Gaza runner sets sights on Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Maghazi refugee camp 25 August 2016
Inas Nofal, 15, dreams to represent Palestine internationally. Read more about Gaza runner sets sights on Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Maghazi refugee camp 25 August 2016
Inas Nofal, 15, dreams to represent Palestine internationally. Read more about Gaza runner sets sights on Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Maghazi refugee camp 7 May 2015
Ammunition used by the Israeli military has left a hole in a fourteen-year-old’s spine. Read more about Gaza child unable to walk because of Israeli bullet
Maghazi refugee camp 17 July 2014
Ramadan customs, high school exam celebrations muted this year. Read more about Gaza's future on hold as families wait out Israel's bombing
Maghazi refugee camp 15 May 2014
Now in their 80s, Gaza refugee couple remember the day they were expelled from their village. Read more about "I can coexist with Israelis but only when I return home," says Nakba survivor
Maghazi refugee camp 10 January 2012
Traveling back to Gaza, Fidaa Elaydi finally meets her uncle, who was released from Israeli jail as part of the prisoner swap in October. With his release, and the ability to spend time together, she says it changed the dynamic of her family. Read more about How my uncle in Gaza filled me with hope of return
Maghazi refugee camp 25 October 2011
Eid Misleh spent 19 years in Israel’s prisons until he was released as part of a prisoner exchange agreed between Hamas and Israel. Back home among family in Gaza, Misleh told The Electronic Intifada about life in prisoner and the hardship of being denied family visits for eleven years. Read more about Israel stopped mother visiting prisoner son for 11 years
Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza Strip 8 September 2008
Thirteen-year-old Alaa has grown up in Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp and her family’s home is an example of the typical “old-new” refugee camp dwellings. Comprised of three rooms, a wretched kitchen and an old-fashioned bathroom, the whole house is in need of urgent repair. Alaa lives in the same unhealthy house with her mother, two brothers and three sisters. Although poor, Alaa is a brilliant student. EI correspondent Rami Almeghari reports from the occupied Gaza Strip. Read more about In Gaza, succeeding against the odds
Maghazi refugee camp 1 August 2006
“Yousef, Yousef, Yousef!” was how Aziza Mughari of the Alburaij refugee camp first reacted when news of her son’s death spread in her local community. Her son was being treated in the Israeli hospital of Ekhelof in Tel Aviv for critical injuries he sustained during an Israeli army incursion into the nearby refugee camp of Maghazi almost ten days ago. Because the hospital is inside Israel, Aziza was not able to visit her dying son. “Who will bring me my medicine, who will do errands for me? Son, where are you? I don’t believe you are dead, they are liars,” Aziza, a sick mother, called again on Yousef, but Yousef was no longer there. Read more about Yousuf was no longer there
Maghazi refugee camp 17 July 2006
“I have lost a total of $1,000 US dollars since the power supply has been cut, the number of my customers has decreased to minimum, I stay idle at my shop for long hours; what shall I do?” asked 31-year-old Alaa’ Salahat, a local vendor of frozen foods from the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Maghazi. He spoke of his experience while sitting in the darkness with only a kerosene lamp illuminating the worry lines in his face. “This is really a very terrible situation; we are civilians - what does Israel want? This is really a collective punishment against an entire people,” said Alaa’. Read more about Gaza under darkness
Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza, Palestine 2 October 2005
Israeli jetfighters, mainly F-16s, continue to air-strike many areas in the ‘recently-evacuated’ Gaza Strip, in which several Palestinians have been killed, dozens others wounded, severe damages inflicted to buildings and a great deal of panic caused to men, women and children. “Suddenly, at 2:30am, in the early hours of Saturday 24, 2005, I woke up suddenly from my sleep, finding my three little kids, Ghadir (9), Rewan (6) and Fadi (4) , crying fearfully in my room, calling “Dad, Dad”. Read more about Sleeping in Gaza under roaring Israeli jets