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The Russian  Health Club in Gaza City (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
"We gather here as Russian wives who are married to Gazan husbands, to preserve our culture, language and some of our lifestyle, particularly under these bad conditions in Gaza," said Jamila Assersawi, a Russian music teacher who has lived in Gaza for the past 15 years. Jamila and other Russian wives in Gaza gather at a health club in Gaza City twice a week, where they meet, chat and practice some exercises. They also let their children intermingle to preserve the Russian half of their culture.
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Settlers stopping the tour of Breaking the Silence - Anne Paq Activestills 2008
by Anne Paq
The tour of Hebron and its settlements, organized by the organization "Breaking the Silence" was once again disrupted by a group of settlers on Friday, 27 of June. "Breaking the Silence" is an organization made of discharged Israeli soldiers who work to expose the reality of the occupation in the Palestinian territories.

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by Translated & Edited by Saed Bannoura
Black burn spots covered vast areas of farmlands that belong to residents of Boreen and Aseera Al Qibliyya villages, south of the northern West Bank city o Nablus; hours after Israeli settlers burnt their lands and uprooted hundreds of trees. more >>
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by Palestinian Center for Human Rights
On 11 June, eight-year-old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in southeastern Gaza was shelled by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Less than a week earlier, eight-year-old Aya Hamdan al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF helicopter. These two young girls had been living just a few kilometers apart, both in villages in the southeastern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel. more >>
Marzouq Mo'amar at his home in Rafah, Gaza. (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
Marzouq Mo'amar's smile has returned to his face after he had almost lost hope because of thyroid cancer that had spread to his neck. Just a few weeks ago Palestinian doctors at the Gaza European Hospital in southern Gaza, were able to perform a life-saving surgery for the 62-year-old from Rafah.

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A child plays with a balloon during one of the training sessions (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
Tuesday morning at 9:00am, 220 Palestinian children gathered at al-Sherouq and al-Amal children's club in southern Gaza's Khan Younis refugee camp. Dressed in colorful clothes accompanied by cheerful smiles, the children lined up in rows to listen to their trainer.

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Mohammed Omer
by Mohammed Omer
The siege of Gaza has many layers. I work here as a journalist, amid near-daily air and land assaults from Israel, amid the unending killings and destruction of land and livelihood, which are all made more unbearable by critical shortages of fuel, food, medicine, electricity for hospital machinery and electricity for my work. more >>
We only sell fruit during the first week of each month when government employees receive their salaries." (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
"Can you imagine that when a child of mine asks me for one Shekel (USD 0.3), I can't afford to give it to him? That's why I remain hidden from my children from early in the morning until evening."

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The electricity-powered engine. (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
Al-Khozendar Electronics in Gaza City has become a recent point of pilgrimage for many Palestinians. The visitors come to observe Gaza's latest invention of necessity: an electric car.
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Another Nakba: the rubble of Marwan Ali Shaath's house in Rafah, Gaza. (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
At the southernmost area of the Gaza Strip, where the Philadelphia route separates the coastal enclave from Egypt, there are scores of knocked down buildings. The destruction dates back to 2002, when Israeli army bulldozers demolished the houses of the Palestinian inhabitants of this border line. more >>
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by PCHR Press Release
May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically cleansed en masse in a premeditated and organized campaign carried out by armed Zionist militia. more >>
Palestinians in Gaza wait to receive cooking gas (Rami Almeghari)
by Rami Almeghari
As the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip enters its 11th month, the population's living conditions further deteriorate, with scores of people in different parts of the coastal region lining up in front of gas stations to receive provisions of cooking gas, a scarce commodity over the past four weeks.
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