Lack of water, sanitation and PHC cause explosion of infectious disease in...
Press Release Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine August 02, 2014 Forcibly displaced peeople in an UNRWA school The people of Gaza face enormous barriers to accessing primary health care, with only 10...
View ArticleYou can run but you can’t hide
by Huda Droll Fady Abo Khousa Born in Bureij refugee camp four year-old Fady Abu Khousa, along with his family, were evacuated to Nusirat Camp. The Israeli Army had dropped flyers telling the entire...
View ArticleIn the name of humanity, stop the Israeli slaughter of innocents in Gaza
Press Release Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine August 04, 2014 Medics remove a child from the rubble after the Israeli airstrike in Shaati camp today The Ministry of Health Gaza condemns in the...
View ArticleThe Vampires
by Enas F Ghannam The vampires came to our town, mommy. They were in disguise, but I knew it was them. They were hiding under black cloaks and riding huge dragons with red eyes. They were flying over...
View ArticleThe difference between children
By Gideon Levy Source: Haaretz August 24, 2014 Palestinian mourners cry at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital after an explosion killed at least seven children in a public playground Photo by AFP It is...
View ArticleA Letter to Arabs
This poem was videoed being read by Nourul-Islam abu Huwaishel just 45 minutes before he was killed by the Israeli army. Translation of the poem: A Letter to Arabs In Gaza, we are alright Comfort us...
View ArticleFootball no fun anymore for the Bakr boys
by Julie Webb-Pullman Brothers Montasr (left) and Younis Khamis Bakr (Photo: Yousef Al Rantisi) Flashback. July 16, 2014. Boys. Beach. Sun. Sea. Sand. Football. Fun. An ordinary summers’ day like that...
View ArticlePortents of a fresh Palestinian uprising are real
By Khalid Amayreh Source: Palestine Information Centre 14 year old Palestinian Arwa Hammad, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces The seemingly totally unjustified recent killing of several...
View ArticleBeit Hanoun: Homeless but not utterly hopeless, thanks to NZers
By Julie Webb-Pullman Receiving clothes, blankets and schoolbags in Beit Hanoun 30/11/14 With the help of New Zealanders the Palestinian Family Charitable Association in Beit Hanoun has done it again –...
View ArticleIsrael detained 1,266 Palestinian children in 2014
Source: Middle East Monitor MEMO File Photo Israeli forces detained over 1,000 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem over the course of this year, the Palestine Liberation...
View ArticleOperation Protective Edge: A war waged on Gaza’s children
PRESS RELEASE Defense for Children International Palestine Children in Beit Hanoun (Photo: Julie Webb-Pullman) Defense for Children International Palestine just released a report, Operation Protective...
View Article1 Shekel a Day school lunch project for children in Gaza
PRESS RELEASE Al Majed Association – Gaza Kids with their coupons – and lunch. Yum! Many children in Gaza come from a background of high poverty, and families just cannot afford to give their children...
View ArticleNZ Superannuitants Profit from Palestinian Children’s Suffering
Opinion Dr Vacy Vlazna Hamza Mus’ab Almadani The shocking decision by government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) NOT to divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus,...
View ArticleHemaya: UN spurns Palestinian children
PRESS RELEASE Hemaya Center for Human Rights 08 June 2015 Shifa Hospital 19 July 2014 Ban Ki-moon’s decision not to include Israel on the list of violators of children’s rights twists the knife in the...
View ArticleIsrael doesn’t abuse children, it just murders them
By Khalid Amayreh Source: Palestine Information Center Throughout its unglamorous history, the UN issued many scandalous reports and adopted many scandalous resolutions reflecting lack of justice and...
View ArticleIsrael whitewashes beach bloodbath that killed four kids
The Israeli army late Thursday announced it is closing its probe into its killing of four children from the Bakr family playing football on a Gaza beach, saying the “tragic” attack had not violated...
View ArticleAl-Qassam holds Israel responsible for Nablus arson attack
Source: Palestine Information Center Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, held the Israeli occupation leaders fully responsible for the consequences of the settlers’ arson attack on a...
View ArticleMishaal deplores settler’s killing of toddler, calls for response
Source: Palestine Information Center Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Meshaal Head of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mishaal denounced the murder of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsheh...
View ArticlePFLP: “Declaration of war” on settlements following burning of Palestinian baby
PRESS RELEASE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ali Saad Dawabsheh, burned alive in Nablus by Israeli settlers The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounced the horrific crime...
View ArticleUNRWA: Gaza Infant Mortality Rate Rises for First Time in 50 Years
PRESS RELEASE UNRWA Such an increase here is unprecedented in Dr. Seita’s experience working in the Middle East. “Progress in combatting infant mortality doesn’t usually reverse. This seems to be the...
View ArticleSmearing New Zealand Decency with Palestinian Blood and Tears
Dr Vacy Vlazna “One child has been killed every hour in Gaza over the past two days.” Kyung-Wha Kang UN Asst. Sec.Gen for Humanitarian Affairs 23-7-14 “All these dead and maimed civilians should weigh...
View ArticlePregnant woman, child killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza
Hamas An Israeli aerial attack on the Gaza Strip at dawn Sunday destroyed a Palestinian home, killing a pregnant woman and her little girl, and injuring three other family members. A spokesman for the...
View ArticlePalestinian resistance movements condemn Israeli assassination of Samir Kuntar
Samir Kuntar The Islamic Resistance Movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have both released statements condemning the assassination of Lebanese resistance fighter and...
View Article12 year old Palestinian girl sentenced to 4 months in occupation prisons
Hamas The Israeli court at Ofer prison on Thursday sentenced 12-year-old Palestinian girl Dima al-Wawi to four and a half months imprisonment and an 8,000 shekel fine. Al-Wawi, a 7th grader from the...
View ArticleAl Qassam: The blood of our children will not flow in vain
Al Qassam Al-Qassam Brigades mourned the two children from the Abu Khoussa family who were killed in Israeli air strikes on Saturday, affirming that their innocent blood will not be wasted. In a brief...
View ArticleIsraeli Siege killing kids in Gaza
by Julie Webb-Pullman Mother of the three children who died in the housefire in Shati Camp, Gaza City Yousra, Rahaf, and Naser Al Hindi died in a house fire in Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City on Friday...
View ArticleUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention slams Israeli human rights breaches...
by Julie Webb-Pullman The Hares Boys, one of whom is the XXXXX referred to in the UN Working Group’s Opinion In an opinion released on June 29, 2016 The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary...
View ArticleReport on Palestinian prisoners shows 3,412 arrested in the first half of 2016
Prisoners Affairs Commission, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights Report Palestinian children being detained in...
View ArticleUNICEF-UNRWA Condemn Bombing of Child Friendly Space in Khan Eishieh Camp in...
UNICEF-UNRWA PRESS RELEASE Amman/Damascus, 5 July 2016 The latest attack on Khan Eishieh Refugee Camp, home to Palestinian refugees and internally displaced Syrians, is the latest example in the Syria...
View ArticleUNRWA condemns armed violence in Ein El Hilweh which forced children to flee...
Press Statement Christopher Gunness, UNRWA Spokesperson Ain Al HIlweh camp, 2015 (Photo: Reuters) Jerusalem 7 December 2016: UNRWA strongly condemns the armed violence that took place in the Ein El...
View ArticleUNRWA condemns armed violence in Ein El-Hilweh
Press Statement Christopher Gunness, UNRWA Spokesperson UNRWA condemns armed violence in Ein El-Hilweh which has again prevented children from attending school and vital health services from operating...
View ArticleDie, Suffer, You Kahba
by Gideon Levy Source: HAARETZ http://gaza.scoop.ps/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/girl.mp4 A horrific incident took place in the occupied territories last Thursday. It was no less despicable than the...
View ArticleNearly 200,000 Gaza Children Take Part in UNRWA ‘Summer Fun Weeks’
PRESS RELEASE UNRWA UNRWA students during their participation in the opening ceremony performances of the Summer Fun Weeks held in Al-Zaitoun Elementary Girls School, Gaza city © UNRWA Gaza 2017. Photo...
View ArticlePregnant women, newborns contaminated with heavy metals linked to Israeli...
Julie Webb-Pullman Remnants of war…. Newborn babies and their mothers exposed to Israeli attacks in 2014 have a high level of heavy metal contamination in their hair, reports a study published in the...
View ArticleJoint report estimates that 880 Palestinians arrested in July 2017
PRESS RELEASE ADDAMEER Palestinian prisoners’ affairs institutions – the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs and...
View ArticleGaza: 1 million children suffering in ‘unlivable’ conditions
PRESS RELEASE Save the Children One million children in Gaza are living in dire conditions. Many celebrated Eid in the dark without electricity. A UN report in 2012 said Gaza would be unlivable by...
View ArticleUNRWA condemns the killing of a refugee child during military raid in the...
PRESS STATEMENT Chris Gunness, UNRWA Spokesperson Jerusalem, 25 July 2018: During a large scale incursion by the Israeli security forces (ISF) into Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem on 23 July, a...
View ArticleUNRWA condemns the Killing of 11 Year Old Boy in Gaza by Israeli Security Forces
PRESS STATEMENT UNRWA Spokesperson, Chris Gunness Relatives grieving at his funeral. Photo: EPA 28 July 2018 Yesterday, during protests at the fence in Gaza, Majdi Ramzi Kamal Al Satari, an 11 year old...
View ArticleThat Slap In The Face
Shukri Abu-Bakr* This is for you, Ahed Like a Free Palestine Spirit, your home is hospitable and warm, but has no fireplace for a cold killer. Your fingernails sun-kissed, your palms soft as a whisper;...
View ArticleHamas condemns Israeli arbitrary killing of children, journalists at Great...
PRESS RELEASE HAMAS On the Israeli arbitrary killing of children and journalists at the Great Return March, the Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum stressed the following: The deliberate Israeli targeting...
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