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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:
Abdelwahab Elmessiri passed away on Thursday, 3 July, in the Palestine Hospital in Cairo at the age of 70. There is a befittingly poetic resonance about the name of this hospital — the place of his final struggle — when one considers that Elmessiri had devoted almost his entire intellectual career to the defense of the Palestinian cause. Aslam Farouk-Alli remembers the life of the Egyptian writer and political thinker.
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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:
GAZA ORGANIZATIONS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE By Rami Almeghari, Live from Palestine, 4 August 2008
In the past two weeks, the Hamas-dominated interior ministry in Gaza has closed scores of Gaza-based non-governmental organizations. According to Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza City, the Hamas-dominated government has closed 179 institutions in Gaza, including those providing services to women, children and people with disabilities. The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Almeghari reports.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9737.shtml
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Palestine : Multimedia:
PHOTOSTORY: THE MONTH IN PICTURES, JULY 2008 Slideshow, The Electronic Intifada, 4 August 2008
The following slideshow is a selection of images from the month of July 2008. The month in pictures is an ongoing feature of The Electronic Intifada. If you have images documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, or of solidarity with Palestine, please email images and captions to photos A T electronicintifada D O T net.
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Palestine : Human Rights:
ELEVEN KILLED IN GAZA POLICE ARREST OPERATION Report, PCHR, 3 August 2008
On Saturday, 2 August 2008, al-Shoja’eya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City witnessed bloody clashes between security services of the Ministry of Interior and gunmen from the Helles clan. Eleven Palestinians, including two police officers and eight members of the Helles clan, were killed, and 103 others, including 17 children and six women, were wounded.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9734.shtml
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Palestine : Human Rights:
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST JERUSALEM’S QUIET ETHNIC CLEANSING By Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 1 August 2008
In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbor warning him to hurry to the house he had almost finished building. By the time he arrived, it was too late: a bulldozer was tearing down the walls. Jonathan Cook reports from Jerusalem.
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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:
THE NAKBAH PROJECT: A NIGHTMARE OF SHATTERED LIVES By Jane Frere, The Electronic Intifada, 1 August 2008
My journey began, unexpectedly, in a Nazi concentration camp, Majdenek, outside what was once a Jewish town called Lublin. During my last visit, I was moved by a group of visitors who had probably lost relatives there. They planted small Israeli flags on the ground outside. I was confused by this image, pondering how that blue and white flag has become so blood-drenched since its creation. I began to wonder about the next stage in the tragic history of that period — the creation of Israel and its consequences. Jane Frere writes about the motivation behind her exhibition Return of the Soul.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9730.shtml
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