One of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip, Shujayea, was claimed by Israel to be the site of Hamas 'terror tunnels'.
The attack started late on July 19, initiating 24 hours of sustained air bombardment and artillery fire.
An American military officer talking to Al Jazeera said 11 Israeli artillery battalions fired around 7,000 shells into Shujayea over that 24-hour period, in which at least 65 Palestinians were killed and 288 wounded.
One paramedic reported over 200 calls for help at the peak of demand, one from virtually every house on targeted streets.
The emergency services responded to every callout with scant regard for their own safety.
In this film, cameraman Khaled Hamad joins local paramedics in Shujayea as they attend to the dead and wounded at the height of the raid. Risking his life, he documents the atrocities committed against civilians in the neighbourhood during Operation Protective Edge.
A number of journalists were killed. News photographer Rami Rayan was killed whilst shooting stills of a busy market where locals were shopping during a brief humanitarian truce.
Knowing the risks, Hamad continues to film until his camera dramatically captures the raid in which he and paramedic Fouad Jaber come under direct attack.
Paramedics, Hamad's fellow journalists and family all maintain that Israel targeted journalists in order to try and minimise coverage of what the Palestinians described as a 'massacre'.
Most of the footage in the film is Hamad's, his camera never stops shooting even after he is struck, and continues rolling long after he has taken his final breath.
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Until October 2015, Israel restrained the movment of Palestinians with the checkpoints and blockades showed on the map. Since then, to intimidade, punish and repress the Third Intifada, one of Israel's most common tactics, in addition to demolishing attackers’ families’ homes, is to seal off entire villages for a few days or longer after an alleged attack.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been at various times over the past few weeks unable to leave their villages, towns and cities for work, school, travel, family visits, medical care.To learn more about Israel’s use of collective punishment in recent months, read Amjad Iraqi’s analysis of the practice, which he describes as a national addiction.
O muro que me enoja e revolta é o que Israel vem construindo na Palestina há anos. Se fosse na Linha Verde, talvez não me chocasse tanto, pois as fronteiras de 1967 são legalizadas pela ONU e irreversíveis. Se quiserem viver entre muros, é problema deles.
O problema com o muro do apartheid é que está sendo construído em território alheio, invadindo fronteira. Não apenas aliena um povo, mas o despoja de sua terra e de seu direito inalienável de locomover-se. Portanto, vale lembrar as arbitrariedades de seu traçado e sua função real: a limpeza étnica da Palestina.
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Bilal Kayed foi levado para o hospital esta semana para ser alimentado à força. Bilal tem 35 anos, dos quais passou 14 anos como preso politico nas masmorras israelenses, desde 2001. Sua pena terminou este ano e deveria ter sido libertado, mas não foi. Está em "detenção administrativa" e começou uma greve de fome há 38 dias em protesto contra mais esta arbitrariedade.
Dezenas de companheiros seus começaram greve de fome em solidariedade com ele.
Qual o crime que o então universitário de 21 anos cometeu durante a Segunda Intifada? Ser membro da Frente Popular pela Libertação da Palestina.
Bilal foi hospitalizado para ser alimentado à força. Está em estado crítico. Os palestinos e as ONGs de Direitos Humanos pedem que exerçamos pressão para que seja libertado imediatamente.
Para detalhes, leia o artigo da Al Jazeera e assista aos vídeos deste.
Dozens of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have launched a hunger strike in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, a 35-year-old from the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank, who has been on hunger strike for 37 days to protest against being held without charge or trial.
He launched his strike on June 15, the day he was scheduled to be released from an Israeli prison after more than 14 years behind bars since 2001.
Kayed also stressed to the Addameer lawyer that the medical staff is intensely and continuously pressuring him to eat the supplements and end his strike. The deputy director from Rimon prison also visited him this morning to try to convince him to end his strike. When BiIal insisted that he would not, the prison director forcefully and painfully yanked at the cuffs chained to his feet.
It is important to note that Bilal was transferred to the hospital in Barzilai at noon yesterday in an ordinary vehicle after his health condition sharply deteriorated. He is still suffering from intense pain in his joints and throat inflammation; is unable to walk or to sleep; and has lost so much of his body weight, appearing severely pale.
Bilal Kayed, a 35-year-old Palestinian from Nablus, was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to 14.5 years. Towards the end of his sentence, he was placed in isolation in Rimon prison from September of 2015 until his scheduled release on 13 June 2016. However, on the same day of his scheduled release, a six-month administrative detention order was issued against him without trial or charge, immediately after which he was placed back in isolation. Mr. Kayed has been on hunger strike since 15 June 2016 in protest of his detention without charge or trial. Until now and for the past 34 days, the Ofer Military Court has not responded to the appeal filed by Addameer’s lawyer contesting the First Instance’s court decision to confirm Bilal’s 6-month administrative detention order.
Addameer considers the Israeli occupation’s widespread and systematic use of administrative detention as a form of psychological torture and a grave violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, international human rights, and humanitarian law.
Addameer holds the occupation forces and Israeli Prison Service accountable for the life of the hunger striking detainee, Bilal Kayed. We fully support Mr. Kayed and his demands, calling on the international community to pressure the occupation forces to respect international humanitarian law, to put an end to the occupation’s impunity, and to provide Palestinian civilians with protection and justice.
Addameer is calling on the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and all High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations towards protecting human rights and enforcing the implementation of international humanitarian law. We call on the aforementioned actors to push the Israeli government to immediately release Mr. Kayed and pressure Israel to end the use of administrative detention as practiced by the Israeli Occupation Authorities.
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