Tag Archives: Israeli occupation
The ‘Black Sunday’ of Palestine: Oyoun Qarra Massacre, 20.05.1990
Abdil Rahim, Ziyad, Zayid, Sleiman, Omar, Zaky and Yousif carried their small lunch bags with a few bread loaves, a tomato and a sardine can, and said goodbye to their families in the early hours of Sunday 20.05.1990. It was … Continue reading
My Name is Palestine: 64 Years Later, Time for Justice!
My name is Falasteen, I am the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. I am the home and only home to my children the Palestinians. Poets celebrate my beauty, my culture and the courage of my children. … Continue reading
Palestinian Political Prisoners: Breaking the Chains of Oppression, Marching towards Freedom
As Palestinian political prisoners held captive in Israeli dungeons start a general open hunger strike, stand in solidarity with them, support their just struggle and demand their freedom. The indigenous people of occupied Palestine have been held hostage by a … Continue reading
Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike: The Struggle for Freedom, for Justice, for Palestine Continues
In messages to the Palestinian people and the free people of the world, Palestinian administrative detainee Ja’far Izz Iddin called for more support and solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners, particularly with administrative detainees, until they are all free. Determined to … Continue reading
A Letter to Mother Palestine and her Daughters
Dear Mother Palestine, On Mother’s day, as the Hannoun wakes up, and as the almond tree blossoms and you wear your green and red dress, we celebrate you. On this day, we celebrate the land, our heritage and our home, … Continue reading
Occupied Palestine from A to Z: Basma – a Woman from Palestine
Every morning she starts her day in front of the taboun; she bakes bread then prepares breakfast for her children and her grandchildren. She watches them leave to school, university and to work. She then sits on the stone step … Continue reading
No Eid for the Occupied and the Oppressed
Every Eid, we greet our family, relatives, friends and neighbours with: next Eid in a liberated Palestine. Every Eid we send postcards, emails and messages which say: next Eid in a liberated Jerusalem. Every Eid we repeat so the whole … Continue reading
Our Paradise on Earth
“Yamma, wake up, its morning and we have work to do”. It was the olive harvest season and for over a month the whole family together with the entire village had been spending the day in the olive fields. My … Continue reading
62 Years, 62 Messages: We have A Home and it’s Called Palestine
- – Message 1: While playing one day, I found a beautiful wooden box stacked back in the cupboard. It was well-hidden and surrounded by several sheets as if to protect it from theft or damage. I quietly and carefully … Continue reading
A Nation Behind Bars: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Detention
- While the whole world demands the release of the Zionist soldier Shalit, who was captured by Palestinians while he was on a mission to kill and destroy, the so-called “free world” continues to ignore that the Zionist entity holds … Continue reading




