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Palestinian prisoners families protest at Red Cross
ISM Gaza | Palestinian Prisoners 8 April 2009 Every Monday for years the families of the Palestinian prisoners are protesting at the offices of the Red Cross in Gaza City. These families have not been allowed to visit their relatives imprisoned in Israeli jails for almost 2 years. According to human rights organizations (including Israeli […]
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Our pause in Cairo Airport
Laila El-Haddad | A Mother from Gaza 8 April 2009 We have been stuck in Cairo airport for nearly a day now. We are neither being allowed entry or exit by Egyptian authorities, who insist that as long as Rafah Crossing is closed, they are under strict orders not to allow Palestinians in. This is […]
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Eleven shot, one in critical condition after settler rampage in Saffa
Palestine Solidarity Project 8 April 2009 Saffa, a village sandwiched between Sourif and Beit Ommar and home to just over 2000 residents, has been the site of overwhelming Israeli military and now settler violence in the last week. Using the death of a teenaged settler on April 2 as a precursor (there has been no […]