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To Translate Humanity: Remembering Gaza and the Summer of 2014

Hadeel Assali Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
The summer of 2014, when Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip killing well over 2,000 people, was marked with a heavy sense of helplessness for Palestinians around the world. Palestinian American writer and filmmaker Hadeel Assali remembers the summer of 2014 and the making of her short film, Shuja'iyah: Land of the Brave, to shed light on the humanity and nuance of of Palestinian people and stories.

The Ravages of War in Gaza - Humanitarian and Environmental Crisis

Sudarsan Raghavan; Hamza Hendawi
Everywhere you look there is destruction: mosques, factories, schools, hospitals, universities and thousands of houses, many shattered into piles of bricks, glass and metal. The death toll - more than 1,900 killed, including at least 450 children. But a longer-term trauma may be the large number of wounded - more than 9,800, mostly civilians, including at least 3,000 children.
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