Flashpoints Radio speaks with award-winning journalist and contributor Mohammed Omer, who was beaten and tortured by Israeli secret police, in his hospital bed; also, Ali Abunimah responds to the attack and speaks about the anti-Palestinian stance of the major presidential candidates; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges talks about the administration’s plans for war against Iran; and the Knight Report.

This program was produced by FlashPoints Radio for Monday, June 30, 2008.

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rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm
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Mohammad Omar from Rafah Today and The Washington Report for Middle East Affairs gives a live update from the ground in Gaza, Palestine.

This program was produced by Arab Talk Radio.

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This interview with Mohammed Omer, who lives in Rafah, Palestine, and publishes the website Rafah Today details the brutality of the assault on Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Army in the summer of 2006.

This program was produced by Arab Talk for KPOO on June 30, 2006.

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rafahtoday.org

His brother and two cousins were shot and killed. Four brothers were injured. The family home was bulldozed with his mother inside. His father was jailed for twelve years. These are just some of Mohammed Omer’s family stories.

Mohammed is 22 and was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

He is a photojournalist, and he has been documenting his own life, and the lives of other Gazans, since 2002. Dick Gordon talks to Mohammed about growing up in one of the most dangerous places on earth on The Story.

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www.rafahtoday.org/ (Mohammed Omer’s weblog)