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Posts Tagged ‘gaza’

Relief Aid Couple blocked at Rafah border with medicines

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

A Palestinian-Scottish couple are driving a ton and a half of urgently-needed medicines to Gaza on July 10th and they have arrived the Rafah border but cannot enter Gaza because the Egyptian government doesn’t give the permission to open the border. Please take action and write to the Egyptian officials:
http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/content/view/2547/458/
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15217
http://www.gaza.tk/
a letter could look like this:
His [...]



cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Cartoon of the day

Al-Gumhuriyya, March 3, 2008 (Egypt)
The caption above reads: “The International Legitimacy.” On the paper, in Arabic: “Gaza’s Holocaust.”



Get on the Boat to GAZA!

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Education, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Resistance, Video



Ramzi Kysia - A Mission to Uphold the Law

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Breaking Into a Prison
I want to tell you a secret and I want to ask you a question.
Shhh! - Come closer. Listen carefully: I’m part of an international conspiracy to break into the world’s largest open-air prison this summer by sea. Will you help me?
This August, the Free Gaza Movement will set sail [...]



Medical supplies on the way to Gaza! Please help if you can!!

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

WRITTEN BY DAVID HALPIN
Bon Voyage to Khalil Al Niss and Linda Willis
This couple have decided to take precious medical supplies by road to the prison which is Gaza. They set off on Thursday 10th of July
See http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/content/view/2547/458/
They are doing this under their own steam but donations towards their expenses have been [...]



UPDATE: Palestinian Journalist beaten to unconsciousness

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

WITH UPDATE BELOW! WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL My dear friend and brother Mohammed Omer returned to his native Gaza Strip on Thursday… literally unconscious and unable to speak after being beaten and tortured by Israeli troops. He is still unable to speak so I was not able to communicate with him, I [...]



Palestinian security conference opens in Berlin

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine

France24 An international conference in Berlin on Tuesday aims to help Palestinians create their own state through grassroots security measures like putting policemen on the beat and building courthouses.
But the one-day conference, attended by 41 countries and due to be followed in the evening by a meeting of the Middle East Quartet [...]



Ramzy Baroud - On Humiliation and Gaza’s Dying Children

By Ramzy Baroud • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Human Rights, Newswire, Palestine, War

A six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire on 12 June. “Medics say the girl was decapitated by a [tank] shell,” Associated Press (AP) reported the next day. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire in retaliation against “militants launching rockets into Israel”. AP dispassionately elaborated that, [...]



Adib Kawar - A response to Ziad Asali’s “Miscalculation”

By Adib Kawar • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Regarding the Op-Ed: Miscalculation How Hamas wastes Palestinian lives by Ziad Asali:
It is shocking to read Ziad Asali’s opinion, which shows how much he, especially as a supposed Palestinian intellectual, is ignorant of the history of his homeland and that of Zionism, which tells us how adamant Israel is on emptying [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - Changes in Palestinian Demographics

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

85% of the Palestinian population has been expelled by Israel since the Nakba. This has transformed Gaza into the most densely populated area in the world
The number of the Palestinian population has increased seven fold since the Nakba in 1948 despite the plight and the tragic circumstances as stated by the Head of Palestinian Statistics [...]