Posts Tagged ‘siege’

Glimpses of Gaza

Glimpses of Gaza

A slideshow of images from Gaza for In These Times magazine


Protesting Egypt

Protesting Egypt

Demonstration at Egyptian embassy for government’s role in siege of Gaza


Three more tunnel workers killed today in Gaza

Three more tunnel workers killed today in Gaza

Another three Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli strike on tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border. The young tunnel workers are paid little to risk their lives and dig tunnels that serve as a lifeline to supply Gaza’s population of 1.5 million with food, medicines, gasoline, and other essential items long denied to them by [...]


Injuries under siege

Injuries under siege

This boy was not injured during the attacks. After the attacks he fell and hit his head and went unconscious. He was recovering in the ICU at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital. Since the Israeli (and Egyptian) siege began, almost 250 Palestinians patients in Gaza have died from illnesses or injuries who would’ve otherwise lived had [...]


Cooking gas

Cooking gas

Driving up and down the main Salah al-Din road in the Gaza Strip over the past few days there have been hundreds of Palestinians lined up outside the various butane gas suppliers, which most people use for cooking. The Israeli siege has not allowed a sufficient amount of gas into Gaza for the past year [...]