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As a fuel shortage has worsened across the coastal territory, the ambulance service has been forced to stop responding to all calls except the most critical cases. With fuel reserves at zero, medical officials are warning that in case of another large-scale military attack by Israel, the ambulance service would be unable to cope. Read more about Gaza ambulances stop responding to calls as fuel reserves hit zero
Muhammad al-Hisoumi and his daughter Fayza were killed in an Israeli missile attack as they tended their land in the Gaza Strip on 12 March 2012, leaving behind a devastated family and a darkened house. Rami Almeghari profiles them. Read more about "The house is dark without them": Israel kills father and daughter as they water vegetables
The Israeli government has turned a blind eye — and often actively supported — the illegal takeover of water springs located on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, according to a new report. Read more about Israel actively supports theft of Palestinian water, says new UN report
Israel is severely criticized for violating the right to equality in a new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Read more about UN body "appalled" by Israel's racial segregation policies
The parents of Hana al-Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike since 16 February to protest Israel’s holding her without charge or trial, are pleading for action to save their daughter’s life. Read more about Parents of Hana al-Shalabi plead for urgent action to save their daughter
Between the years 2000 and 2009, the US transferred “more than 670 million weapons, rounds of ammunition and related equipment,” according to a new report. Read more about US sent 600,000 tear gas canisters to Israel, says new report
The African asylum-seekers have been greeted upon arrival in Israel with a hostile government that offers them no support or protection and wants them out. Read more about Detaining Africans latest step in making Israel an ethnocracy
Mourad Jadallah discusses the case of Khader Adnan, the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoner who made administrative detention an international issue. Read more about Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement
For most of the past six years, Israel has forbidden prominent human rights defender Shawan Jabarin from leaving the occupied West Bank. On exception, he was allowed travel to Geneva this week. Read more about Interview: Palestinian rights defender banned from traveling tastes freedom in Geneva
Michael Mansfield, a juror for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, talks about the tribunal’s shadow report documenting Israel’s apartheid policies that tears apart Israel’s report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Read more about "UN must prosecute Israel for war crimes," says Bloody Sunday lawyer
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