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Category Archives: Palestinian Authority
Trapped – Palestinian refugees from Syria talk to Amnesty International
By Noor Al-Bazzaz, member of Amnesty International’s Syria research team It was the shelling that finally drove Abu al-‘Izz to flee his native Syria. In the Bashabsheh transit camp in al-Ramtha he says: “I could not bear the shelling … Continue reading
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The football player who wouldn’t play ball with Israeli injustice
Amnesty International delegates met family of Palestinian on hunger strike against his detention without trial in Israel When we arrived in Gaza on 13 June, Mahmoud al-Sarsak had been on hunger strike for more than 91 days. Soon after our … Continue reading