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The Gaza Strip

     
One year after Operation Cast Lead, the al-'Athamneh family , from ‘Izbat ‘Abd Rabo, is still living in a tent, December 2009


     
Testimony: Israel arrests wounded man at Erez Crossing


     
‘Imad a-Natur, 17, works in tunnels in the Gaza Strip to support his family, November 2009


     
Israel prevents Gaza Christian and his Bethlehem fianc?e from marrying, December 2009


     
Testimony: Young girl dies in Gaza after waiting two months for a permit to enter Israel for treatment


     
Young woman from Gaza unemployed for two years, since the factory in which she worked closed down due to the siege, November 2009


     
Israel expels university student from Bethlehem to Gaza two months before she completes studies for a degree, October 2009


     
Army deports Muhammad Abu Sultan to the Gaza Strip and prohibits him from rejoining his wife and children in Tulkarm, October 2009


     
Testimony: Soldiers shoot and kill Gazan farmer after cease-fire is in place, Jan. '09


     
Soldiers shoot woman carrying white flag after they order residents to leave their houses, Khuza’a, southern Gaza Strip, January 2009


     
Army shells Hamuda family home in Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, killing two children and severely wounding their mother, Jan. '09


     
Enzeli family flees home after Israeli army announces it will bomb the area, Rafah, 7 Jan. '09


     
10 year-old lost his eyesight in a bombing in which a friend was killed and another wounded, Gaza Strip, Jan. '09


     
Soldiers occupy the Kasab family’s house, beat family members and detain the father and three sons, Jan. '09


     
Israeli army bombs home in Gaza City, killing 21 members of a single family, Jan. '09


     
9 members of family killed at home when army bombs near UNWRA school, Jabalya refugee camp, 6 Jan. '09


     
Ambulance and medical staff fired at while evacuating wounded people, 4 Jan. '09


     
Children witness their mother and another woman killed by fire from a tank, Gaza Strip, 4 Jan '09


     
Life under siege and bombings in the Gaza Strip, 4 Jan. '09


     
Bombing causes the Abu al-Haj family to flee their house and go to a school in a-Nuseirat, 4 Jan. '09


     
Soldiers Killed and injured dozens of persons from a-Samuni family in a-Zeitun neighborhood, Gaza, 4 Jan. '09


     
Testimony: Members of Abu Halima family killed and burned in army’s bombing of their house, 4 Jan. '09


     
Army forces neighborhood residents from their homes, Jan. '09


     
Israeli soldiers kill ‘Atiyyah a-Samuni at home, before his family, Gaza City, Jan. '09


     
Wiam al-Kafarneh, 3, is severely injured when the army shells her house and dies the next day, Beit Hanun, Jan. '09


     
Testimony: Abu Dahruj family flee their shelled neighborhood in central Gaza Strp, 3 Jan. '09


     
Usama a-Nabahin and his family leave their house out of fear of Israeli attacks, 3 Jan. 09


     
Testimony: al-'Ayadi family, eight of whom lightly injured, trapped in their home in area being shelled, 7 Jan. '09


     
A-Shteiwi family besieged in their house under shelling for 12 days, Jan '09


     
3 children killed by missile when playing in the street, Khan Yunis,2 Jan. '09


     
‘Arafat family flees from their home in 'Abasan al-Jadida following Israeli air force bombing, 1 Jan. '09


     
Woman and 8 year-old girl killed in an army bombing in Gaza City, Dec. '08


     
Eight young men killed when army bombs truck of metal workshop in Gaza City, 29 Dec. '08


     
Five girls in one family killed when the army bombs a mosque near their home in Jabalya Refugee Camp, 29 December 2008


     
Three children killed in bombing of their home, 28 Dec. ’08


     
Vegetable vendor killed in Israeli bombing of Gazan police building, 27 Dec. ‘08


     
Vegetable merchant and small son killed in Israeli bombing of Gazan police building, 27 Dec. '08


     
Jaber Abu Hweij loses father and brothers in Gaza bombing


     
Three-year-old killed in Israeli bombing of building next to his home, Gaza City, Dec. '08


     
Khaled al-Astal, 14, killed in bombing by Israeli army, Khan Yunis, 27 December 2008


     
Al-'Abd a-Shaf'i, detained for selling cigarettes on the street, was killed when the police station was bombed, 27.12.08


     
Israeli navy shoots and wounds Muhammad Musleh, fishing off the Rafah shore, 5 October 2008


     
Rasha Abu Sha'ban is registered at a Scottish university but is not allowed to leave Gaza, July 2008


     
Imprisoned in Gaza, Mayada Mhana cannot complete her media studies in Cairo, July 2008


     
Family of farmers lost only source of income due to siege on Gaza Strip


     
Furniture workshop of the Hijazi family closed following siege on Gaza, and the family forced to leave home, May 2008


     
Testimony: Soldiers blow up door of family home, killing the mother, and leave body with her children


     
Israel refuses Nufuz al-Husni, a cancer patient from Gaza, entry to Israel for emergency surgery


     
Infant killed in Israeli shelling of Palestinian Interior Ministry building in the Gaza Strip, 27 February 2008


     
Soldiers fire missile at three Palestinians spending leisure time on farmland near Beit Hanun, killing them, 23 February 08


     
IDF missile strikes schoolyard of school in northern Gaza Strip, killing a teacher and injuring three students, Feb. 2008


     
Army bombs deserted building in a residential neighborhood in Gaza, killing a wedding guest and wounding dozens of civilians, January 2008


     
ISA prevents Gazan heart patient who refused to collaborate from entering Israel for treatment, Nov. 2007


     
Israel denies 21-year-old cancer patient medical treatment, Nov. 2007


     
Gazan is delayed access to hospital in Israel and dies at Erez


     
Israel prevents cancer patient, 21, from entering Israel to receive urgent medical treatment, Oct 2007


     
Israel delays entry of two toddlers with cystic fibrosis who need to be treated in Hadassah


     
Israel 's siege on Gaza forces the al-Qishawi family into poverty, Oct. 2007


     
Gazan construction worker unemployed because of the shortage of building materials in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 2007


     
Member of Hamas' executive force shoots Amaneh a-Sawir during search of her home, March 2007


     
Navy crew abuses and detains Palestinian fishermen, Rafah, March 2007


     
Soldiers fire at three teenagers who tried to cross the Gaza perimeter fence, killing one and wounding the other two, Jan. 07


     
A father and son from Gaza stranded in Egypt, waiting for the Rafah Crossing to open.


     
Soldiers snatch 'Abd a-Rahman al-Qun, 15, from his brother's fishing boat and abuse him, Rafah, January 2007


     
Soldiers force fishermen to abandon their boats and to swim in freezing-cold water, Rafah, Jan. 2007


     
Israeli Navy crew forces Gaza fishermen to swim in their underwear to the navy's boat, Jan. 2007


     
Three fisherman injured by shell fired by an Israeli Navy ship, December 2006


     
Israel shelled apartments in northern Gaza, 3 killed, hundreds homeless. 24 July 2006


     
Four members of Harareh family killed by Israeli shelling, a-Sheja'iyeh neighborhood, Gaza City, 21 July 2006


     
Israeli Soldiers Use Palestinians as Human Shields during Incursion into Beit Hanun, July 2006


     
IDF missile hits group of youths, killing six, Abu Holi area, Deir al-Balah, 12 July 2006


     
Sonic booms cause ceiling to collapse, injuring some of the apartment's occupants, Gaza Strip, 30 June 2006


     
Children in the Abu Jazer family live in fear since the sonic booms began, Rafah, July 2006


     
Effects of the electricity shortage, resulting from Israel's bombing of the Gaza power plant, on life in Gaza, Summer 2006


     
IDF shells inhabited area in Beit Lahiya, hits house, wounding four persons, 4 April 2006


     
IDF soldiers shoot and kill Sayyed Abu Libdah, 16, when in his family's orchard, 600 meters from the Gaza perimeter fence, December 2005


     
IDF soldiers shoot and kill Bilal a-Sha'er, 17, when he tried to sneak into Israel to work, Khan Yunis, November 2005


     
The Kaffa family lives in poverty since the father cannot renew his work permit, March 2005


     
The General Security Service pressures Muhammad Abu Hashish, who applied for a work permit, to collaborate


     
The Civil Administration Prevents Couples and their Children from Living Together in Hebron or Gaza


     
The Civil Administration Prevents Ibrahim Musa and his Family from Visiting their Relatives in Gaza


     
The Civil Administration prevents Randa Sammak and her children from living with her husband, her children's father


     
Al-Burej refugee camp: IDF house bombing kills Nuha al-Maqadmeh, March, 2003


     
Jabalya: IDF tank fire kills four members of a Palestinian family, August 2002


     
IDF use Samir Abu 'Amra and Ahmad Abu 'Amra as human shields, August 2002

 
 

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