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Attack On A School In Gaza Leaves UN Official In Tears

The  recent video of United Nations official, Chris Gunness, sobbing on camera during an Al-Jazeera interview has further highlighted the humility and grief of the injustices being carried out against the Palestinians. Altho...
by Nuzhat Fatima
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Human Rights

#HumanitarianHeroes: Celebrating The Heroes Of Our Time

It seems as though every day we wake up to the news of more death, destruction, and suffering. Whether it’s the cause of war, natural disasters or famine, there are currently 108 million people who are in need of humanitarian...
by Priyanka Mogul
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50Days4Gaza Feature: IPF honours those affected by the 2014 Gaza war

On 8 July 2014, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip – a military operation to put a halt to rocket fire from Hamas. The war continued for 50 days and claimed the lives of 2,251 Palestinians – most of...
by Priyanka Mogul
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#50Days4Gaza: War journalism in Gaza

Understanding the meaning of ‘shell-shocked’ in a context of war, conflict and gross human rights violations often allows us to negotiate with a complex of emotions and stories that move beyond journalistic ethos of ‘obje...
by Arpita Mitra
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The Death And Gloom Of Donetsk And Gaza

There were two headline-grabbing events on Thursday, July 17: the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17, presumably by separatists in eastern Ukraine, and the beginning of Israel’s ground assault into the Gaza Strip. While the for...
by Sean Guillory
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50Days4Gaza: Palestinian journalists tell their story

It’s been one year since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. Like any other war, the international media flocked to the region as soon as the war broke out – each one more desperate than the...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Middle East

Avoiding Operation Cast Lead II

Since the assassination of Hamas’s military commander, Ahmed Al-Jabari, who aided in the negotiations to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, on November 14th as part of Operation Pillar of Defence, Israel has conti...
by Rosanna Rafel
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50Days4Gaza: Boyhood memories in Gaza; roses, poetry and mathematics

In such a situation of inequality and injustice, oppression and desperation – all those coherent pairs that negatively became inseparable from my daily life – confusion got the better of me. I had to find a sanct...
by Muhammad Shehada
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50Days4Gaza: Narrating Palestine’s loss through personal experience and comedy

It is estimated that Israel’s’ Operation Protective Edge that was launched in July 2014 and lasted for 50 days has resulted in the displacement of over 106,000 Palestinians. When reading statistics about refugees and displa...
by Anjuli Borgonha
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