The Effect of Gaza on Jayyous

Since December 27th 2008 when Israel launched its air attacks on Gaza days have been filled with reports of increasing number of deaths and as I write the current number of fatalities stands at 550 Palestinians. The press have difficulty confirming the number of Palestinians killed. Perhaps this is because the international press are not permitted to enter Gaza, or perhaps it is because of the huge numbers of people killed. According to the United Nations office for Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem at least 20 percent of the fatalities and 40 percent of the injuries are women and children. While Israel says that they are not targeting civilians, civilians nevertheless are being killed on a daily basis. Rocket fire from Gaza into Israel has killed 4 people. [1] A Mysterylaska dvdrip

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Article 17

• The Nature of the Beast release

Shuttle film

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Only One Place We Belong

Mary Shoufani - Athens, Greece

by Mary Shoufani Battlestar Galactica: The Plan film

My name is Mary Rayya. I am from Al-Bassa village in Akka District in northern Palestine. My village was totally demolished and destroyed and renamed Shelomi settlement. The whole population of my village, Christians and Muslims, was expelled in 1948. They were allowed by the Lebanese army to go to south Lebanon, to the town of Al-Nabatiyyah. Then they were moved again further north to Al-Damour. The Christian population of my village was convinced to move further north to live among the Christians in the northern suburb of Beirut. They lived in tents for almost 2 years and then UNRWA intervened and built a camp for them in Dbayeh (established in 1956). Our camp had 4 streets with barracks built on both sides; it was very crowded with houses stuck on top of one another.

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Stealing the River, ‘Trespassing' on Our Own Land

Hussein and Ghada Mubaraki (father and daughter) - Abu Snaan, 1948 Palestine
By Isabelle Humphries*

What did military government mean? The military rule was made because of the people who fled… If there wasn’t military rule we could have gone home. They made the military government so that all people were [permanently] exiled from their villages.

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buy The Amityville Horror - Hussein Mubaraki

Like approximately 300,000 other Palestinian refugees, Hussein Mubaraki and his daughter Ghada live within a few kilometres of their family village. Classified as ‘Present Absentees’, while free to live in Israel, the Mubaraki family are not allowed to live on their ancestral lands in the village of Al-Nahr in the Western Galilee.

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