A Palestinian receives medical attention in a hospital after being injured during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, east of Gaza City, Sep 14, 2018. (photo: Felipe Dana / Associated Press)
Doctors Without Borders says that thousands are in danger of infection and disability because Gaza hospitals cannot adequately treat them.
By Associate Press Staff | The Washington Post | Nov 29, 2018
Israeli snipers have killed about 170 people and wounded thousands.
A medical aid group says the vast number of patients treated for gunshot wounds from months of violent border protests have overwhelmed Gaza’s health care system.
Doctors Without Borders says that thousands are in danger of infection and disability because Gaza hospitals cannot adequately treat them.
Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have been organizing weekly border protests since March in which demonstrators approach the border fence, throwing firebombs at Israeli troops and burning tires.
Please join our brothers and sisters at University Congregational United Church of Christ for an Evening with Dr. Alice Rothchild who will discuss the current situation in Gaza with respect to human rights, social justice, and health care needs.
Alice Rothchild is a sought-after speaker on human rights and social justice on Israel-Palestine since 1997. She will be describing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Dr. Rothchild practiced Ob-Gyn for 40 years and until her retirement served as Asst. Prof. of Ob-Gyn at Harvard Medical School. She directed the documentary film, Voices Across The Divide. She is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump with their spouses outside the White House, Mar 5, 2018. (photo: Bloomberg)
Israel has chosen to embrace Trump and serially antagonize US Jews.
By Avraham Bronstein | Haaretz | Nov 21, 2018
To be clear: We [US Jews] certainly benefit from far more privilege in our lives than the Palestinians we met. Still, our conversations caused me to reflect on how we could begin to relate to their feeling of being left behind.
Earlier this month, I toured Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and the Bethlehem area with a group of over 30 rabbis, educators, lay leaders, executives, and philanthropists from across the denominational and political spectrum.
It was a powerful, intense experience facilitated by Encounter, an organization that brings American Jewish leaders into direct contact with Palestinians for an on-the-ground perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Over the course of the four-day trip, our group asked many of the Palestinians with whom we met what they hoped to gain by speaking with us. Some thought we might be able to influence others on their behalf — whether it was the US Jewish community, the American government, or even Israelis — whether at large, or in positions of power.
Please join our brothers and sisters at University Congregational United Church of Christ for an Evening with Dr. Alice Rothchild who will discuss the current situation in Gaza with respect to human rights, social justice, and health care needs.
Alice Rothchild is a sought-after speaker on human rights and social justice on Israel-Palestine since 1997. She will be describing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Dr. Rothchild practiced Ob-Gyn for 40 years and until her retirement served as Asst. Prof. of Ob-Gyn at Harvard Medical School. She directed the documentary film, Voices Across The Divide. She is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine.
An overview of the current situation in Palestine/Israel with respect to the recently passed Israel Nation-State Law, the current condition of Gaza, and the challenges faced by the media in reporting these events. Internationally known speakers include:
Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian human rights lawyer
Julia Pitner, Executive Director of Institute of Palestine Studies
Dr. Salim Munayer, Director of Musalaha
Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, Director General of the Gaza Mental Health Program
An overview of the current situation in Palestine/Israel with respect to the recently passed Israel Nation-State Law, the current condition of Gaza, and the challenges faced by the media in reporting these events. Internationally known speakers include:
Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian human rights lawyer
Julia Pitner, Executive Director of Institute of Palestine Studies
Dr. Salim Munayer, Director of Musalaha
Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, Director General of the Gaza Mental Health Program
An overview of the current situation in Palestine/Israel with respect to the recently passed Israel Nation-State Law, the current condition of Gaza, and the challenges faced by the media in reporting these events. Internationally known speakers include:
Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian human rights lawyer
Julia Pitner, Executive Director of Institute of Palestine Studies
Dr. Salim Munayer, Director of Musalaha
Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, Director General of the Gaza Mental Health Program
Villagers and activists facing arrest for protesting the attempted demolition of Bedouin Palestinian dwellings at al-Khan al-Ahmar, West Bank, Oct 15, 2018. (photo: Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
. . . The Bedouins of al-Khan al-Ahmar halted the bulldozers.
By David Shulman | The New York Review of Books | Oct 26, 2018
Already it can be said that a small group of unarmed, ordinary human beings, appalled by the injustice about to be inflicted upon innocents and prepared to face reckless violence without flinching, have achieved a moral victory that cannot be measured in purely instrumental terms.
Something extraordinary has happened this week at the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Khan al-Ahmar, on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem and adjacent to the main road going south toward Jericho and the Dead Sea. First, there is the remarkable fact that the village still exists — after months of waiting, day by day, for the bulldozers of the Israeli army to arrive to demolish it. But even more astonishing is the fact that, for several days, over a hundred activists — Palestinians, Israelis, and a few internationals — faced the heavily armed soldiers and the riot police, not known for their gentle ways, and triumphed, at least for the moment. The imminent demolition of the entire site and the violent expulsion of its inhabitants have now been postponed for some weeks, according to the Israeli cabinet’s decision on October 21.
There is even a chance, however slight, that the Bedouins of al-Khan al-Ahmar will in the end be moved to a site only a few hundred yards from their present place, according to the plan that they themselves proposed, long ago, to the Israeli authorities, who rejected it at the time out of hand. Sometimes, it happens that a certain place, like this rocky hill, becomes a battleground between opposing value systems and opposing forces, each of which recognizes what is at stake. For the Israeli right, the Bedouins of al-Khan al-Ahmar are one of the last obstacles to a far-reaching annexationist program. They also have the incorrigible flaw of not being Jews in a Jewish state now run on exclusionary ethno-nationalist principles.
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