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Old woman at Toufaj checkpoint, Mawasi, Gaza. Credit: Sune from Denmark, EAPPI, December, 2002
IDF raid on Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip December 2002. Boys and Palestinian flag on demolished apartment block. Credit: Sune from Denmark, EAPPI.
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Web sites
Al-Mawasi, Gaza Strip: Impossible Life in an Isolated Enclave
Status Report, Published by B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, March 2003
Israel's Policy of House Demolitions and Destruction of Agricultural Land in the Gaza Strip
Information Sheet, Published by B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, February, 2002
The Gaza Strip
from the National Geographic
Reports from Rafah
From Mohammed, a student who lives in Rafah. He presents photos and reports about his htheir life, their community, the home demolitions, homeless families, the children in their camp... about the tragedies that happen here every day.
Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights
Established in Gaza in 1993 by the initiative of released prisoners and detainees. Lawyers interested in the issues of detainees, democracy, and human rights, support this Association, in addition to the backing of national institutions and figures.
Gaza Community Mental Health Program
A Palestinian, non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1990 to provide comprehensive community mental health services to the population of the Gaza Strip including therapy, training and research.
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Books
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass
Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza. Very few journalists have lived in that troubled region; Jewish ones are rarer still. "To most Israelis," Hass writes, "my move seemed outlandish, even crazy, for they believed I was surely putting my life at risk." But Israelis desperately need to understand the plight of the Palestinian people, she writes, and few of them read the unvarnished truth in the Jerusalem press. This has made most of them ignorant of what goes on right next door, and inspired unduly "harsh" attitudes toward Gaza and its one million residents. Hass even quotes the late Yitzhak Rabin, who wished that Gaza "would just sink into the sea," shortly before he signed the Oslo Accords. Wishing away the problem, however, is no solution, and Hass delivers a detailed--and highly opinionated--diagnosis of what's wrong with Israeli policy toward Gaza.
Videos
 Gaza Strip (2002)
In January of 2001, American director James Longley traveled to the Gaza Strip. His plan was to stay for two weeks to collect preliminary material for a documentary film on the Palestinian Intifada. It was during his stay that Ariel Sharon was elected as Israeli Prime Minister. As violence erupted around him, Longley threw away his return ticket and filmed for the next three months, acquiring nearly 75 hours of footage. Gaza Strip, his first feature documentary, is an extraordinary and painful journey into the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip struggling with the day-to-day trials of the Israeli occupation. Filmed in verit้ style and without narration, Gaza Strip at last gives voice to a population largely ignored by mainstream media.
Gaza Under Siege (2001)
 This program from the City Life series films Reyidh and Sabah -- from just one refugee family trying to cope. Already poor, the family has reached breaking point, with Sabah wondering how long life can go on with no solution in sight.
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