli prison

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Monday, 26 September 2011 14:00| MEMO Bushra Jamal, 17, the daughter of the mayor of El Bierah in the Occupied West Bank, was taken from her father’s home in August. The Mandela Institute has reported that a Palestinian girl has been subjected to “cruel interrogation and detention” following […]

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Al-Mezan 2-year Ranged Report: “Israel” Used Cruel, Inhuman Treatment against Gazans

Local Editor | Al Moqawama Lebanon Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights issued on Wednesday a report on the torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip by the “Israeli” occupation forces (IOF). In this documentation of the human rights violations in the Gaza Strip, al-Mezan […]

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Hamas MP blasts Israel’s cruel treatment of prisoner

[ 04/04/2011 – 08:03 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– Hamas MP in Qalqilia Emad Nofal lashed out at the Israeli prisons service for its inhuman treatment of Palestinian prisoner Othman Younis from Qalqilia district. He said in a statement on Monday that what happened to Younis was the latest in a series of brutal treatment of […]

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Young Gazan fisherman shot in abdomen

17 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Yasser’s bullet wound A young curly-haired boy snores solemnly in a hot room in Al-Shifa hospital in central Gaza City. He lays wrapped in a blanket and is connected to a drip. His brothers and cousins sit around his bed on yet another hospital visit. “This is […]

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The Pirates of the Mediterranean

Mar-05-2011 16:31 | Vera Macht Salem-News.com “We are shot at by Israeli warships almost daily” – Mustafa, a Gaza fisherman Palestinian fishermen gather around a fishing boat hit by Israeli army naval fire at Gaza’s seaport; not 20, 6 or even three miles out to sea as different rules outline. Photo by Ismail Zaydah-Reuters   […]

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