Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, a 55-year-old gynecologist who speaks Hebrew after training in two Israeli hospitals, sobbed as he reported the deaths [of his three daughters] shortly after an Israeli shell struck his home in the northern town of Jebaliya on Friday.
P. Rizk's blog.
The most poignant moment in the film — and its masterstroke — are scenes of a wedding party complete with guests, cake, music and bride. The only thing missing is the groom himself: he is studying in Spain and has not been permitted to reenter Gaza. The families decide to go ahead with the wedding anyway, an act of defiance and desperation. There is perhaps no more powerful symbol of Gaza's plight than this, the abandoned bride of Palestine sitting alone and surrounded by well-wishers unable to do a thing to help her.
Any Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in the Gaza Strip will be given state protection from prosecution overseas, the country's PM has said.
The Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc. was formed in the USA in 2001 to help provide mental health services for the people of the Gaza Strip, especially the children who are its future.
Research by the Gaza Community Mental Health Project
According to Summerfield, half the population in Gaza have "basically spent some time in [Israeli] detention, some of them for years." The proportion of the Gazan adult male population interrogated and tortured, he adds, is probably higher than any population in the world.
Powerful organizations in Egyptian market not moved by public's pressure to impose trade boycott on Israel, say they cannot force members to do so, decision is a personal choice
What this is really about is international law. It's about accountability. It's about justice – something the Palestinians have never received – and it's about bringing criminals to trial. Arab war criminals, Israeli war criminals – the whole lot. And don't say it cannot be done. Wasn't that the message behind the Yugoslav tribunal? Didn't some of the murderers get their just deserts? Just leave the Second World War out of it.
Despite pictures from Gaza depicting massive destruction and a large number of wounded and killed, including women and children, 82 percent of the public believe that Israel has not "gone too far" with the military force it is exercising against Hamas.
There has also been a backlash to the backlash against Egypt prompted by protests outside Egyptian embassies demonstrating against Egypt's policy in general, but its failure to open its border in particular. Funnily enough, many of the people I know who have taken umbrage at the attacks from abroad and are now banging the nationalist tub are the very same individuals who are most critical of the way that domestic issues are handled by the current regime.
برغم كل ما سبق، لم أملك نفسي - كمصري وعربي وكمحب للجزيرة ومتابع لها - إلا أن أشتعل سخطاً منذ عدة أيام بسبب تغطية مكتب القاهرة الباهتة للتظاهرات والفعاليات الشعبية في مصر المتضامنة مع غزة.
Travelling into Palestine's West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency.
اعتقلات لكل اعضاء جروبات الالتراس من منازلهم
Chavez's expulsion of Israeli ambassador is a nice gesture. But seems to be unsupported popularly, such bad execution will leave him looking more weird than he already is. He should have educated his own people on the reality of the conflict before kicking his eggcellency out. Chavez calling this a "gesture of dignity" makes me think he is a reincarnation of Nasser.
Since its premises were destroyed by Israeli bombs on 30 December the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) – a member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) – has been unable to provide care to an ever increasing number of traumatised civilians. Another IRCT member centre in Gaza, the Jesoor Organization, is also unable to operate due to the security situation.
Daily News Egypt saw one protestor — who was initially struggling — beaten into unconsciousness by the four men in plain clothing who were removing him.
Israeli unmanned reconnaissance drones hovered over what appeared to be Egyptian airspace on Thursday near Rafah
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces arrested tens of demonstrators in Downtown Cairo as they protested the Israeli bombing of Gaza on Wednesday.
Egypt's malaise is in many ways as dark as that of the Palestinians. Its impotence in the face of Gaza's suffering is a symbol of its own political sickness.
اخيرا.. لا اعتقد ان الهجمة الاسرائيلية لها علاقة بالصواريخ التي يتم اطلاقها من القطاع وهل تم تطويرها مؤخرا ام لا، بل ان اسرائيل تحتاج الى “نصر ما” بعد هزيمتها في لبنان. وهي لا تهدف الي وقف الصواريخ بقدر ما تهدف الي القضاء على “فكرة المقاومة”.. واذا اردنا تضامنا عالميا من اجل قضية عادلة يجب ان نتوقف عن شعارات الخلافة الاسلامية مثل “خيبر خيبر يا يهود جيش محمد سوف يعود”.. يجب ان نميز بين اليهودية والصهيونية.. يجب ان نتبنى القضية الفلسطينية كقضية حقوقية وانسانية أولا قبل ان تكون دينية.. فحينها فقط سيقف معك من هم ليسوا على دينك.. والامر جدير بالتفكير.
PTSD Checklist
Epidemiological survey conducted between 1997 - 1999 among survivors of war or mass violence (aged >16 years) who were randomly selected from community populations in Algeria (n=653), Cambodia (n=610), Ethiopia (n=1200), and Gaza (n=585).