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defenceWeb
February 23, 2018
“On Wednesday, over 1,500 prisoners were released following a pardon by President Abdi Mohammed Omer,” the Somali Region's communications bureau said on ... Ethiopia has already released more than 6,000 prisoners since January, including high-profile journalists and opposition leaders.
africanews
February 22, 2018
“On Wednesday, over 1,500 prisoners were released following a pardon by President Abdi Mohammed Omer,” the Somali Region's communications bureau said on ... Ethiopia has already released more than 6,000 prisoners since January, including some high-profile journalists and opposition leaders.
International Middle East Media Center
December 15, 2017
A Palestinian civilian was killed and 446 civilians; including 71 children, one woman and 12 journalists, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ..... As a result, 'Aref Mohammed Omer Jaber (43), a volunteer at B'Tselem-the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights, was hit with a sound bomb toÃâà...
Green Left Weekly
July 26, 2017
In the midst of the 2014 Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer never stopped reporting. He and his family were stricken; he queued for food and water and carried it through the rubble. When I phoned him, I could hear the bombs outside his door. He refused to comply.
teleSUR English
July 19, 2017
The former Palestinian town of Jaffa was known by its previous inhabitants as “the place of sad oranges”. On the kibbutz, the word “Palestinian” was never used. “Why?” I asked. The answer was a troubled silence. All over the colonized world, the true sovereignty of Indigenous people is feared by those whoÃâà...
Consortium News
July 18, 2017
Any truth about Israel/Palestine or, more generally, the Middle East is not going to come from the mainstream media. Those of us ... You mentioned Mohammed Omer. We saw ... And there have been other journalists, particularly Palestinian photographers and camera people, who have done similar work.
Truthdig
July 10, 2017
In the midst of the 2014 Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer never stopped reporting. He and his family were stricken; he queued for food and water and carried it through the rubble. When I phoned him, I could hear the bombs outside his door. He refused to comply.
New Matilda
July 10, 2017
In the midst of the 2014 Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer never stopped reporting. He and his family were stricken; he queued for food and water and carried it through the rubble. When I phoned him, I could hear the bombs outside his door. He refused to comply.
New York Times
June 30, 2016
Yet, even without the will to secure Palestinian freedom, there is still something the international community can do: provide hope. Fund the programs that allow these children to forget, for a few hours, that they are refugees in their own land. Show them that there is an alternative to factionalism and fighting.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
October 11, 2015
While Palestinian violations of the ceasefire are extremely rare, Israel has breached it hundreds of times, according to international monitors. ... Gaza-based journalist Mohammed Omer has suggested that the desperate situation in Gaza, which remains under tight Israeli siege with little reconstruction sinceÃâà...
Huffington Post
August 28, 2015
An old man wearing a Palestinian Keffiyeh, wrapped the body parts together in a white shroud so that the family could be promptly laid to rest. “The world cries for dead Jewish child in Israel, but will they cry for this good Palestinian mother and her four dead children?” he said as the small bodies were carried, two on eachÃâà...
Foreign Policy Journal
August 7, 2015
Mohammed Omer wrote this book about Israel's 51-day assault on Gaza in 2014 to tell the world about the war from the perspective of those enduring it. .... and importance of his journalistic witnessing: “I am offended, not only as a human, as a Palestinian in Gaza and as a father, but also as a journalist inÃâà...
Democracy Now
July 29, 2014
More than 180,000 Palestinians have been displaced over the past three weeks — that is roughly 10 percent of the population of Gaza. We are joined from Gaza City by award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer. “I believe Israel wants to make people turn against the resistance,” Omer says.
