Moral Indignation

BY Mazin Qumsiyeh,

 At around 3 PM Wednesday February 10 2010, a friend who lives near the area of the threatened land of Ush Ghrab called to say the military just arrived and are bulldozing the top of the hill. This hill of over 1000 dunums is in Beit Sahour surrounded by Palestinian homes on all sides. From this hill the soldiers shelled the town destroying and damaging many homes. But the Israeli occupation army vacated the military base in 2006 (a site of nonviolent resistance for many years). I arrive within five minutes

Life is worth in this world

Today most of the world population celebrates to receive 2009 to receive the New Year 2009 with joy and pleasure, everyone waiting for the New Year with hope to achieve all wishes in 2009. Many could not celebrate it even they could not think what to wish, because their wishes and hopes are one with no change every year since 60 year and we hope to achieve the dream of one people to establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital and to live in peace with our neighbors. Here we welcome the

New Holocaust 2008

Death shrouds the hallways of Gaza City’s Ash-Shefa medical compound Saturday, its smell creeping in from all corners.

Amputated bodies are strewn throughout hallways because morgues in the city can no longer accommodate the dead

In one corner a man stands with his seven year old son in a cardboard box because the hospital ran out of sheets to cover the dead with. This is how he will carry him home and bury him.

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Goodbye to Reuters Cameraman Fadel Shana’a

It seems is not enough to bid farewell to those killed on a daily basis; the funerals are not enough. Today we are bidding farewell to one of our own. He is Reuters cameraman, Fadal Shana’a, in the Gaza Strip. His absence was created by the Israeli war machine, which originally did not stop at killing our parents and loved ones. This is the price of our struggle for freedom, and our efforts, as journalists, to deliver our message to the entire world.

Fadel is not the first one, and certainly not the last. The Israeli occupation still continues, but the loss is too big to handle, and the pain is huge, not only for