TweetThe Israeli forces denying the Palestinians worshiping at Al-Aqsa Mosque; they assaulted Christian worshipers during the siege of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem a few years ago. Palestinians will give up their lives to pray in their holy sites. The only democracy in the middle east is using its military to prevent Palestinians’ fundamental human rights, the right to worship. However, this is not a religious conflict; it is a conflict over land taken away by the Zionist project in the 1967 war. “They don’t want Arabs here or across East Jerusalem,” said Abdelfatah Skafi, 71, one of the Palestinians facing eviction, during a protest this week. “They want…
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Gaza Rose, Razan al-Najjar
Tweet The Palestinian ‘Great March of Return‘, protested Nakba Day, better known in the west as Israeli Independence Day, a peaceful protest symbolically demanding the right of return to their homeland taken by force in the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. In a few weeks of protests, the Israeli forces killed around 120 Palestinians and injured thousands more, mostly by snipers. Razan al-Najjar, a Palestinian medic, every morning assured her mum not to worry, that god was protecting her, but she wore a protective vest in case. “My daughter would be out every Friday between 7am and 8pm. She was in the field doing her work,…
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Why Ahed won’t get the Nobel Peace Prize like Malala..!!
Tweet Why Ahed won’t get the Nobel Peace Prize like Malala..!! The gruesome images of the arrest of young Palestinian children by Israeli forces have been with us for years which increased since the first intifada of 1987. However, the arrest of the 16-year-old Palestinian, Ahed Tamimi was a reckoning symbol of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and the harsh treatment of the Palestinians. The image of her arrest, a young brave child, surrounded by the scorch of Israeli soldiers with full gears, looks like a seen from the force of evil and good epic movie. He arrest video went viral on social media and got lots of attentions…
