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The Electronic Intifada
March 28, 2018
With precious little progress in rebuilding Gaza's devastated infrastructure or homes destroyed in three destructive Israeli offensives since 2008, an easing of the blockade is the only slim hope to avoid a ... For six months, he was unable to pay rent on his home in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza City.
Al-Monitor
February 18, 2018
7 that the Egyptian security services had arrested 18 IS members trying to sneak into the Gaza Strip where they planned to bomb Al-Abyad Mosque in the Beach refugee camp in western Gaza where Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas' political bureau, prays. Al-Monitor tried to get Hamas to comment onÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada
February 1, 2018
News that Augusta Victoria Hospital would no longer receive new patients has been extremely worrying for Khalil Abdullah. The 21-year-old cancer patient from Jabaliya in the occupied Gaza Strip is the sole breadwinner for a family of six. A painter and decorator, Abdullah had to stop working when he wasÃâà...
The Independent
January 22, 2018
With their horses and carts and beaten-up cars, the refugees of Gaza's Beach camp arrived early on Monday for their quarterly food boxes, given out on a rota system by UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees. Some had come several days before their designated pick-up day, fearingÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 10, 2018
Muhammad Abu Foul, now 11, and his father Akram were featured in a photostory in October about Gaza's crab catch. ... Israel took the fishers – all of them residents of Gaza's Beach refugee camp – to an unknown location and seized their boats and equipment, ... Both are also residents of Beach camp.
Los Angeles Times
January 7, 2018
It is in these teeming streets and alleys that President Trump's threat to block millions of dollars in funding for Palestinians probably would be felt the most. ... be a death sentence for my family," said Huda Talba, 46, whose family of nine is packed into a two-bedroom house in Gaza's "Beach" refugee camp.
ReliefWeb
December 24, 2017
A ceremony to mark the International Day of Human Rights was organized by the UNRWA Field Education Programme at Beach Preparatory Girls School A in Beach camp, western Gaza city, on 11 December. The Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, Mr. Matthias Schmale, and other senior UNRWAÃâà...
Mondoweiss
December 16, 2017
The narrow streets of the 70 acres of Gaza City's densely crowded Beach refugee camp were never so quiet as today. The poor camp on the western part of the city is famous for starting life too early every day, with the fuss of street vendors, donkey cart drivers and the vegetable market, which is filled withÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada
October 24, 2017
Beach refugee camp in northern Gaza – home to many fishing families – is transformed each autumn with the arrival of crab season. Being a fisherman in Gaza means to practice one of the world's most dangerous professions. Israel severely restrains Palestinian fishermen's access to the sea and regularlyÃâà...
Middle East Eye
June 9, 2017
“We live in a beach refugee camp in Gaza City. The sea is an indispensable part of our history and ... According to a recent UN report, 110 million litres of raw or partially treated sewage is poured into Gaza's sea daily, as a result of long power outages. On 16 April 2017, Gaza's sole power plant was shutÃâà...
