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MIDEAST: The Anniversary Is Over, the Agony Is Not
By Mohammed Omer
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza - Holding up an old copper key, Yousef al-Hums settles down to retell the story of his eviction from what was once his home, and now is Israel. Because only the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel is over, the occupation of home of which al-Hums still keeps a key is not.
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MIDEAST: Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water and medicine is now beginning to hit unborn children and newborn babies.
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MIDEAST: Too Quiet in the Harbour
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - It's been strangely quiet for some time at the port in Gaza. No clanging of hooks, no sounds of creaking cranes or of thumping of nets upon decks. Boat engines, normally puttering and spewing exhaust, lie entombed under covers.
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MIDEAST: No Ambulance, Call the Radio
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - "I am bleeding uncontrollably, I need an ambulance." That was not a call to emergency services, it was an appeal broadcast live on radio in Gaza City.
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MIDEAST: Gaza Running on Near Empty
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - Ayman Eid stands as motionless as his orange Hyundai taxi. Never mind taking a passenger somewhere, Ayman has no idea how he will ever get home.
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MIDEAST: Flowers, Strawberries, and Missiles
By Mohammed Omer
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza - Just 300 yards from the hidden eyes in the Israeli tank, Ahmed Felfel picks his strawberries. But it isn't the Israelis in the tank who worry him as much as those others who will not let him sell them.
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MIDEAST: The Son Who Did Not Die, The One Who Did
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - The family had been mourning for 16-year-old Ahmed Abu Salamah. What was left of what was thought to be his body had been buried. After two weeks of mourning, they found Ahmed alive in the intensive care unit at Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital.
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MIDEAST: In Prison, Who Knows Why
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - You would think the baby boy named Yousef has his life ahead of him. But who knows, with a child born to Palestinian parents from Gaza. What's more, Yousef was born in an Israeli prison.
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MIDEAST: Israel Strengthens Hamas Leadership
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - The one political result of Israel's attacks and sanctions on Gaza has been that the Hamas leadership, and particularly Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, have emerged greatly strengthened.
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MIDEAST: No Day Is a Woman's Day in Gaza
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - Mahasen Darduna suffers in ways the world recognises; her suffering comes at the hands of the Israelis. But there are many Palestinian women whose suffering the world does not see, because their hell is inflicted on them by Palestinians.
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Mohammed Omer is co-winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism 2007.
Mohammed reports for IPS on surviving in Gaza. Much of his work arises from his personal experience in the volatile situation of this Palestinian territory.

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