#Bureij Refugee Camp

[vyorei]

Timestamp: 17:06 on the 2nd of November 2023

Here is a catch-up on the situation today

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Al bureij (2024) by Will Eizlini. 12” x 9” Acrylic and Posca pens on kraft paper.

This and many other paintings related to the War on Gaza will be exhibited in a show titled Hidden in Plain Sight at the Galerie du Viaduc on October 22-26, 2024, in Montreal featuring works from Will Eizlini and Serene Daoud

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Byzantine Mosaic, Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine,

5th to 7th centuries AD,

Salman al-Nabahin, a Palestinian farmer, unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, while working in his olive orchard in Bureij refugee camp, about half a mile from the border with Israel.

Trying to understand why some trees had not properly taken root, Nabahin said he and his son began digging. Then the son’s axe hit something hard and unfamiliar in appearance.

The Palestinian ministry of tourism and antiquities said the mosaic included several panels depicting animals and other features of social life during the Byzantine era, the continuation of the Roman empire in eastern provinces from the fifth century.

Gaza is rich in antiquities, having been an important trading spot for civilisations dating as far back as the ancient Egyptians and the Philistines depicted in the Bible, to the Roman empire and the Crusades from the 11th to the 13th centuries.

Several discoveries have been made in recent years. Due to a lack of funds and expertise, Gaza has usually invited international groups to help with the process of excavation and preservation.

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The focus of the Israeli bombardment is currently on the central part of the Gaza Strip. Casualties are being taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah as staff are exhausted and departments are struggling to provide the minimum healthcare for injured Palestinians. What they have been observing is that a large share of the casualties were children. The attack on the Bureij refugee camp has injured at least four children who underwent surgery, including amputations. Al-Aqsa Hospital is taking in the injured from Bureij and Nuseirat and is responsible for providing medical care for 700,000 displaced Palestinians inside Deir el-Balah as Israel continues to ban the entry of medical supplies. This adds to the misery as the hospital struggles with a severe lack of resources. Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City is also operating with a very limited capacity and few supplies. Doctors we’ve been speaking to say they need to carry out critical surgeries but are unable to do so.

-- "Central Gaza under attack as it lacks medical supplies" by Tareq Abu Azzoum for Al Jazeera, 20 Jul 2024 16:35 GMT

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"WHAT WAS THE CHILD'S FAULT": 9 DEAD IN ISRAELI MASSACRE

📹 "What was the child's fault?"

A Palestinian woman asks while holding the dead body of a young child killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, June 16th.

In another gruesome massacre in Gaza; according to local reporting, 9 civilians were killed, including 6 children, after Israeli warplanes bombed two residential homes in the Bureij Camp, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Local sources said the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential home belonging to the Al-Khatib family, and another belonging to the Al-Najjar family, in the Bureij Refugee Camp, killing 7 and 2 civilians, respectively, and wounding several others.

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Geneva - In new testimonies documented by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, female Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip report being subjected to sexual violence, torture, inhuman treatment, strip searches, sexual harassment, and rape threats while being arrested and held by Israeli army forces.

According to the testimonies of female detainees who were recently released following various periods of detention, they endured severe treatment that amounts to torture, including beatings, threats of rape if they disobeyed orders, forced nudity, strip searches in front of male soldiers, and verbal harassment. Members of the Israeli army not only robbed them of any money and belongings they had at the time of their arrest, but tied the detainees up, blindfolded them for extended periods of time, held them in cages amid freezing weather, and denied them access to food, medicine, essential medical care, and menstrual products. Israeli forces also continuously threatened them with losing the ability to see their children. 

The Euro-Med Monitor team personally interviewed dozens of women who reported having experienced verbal and sexual harassment. The rights organisation believes that a greater number of female detainees likely experienced similar violations, however, but are uncomfortable disclosing information about the crimes due to social norms, trauma, or safety concerns, including persecution or death at the hands of the Israeli army. According to Euro-Med Monitor, it will take more time to determine the precise amount or scope of these violations against Palestinian women and girls.

A 45-year-old resident of Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, “N.H.”—who requested anonymity due to safety concerns—told the Euro-Med Monitor team that she was arrested by Israeli forces on 28 December 2023. She was taken from a UN-run school housing displaced people in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and held for 43 days.

According to N.H., the Israeli army stormed the school at dawn, summoned the male residents, forced them to take off their clothes, and detained them. After requesting to see their personal identification cards, the women were ordered to go into a room for a “medical check-up”. After entering the room, said N.H., “[W]e were searched while we were completely naked, inside a closed-off area, and the female soldiers beat us severely and continuously.”

She explained that she experienced multiple strip searches in public, with male soldiers present, and a female soldier insulted her, spat on her, and made remarks about her body while she was undressing. N.H. was detained for 11 days inside what she said resembled a cage for animals, and was shackled the entire time in bitter cold, with access to only a single shared restroom and no food or water. She also described being questioned about her family members while cuffed to a chair.

After being held in a cage for four days, the recently released-woman affirmed that she was questioned once more and threatened with not being able to see her kids again if she did not cooperate with the Israeli investigators. She also noted that she was verbally harassed by both male and female soldiers, who photographed her with their mobile phones to record her torture, in total disregard for her physical and psychological well-being.

For her part, 39-year-old “N.M.”, who also requested anonymity due to safety concerns, said that three of her brothers were killed in two separate incidents by an Israeli reconnaissance plane prior to her arrest. After storming the school she was sheltering in, Israeli soldiers forced the males there to strip naked before taking them and the women to a nearby mosque, confiscating their ID cards, and interrogating them all individually.

N.M. told Euro-Med Monitor that the Israeli soldiers threatened to rape her and to prevent her from seeing her kids if she disobeyed their orders to film videos attacking the Hamas movement. She said that she was moved to Israel’s Damon Prison, where she was subjected to incredibly restricted living conditions and interrogations on military matters while being unable to leave a small room.

Along the same line, a 20-year-old resident of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip named “S.D.”, who also asked that her full name be withheld for her safety, told the Euro-Med Monitor team that she was held for 50 days inside a state-run school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City. She described how Israeli forces arrested her, tied her hands behind her back, blindfolded her, and searched her while she was only wearing her underwear. She was taken to Israel’s Zikim base in a military jeep with other female detainees, where they were left for about two hours on a sidewalk at one point while the soldiers mocked them in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.

“The conditions of detention were extremely harsh; I strained a muscle in my handcuffed hand and an Israeli female soldier struck me hard on my back when I attempted to move,” S.D. told Euro-Med Monitor. “After that, we were transported by truck to a detention facility called Anatot in a mountainous area close to Jerusalem. There, the temperature was very low and we suffered from the freezing weather.”

She elaborated on being verbally harassed by Israeli soldiers: “We were left on a sidewalk for approximately an hour before being given gray prison clothes. We were then made to walk in a line while being teased and humiliated. Afterward, we were taken to a location that resembled a hellish cage, where we were deprived of basic necessities like food and toilets.”

During those days, she told Euro-Med Monitor, no food was served except milk, which detainees shared between themselves. “We were subjected to nasty verbal abuse and foul language, and we were only allowed to use sanitary pads in extremely small amounts—not enough for even a single day—and bathe infrequently,” she stated.

“The soldiers were harassing us, keeping us outside in the rain, and preventing us from praying,” she continued. She further reported that after eight days, she was moved to Damon Prison—after being attacked multiple times by female soldiers. “One of the female soldiers took the blindfold off my eyes and asked me to kiss the Israeli flag during the transfer process,” she added. “When I refused, my face was severely beaten. The female soldier continued to provoke and assault me in retaliation.” S.D. said that she endured a series of torturous interrogation sessions in Damon Prison until she was eventually released, and that she was also subjected to medical negligence there.

A 31-year-old resident of northern Gaza City, “R.R.”, who also requested anonymity due to safety fears, said that she was detained on 3 December 2023 while attempting to cross the Netzarim military checkpoint on foot to head to the southern section of the Strip. She told Euro-Med Monitor that all of her belongings—gold, cash, a phone, and personal items—were seized upon her arrest. She also stated that Israel forces made her undress before tying her hands together, blindfolding her, and transporting her to a detention facility at the Zikim site, where she endured excruciating interrogation sessions that included verbal abuse, beatings, and torture.

R.R. explained that she was repeatedly blackmailed, asked to work for Israeli intelligence, and that Israeli forces threatened to torture or even kill her if she refused. She also stated that her most basic needs during her menstrual period were not met. R.R. told Euro-Med Monitor that she was subsequently bussed to Damon Prison, where an Israeli soldier severely beat her. The interrogations continued; she spoke of being physically assaulted while undressed and detained outdoors in the bone-chilling cold up until her release on 19 January.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor confirmed that all of the aforementioned violations come as part of a larger campaign to dehumanise all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, especially children and women, and thus justify and normalise all crimes committed against them. These crimes also come as a result of Israeli officials’ public incitement against all residents of the Gaza Strip, while their perpetrators enjoy absolute immunity, with no action being taken to hold them accountable at any level or from any party.

The Geneva-based rights group noted that a statement issued by United Nations experts week expressed concern over verified reports of flagrant human rights violations of Palestinian women and girls in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including sexual violence, rape and threats of rape, torture, and denial of food and medical care.

Euro-Med Monitor emphasised that, in accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Israel’s practice of torturing Palestinian female detainees by detaining them in inhumane conditions and committing sexual violence against them including rape, threats of rape, indecent assault, and forced nudity, are all acts which intentionally violate their dignity and cause great pain and suffering, and are considered war crimes and crimes against humanity. Additionally, said the rights organisation, these violations are a part of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.

In view of the growing number of cases of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, administrative detention, and Israel’s application of its “illegal combatants” law—which violates international law—to prisoners and detainees in the Gaza Strip, as well as the documentation of testimonies regarding the systematic Israeli torture of Palestinian detainees, Euro-Med Monitor reiterated its call for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take up its responsibilities and investigate the conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, particularly those involving women and girls.

The rights group urged the ICRC to take public stances and release statements each time Israel blocks it from carrying out its mandated duties, the most notable of which is paying visits to Palestinian detainees and prisoners.

Euro-Med Monitor also called on Alice Jill Edwards, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the subject of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, to look into the serious crimes and grave violations that Palestinian female detainees have suffered, and to submit reports on these violations in order to help international courts and investigative committees with their work in examining and trying cases involving crimes committed by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

In addition, Euro-Med Monitor renewed calls for the formation of an independent international investigation committee specialising in Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, and to enable the independent international investigation committee concerned with the Occupied Palestinian Territory that was formed back in 2021 to carry out its work. This would include ensuring the committee’s access to the Gaza Strip and opening the necessary investigations into all crimes and violations committed against Palestinians there, including the crimes of torture and inhuman treatment to which Palestinian women are exposed, as well as all forms of sexual violence.

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Two more journalists killed by Israeli bombing

Quoting from Al Jazeera:

In the past 24 hours, six media professionals have been killed by Israeli bombing, including journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Salim. They were hit by an Israeli air strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. At least 55 Palestinian media workers have been killed since October 7.

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Attacks on Nuseirat Camp has been relentless, and I worry for my friend Mahmoud’s family (@mahmoudfamily1). Just last night, 8 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Nuseirat, including 2 children! A family home was targeted by missiles and destroyed, and an entire displaced family of 4 were killed while they were sleeping in their tent! Yesterday alone, 25 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s attacks on Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps. Most of these martyrs were women and children. Israel forces are targeting displaced families, displaced families like Mahmoud’s family! Do you know how worried I am for them?

Mahmoud has 17 family members, including 10 children (!), currently stuck in Nuseirat! Their lives are in constant danger and they have recently narrowly escaped a bombing, but their tent has been completely destroyed! Now, in addition to the frequent airstrikes, there is absolutely nothing to protect these 10 little children from the rapidly dropping temperature and the heavy rain! They need all the support they can get, but Mahmoud's campaign is barely getting any donations!

Mahmoud’s campaign has been vetted and is #117 on @/gazavetters vetted list! My friend has had this gfm campaign since May and still he has only reached 1% of campaign goal! Donations are coming in really slowly, please help!

Also, feel free to check out the freshwater pearl phone strap raffle @a-shade-of-blue is hosting to raise funds for Mahmoud’s family! Click here to enter after you donated!

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Mahmoud's (@mahmoudfamily1) campaign has received no donations for 2 days, but Israel's attacks on the Nuseirat Camp have only increased in intensity. 11 people have just been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp! Mahmoud's 17 family members are in Nuseirat right now, and I worry for them. They have several young children with them.

The Nuseirat Camp has been suffering intense attacks from Israel. There has been a surge of attacks in Gaza, especially on the Nuseirat refugee camp, on the Bureij refugee camp, and on Khan Younis, which have claimed multiple lives. In the Nuseirat Camp, Israel military have been bombing schools where displaced families are sheltering, as well as ambulances near the camp. Just an hour ago, a home near Nuseirat has been attacked, killing one palestinian and injuring several others. With all these intense attacks, I can't imagine how scared the children must be.

In addition to all this, Mahmoud's family has to deal with the coming winter. They need to renovate their broken tent to protect themselves against the cold, as well as shield themselves against the rain and overflowing disease filled sewage. This is not cheap given the scarcity of supplies.

Low Funds! Only $949 CAD raised of $80,000 goal! Last donation was 2 days ago!

Mahmoud's campaign is vetted by association, and I have been messaging with him on and off Tumblr! Please help them out! Your donations can save the lives of 17 people!

Tagging for reach, please dm me if you want off the mailing list! We thank you in advance.

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Israeli forces on Tuesday expanded their ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central Gaza after bombarding the crowded Palestinian communities and ordering residents to evacuate.[...]

Israel’s offensive is one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history. [...]

Residents of central Gaza described shelling and airstrikes shaking the Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij camps. The built-up towns hold Palestinians driven from their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war, along with their descendants. “The bombing was very intense,” Radwan Abu Sheitta said by phone from Bureij. The Israeli military ordered residents to evacuate a belt of territory the width of central Gaza, urging them to move to nearby Deir al-Balah. The U.N. humanitarian office said the area ordered evacuated was home to nearly 90,000 people before the war and now shelters more than 61,000 displaced people, mostly from the north.

The military later said it was operating in Bureij and asserted that it had located a Hamas training camp.[...]

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel faces a “multi-arena war” on seven fronts — Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran. “We have responded and acted already on six of these,” he told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.[...]

More than 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes. U.N. officials say a quarter of the territory’s population is starving under Israel’s siege[...]

In an area Israel had declared a safe zone, a strike hit a home in Mawasi, a rural area in the southern province of Khan Younis. One woman was killed and at least eight were wounded, according to a cameraman working for The Associated Press at the nearby hospital. In response, Israel’s military said that it wouldn’t refrain from operating in safe zones, “if it identifies terrorist organization activity threatening the security of Israel.”

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[ahaura]

(Nov. 18)

@QudsNen: Journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Saleem, who have been killed in Israeli strikes on Al Bureij refugee camp in #Gaza.

[vyorei]

Nowhere is safe in Gaza.

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Al Bureij II (2024) Will Eizlini 9x12” Acrylic and Posca markers on kraft paperboard

[risoria]

Art raffle for Hanaa's fundraiser

Hello everyone! I am holding a raffle for art commissions slots!

The raffle is to raise money for @enghanalulu's fundraiser, linked below. It has stalled and is very low on funds - currently only 290€ have been raised.

Her fundraiser has been verified by 90-ghost here, and again here. She also has an instagram account where you can see her old posts from way before october 2023. It is so surreal and awful to see her normal ig stories laughing with friends and going to cafés, etc...

You can of course also speak directly to her on here! Every little bit of help means a lot, I'm sure!

Here is a little bit of Hanaa's story. "Hello, I am Hanaa, a graphic designer from the southern Gaza Strip, Al-Bureij refugee camp. I work as a freelancer with agents from the Gulf and Europe to generate a simple source of income that helps and assists my working father who owns a small car workshop." Both Hanaa's office and her family's house have been destroyed in the bombings.

Here's how the raffle works: donate a minimum of 20€ to Hanaa's fundraiser and send me proof of the donation (a screenshot, which must be taken today or after today, until the raffle ends) on here, and I will enter you in the raffle for a halfbody commission (usually 35€). Every 20€ is one "ticket", so 40€ would be two entries so double chance to win, etc. You can also choose to donate 10€ if you want, and win a bust commission (usually 25€). So, if you do donate 20€ and win, you could choose between one half-body commission, or two busts. (I hope this makes sense... I tried working it out in my head but I'm sure when the winners are drawn we will be able to work it out!) The raffle will be going for two weeks, so until October 22nd, and I will randomize 3 winners.

Please share this post, so more people see it! <3 (and also please be a bit patient with me as in the past seven days i've moved to a new house and started a new job so it's quite a Lot but I want to help in any small way i can...)

fundraiser link:

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Today there was an intensification of attacks on southern Rafah city. Civil defence workers say they’ve now managed to get to the scene where Israeli air strikes earlier destroyed two homes. Fifteen bodies were retrieved with three children, all siblings, killed in the attack, Nasser Hospital data shows. In Gaza’s north, an Israeli drone attack blew up a car, killing three people and wounding nine others. The family in the vehicle was heading to a wedding in Gaza City. Quadcopters are being used extensively on Salah al-Din Road to hit anyone who is moving. In central Gaza, where we are now, we’ve heard loud explosions in the past hour. In Bureij refugee camp, a house was targeted with no casualties reported. And one Palestinian was wounded in an Israeli strike on a car in Nuseirat camp.

-- "Three children, all siblings, killed in Israeli attack on southern Rafah" by Tareq Abu Azzoum for Al Jazeera, 20 Sep 2024 18:45 GMT

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ANOTHER HOUSE IS BOMBED IN CENTRAL GAZA, CHILDREN AMONG THE DEAD AND WOUNDED

📹 Horrific scenes in the first moments after an Israeli occupation airstrike targeted a residential home in the Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in a number of dead and wounded, including women and children.

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