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Diaries: Live from Palestine

Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship with Khader Adnan and his hunger strike for justice

Bekah Wolf
9 February 2012

Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada.

Is 17-year-old girl Cast Lead's latest victim?

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
7 February 2012

Seventeen-year-old Haneen Abu Jalala died last month at an Israeli hospital from what her family says were complications from white phosphorous fired at their home three years ago.

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Art, Music & Culture

Debut novel unflinchingly portrays Palestinian divisions

Maureen Clare Murphy
9 February 2012

In Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It, 27-year-old twin misfits Iman and Rashid Mujahed try to find belonging in a contemporary Gaza groaning under Israeli siege and air strikes, and street battles between competing political factions.

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