Situation Overview:

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Although the Israeli military presence has been scaled back in Gaza, hostilities continued for the 27th successive day, resulting in mounting casualties, the continuing destruction of infrastructure, and a rise in internally...

Three Wars and Counting

By: Omar Ghraieb

We all take pride in different things in our lives, especially our nationality. But being a Palestinian gives a whole different dimension to this pride. It’s a plight of over 66 years of struggling...

What Comes Next in Gaza?

By: The Welfare Association and Its Key Partners Take Action

The Gaza Strip is in an unprecedented state of destruction and ruin. There is much death, suffering, and agony. The damage of the Israeli assault on Gaza...

Reinforcing Social De-Development:

Spatial Annihilation as Essential to Zionism

By: Natasha Aruri

Over a period of four decades, Copenhagen has been transformed from an insignificant urban space...

An Interview with Pierre Krähenbühl

Commissioner-General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

At a press conference held in Gaza on August 17, Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General for UNRWA, repeated his...

Gaza’s Youngest and Most Vulnerable Are at Greatest Risk

By: June Kunugi and Monica Awad

The violence and destruction that have swept Gaza and its 1.8 million people over the last month have shocked and shamed the world. Children below the age of 18 make up...

Debunking Israeli Arguments

By: Diana Buttu

In the aftermath of Israel’s month-long assault on Gaza, one is left astonished by the lack of international response to Israel’s killing of more than 1,900 Palestinians, including 448 children, the destruction of thousands of homes, the bombing of mosques, schools, hospitals, and ambulances...

Crippled

By: Riyam Kafri AbuLaban

I have been awake for over two hours. I have been stuck on my bed for two hours. This is the case these days. Inability to get out of bed is simply the norm. Ahmed has gone to work, the children are sleeping soundlessly – what you get...

A Politics of Hesitation?

Gaza and the International Criminal Court

By: Mutaz Qafisheh

With the recent Israeli war on Gaza, much confusion has broken out among Palestinians on the possibility of joining the International Criminal...

Gaza Still Standing:

A Historical Perspective

By: Jawdat El-Khoudary

332 BC: Alexander the Great besieged and attacked Persian-occupied Gaza for more than 100 days. Alexander entered Gaza with an injured leg and was so infuriated that he obliterated the whole city, including its seaport..

Why Latin America?

By: Xavier Abu Eid

The images of thousands of people waving Palestinian flags and calling for an end to the Israeli aggression against Gaza were of great importance for our people in Palestine; let alone the decision taken by several Latin American governments to take concrete action, including recalling their diplomats..

Palestinian Private Sector:

Gaza Calls

By: Courtesy of Dalia Association

Families, as they prepare their daily meals, are buying supplies as a donation for the people of Gaza. One package of rice for me, and one for you...

Delivering Food to Gaza:

The Triumph of Dignity

By: Ali Qleibo

“I am still alive,” my Gazan friend reassured me over the phone. He laughed nervously. “The municipal workers have cleared some of the rubble and I took a walk. I saw an Internet café open and decided to call you.”

Mushtaha & Hassouna Factory

By: Yasmeen El Khoudary

The Arab Contracting & Concrete Industry Company (ACCI) is owned by Mushtaha & Hassouna Co. LTD. Established in 1993 by Safwat Mushtaha and Rafiq Hassouna, the ACCI, a leading local contracting company, hosted the only concrete factory...

The Phantom of Gaza

By: Ahmed Masoud

Phone always busy. Al Jazeera online playing images of the destruction around. Bombing in Jabalia Camp, Al-Kholafa Mosque, Al-Qerim Square, the police station, and on and on. Seven people were killed, many were injured; the UN condemns,...

infographics

The following section includes a number of info graphic illustrations that visually demonstrates statistics and other information pertaining to the war on Gaza. The info graphics were supplied by the PLO - NAD 2014 (Negotiations Affairs Department), and by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

TESTIMONIES

The following section includes a number of personal testimonies that we complied from different sources including Voices from Gaza, UNICEF, UNRWA, OCHA. Naturally, the idea behind publishing these testimonies is to personalize the suffering of people who have endured beyond anybody’s imagination during the fifty one days of the attack on Gaza.

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Message From the editor

The name itself implies numerous meanings and interpretations these days. If you remove the dot from the Arabic “G” or “غـ” – a dot that could symbolise the universe itself and all that it encompasses... more

Justice

As long as social and political justice are absent, there will always be a struggle to achieve them. Whether it is Ferguson, Gaza, or Myanmar, it is essentially the same story with a variant measure of intensity... more

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