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Posts Tagged ‘Palestinian Refugees’

Work camp in Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon

By Guest Post • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

August 19th – September 3rd 2009
Sumud association was born in order to offer our cooperation to those who endure oppression and refuse to resign themselves, without paternalism and with the awareness that what those people most need is not charity but help in their fight for justice.
The concrete and ambitious project we are proposing to [...]

Reham Alhelsi – Palestinian Mothers: Homage to Steadfastness and Sacrifice

By Reham Alhelsi • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

When the women came and told her to leave what she was doing and come and sit in front of the house with them, my grandmother knew what was to come. They sat outside and didn’t talk much. My uncle had been shot in the chest by the IOF that afternoon, and was at that [...]

cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day, Palestine

Two years after Nahr el-Bared was destroyed, "reconstruction" starts.
Solidarity between Palestinians crosses all borders, as we see in Nahr el-Bared First.
But…. we won't hold our breath for the rebuilding of Gaza

Nadia Hasan – The expulsion of the expelled and photo essay

By Nadia Hasan • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Lebanon: the "reconstruction" of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, destroyed a year and a half ago by the Lebanese army

The stone base that initiates the process of rebuilding the camp of Nahr al-Bared was laid on Monday, March 9 at a ceremony organized by the Lebanese Government and the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, [...]

Video: Harvesting Oranges

By Nadia Hasan • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Newswire, Palestine, Video

Early in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leave their homes, gather in [...]

The Palestinians of Iraq

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

The Palestinians residing in Iraq came from villages around Haifa, which used to be called the villages of Alhamamah Albeda (The White Dove). Those were the villages of (Ijzim, Jabaa and Ayn Ghazal). These villages have witnessed many battles between the Palestinian citizens and the Zionist gangs. Many families lost their men while defending their [...]