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MIDEAST: Gaza Graduates Search for Vitamin W

MIDEAST: THE HAGUE, Nov 12 (IPS) - "We fast a long time," says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. "Only to break our fast on a piece of onion." She is speaking not of Ramadan but of the whole year, and year after year. She graduated in ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, Inter Press Service,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Palestinian Authority,  United Nations

Back to school on the Strip

As the 456,000 schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip start their academic year, they face chronic shortages of everything from paper and textbooks to school bags and computers, the result of the Israeli blockade. At the same time, severely overcrowded ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, New Statesman,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Textbook injustice in Gaza

Schoolchildren are stuck for basics as Israel blocks supplies As the 456,000 schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip start their academic year, they face chronic shortages of everything from paper, textbooks and ink cartridges to school uniforms, school bags ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, New Statesman,  7 Oct 2009

MIDEAST: Children Have a Way With Miracles

MIDEAST: AMSTERDAM, Aug 16 (IPS) - Call it that choice between looking at the half-full or half-empty part of the results. And it is almost half; 55 percent of schoolchildren passed their exams in Gaza this year. The results in the ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, Inter Press Service,  16 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Ismail Haniyeh

A Journalist Beaten -- One Year Later

I want to address the denials from Israel and the inaccurate reporting by a few journalists in addition to requesting state of Israel to acknowledge what it did to me, prosecute the members of the Shin Bet responsible for it and put in place ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, UK Indymedia Newswire,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Martha Gellhorn,  BBC

MIDEAST: Mourn the Cat That Died

MIDEAST: AMSTERDAM, Jan 9 (IPS) - On the phone from Gaza, Zahrah Salem shares the news she has just seen, that so many at the White House were "deeply saddened" by the death of the cat India Willie. Why, she asks, is nobody at the White ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, Inter Press Service,  9 Jan 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Hamas

Israel Targets Palestinian Students

GAZA CITY - The letter of acceptance that 28-year-old Hazem Hussain got for a business graduate program in a California university once brought joy. Now he does not know what to do with it. He has admission and a visa to the U.S., but the Israelis will ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, AntiWar.com,  22 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Hamas,  Tzipi Livni

MIDEAST: Israel Targets Palestinian Students

MIDEAST: GAZA CITY, Oct 21 (IPS) - The letter of acceptance that 28-year-old Hazem Hussain got for a business graduate programme in a Californian university once brought joy. Now he does not know what to do with it. He has admission, and a ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, Inter Press Service,  21 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Hamas

Palestinian Factions Silence Opposition Media

GAZA CITY - So much is missing as you walk down the street along the shops of Gaza: food and medicines kept out by the blockade enforced by Israel, but also newspapers, once a part of the street landscape. Al-Hayat-al-Jadeeda and al-Ayyam, two ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, AntiWar.com,  24 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas

MIDEAST: Everyone Loses in the War of Silencing

MIDEAST: GAZA CITY, Sep 23 (IPS) - So much is missing as you walk down the street along the shops of Gaza. Food and medicines kept out by the blockade enforced by Israel; but also newspapers once a part of the street landscape. Al-Hayat-Al- ...

From MOHAMMED OMER, Inter Press Service,  23 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Reporters Without Borders

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