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Posts Tagged ‘gaza’

Petition: Palestinians Call on Egypt to Open the Rafah Crossing

By Haitham Sabbah • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Palestine, Petitions

To:  Honorable President Hosni Mubarak, Honorable Omar Suleiman, Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly and Members of Cabinet
24 August, 2008
To the Honorable President Hosni Mubarak, Honorable Omar Suleiman, Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly and Members of Cabinet,
We, the hundreds of Palestinians waiting at the Rafah crossing in Egypt, call upon your honorable government to [...]



Boats Break Israeli Blockade

By Carlos Latuff • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Cartoon of the day, Palestine



Agustìn Velloso - The Gaza Concentration Camp: Ancient Colonialism through a Nazi filter

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Education, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY AGUSTIN VELLOSO, TRANSLATED BY TONI SOLO

EREZ CROSSING, GAZA - AUGUST 4: A Gazan patient is helped by a relative on her way to medical treatment in Israel on August 4, 2008 as she arrives at the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. A human rights group claims that Israel’s Shin Bet [...]



Kawther Salam - Charity Raids Coordinated by the US and Financed by the EU

By Kawther Salam • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Following the interchanging of the roles of coordination between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli occupation raided the Palestinian charities of Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin in the West Bank cities, closing, vandalizing, looting, destroying, and transferring their respective properties to the Israeli military central command Gadi Shamni, and the Palestinian Authority [...]



The Scottish van goes back home

By Haitham Sabbah • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Palestine, Video

Khalil is back home after the Egyptian authorities refused the van entry with the medicine donated from the Scottish people to the people of Gaza.. Watch Khalil’s message to the Egyptian government, Palestinians and the world.



Sameh Habeeb - A voice from Gaza: All I need is my freedom

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Source: www.gazatoday.blogspot.com
Freedom is a broad expression that includes a mosaic of freedoms for humans in all aspects of life. It means being guaranteed certain things by all laws for all the time that law has been for the people, adopted by civilized countries and widely acknowledged by the few democratic nations - headed by [...]



Mohammed Omer - Truth and Consequences Under the Israeli Occupation PLUS Kenneth Ring: the Ordeal of Mohammed Omer

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Biography, Interviews, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

From The Nation
I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. At the age of 17, I armed myself with a camera and a pen, committed to report accurately on events in Gaza. I have filed reports as Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza City. I have interviewed mothers as they watched their children die in hospitals unequipped [...]



PA Preventive Security Police arrests Hebron Journalist

By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Newswire, Palestine

Hebron: Occupied Palestinian Territories
By Nour Amir in Jerusalem
The Palestinian Authority (PA) Preventive Security Force (PSF) on Tuesday arrested Awadh Rajoub, a Hebron-area journalist, apparently as part of a general crackdown on non-conformist journalists and intellectuals.
Eyewitnesses said a dozen PSF officers raided and searched Rajoub’s press office in the small town of Dura, 12 miles [...]



cartoon of the day

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day

political canibalism of occupied Palestine.
“Gaza is impossible to digest but the West Bank is delicious”



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 [...]