Naomi Shihab Nye: For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15
. The mother of one of the four Palestinian children from the Bakr family who were killed by Israeli military strikes on Wednesday grieves outside a morgue in Gaza City. Eight boys from the Bakr family...
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.Protesters in Philadelphia demonstrate in support of the ongoing Israeli military operation on the Gaza strip, on Friday, July 18, 2014. Israeli troops pushed into Gaza on Friday in a ground offensive...
View Articlekilling us while we are sleeping
.A Palestinian boy, who medics said was wounded by Israeli shelling, receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014: photo by Ali Jadallah via Egyptian Streets, 20 July 2014And the...
View ArticleHave Mercy (Mr. Obama, do you have a heart? A letter from Dr. Mads Gilbert, a...
.Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who is volunteering at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, treats a Palestinian girl at the emergency room: photo via The Independent, 21 July 2014 Mr. Obama -– do you have a...
View ArticleI am the bullets, the oranges and the memory: Mahmoud Darwish: Ahmad...
.Smoke from Israeli strikes rises over Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip. A police spokesman said Israeli aircraft have hit dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip, including the home of the late leader of...
View ArticleAnd then the Alien turned toward Zanna
.Cancelled Air France Flight 1320 to Tel Aviv: photo by AP, 22 July 20148:25 P.M: Air France indefinitely suspends flights to Israel. -- Reuters, 22 July 2014Israeli air strikes and gun battles with...
View ArticleHijos de un dios menor
. Horrible scenes from Beit Hanoun elementary school, northern Gaza strip, after Israeli shelling, blood spread everywhere: photo by Hazem Balousha, 24 July 2014And after these things, I saw foure...
View ArticleWhen medics cry
. When medics cry, you must understand that there are catastrophes happening: photo by Rami N. AbuShabaan, 25 July 2014Israel’s vision of itself was onceAs a “light unto the nations”.It has no need of...
View ArticleBack into the Ruins: What is this? Just stunned
.Shijaiyah leveled. In this block multiple buildings down. Bombing here would have been unsurvivable: photo by William Booth via Twitter, 26 July 2014Depth of Gaza devastation become clear after...
View ArticleClean Sheets
.This man made one last trip back to his house in Beit Hanoun to save his bird, Zooba: photo by Kristen Chick via Twtter, 26 July 2014Mustafa al-Masri carried a yellow birdcage as he struggled to...
View ArticleI will make mine arrows drunk with blood
.Btw, it's 1:13 am here! [Gaza lit with flares, buildings rocked by explosions]: photo by Dima Eleiwa, 29 July 201432 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my...
View Articleno one knows
.People flee bombing in the town of Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip on July 29: photo by Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2014Three thousand people hiding for their lives from the mechano death...
View ArticleDemocracy DOA (working conditions)
. Due to a lack of ambulances, cars are used to rush wounded to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after an explosion July 30 in the market in Shujayea: photo by Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times, 30 July...
View Articlelost souls
.Boy survives, father and brother killed by Israeli bombing, Gaza. How is he going to be normal after this?: photo via Dr Bassel Abuwarda on twitter, 1 August 2014 Happening now -- huge missile strike...
View ArticleShock (but there it is)
.An Israeli tank rolls along the border with Gaza: photo by David Buimovitch / AFP, 28 July 2014The Thrasybulus Syndrome: Israel’s War on GazaPortrait of Niccolò Machiavelli (detail): Santi di Tito...
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.A Palestinian man carries an injured child following the Israeli military strike on the UN shelter in Rafah. At least 10 people were killed in the strike, the seventh on a UN-run shelter in Gaza:...
View ArticleThe Toll: Asmaa Al-Ghoul: Never ask me about peace again
. An Israeli drone circles over Gaza City on Sunday, August 3, 2014: photo by Dusan Vranic / AP, 3 August 2014Asmaa Al-Ghoul: Never ask me about peace againA first-hand account of the aftermath of an...
View ArticleShadows on the Bridge
.Nuclear weapon test Mike (yield 10.4 Mt) on Enewetak Atoll. The test was part of Operation Ivy. Mike was the first hydrogen bomb ever tested, an experimental device not suitable for use as a weapon:...
View ArticleWelcome home, villager: A window into the minds of the occupiers ("the most...
.Graffiti left by Israeli soldiers at Beit Hanoun girls' school: photo via Hazem Balousha on twitter, 6 August 2014Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left faeces and venomous graffitiAhmed...
View ArticleDr Mads Gilbert on the Palestinian will to resist: "I compare occupation with...
.Dr Mads Gilbert with colleagues and patient during surgery at Shifa hospital, Gaza: photo via Dr Mads Gilbert on twitter, 30 July 2014I know you applaud for Gaza. I know you applaud for those who are...
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