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Living in the dark as a Palestinian Refugee

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 It's no surprise that in country in as much financial difficulty as Lebanon, that the people who have the least amount of rights have the least amount of anything, including basics such as safe street lighting and regular power. It's not possible to just simply step out of your front and walk safely to friends, or relatives or the shops at night. Even when there is power (which is sporadic and infrequent) there are very few areas of the alleyways and passages that are well lit.  If you are lucky you will pass a house that has left a light outside, that light will have been provided for by the house owner at their own expense. As you can see from the video filmed by one of our team on the camp of Ein Il Helweh, you are taking a risk just by going out after it gets dark.  Remember to take a torch We have many things we would like to do on the camp, help sort the refuse out, power, health issues but one of the simple things we could do is to help provide decent lighting for...

Seventy Years of Palestinian Women's Resistance

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Sobhia Krayem I would like to introduce you to one of the faces of the Palestinian women’s struggle, the beautiful ambassador of Palestinian heritage, Sobhia Krayem. Her family are originally from Saffuriyya in the District of Nazareth, but she was born in Lebanon 70 years ago, a few years after her family were forcibly expelled from Palestine by the Zionist occupation forces during the Nakbah. She is a strong woman who has fought and suffered due to the daily rules of the patriarchal society, the forced Palestinian displacement, the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 1982, racism and the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian Embroidery However, this did not prevent her from retraining and carrying out various activities. After the Israelis invaded Lebanon, there was a time where she with her husband hosted a big number of people from all different nationalities and religions and provided them a shelter and flour to cook, one of the people who came for shelter, was Naji Al-Ali the Palestinian ...

Heart break of a witness.

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Ms. Hayat Balha Abu Shmeis, met by chance with Haji Salim Muhammad Salim Abu Junaid, from the town of Al-Khayriyah, Jaffa, where he was born in 1936. During this meeting, this witness to the Palestinian Nakba spoke heartily about his memories in his village, and when he was displaced from it. He talks about the British army, before its withdrawal in 1948 and how they gave their weapons to the Jewish gangs such as the Haganana, the Irgun Stern, and trained them in 1947. Haj Salim described the street of Jamal Pasha as it was beautiful and one of the most beautiful streets in the Middle East at that time. It had Eucalyptus trees lining both sides of the street, and in the middle, there was an island of water.  He added that he was working for Yasser Arafat as a translator to explain to foreigners about the Palestinian Catastrophe /Nakba. Since the promise of the Balfour, who promised to the Jews that he would make a government for them in Palestine. He recounts in his spe...

Have you heard of the the Al-Dawayima massacre?

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Have you heard of the Al-Dawayima massacre? Victims of Al-Dawayima Massacre I did not know the existence of this heinous massacre before today; I learned about it only after I read a horrific article by Alex Grobman in Eliezer Tauber's book. The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. They are trying to erase the history of Palestine and Palestinians and manufacture lies and events to build a fake history to circulate around Google. It was committed by the malicious zionist gangs against our defenceless civilians in the beautiful village of Al-Dawaima, which is located in one of the most attractive parts of Palestine, to the west of Al Khalil. Moshe Dayan  It was one of the many massacres committed by Moshe Dayan and The Stern and Irgun Zionism gangs. The number of victims is estimated at 145; they (the Zionists) killed all who they found in front of them, even if it was a child. As long as it was a Palestini...

If you are low on toilet paper, this book might be your answer

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  A response to Alex Grobman, on Eliezer Tauber’s recently published book, The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.  Eliezer Tauber https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/books/book-reviews/the-massacre-that-never-was-the-myth-of-deir-yassin-and-the-creation-of-the-palestinian-refugee-problem/2022/01/09/   This atrocious article is a review for yet more Zionist propaganda to come out of Israel, more denial for the holocaust committed against the Palestinian people at the hands of the Zionist Jewish Terrorists. The reviewer states the book says there is no evidence for a massacre, no evidence for ethnic cleansing, that the people of Deir Yassin, were not innocent and that there was a battle there not a massacre after the people of the village attacked Jewish people first. This is all lies and has been proven to be so over the decades since they stole our land off us. No amount of Zionist propaganda wi...