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Thousands protesting the Siege of Gaza face repression from local authorities

Posted on: December 31, 2009
Hundreds of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah rally in solidarity with the Gaza Freedom March on New Year's Eve Day

31 December 2009

Thousands of people in Egypt, the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel, and the occupied West Bank rallied on New Year’s Eve Day to call for an end to the international blockade and siege of Gaza, but the protests were marred by police brutality in Cairo and the cancellation of a solidarity action in the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarm at the behest of the Palestinian Authority.

In Cairo, Egyptian riot police brutally beat Gaza Freedom March demonstrators who were unable to enter the Gaza Strip after the Egyptian … Continue reading


Updated on January 1, 2010
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New Yorkers demand that Egypt and Israel open Gaza border

Posted on: December 31, 2009
New Yorkers demand that Egypt and Israel open Gaza border

Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East

31 December 2009

Sixty human rights advocates protested outside Egypt’s Mission to the United Nations today to demand that Egypt open its border with the Gaza Strip. The New York protest came as Egyptian riot police in Cairo surrounded and assaulted hundreds of international activists who had been prevented by Egyptian authorities from entering the Gaza Strip. The international activists had planned to protest in Gaza against Israel’s siege as part of the Gaza Freedom March. Following the demonstration at the Egyptian Mission, the New York City protesters marched to … Continue reading


Updated on January 2, 2010
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Gaza Freedom March: On the March at Last

Posted on: December 31, 2009
The protest at Tahrir Square. Photo by Ellen Davidson

Ellen Davidson and Judith Mahoney Pasternak | The Indypendent

31 December 2009

At 9:50 this morning, hundreds of Egyptian Museum-bound tourists milled around Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. Camouflaged among them were several hundred Gaza Freedom marchers, their “Free Gaza” t-shirts and “My heart is with Palestine” buttons hidden under jackets, their backpacks holding a day’s worth of water and snack foods.

At a few minutes before 10, says marcher Brad Taylor of New York City, the marchers converged and began to march down Meret Basha Street, waving … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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The rains

Posted on: December 31, 2009
The rains

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

31 December 2009

It’s pouring rain. Farmers are collectively breathing relief, finally able to begin working on their parched land, land deprived water because Israeli bombing, tanks and bulldozers destroyed virtually all of the wells, cisterns, and rain-water collectors of farms in the border regions.

I’m breathing many sighs of relief, because the rain is fresh, brings life, brings a needed feeling of growth…

But the family of Saleh Abu Leila, with their 14 family members crammed into 1.5 tents (half the tent is occupied by a refrigerator) of poor-quality, torn fabric will be sighing with much less … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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New year in Gaza reopens wounds of old

Posted on: December 31, 2009
New Year's in Gaza is time to honor the dead. (Eva Bartlett)

Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada

31 December 2009

For many survivors of the last Israeli war on Gaza, time has not healed their wounds, physical or emotional.

Halil Amal Samouni, 10, still suffers vision problems in her right eye. The shrapnel remaining in her head causes her constant pain and she is unable to concentrate at school.

Her concentration is broken, also, by memories of her martyred father and younger brother, both of whom she saw shot dead at close range by Israeli soldiers during the 2008-2009 winter war … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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Release Abdallah Abu Rahmah and other leaders and members of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements

Posted on: December 31, 2009
Abdallah with FFIPP students at the site of the Apartheid Wall in Bil'in

Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

29 December 2009

Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a leader of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was arrested at his home during a military operation in Ramallah by the Israeli Army on December 10.

FFIPP interns and members of faculty delegations know Abdallah Abu Rahmah well. For the past two years, he has received our students and faculty at his home in Bil’in and has taken them to see the Separation Wall on the village’s land.

Abdallah is currently in military prison and … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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UN expert repeats call for threat of sanctions against Israel over Gaza blockade

Posted on: December 31, 2009

United Nations News Centre

29 December 2009

The United Nations independent expert on Palestinian rights has again called for a threat of economic sanctions against Israel to force it to lift its blockade of Gaza, which is preventing the return to a normal life for 1.5 million residents after the devastating Israeli offensive a year ago.
“Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what I am suggesting is that it has to be reinforced by a threat of adverse economic consequences for Israel,” Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2009
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28 kilometers of distilled apartheid

Posted on: December 30, 2009
Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration on Highway 443 in 2008. (AP)

Gideon Levy | Haaretz

29 December 2009

This highway has told the whole story. They pave a road, expropriate Palestinian land and the High Court of Justice approves the expropriation, in its words, “provided that it is done for the sake of the local population.”

Afterwards they prevent the “local population” from … Continue reading


Updated on May 1, 2011
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Israel continues to violate rights of human rights defenders and peaceful activists

Posted on: December 30, 2009

30 December 2009

Addameer * Al-Haq * Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights * Al Dameer Association for Human Rights * BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights * DCI – Palestine Section * ENSAN Center * Jerusalem Legal Aid Center * Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling

Israel has for too long been allowed to violate the rights of human rights defenders and activists. As an occupying power and State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Israel is obliged to respect the … Continue reading


Updated on January 4, 2010
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“I live today, but I am afraid of tomorrow”

Posted on: December 30, 2009
Sema Onbus in her home in the Tulkarem refugee camp. (Jody McIntyre)

Jody McIntyre and Sema Onbus | The Electronic Intifada

29 December 2009

The following is former Palestinian political prisoner Sema Onbus’s story as told to The Electronic Intifada contributor Jody McIntyre:

My name is Sema Onbus. I am 37 years old, from Tulkarem refugee camp.

My story starts when my brother was killed, on 6 September 2001, when an Apache dropped a bomb on him and his friends. It was the same day that my sister was due to get married, and he was on his way from Ramallah … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2009
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