Palestinian Struggle
Updated 2024-08-28
2024-04-21 From Namibia to Gaza With Love The Israeli brutality in Gaza, but also the Palestinian sumud, resilience and resistance, are inspiring the Global South to reclaim its centrality in anti-colonial liberation struggles.
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a strong stance against the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Namibia was colonized by the Germans in 1884, while the British colonized Palestine in the 1920s, handing the territory to the Zionist colonizers in 1948. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/namibia-gaza-solidarity
2024-01-17 VIDEO: Life in Jerusalem under Israel’s military dictatorship Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visits the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a climate of unprecedented repression has descended since October 7. Loffredo documents settler terror attacks on businesses and speaks to local activists who tell him they fear arrest and beatings from Israeli police if they speak out against the assault on Gaza. https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/17/jerusalem-israels-military-dictatorship/
2023-12-24 A UN aid worker was killed in Gaza along with 70 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike A veteran UN aid worker was killed in Gaza along with 70 members of his extended family in an Israeli airstrike, a UN representative said. Issam Al-Mughrabi, 56, was killed along with his wife and five children in Gaza City on Friday, United Nations Development Programme administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.
“The airstrike also reportedly killed more than 70 members of his extended family,” it said. Al-Mughrabi had worked with UNDP for almost 30 years and was a “beloved member” of the team, Steiner said. “The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The UN and civilians in Gaza are not a target,” Steiner said. “This war must end. No more families should endure the pain and suffering that Issam’s family and countless others are experiencing.”
Israel’s aerial bombardment campaign of Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks has devastated the enclave, with the Gaza health ministry reporting about 20,000 people have been killed. UN agencies have said that nearly 70% of those killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children. Israel’s use of powerful, heavy bombs on the densely populated enclave has been criticized by war analysts, who say they cause greater damage and civilian casualties. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-un-aid-worker-was-killed-in-gaza-along-with-70-members-of-his-family-in-an-israeli-airstrike/ar-AA1lYmUn
2023-12-23 Palestinians in central Gaza flee along ‘death corridor’ after Israel order Israel has ordered Palestinians to evacuate from parts of central Gaza, its latest such directive as it pushes more of the besieged enclave’s 2.3 million-strong population into a smaller area while widening its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military on Friday ordered families to flee for their “safety” to shelters in southern Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, from Bureij and areas of Nuseirat in central Gaza.
This was the case for Walaa al-Nuzeini, who was fleeing Bureij in a wheelchair and for the third time since the beginning of the assault. Al-Nuzeini lived in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City when an Israeli air strike targeted her home on November 7. “I lost my daughter, she died in my arms,” al-Nuzeini told Al Jazeera. “We stayed under the rubble for three hours before they got us out,” she said, adding that the entire area is now “destroyed”. Al-Nuzeini was badly hurt. She suffers from wounds in her leg, and said the nerve is affected which has been causing her “extreme pain”. She was taken to al-Shifa Hospital for treatment, but three days later Israeli soldiers raided the facility, Gaza’s largest hospital that is now no longer operating.
“There is no place that’s safe,” Salem al-Sheikh told Al Jazeera. The elderly man said he was forcibly displaced from his home in Nassr neighbourhood in the west of Gaza City. “They [the Israeli army] told us to leave, so I fled to al-Shifa Hospital, where I stayed for a month and a half. I then left to Nuseirat,” al-Sheikh said. He was among the thousands who sought refuge in al-Shifa Hospital before it was attacked by Israeli forces. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinians-in-central-gaza-flee-along-death-corridor-after-israel-order/ar-AA1lVHa5
2023-12-07 “Terrorized”: Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Being Stripped, Jailed & Beaten by Israeli Forces We speak with celebrated Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha for his first interview after he was jailed and beaten by Israeli forces, when he was detained at a checkpoint in Gaza while heading to Rafah with his family. He was rounded up with scores of other Palestinians. “I felt humiliated. I felt terrified and terrorized by this army because they were ordering us to do everything at gunpoint,” says Toha, now in Cairo. He calls on Western leaders to stop supporting the violence against Palestinians. “If you can’t stop the war, if you can’t stop the carnage, the genocide, just stop financing it.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSh3pIBdKR4
2023-11-13 ON THE GROUND IN JENIN WITH THE WEST BANK’S RESISTANCE FIGHTERS ‘They call us terrorists. Who planted terrorism? Wasn’t it they? As long as there is occupation there is no future for the people. There will be no future unless they let us live.’
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. https://therealnews.com/on-the-ground-in-jenin-with-the-west-banks-resistance-fighters
2021-05-17 The Palestinian Resistance & Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian activist and writer Mohammed el-Kurd talks to us about the current resistance against Israeli ethnic cleansing taking place in Sheikh Jarrah, and Palestinian resistance more broadly. The entire world has witnessed Israel’s naked colonial violence in Sheikh Jarrah, Palestine, where countless Palestinians have been brutalized and forcefully removed from their homes. Palestinian writer and activist Mohammed el-Kurd joins the show to discuss the latest round of ethnic cleansing in his home neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the many ways that Palestinians are resisting Israel colonial domination, and why we’re seeing unprecedented resistance from Palestinians. We also discuss those who only support Palestinians when they appear to be ‘perfect victims’ but are quiet when they are resisting Israeli state violence, and how international media is complicit in ongoing Israeli apartheid. https://groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/sheikh-jarrah
2019-03-30 No Choice but to Break Free: An Interview with Ahmed Abu Artema My name is Ahmed Abu Artema, a Palestinian activist from a displaced family, a displaced Palestinian from the Ramla region, we were displaced in 1948 when Israel founded its state. The year after the state was founded, about 700,000 Palestinians were displaced and my family was among them. I was born in the city of Rafah. I am a human rights activist and a journalist.
I was one of the founders of the Great March of Return that represents the claim of Palestinians to their natural right that is understood and guaranteed to them under international law and by UN conventions: that they should be allowed to return to their homes.
LS: You mentioned that you were a journalist and I also know you’re a poet. We know that Palestinians are very engaged and involved in art of all kinds – what’s the role of art and artistic expression in the Great March of Return? What is its importance? Has the March presented new possibilities to use art and performance? https://viewpointmag.com/2019/03/30/ahmed-abu-artema/
2018-01-19 Norman Finkelstein: The “Big Lie” about Gaza Is That The Palestinians Have Been the Aggressors Extended interview with scholar Norman Finkelstein, author of the new book, “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom.” The book has just been published as Israel is facing a possible International Criminal Court war crimes probe over its 2014 assault on Gaza, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, including over 500 children. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGPZRkqJzY
2017-02-23 Palestinians Living in Graveyards Whilst Palestine activists raise over $80,000 for damaged head stones to be repaired in a American cemetery…Nearly 100 families live like this in Gaza’s cemetery…I suppose there is no publicity and no media attention for peoples efforts in Gaza…#Priorities! https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1880304802212521&set=pcb.1880304838879184
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