Category: Reports
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Five injured during Bil’in demonstration
Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall and Settlements Friday 16th January 2009 Residents of Bil’in demonstrate against the Israeli’s rejection of the international efforts for ceasefire. The residents of Bil’in today gathered after the Friday prayer in an act of solidarity with the people of Gaza. They were joined by international activists and the…
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Eyewitness from Al Quds Hospital attack
Sharon Lock | The Independent View from Gaza: The ambulance driver Sharon Lock, an Australian from the International Solidarity Movement, was working as an ambulance driver for the Palestinian Red Crescent when its Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City came under Israeli attack yesterday. One shell landed outside the building about 10 yards from the incubators…
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Patients and refugees evacuated as Al-Quds hospital burns
1am, 16th January 2009, Gaza City Al-Quds hospital has been evacuated after the central building of the hospital was set ablaze. Patients and those seeking refuge in the hospital have been transferred to Al-Shifa hospital. Al-Quds hospital has been surrounded by Israeli forces since 1:30am, 15th January. The fire is spreading too fast to be…
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“It was the hardest day of our lives”
Wednesday 14th January, 2009 In an escalation of the ground offensive in the south of Gaza, Israeli forces terrorised the population of Khoza’a, a small rural community east of Khan Younis. They entered the area at about 3.00am on the morning of Tuesday 13th January in an incursion lasting until Tuesday evening. This follows heavy…
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Jewish Women occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Eight Jewish Canadian and Israeli women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto on January 7, 2009 to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza.