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US activists at Rafah, request to cross into Gaza with 1 million in supplies
Ma’an News 7 July 2009 At least 100 Americans arrived in Egypt Sunday and made their way up to the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah with a rumored 1 million US dollars in medical supplies for the besieged Strip. Less than a week after Israeli naval boats seized and boarded the Free Gaza ship, the Spirit…
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Israeli forces raid Bil’in, arrest one resident and one solidarity activist
For Immediate Release: On July 7th at 3:30, soldiers disrupted the tranquility of Bi’lin by forcing their way into several houses. Israeli soldiers came with a list of 10 names for arrest . When Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists arrived at the scene they were subjected to violence and intimidation by the Israeli forces. The…
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The blue velvet hills of my youth have been destroyed
Raja Shehadeh | The Guardian 5 July 2009 I can remember the appearance of the hills around Ramallah in 1979, before any Jewish settlement came to be established there. In the spring of that year I walked north from Ramallah, where I live, to the nearby village of A’yn Qenya and up the pine-forested hill.…
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Nobel peace laureate jailed in Israel for Gaza activism
Jonathan Lis | Ha’aretz 6 July 2009 A Nobel Peace Prize winner and a former U.S. congresswoman are among eight people to be released today and expelled after having sailed on a protest ship heading to Gaza from Cyprus, the Israeli Interior Ministry says. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976…
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‘Israeli doctors to train Bil’in protesters in first aid at site of disputed security fence’
Ilana Strauss | The Jerusalem Post 5 July 2009 Physicians for Human Rights will be offering a first aid course on July 11 near the security barrier at the West Bank village of Bil’in for protesters to help them deal with injuries they incur in almost weekly confrontations with what the group’s doctors call an…
