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UN News
March 16, 2018
Toddlers sit on the top step and their grandmother stands on a landing, inside their partially destroyed home in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. UNICEF/UNI188296/El Baba. 16 March 2018. Peace and Security. The lack of a political process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be the single largestÃâà...
UN News Centre
July 11, 2017
A Palestinian girl inside her family's partially destroyed home, looks at the destruction outside, in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. 11 July 2017. A decade after Hamas seized the Gaza Strip, the living conditions for two million people in the Palestinian enclave are deteriorating “further and faster” than the predictionÃâà...
Democracy Now
September 12, 2014
former Israeli combat soldier turned anti-occupation activist and investigative researcher. He recently interviewed several Israeli soldiers who participated in the Shejaiya massacre in Gaza. Later this month, Efrati will testify at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Brussels.
The Independent
August 31, 2014
A video from Palestinian production company Media Town provides an aerial look at the Gaza town of Al-Shejaiya, with vast swathes of the city destroyed by shelling over the previous seven weeks. At least 17,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged during the conflict, with many thousands moreÃâà...
New York Times
July 20, 2014
GAZA CITY — The mayhem began in the early hours of Sunday morning in Shejaiya, an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City, where Israeli forces battled with Hamas militants. Terrified civilians fled, sometimes past the bodies of those struck down in earlier artillery barrages. By dusk it was clear that SundayÃâà...
The Nation.
July 20, 2014
All of them were killed in Shejaiya, one of Gaza's poorest and most crowded neighborhoods, which came under a brutal and sustained assault by the Israeli military today. “They dropped shells on our heads,” says Lotfy al-Banna, a resident from the neighborhood who fled early Sunday morning. “EverythingÃâà...
