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A United Front for Peace: Breaking the Siege on Gaza

A United Front for Peace December 2007- May 2008 We, the National Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza (hereafter the National Committee), have adopted the initiative of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme to launch an international campaign for breaking the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since June 2007. The aim of this humanitarian, non-political campaign is to put pressure on the Israeli government in order to lift the siege imposed on the population…

October 25, 2007

Seattle P-I: Palestinians’ lives invisible to Israelis

By Edward Mast On a visit to Tel Aviv last month, I asked some Israeli friends what people in Israel were saying about the Palestinian situation. Not much, they told me. Israelis are more concerned about the corruption charges against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, coming on the heels of corruption charges against previous governments. Palestinians and their issues, my friends told me, are becoming more and more invisible to the Israeli people. Palestinian lives are kept…

October 25, 2007

PCHR: A Warning from Gaza

PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Date: 25 October 2007 Israeli Occupation Authorities Seek to Impose More Measures of Collective Punishment on the Palestinian People, and PCHR Warns of Further Deterioration to Humanitarian Conditions in the Gaza Strip PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, UN bodies and all international humanitarian organizations to take immediate effective measures to force Israeli occupation authorities to…

October 25, 2007