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Palestinian Poet calls for All People to Take-Up the Pen (for Gaza)

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Mosab Abu Toha, palestinian poet founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, has just issued a call for people to rise up and prove that the pen is and will be – mightier than the sword

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Go Tell Your Poem (to the children of Gaza)

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this world / is too old for poetry / or too young to heed its warning, / or too heartbroken now / to grieve its exiled ghosts

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Gaza/Israel : nuevo voto en Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas

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“More than 5,300 Palestinian children have been reportedly killed in just 46 days – that is over 115 a day, every day, for weeks and weeks. Based on these figures, children account for forty per cent of the deaths in Gaza. This is unprecedented

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Gaza/Israel: António Guterres activa Artículo 99 de la Carta de Naciones Unidas

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Por vez primera desde muchos años, el Secretario General de Naciones Unidas se ha dirigido al Consejo de Seguridad haciendo uso de las atribuciones que le asigna el Artículo 99 de la Carta de Naciones Unidas

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The writer and academic Refaat Alareer killed yesterday by Israeli bombs

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The last thing he wrote to his friends was: “The situation is very desolate, we don’t even have water… I only have my pen, I will throw it at the occupying soldiers if they invade, even if it were to be the last thing I’ll do”

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A Poem for Gaza

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In my dream (which is not really a dream at all!) / i watch the incinerated corpses / of words and orphaned Palestinian children / hanging from these cruel mouths / after the bloody soldiers have left and / taken their rage and poison with them

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“The Bird was Crying…”. An Unwritten (GAZA) Poem on an (ISRAELI) Bomb

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…but as you can see the house is gone, now we have to leave too we’re all going to leave, we are leaving we have no refuge now. Ahmad speaks, from the ruins of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza

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The Question of Gaza – Just one more catastrophe (among too many others)?

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The immediate and ongoing catastrophe of Gaza haunts the mind. Not just the images but the widespread inexcusable excuses for slaughter and inhumanity, thought out, engineered and put into practice by a people presumably much like ourselves

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Hospital Poem in a time of War

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Al-Shifa Hospital, where the Israeli soldiers said “come out with your hands on your head” to the amputees and the drunken wheelchairs, drunk on grief and terror. Gaza hospitals: all bombed, besieged, broken, burnt, bulldozed, destroyed…

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Gaza / Israel: el anuncio hecho por Sudáfrica de una acción conjunta ante la Corte Penal Internacional

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El pasado 17 de noviembre, Sudáfrica anunció una acción conjunta con otros cinco Estados ante la Corte Penal Internacional, el objetivo es el pedir iniciar un trámite urgente ante el drama humano que se vive en Gaza desde el 7 de octubre

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