Check out this important video about the lethal Israeli policy of "roof knocking":
On 14 July 2018, the Israeli military carried out an airstrike on a building in Gaza which it claimed the Hamas used for training purposes. A joint investigation by B’Tselem and Forensic Architecture found that the strike began with the launching of four missiles the military termed “warning missiles.” The first killed two 14-year-olds who were sitting on the rooftop at the time. The investigation also found that the video clip the military released of the attack omits footage of the strike in which the two boys were killed while the impact of the third missile is shown twice. The firing of lethal missiles as a means of warning is unlawful and, for all intents and purposes, constitutes an attack. As such, the action must abide by the applicable rules set out in international law, including adhering to the principle of proportionality and the duty to provide effective warning. None of this was done in the case at hand.
On 14 July 2018, the Israeli military carried out an airstrike on a building in Gaza which it claimed the Hamas used for training purposes. A joint investigation by B’Tselem and Forensic Architecture found that the strike began with the launching of four missiles the military termed “warning missiles.” The first killed two 14-year-olds who were sitting on the rooftop at the time. The investigation also found that the video clip the military released of the attack omits footage of the strike in which the two boys were killed while the impact of the third missile is shown twice. The firing of lethal missiles as a means of warning is unlawful and, for all intents and purposes, constitutes an attack. As such, the action must abide by the applicable rules set out in international law, including adhering to the principle of proportionality and the duty to provide effective warning. None of this was done in the case at hand.
Gaza Roundup #3
Credit: Agence France-Presse
News & Analysis
Football: Gaza team wins Palestine Cup despite Israeli restrictions (AFP)"Despite Israel barring 10 players from entering the occupied West Bank, Shebab Rafah wins first Palestine Cup title for Gaza in a decade"
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Trapped between Israel and Hamas, Gaza's wasted generation is going nowhere (Washington Post)"Unemployment for Gaza’s young adults hovers around 60 percent. This is not just a dull World Bank number. This is a stunning number, the highest in the Middle East and among the worst rates in the world."
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How long can Gaza survive with no water? (Al Monitor)"The water crisis caused by ongoing power outages of more than 20 hours a day has pushed Gaza Strip residents to dig unlicensed wells, disregarding the ensuing serious threats to the already scarce aquifer water stock."
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Israel threatens new Gaza war if Hamas sabotages barrier plans (Middle East Eye)"General details targets in Gaza and says any attempt to foil construction of wall and underground barrier is 'worthy reason' for new conflict"
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In Gaza, we get four hours of electricity a day — if we're lucky (LA Times)"Some friends threw me a surprise birthday party last month. They placed a chocolate cake lit with candles before me and told me to make a wish for the year ahead. I immediately blurted out, “24-hour electricity and air conditioning.” They laughed and suggested I wish for something more realistic."
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With selfie sticks, excitement and apprehension, Gazan children visit Jerusalem for the first time (Washington Post)"It was a journey of just 50 miles, but for the nearly 100 children who visited Jerusalem on Sunday, it seemed like they had traveled to a distant world. "
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Gaza Roundup #2
Credit: We Are Not Numbers
News & Analysis
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"Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have entered their 11th year under a suffocating siege imposed by Israel. The blockade dictates the day-to-day reality for people in Gaza, where Israel controls the borders, airspace, and waters. Gaza's isolation has devastated its economy, impoverished much of the Strip's two million people, and left them without adequate electricity, water and health services."
Gaza: living with blackouts (Reuters)"As Middle East summer temperatures soar above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), Gazans are struggling to stay cool amid a power crisis, with less than four hours of electricity a day and little chance to run fans and air-conditioners."
RAFAH: BLACK FRIDAY (Forensic Architecture)"The Black Friday report is a collaboration between Forensic Architecture and Amnesty International. It aims to provide a detailed reconstruction of the events in Rafah, Gaza, from 1 August until 4 August 2014, based primarily on material found on social media."
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"Palestinians in Gaza closely and cautiously followed the recent events that unfolded in their holy city, Jerusalem. For nearly three weeks, Jerusalemite Palestinians protested against newly installed metal detectors at the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, opting to pray outside the mosque rather than go through what they perceived as a humiliating infringement on their freedom of worship and an Israeli attempt to control the holy site."
Making Sense of Jerusalem, Gaza, and Anti-BDS Legislation in the United States (Jadaliyya)"The past two weeks have been filled with a flurry of news and developments concerning Palestine that have appeared in piecemeal fashion. As per usual, mainstream international and US media have portrayed events in Jerusalem and Gaza, as well as legislation in the United States, as isolated incidents lacking context."
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"In Shifa hospital, Gaza, tiny premature babies, some with multiple infections, others with congenital diseases, lie packed together in incubators, struggling for life amid a tangle of tubes as lights flicker. With electricity virtually cut off, their life support is powered by a generator with a variable current."
'The worst it's been': children continue to swim as raw sewage floods Gaza beach (The Guardian)"For most of the 2 million people in this overcrowded strip of land – largely cut off from the outside world – the beach and sea are the only affordable form of recreation. The only option now is to swim and even fish in filthy water."
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Art
Malak Mattar (Painter from Gaza)
Read more about her story and work here.
Gaza Roundup #1
Credit: Al Shabaka
News & Analysis
Abbas’s Shortsighted Gaza Policy (Al Shabaka)"Political players both in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and the region are repositioning themselves after the recent emergence of a coalition between Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan, the former leader of Fatah in Gaza and Hamas’s long-standing enemy, as well as the sanctions placed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt. The Palestinians of Gaza are anxiously waiting to see how these significant political changes for the Gaza Strip will affect their daily lives."
My Family in Gaza Tells Me: We Can't Breathe (Haaretz)"They've given up trying to sleep in the suffocating heat, but that's not all Gazans are giving up hope for: “The war is coming. I'm beginning to believe I'm going to die before I even experience living."
Gaza on Verge of Collapse as Israel Sends 2.2M People "Back to Middle Ages" in Electricity Crisis (Democracy Now)"We go directly to Gaza to speak with Raji Sourani, an award-winning human rights lawyer and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. We also speak with Tareq Baconi, author of the forthcoming book, "Hamas Contained: The Rise & Pacification of Palestinian Resistance." He is a policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network."
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How Israel’s 10-Year Blockade Brought Gaza to the Brink of Collapse (The Nation)"The crisis in Gaza is not simply a humanitarian tragedy. it's a moral outrage."
Gaza is Headed for a Deeper Political and Humanitarian Crisis (Al Shabaka)"Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas’s efforts to increase Hamas’s isolation – by cutting salaries and then electricity to the Gaza Strip - mirror regional dynamics in the age of Trump. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt have all mobilized to isolate Qatar, a major investor in the Gaza Strip and a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza."
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Gaza Power Watch: How Many Hours of Electricity Did Gaza Get Yesterday (Haaretz)"A severe electricity shortage in Gaza leaves residents with as little as four hours of power a day in the sweltering summer heat. Who gets electricity and when?"
Young survivors of Gaza beach slaughter three years ago ‘lost their minds’ (Mondoweiss)"Tomorrow marks three years since the most publicized atrocity of the 2014 Gaza assault: an Israeli missile strike that killed four boys while they were playing soccer on the beach in view of the hotel frequented by international media. The boys were from the same extended family, the Bakr family, and their deaths were even reported with horror by liberal Zionist outlets."
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Campaigns
Gaza Unlocked (AFSC)
Obliterated Families
We Are Not Numbers
Gaza Blackout (Jewish Voice for Peace)
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