"Nowhere to Run": Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis

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19. Or course the Israel Gov. Press Office would say it was without foundation.

After he received the Martha Gellhorn Prize in June 2008 Mohammed Omer travelled back to the Gaza Strip via the West Bank, Omer reported that he was stripped to his underwear, humiliated and beaten by Israeli soldiers while travelling into the West Bank from Jordan. According to a United Nations report, Mohammed Omer is convinced that the brutal assault occurred when the security services were frustrated at their inability to confiscate the money he’d been awarded. He was subsequently hospitalized upon his return to Gaza, where it was discovered that Omer had sustained severe damage to the spine and ribs and various bodily contusions as a result of the ordeal.

Since November 2008 Mohammed Omer has been in the Netherlands receiving medical treatments for his injuries.

The Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize 2008 will be officially awarded to Mohammed Omer on 17th of February 2009. The prize ceremony takes place in the International Press Centre at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in Stockholm.

http://pulsemedia.org/2009/02/14/mohammed-omer-wins-reporters-without-borders-journalism-award/