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• Gaza Strip: Rafah Border Crisis Creating Death and Skin Illnesses

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Palestine, Gaza, Border Crossing, Mohammed Omer, Death, Genocide, Israel, Rafah

  These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. In 2006 Mohammed won the New American Media National Ethnic Media Award for best Youth Voice. On May 18th, 2007, Mohammed was shot at by

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• I Want to Know When I am Dying

  Published: March 4, 2008, 9:58 am

  Tags: Palestine, Gaza Strip, Mohammed Omer, Gaza Siege, Israel

  Mohamed Omer I had a long day, an awful day, taking photos and writing from on the ground in Gaza City and northern Gaza.I met with two children who survived Wednesday's Jabalyia soccer bombing: the other 4 kids were, as you likely know, killed. One of the children I saw had no flesh on their legs, had burns all over their bodies from the

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• Israel Kills Some More Children

  Published: March 3, 2008, 11:28 pm

  Tags: Gaza, Israeli Atrocities, Mohammed Omer, Gaza Siege, Resistance

  Mohammed Omer Tamer was nine, and no child soldier. He did not live in the area from where home-made rockets are launched into Israeli territory. The day he was killed, he was at least two kilometres from the place Israeli troops had entered Gaza, and met with return fire by Palestinian resistance. His tragedy was that the family home was

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• Arabica: Thursday on Current Issues live from Gaza with Mohammed Omar

  Published: March 5, 2008, 10:06 pm

  Tags: Mohammed Omer, Gaza Siege, Israel, Massacres

  at 8:00 PM Central with Mohammed Omar, Gaza correspondent for the Washington report and www.rafahtoday.org. for a live update of the situation in Gaza and to report on the mass murder " Holocaust" that took place in Gaza last week. Armed with his camera and the determination to tell his people's story to the World in

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• No day is women's day in Gaza

  Published: March 9, 2008, 2:51 pm

  Tags: Gaza, Palestinian, Mohammed Omer

  Omer Mahasen Darduna suffers in ways the world recognizes; 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 fellow Palestinians. One way or another, no day is woman's day in Gaza. For a week, Mahasen Darduna, 30,

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• An award for the voiceless in Gaza

  Published: May 22, 2008, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Gaza, Mohammed Omer, Israel

  OmerMy ambition was to get the truth out, not as pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli, but as an independent voice and witness, posing questions. The siege of Gaza has many layers. I work here as a journalist, amid near-daily air and land assaults from Israel, amid the unending killings and... Click on the headlines to read the full

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• ISRAELIS BEAT AND TORTURE RETURNING JOURNALIST, MOHAMMED OMER

  Published: June 28, 2008, 4:53 pm

  Tags: Gaza, Mohammed Omer, Israel

  My dear friend and brother Mohammed Omer returned to his native Gaza Strip on Thursday literally unconscious and unable to speak after being beaten and tortured by Israeli troops. He is still unable to speak so I was not able to communicate with him, I will be posting... Click on the headlines to read the full story!

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• From triumph to torture

  Published: July 1, 2008, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Gaza, Shin Bet, Israeli Kidnappings, John Pilger, Mohammed Omer

  a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize... Click on the headlines to read the full story!

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• Targeting Journalists

  Published: July 1, 2008, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Gaza, Israeli Crimes, Mohammed Omer, Censorship, Media

  By Eva Bartlett The killing of Gaza-based Palestinian Reuters cameraman received considerable attention 2.5 months ago. Filming at the site of shelling in Gaza earlier in the day, Fadel Shana was himself targeted by shelling from the very tanks he was filming. After the incident, with... Click on the headlines to read the full story!

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• Petition: Petition for Mohammed Omer Hospitalized Following Brutality from Israel

  Published: July 2, 2008, 9:04 pm

  Tags: Action Alert, Activism, Mohammed Omer

  Report Correspondent Mohammed Omer Hospitalized Following Detention by Israeli Soldiers at Allenby Bridge Crossing Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and co-recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism,... Click on the headlines to read the full

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