Dina Makram-Ebeid writing from Cairo, Egypt, Live from Palestine, 18 January 2009

A Palestinian man from Gaza injured by an Israeli air strike is treated for his wounds at the Maahad Nasser Hospital in Cairo, 30 December 2009. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

Seeing Hedaya slowly regain her smile and her strength is so comforting. At every visit, her beautiful [...]

Israeli forces move near 110 Palestinians into a house and shell it repeatedly 24 hours later, killing about 30 people, a UN reports says.
“According to several testimonies, on 4 January Israeli foot soldiers evacuated approximately 110 Palestinians into a single-residence house in Zeitun (half of whom were children) warning them to stay indoors,” AFP [...]

(Dr. Mohamed Altawil, MA, PhD in Mental Health, and PhD in Clinical Psychology, Volunteer Director of Palestine Trauma Centre(PTC), http://www.ptcgaza.cjb.net/, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.)
I am a Palestinian whose family lived for generations in the village of Al-Maghar. Sixty years ago, during the Nakbah (Catastrophe), my grandparents and their whole family were expelled from Al-Maghar, [...]

Four of the Gaza Strip’s 1.5m residents describe how they have been affected by Israel’s renewed blockade of the territory. The crossings into the Gaza Strip have been closed for most of the past two weeks, with only a limited quantity of humanitarian supplies allowed through.
Fuel shortages have led to extensive power cuts in Gaza [...]