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Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini visits Um Kamel and the Sheikh Jarah protest camp

29th December 2008 At around mid-day on the 29th December, in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament, led a delegation of fifty people to express solidarity with Um Kamel al-Kurd. She also expressed her deep concern about the situation in Gaza to the people that were in the […]

December 31, 2008
Adalah-NY: New Yorkers march to demand end of massacres in Gaza and boycott of Israel

To view the Adalah-NY website click here New York, NY, December 29 – For the second day in a row, over a thousand New Yorkers marched through midtown Manhattan, chanting and carrying signs and Palestinian flags, to voice opposition and demand an end to Israel’s assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In the last […]

December 31, 2008
Israeli helicopters and navy continue to fire on Gaza’s port

The shelling of Gaza’s port continued on the evening of December 30th, as Israeli Apache helicopters began firing rockets on the area and Naval vessels continued their ongoing shelling. Eva Bartlett, a Canadian human rights worker, heard and witnessed the attack from a building 150 meters away. She reports that the first explosion began at […]

December 30, 2008