Following the outbreak of the recent conflict in Gaza and southern
Israel on 27 December 2008 and then Israel's ground invasion of Gaza on
3 January 2009, Amnesty In
Emergency medical rescue workers, including doctors, paramedics and ambulance drivers, have repeatedly come under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza conflict while c
With fragile ceasefires now in place in Gaza and southern Israel, the full extent of the devastation caused in recent weeks is becoming increasingly clear.
As people try to put their lives back together, the threat of renewed
conflict is all too real. The ceasefire has now officially run out, and
there is anxiety about
Disclosure of weapons and munitions used by the Israeli armed forces, would mean that medical staff were better equipped to treat victims of the three week military ca
Houses have been looted, vandalized and desecrated. Israeli soldiers have left behind not only mounds of litter and excrement but ammunition and other military equipme