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What Valentine’s Day Means in Gaza, Palestine
Hani and his uncle and daughter in front of an UNRWA school in the Gaza…
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Strangers in Our Homeland
Aida Touma-Sliman, JewishCurrents, February 6, 2020 LAST WEEK, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a…
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The U.N. once predicted Gaza would be ‘uninhabitable’ by 2020. Two million people still live there.
The shoreline in Gaza City during strong winds on Christmas Day (Mohammed Abed-AFP-Getty Images) Hazem…
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Final 2019 Appeal — Clean Water for Kids
Best Photos of 2019 from MECA We are now more than halfway to providing another…
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‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes
Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey, The New Arab, 20 December, 2019
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Why We Sail, Sail, and Sail Again: Freedom Flotilla 2020
Canadian Boat to Gaza, December 20, 2019 Freedom Flotilla sailors and participants are sometimes asked:…
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Gaza 2020: How easy it is for the world to delete Palestinian pain
David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 December 2019
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Netanyahu’s Real Crimes
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 After years of investigation and…
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Dreams in the Crosshairs
We Are Not Numbers video being shown in Washington, DC When Israeli snipers target people…
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Polluted Water is the Leading Cause of Child Mortality in Gaza
With 43 Olympic swimming pools of sewage flowing from Gaza daily, local epidemic is only…
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2019.10.27: Rep. Pocan emphasizes progressive caucus’s commitment to Palestine
Helena Cobban, Mondoweiss, November 14, 2019
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What you need to know about the bombings in Gaza
Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Nov 13, 2019
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Desperate work for desperate people
Amjad Ayman Yaghi, The Electronic Intifada, 15 October 2019
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IT’S TIME TO END THE ILLEGAL ISRAELI BLOCKADE OF GAZA
US Boats to Gaza, Nov 3, 2019
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2019.10.27 Update: DREAMING OF FREEDOM
Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E Gorham St, 2-4 pm
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2019.10.25-11.17: Gaza in Color: Stories from Behind the Wall Online Art Auction
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Israeli Construction Workers, Soldiers Assault Left-wing Activists on Gaza Border
Activists, who had arranged a joint event along the two sides of the border with…
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The Ecological War on Gaza
Rob Goyanes, Jewish Currents, September 9, 2019
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Israel pushing Palestinians to leave Gaza
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 19 August 2019
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Security forces make deadly use of crowd control weapons in Gaza
B’Tselem, 06 August 2019 From the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on…
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