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3 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strike
Three Palestinian militants including the local head of an armed group were killed in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp of Gaza City, medics and security sources said. They said an air-to-ground missile struck their car in Shati camp, killing Nidal al-Amudi, a head of Al-Aqsa [...]

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Done, for now: report of photography in Israel and Palestine, November – January 2008

Chiefs of staff, prime ministers, ministers and generals are not the only ones responsible. Anyone who theoretically objects to oppression, discrimination and expulsion, but does not actively take part in the struggle and in creating a constant popular resistance to topple the apartheid regime we have created here, is responsible.
—Amira Hass, Israeli journalist writing for [...]

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Our trip to Rafah

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With gratitude to Ibrahem and Mosab, my Gazan friends and guides
Dedicated to Rachel Corrie
Hi friends and family, and others,
I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. It is most difficult for me to think about what’s going [...]

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Attack—Gaza

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The objective of the operation in Gaza is to prevent the Qassam fire…But the operation in Gaza is causing Qassams to be fired. The Qassam fire will, in turn, bring about the next operation in Gaza, which will lead to the next round of Qassam fire…Everyone is playing his role; each side pretends to be [...]

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The Flood

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Again no dreams recalled. I’m sensing that I dream but they quietly unfold as if under thick blankets, moving this way and that slowly—or rapidly—their outlines or bulges only, not their details. In the morning all I can remember are the curious folds in the blanket, not what made them. So for virtually my entire [...]

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Gaza Changes—2005 – 2008

Israeli air strike ‘destroys Gaza ministry’
(January 18, 2008)The Hamas-run interior ministry building in Gaza was destroyed by an Israeli air strike today, witnesses said.Israeli missiles also hit two cars in Gaza City, wounding at least 20 people, Palestinian medical workers told Reuters.The interior ministry has been vacant since it was damaged in a July [...]

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A story about my friend Ibrahem in Gaza

We have to move out of this circle of blaming others. Frustration is a power. It can prompt us to react violently, or to despair. We need to invest it creatively, building something, even if it is small.
—Dahoud Nassar

Ibrahem Shatali is one of the main reasons I choose to return to Gaza.
We met in 2005 [...]

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Naser Pediatric Hospital, Gaza City, besieged

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Yesterday I met with Husam, the publicity director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program, who picked me up at the Quaker office for a meeting at the Gaza Community Mental Health Program’s office along the sea. He and Amal, the Quaker youth program director, are neighbors, know each other well. Arriving with Husam I met [...]

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Beach walk, Gaza City

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Weather continues warm and dry. Where is the rainy season?
The key dream this morning was hearing a woman describe me as having “been left for dead, bleeding in the streets.” I had been injured, in much the same way as many Gazans, severely it seems. People came to my rescue immediately. I’d been medically treated [...]

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Entering Gaza

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Arez crossing between Israel and Gaza, controlled by Israel
 
Yes, in Gaza. After a difficult 30 minute interrogation at the Arez crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Amal, the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s youth program in Gaza, had gotten me a permit for 6 months, the standard time period, so I assumed [...]

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