Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights: There is not safe place in Gaza. You can be in the street, in my office or home and you will be bombed and away from my house, sixty meters a house was bombed by an F16. This can anywhere, whether it a drone, F16, and tonight they used F22. Gaza, Michael, I’m telling you, 350,000 square kilometers, two million people are living in it. It is one of the most densely populated areas on earth. Anywhere you move. You can ask people from the northern or eastern areas to move but you are taking about 400,000. They ask eastern Khan Younis, where to go? Listen to the full conversation between Yesh Dins legal consual, Michael Sfard, and Raji Sourani, founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), that was published in +972 Magazine --> bit.ly/RajiSourani Michael Sfard wrote: Raji Sourani is an old friend and an elder brother to the struggle for human rights in Israel-Palestine, and also the founder and director of the Palestinian center for human rights (PCHR). Ive known Raji for many years, I dont remember exactly when was the first time that weve spoken on the phone, but since our first phone call weve been in an intermittent contact. Especially in times of war. Even though weve been friends for many years, he cant visit Israel and I cant visit Gaza. We tried to meet abroad a few times, but failed to, once due to the Israeli blockade and another time due to the Egyptian one. We finally succeeded in 2010, when we were both invited to a conference in Malaga, Spain. From our behavior, everyone thought we were old friends - and surly, we were. Old friends who live an hour away from each other for years, but meet only for the first time. Raji, who won the Kennedy award for human rights in 1991, along with my adviser Atty. Avigdor Feldman, is a person for which the saying Speak truth to power was written. He didnt spare his brave and uncompromising criticism from anyone: Israel - that imprisoned him in the 80s; The Fatah rule in Gaza - that imprisoned him in the 90s due to his criticism on their use of torture as a mean of investigation; or Hamas, which his organization criticized in its recent reports regarding womens rights, death penalty and more
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