• Gaza siege also hits disabled people

    Luisa Morgantini | Liberazione 15 May 2009 They worked for years for Israeli companies. For years, they paid their taxes and social insurance contributions in Israel in compliance with Israeli labour and fiscal law. But they also had accidents at work suffering serious and invalidating injuries in Israel’s factories, building sites or fields. Until the period following the Oslo agreements, more than 80,000 Palestinian workers left Gaza every morning, arriving at the Eretz border crossing at…

  • Israelis accused of settlement by stealth

    Dominic Waghorn | Sky News 24 May 2009 The Israeli Government is being accused of a plot to transform East Jerusalem with Jewish settlements and drive out Palestinians by stealth. Ir Amim, a Jerusalem based NGO specialising in Israeli Palestinian issues, claims Israeli authorities in collusion with radical Jewish settlers are cementing their hold on occupied East Jerusalem.. “The policy of the government of Israel is to establish the supremacy if not the hegemony of an…

  • The Palestinian village of hope

    Matt Kennard and Wilson Dizard | The Guardian 27 May 2009 Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening right now while the world looks the other way. You hear things like, “Our struggle has been long and it has got us nowhere”. And people ask how the world can stand by while the Israelis…

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