Palestinians
Updated 2024-02-26
The Palestinian people (UN) We monitor the impact of the Israeli occupation on socioeconomic conditions in the Palestinian Territory https://unctad.org/topic/palestinian-people
2024-02-15 Born in a Tent – The Moment Arkan Came into a Rafah Refugee Camp (PHOTOS & VIDEO) Meet Arkan, his name means ‘pillars’, pillars of faith, pillars of hope, and the pillars of steadfastness. Arkan has just joined the struggle for freedom. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/born-in-a-tent-the-moment-arkan-came-into-a-rafah-refugee-camp-photos-video/
2023-10-23 Palestine Letter: Israel is Imposing a Blackout on Gaza to Hide a Massacre All around us, it looks like another Nakba. People are carrying bags on their backs, fastening furniture on top of cars, and fleeing on foot in every direction. They don’t know if they will even be able to return to find their homes intact. Neither do I. Before I left, I stood in the middle of my home and said goodbye to every corner and every stone. https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/palestine-letter-israel-is-imposing-a-blackout-on-gaza-to-hide-a-massacre.html
2023-11-17 “I want our house to have walls” A Palestinian child and his family displaced in Khan Younis “All I am asking for is for the war to stop and for us to return to our homes, if they are still standing.” Mohammad Waleed Mohammad Obaid is 10 years old, and up until October 7, lived in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city, with his mother and sisters: Leen, 13, and Reem, four. Mohammad’s father lives and works in the United Arab Emirates.
“I do not know if our home is still standing, because it is close to Al-Shifa Hospital,” Mohammad told DCIP. Israeli forces have besieged Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, surrounding the hospital compound and attacking patients with artillery shells and live ammunition. “I learned from the news that Israeli tanks have stormed the area, and we do not know the fate of our home.” “I want our house to have walls. I do not really care if the doors and windows are gone. We will be able to live without them,” Mohammad said. “The important thing is that the house is still standing where it is.” https://www.dci-palestine.org/i_want_our_house_to_have_walls_a_palestinian_child_and_his_family_displaced_in_khan_younis?utm_campaign=nov_17&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dcipalestine
2023-11-14 We Are Not Numbers: Palestinian Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq Mourns 21 Family Members Killed by Israel One-and-a-half million residents of Gaza have been displaced by Israeli bombing and siege since October 7 in what many Palestinians are calling a second Nakba, or catastrophe, referencing the 1948 expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians to create the state of Israel. “It’s what has been going on for the past 75 years,” says Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, who describes how 21 members of his family were killed in Gaza, including his father and several siblings. Alnaouq had not been able to visit his family for four years prior to their deaths, due to restrictions upon entry into Gaza. He joins us from London, where historic protests calling for a ceasefire were deemed “hate marches” by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who was fired shortly thereafter. Alnaouq speaks about global support for Palestinians and responds to U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest comments on Israel’s targeting of hospitals in Gaza. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-1dmng0TCk
2023-11-13 ‘They call us terrorists’: Inside the Palestinian resistance forces of Jenin, West Bank Israel continues to unleash hell upon the 22-by-5-mile concentrated area of Gaza, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with relentless airstrikes and indiscriminate bombings of hospitals, residential buildings, schools, and other civilian sites. As besieged Palestinians shelter and flee and die within the walls of their cage in Gaza, Resistance forces are mobilizing to rise up against an Occupation that has presided over lives for 75 years.
Where there is occupation, there is resistance, and numerous Palestinian resistance groups exist across the Occupied Territories. These groups consist of occupied subjects turned freedom fighters—those who have been directly targeted by Israel, who have witnessed their friends and families die at the hands of occupying forces, and who have been labeled “terrorists” for resisting their slow extermination. In Jenin, a 1km square ghetto-like refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, and the target of numerous Israeli incursions, there are many who have chosen the path of armed resistance, and many who felt they had no other choice.
For those who suffer under the direct oppression and daily practices of apartheid—including the suspension of human and civil rights, military-imposed blockades and checkpoints restricting people’s movements, the demolition of homes and killing of family members—there comes a breaking point. Generations of Palestinians, born into Occupation and violence, do not live a life of dignity. As they describe, under these conditions, they have nothing to live for and nothing to lose, and they have everything to fight for.
In July of this year, before the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks and Israel’s genocidal retaliatory offensive in Gaza, The Real News Network spoke to members of the community in Jenin refugee camp about their lives under Occupation, the role of the Resistance there, and the fight for freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfLVa1u4pk
2023-11-13 “Beacon of Light”: Fellow Doctors Recall Dr. Hammam Alloh, Gaza Doctor Killed by Israeli Airstrike We speak with two physicians who knew Dr. Hammam Alloh, a Palestinian nephrologist at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital who was killed Saturday in an Israeli airstrike. They recall him as a “committed physician, wonderful father” and “beacon of light.” He had refused to heed Israeli directives to evacuate in order to continue providing care to his patients. “He spent a decade learning how to serve his people,” says Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan with Doctors Without Borders. “He wanted his children to be able to see a day when they had a free, just, durable, free life in Palestine, without occupation,” says Dr. Ben Thomson, a fellow nephrologist who worked with Dr. Alloh. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvLS_zbVwGM
2023-11-13 “We’re Being Exterminated”: Hear Dr. Hammam Alloh’s Interview from Gaza Before His Death We feature one of the final interviews with Palestinian doctor Hammam Alloh, who died Saturday when an Israeli artillery shell struck his wife’s home, killing him, his father, brother-in-law and father-in-law. On October 31, Democracy Now! spoke to Dr. Alloh about conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest hospital, and his decision to continue working, as he called on people in the United States and the rest of the world to take action against Israel’s indiscriminate assault. When asked about why he refused to leave his patients, Dr. Alloh responded, “You think I went to medical school and for my postgraduate degrees for a total of 14 years so I think only about my life and not my patients?” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfOyMz9pJjg
2023-11-04 The Only Way to End the Inhumanity Is to Humanize Palestinians Where are the stories in mainstream media of Palestinian lives lost? Not just in the latest Israeli war on Gaza but in all the wars that preceded it? We live in an era where, in theory, we have accepted that all human beings are deserving of equal treatment—that skin color, national origin, language, accent, clothing, and other markers of ethnicity are secondary to the fact that we all deserve dignity. In theory.
In practice, the otherizing of human beings remains central to the grim calculus by which we justify violence against one another and even accept it as virtuous. This violence, inflicted by states or by vigilantes, is everywhere we look. In the United States, it’s in the way Black communities are over-policed, Indigenous communities are neglected, migrants are warehoused, and asylum seekers are kept out. Internationally, it’s in the way our society dismisses the targets of Western wars and capitalism. Most prominently today, it’s in the dehumanization of Palestinians during what, by many accounts, is an unfolding Israeli genocide against the people of Gaza.
The only way to end the inhumanity is to humanize the victims of war in pursuit of justice.https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-dehumanizes-palestinians
2020-11-18 Palestinian women as a threat to Israel and feminist foreign policy as we go into the Trump administration Join the antiwar group CODEPINK for our weekly radio show every Thursday! Each week features a different CODEPINK organizer hosting robust conversations with grassroots peacemakers all over the world from Korea to Yemen to Venezuela to Iran and beyond. Tune in to get weekly updates on the global antiwar movement and learn all about peacemakers in communities worldwide confronting war hawks wherever they may find them. https://codepink.substack.com/p/episode-65-palestinian-women-as-a-77e#details
2003-05-00 A Palestinian Labor Leader Speaks Out In the three years since the current intifada, or uprising, began, the already-fragile Palestinian economy has nearly broken down. Under military and economic siege, entire economic sectors have collapsed. Unemployment runs well over 50%, with 411,000 people out of work. Almost half of the population lives on less than $2 a day, and food shortages have struck certain areas. The besieged and directionless Palestinian Authority (PA) appears unable to meet the staggering crisis.
In this context, the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) is focused on the literal survival of its members and their families. As one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in Palestine, the PGFTU is responding to the mass deprivation by stepping into a role previously fulfilled by the PA: providing an economic and social safety net for its members. The federation delivers unemployment and health insurance benefits to tens of thousands. PGFTU also continues its long-term struggle to build a movement for workers’ rights in Palestine, and recently succeeded in pushing the PA to establish a set of working labor laws. With 500,000 public and private worker-members in the West Bank and Gaza strip, PGFTU represents 75% of the Palestinian workforce. That’s a unionization level most unions in the West would envy. But its members have faced conditions that no one would envy. https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2003/0503aruri.html
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