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

The other Israeli war on Gaza

The drones are unmanned aerial planes controlled by central computers in Israel. Israelis use them to monitor the Gaza Strip for ‘security reasons.’

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 24 Feb 2012

Water shortages hit Gaza under siege

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.

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 27 Sep 2011

'The London riots reminded me of Gaza'

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.

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 12 Aug 2011

Health services in the Gaza Strip

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

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 21 Dec 2010

Farming in Gaza

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

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 12 Aug 2010

24 hours in Gaza

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

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 15 Jul 2010

Struggling with Gaza power

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

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 2 Jul 2010

Tunnels of Opportunity

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

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 28 Jun 2010

Leaving Gaza

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?

By Sameh Habeeb

/ 28 Dec 2009

Non-violent action in Gaza

The Gaza Strip has lost 1,400 lives and a further 5,000, mostly civilians, have been maimed and wounded in the latest attack waged by the Israeli government. This

By Ayman Quader and Sameh Habeeb

/ 26 Aug 2009