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Nov 12, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Amjad Yaghi
It’s not a pleasant job. But it is a vital one. In February of this year, Abdul Salam al-Aswad dug an absorption trench or pit near his tent in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and placed a homemade toilet with a wooden board raised on bricks to act as a seat over it.
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May 15, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Amjad Yaghi
On the 76th anniversary of the Nakba (the "Catastrophe"), Gaza's people are living through a nightmare tragically reminiscent of many of the horrors their ancestors endured in 1948 - when around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes to make way for the creation of the Israeli state.
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May 9, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Amjad Yaghi
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Amjad Yaghi
On Friday 15 March, Israeli forces raided several homes in Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank, arresting several Gazan labourers who were staying in the city, waiting for the day they would be able to return to Gaza. The Gazan workers were accused of not having work permits — to justify their arrest — even though they had Israeli-issued work permits issued before October 7 allowing them to work inside Israel.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Amjad Yaghi
My aunt Ghada was delighted to learn she was pregnant back in 2001. When her son was born the following year, he was named Yousef. I remember we had a celebration – known as an aqiqah – after he arrived. We made food for our extended family and distributed some of it to the poor. Yousef was quiet. He loved football and was a big fan of Real Madrid. He enjoyed being a university student. It is painful to think that Yousef has been killed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Amjad Yaghi
On the morning of 10 February, Muhammad Obeid, 26, left the home of relatives in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip where he has been sheltering to try to get a signal on his phone. It didn’t go well. The signal in the camp was weak and he, along with a couple of other young men also in search of a signal, had wandered toward Salah al-Din Road, which runs almost the whole length of Gaza north to south.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Amjad Yaghi
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the main hospital in central Gaza, is looking likely to suffer the same horrific fate as the northern hospitals as Israel closes in. The Israeli occupation shelled the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central region of Gaza on Sunday evening. This is the biggest medical centre in the "Middle Area" of the Strip and provides essential health services to thousands of civilians.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
electronicintifada.net | Amjad Yaghi
After being forced to leave his home, Muhammed Abu Haya is now living in a tent. Abu Haya, 49, was uprooted because Israel was bombarding Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. Some of his relatives were killed. He first took shelter in Gaza City’s schools, before moving several times. He is now in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Abu Haya made the tent in which he now lives. In total, it hosts 10 members of his extended family. The tent was put together with empty flour bags and other fabrics.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
electronicintifada.net | Amjad Yaghi
My uncle Sakib Mhanna has been killed by Israel. Sakib had been uprooted from his home in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza, during November. He and his family moved to a building in the southern city of Khan Younis. The building hosted many other displaced people. Five people were killed along with Sakib when the building was targeted in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month. Sakib’s father Abdullah, 78, was seriously injured in the attack, during which a wall fell on his head.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
electronicintifada.net | Amjad Yaghi
The Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center was where it all started for artist Anas Abu Aitah. The center was where, for years, Abu Aitah performed in the theater. The center, located in Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, opened in 1985. It was named after Palestinian businessman Rashad al-Shawa, who served as mayor of Gaza in the 1970s.
