Category: Press Releases

  • Resident of Rafah refuses to leave home despite Israeli attacks

    29th December 2008, Rafah, Gaza Strip: A resident of Yibna camp is staying in his house despite the evacuation of the camp by the Red Crescent following expectations of intensified Israeli attacks on the area. In Yibna Camp in Rafah, Ahmed Mansour has been forced to choose between his life and his home. “I cannot…

  • BNC: “Stop the massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel now!”

    Press release from the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Occupied Ramallah, Palestine – 27 December 2008: Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when…

  • Red Crescent evacuating neigbourhoods in Rafah

    The Red Crescent in Gaza is evacuating people from the neighborhoods in Rafah located along the border with Egypt. According to the international Human Rights Volunteers in Gaza, people are being mobilized to leave the area as urgently as possible. “Under the guise of humanitarian efforts, people are being informed that their homes are about…

  • Free Gaza Movement: Dignity leaves for Gaza – Challenges world to “Stop this madness!”

    To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here Monday 29th December 2008 (Larnaca, Cyprus 29 December 2008) – There is a time when silence is complicity and inaction is unacceptable. On Saturday, December 27, Israel began Operation “Cast Lead,” a military onslaught against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip that has – so…

  • Israeli Navy pull in towards Gaza Port – Heavy Israeli shelling of Gaza reported

    International volunteers eyewitness Israeli bombings in Gaza 2:30am 29th December 2008 – Canadian Human Rights Activist Eva Bartlett has reported that the Israeli attacks into the Gaza Strip have escalated again, with the Israeli Navy shelling Gaza. “The Israeli Navy have pulled in towards Gaza Port and are shelling the coastal area. The shelling is…