Gaza

NOVANEWS Dr. David Halpin: Silence is Complicity: The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force                 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22879 Introduction    The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged  and  described  by  Defence  for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P)  since  March 2010. (1)   Some of the facts have been published in national newspapers.  These barbarous acts contravene international and national law but there are no judicial responses.  The caring professions see the physical and mental pain  of  those who suffer and they should be in the vanguard in calling for this great cruelty to cease forthwith.  Politic...

NOVANEWS Mohammed Omer: Operation Cast Lead Is Over, But the Nightmare Continues Abdullah (in red shirt) and his little brother (r) play “Arabs and Israelis” with their friends in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. (Photo M. Omer) The Sept. 6, 2010 issue of the leading German newspaper Der Spiegel included the article "Studies Show Nurture at Least as Important as Nature" by Joerge Blech on the findings of a groundbreaking study on intelligence. Researchers found that prolonged poverty, stress and other environmental factors—including war and the deprivation of basic needs—directly affect a child's intelligence and, therefore, his or her life prospects. Previously it was believed that intelligence was 80 percent genetic. These latest findings, however, show that at least 50 percent ...

NOVANEWS      Abdullah (in red shirt) and his little brother (r) play “Arabs and Israelis” with their friends in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. (Photo M. Omer) IMEMC, January 23, 2011 The Sept. 6, 2010 issue of the leading German newspaper Der Spiegel included the article “Studies Show Nurture at Least as Important as Nature” by Joerge Blech on the findings of a groundbreaking study on intelligence. Researchers found that prolonged poverty, stress and other environmental factors—including war and the deprivation of basic needs—directly affect a child’s intelligence and, therefore, his or her life prospects. Previously it was believed that intelligence was 80 percent genetic. These latest findings, however, show that at least 50 percent of an individual’s intelligence is actually d...

NOVANEWS   M. came over and discussed the Hamas government. “They are occupying the culture,” he told me. “Our grandparents used to dance Dabka together, boys and girls, now this is forbidden. What is Hamas doing?” I mentioned that girls had been forbidden from clapping and smoking shisha in cafes on New Year’s Eve.* He said this was terrible, and that “Anyone who likes Hamas, gets money from them. Hamas pays for their schools, pays for their food, and gives them something. Almost no one likes Hamas.” He was referring to the strong Hamas social welfare regime. Hamas also pays for mourner's tents for poor families. M.M. also complained about some NGO leaders: “They sit in Beach and Badia [two comparatively expensive restaurants in Gaza City], they don’t come to our protests, they don’t come...

NOVANEWS   Gaza Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish Two Years After Israeli Attack that Killed 3 Daughters & Niece: “As Long as I am Breathing, They are with Me. I Will Never Forget” Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s brutal 22-day assault on Gaza, his home was shelled twice by Israeli tanks. His three daughters and his niece were killed. He has just written a book about his life called I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity. He joins us in our studio for an extended conversation.   From Amy Goodman and Democracy Now.    

NOVANEWS GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Nour Salha was 15 years old when he saw an Israeli missile reduce his home to rubble, killing his mother and four siblings. On Jan. 9, 2009, during Israel's Operation Cast Lead, a warplane shelled Nour's home in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. His mother Randa, two brothers Diyaa, 14, and Bahaa, 4, and sisters Rana, 12, and 15-month-old Rula were killed. "When I first heard the boom, I thought it hit an empty area, but I immediately saw our home going down," Nour said. Two years have passed since the attack but Nour is still struggling to recover from the shock of collecting his family's body parts. His father Fayiz says he still remembers his children playing that night, squirting water at each other before they went to bed. "It took the Israeli forc...

NOVANEWS   We oscillate here between outrage and willed calm, “maneuvering between numbness and hypersensitivity,” as a friend put it. You can’t get let every death, every demolition permeate you, you cannot let the anger over each obscenity carry you off like a riptide. In that, we have very good examples: almost everyone around us, including the Samouni children who sing, offer tea and coffee,  eagerly soak up Adie’s English classes. But that will to calmness becomes alienating when you try to quietly absorb the graffiti scrawled on the wall of the home of the Samouni family saying, “1 down, 999,999 to go,” or the tombstone drawn on the wall with the inscription: “Arabs, 1948-2009,” without cursing or letting any emotion seep out, at least in front of the families (There was more: one no...

NOVANEWS Egypt rejects Zio-Nazi offer to supervise the Gaza Strip after next military operation to topple Hamas Egyptian sources have revealed that Egypt has rejected an Israhell proposal for Cairo to supervise following the next military operation planned to topple the Hamas government. The Zio-Nazi regime  of Benjamin Netanyahu has, it is claimed, already decided to launch another Holocaust at an unspecified time; Israhell is waiting to see if Hamas rule will end in any case. The Islamic Resistance Movement won the election in 2006 and pre-empted a coup engineered by Zio-Nazi Israhell and the US with a Pro-Zionist faction in Fatah led by Mohammed Dahlan in June 2007. Egypt governed the Gaza Strip from 1948 until June 1967 but the reports say that the government in Cairo is opposed to any...

NOVANEWS The air is filled with the noise of the Israeli F-16s, which are flying so low that it's almost like the air is trembling. You can positively feel the bombs before they fall, before they explode with a horrendous bang, that is unmistakable, with a pressure wave that breaks the windows of the houses in the whole surrounding area, and makes the walls shake miles away. And even if you know rationally that you are not in an immediate danger, this bang triggers a primal fear, the feeling of vulnerability, of being absolutely exposed. "We people of Gaza die hundreds of times", a young Palestinian woman said. "In our thoughts, we are buried every night under the rubble of our crumbling house, we are shot every morning by a sniper on a carelessly chosen path, we may starve to ...

NOVANEWS IDF graffiti scrawled on the wall of the Samouni home   And if you don't like these photos, do something about it. You are being made poorer so we can orphan children. Technorati Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Givati, Israel, Palestine, Samouni Related posts: Fida Qishta’s film of Mona Samouni I met Mona Samouni twice, and talked to her... Egyptians Protest the Wall of Shame Today, about 100 Egyptians joined by ten or fifteen inter­na­tion­als... wasn’t the Egyptian wall meant to fail? Egyptian officials are now openly admitting that the under­ground steel... Egyptians and Internationals Rally Against the Wall of Shame The building housing the Egyptian Jour­nal­ists’ Syndicate is not beautiful.... Kristof how come you didn’t come to the demos in Gaza? it’s live ammunition it’s fun...