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About Sameh Habeeb

Sameh A. Habeeb is a photojournalist and founder of The Palestine Telegraph Newspaper, and a peace activist who has taken workshops on the Palestine-Israel conflict to Britain, Italy, Holland and France. Sameh has reported on the last three years of siege and the recent war in Gaza on a freelance basis for BBC, CNN, CBC, ABC, Democracy Now, Netwerk T.V. and other news outlets. He also blogs at www.gazatoday.blogspot.com

Articles by Sameh Habeeb

Tuesday 27th September

Water shortages hit Gaza under siege

Sameh Habeeb, 27 September 2011

Many Israeli spokespersons maintain that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and that the siege is being lifted. Facts on the ground indicate otherwise. The water crisis is a major continuation of the siege by other means.

Friday 12th August

'The London riots reminded me of Gaza'

Sameh Habeeb, 12 August 2011

My family thought London was the safest place we had ever lived. But rioting near our home made us feel like we were back in a war zone.

Tuesday 21st December

Health services in the Gaza Strip

Sameh Habeeb, 21 December 2010

A visit to a Gaza hospital brings home the effects of a conflict that is a relentless war of attrition

Thursday 12th August

Farming in Gaza

Sameh Habeeb, 12 August 2010

Our Gaza correspondent goes on a visit to the countryside, to see how farmers who have survived every sort of setback are faring this summer

Thursday 15th July

24 hours in Gaza

Sameh Habeeb, 15 July 2010

Our correspondent in the Gaza Strip invites you to spend the day with him

Friday 2nd July

Struggling with Gaza power

Sameh Habeeb, 2 July 2010

As darkness descends on more and more parts of Gaza, and temperatures soar, another kind of darkness is creating havoc with people’s equilibrium

Monday 28th June

Tunnels of Opportunity

Sameh Habeeb, 28 June 2010

Our correspondent in the Gaza Strip visits a car workshop that has just got going again

Monday 28th December

Leaving Gaza

Sameh Habeeb, 28 December 2009

A young citizen journalist has a rare chance to leave his homeland, reduced to rubble by the Israeli army’s most recent incursion. How does he feel about this new-found freedom?

Wednesday 26th August