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Children under fire
By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip Visit Fida’s blog here. According to news reports, over 665 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,and more than 2950 injured. Of those, more than 214 children and more than 88 women were killed. This is the story of two of those children. January 2, 2008…
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Israeli air-strike destroys Gazan medical centre
In the early morning of January 5th, Israeli F16 planes bombed a medical center for the Union of Health Care Committees in Gaza City. The attack completely destroyed the two-story building along with three trucks equipped as mobile clinics that were parked nearby. These mobile clinics had operated as field hospitals for the northern and…
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Please support ISM Palestine’s work in Gaza and the West Bank
***Please circulate widely*** Dear Friends, Volunteers with the ISM from various countries are right now in Gaza, witnessing, documenting and reporting on the Israeli massacre that started December 27. They arrived on the Free Gaza Movements boats that have repeatedly broken Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza; some have been in Gaza since August. Because they…
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Petition against massacres on Gaza
In support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action A Call from Within – signed by Israeli citizens As if the occupation was not enough, the brutal ongoing repression of the Palestinian population, the construction of settlements and the siege of Gaza – now comes the bombardment of the civilian population: men,…
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Pity for the tiger is injustice to the sheep
By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip Visit Fida’s blog here. The situation has been exploited very cleverly by the Israeli Ministry of War. Yes, the Ministry of War. The soldiers who call themselves soldiers defending Israeli security are continuing a bloody history of war crimes against Palestinians, from 1932 until 2009.…
