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Amnesty: Israel’s Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life

Amnesty International Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Amnesty International’s briefing paper Suffocating: The Gaza Strip under Israeli […]

January 18, 2010
Palestinian film forum breaking the cultural siege on Gaza

Bianca Zammit & Rada Daniell | ISM Gaza 17 January 2010 The Palestinian Film Forum (the Forum) was established in 2004 as a branch of the Pal estinian Artists Union covering both Gaza and the West Bank. In the last couple of months it has intensified its activities aiming to achieve an ambitious list of […]

January 17, 2010
Real per capita income of Palestine plunges

Nadim Kawach 17 January 2010 Armed with growing global financial aid, the Palestinians in the occupied territories struggled to alleviate years of poverty, unemployment and other economic woes but their efforts have been ruined by Israel’s hostility. In such conditions, the aid was only helpful in preventing a human disaster in 2008. While their economy […]

January 17, 2010