During the confrontations along the Gaza border with Israel, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR) received urgent pleas from physicians in the Gaza Strip describing a healthcare system in a state of collapse, with medical teams feeling helpless, as they are unable to provide adequate treatment to the huge numbers of injured. Last week…
A meeting on the impact of Israel’s blockade on Gaza’s women, which Chairwoman of the Committee for of the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality, Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List), scheduled for today, Monday, June 4, has sparked outrage among Zionist MKs. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and other lawmakers oppose the…
Several hundred persons, Arabs and Jews, participated in a demonstration in the German Colony in Haifa on late Friday afternoon, June 1, to express solidarity with the nearly 2 million Palestinian people living under the Israeli blockade and repression of the Gaza Strip. Protesters waved Palestinian and red flags and signs in Hebrew and Arabic…
Two demonstrations will be held today (Friday, June 1) against Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip: at the Yad Mordechai junction near Sderot in the south of Israel at 12:00 and at UNESCO Square (German Colony) in Haifa at 17:00. Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) are organizing the demonstration in Haifa. According…
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip succumbed to his wounds on Saturday, May 26, sustained from Israeli army gunfire during the March of Return protests last week at the Gaza border with Israel, according to WAFA Palestinian News Agency correspondent. The journalist said that Hussein Salem Abu Aweida, 41, who was shot and critically injured…
At a demonstration held on Tuesday, May 15, in the northern Arab city of Umm al-Faham, which was organized by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, the head of the Joint List Knesset faction, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), said: “The Arab population in Israel, along with Jewish democratic forces, is fighting against the slaughter in Gaza.…
Omar Abu Fool, 30, died on Tuesday, May 15, of the wounds he sustained during unrestrained Israeli fire against Gazans protesting near the border fence the previous day, according to sources at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza where he had been hospitalized. Abu Fool was the 60th fatality of the brutal Israeli massacre along the…
At least 52 Palestinians were killed on Monday, May 14, in the Gaza Strip and more than 2,400 others were wounded as the Israeli army fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters assembled at five points along the border fence with Israel. Monday’s demonstrations, held in the context of the opening of the US…
Israeli forces fired live ammunition and tear gas at Palestinian protesters along the border with Gaza on Friday, May 11, this for the seventh consecutive week. Friday’s protests were part of the 45-day “Great March Return,” which began on March 30, and which are set to culminate on May 15, Nakba Day. At least 15,000 Palestinians…
Israeli army snipers shot dead at least nine Palestinian protesters, including a journalist and a 14-year-old boy, and wounded at least 300 others near the Gaza border fence with Israel on Friday, April 6, during the eighth day of the “Great March of Return.” Palestinian health officials confirmed that among those killed was journalist Yasser…