Tag: Blockade

  • Three cousins die in Gaza tunnel collapse

    30 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Shortly after 5:00 pm on Sunday, September 25, three Palestinians died when sewage leaking from an Egyptian pipeline caused a tunnel connecting the Egyptian and Palestinian sides of the Rafah border, in which they were working, to collapse. It was the second time that the pipeline, which…

  • International activists in Gaza defiant despite repeated attacks

    26 September 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum The Civil Peace Service (CPS) Gaza human rights observation boat has returned to the waters off the Gazan coast after being grounded for two months due to Israeli naval attacks. CPS Gaza aims to monitor human rights violations committed off the coast of Gaza, in which Gazan fishermen…

  • The Palmer/Uribe Report: another attempt by Israel to whitewash murder?

    1 September 2011 | Free Gaza Movement On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos brutally attacked Freedom Flotilla 1, killing eight Turkish and one American passenger on board the Mavi Marmara, most having been killed at close range, execution style. They injured more than 50 other passengers, both on the Mavi Marmara and on the other…

  • Global actions target Egyptian embassies to break Israel’s closure of Gaza

    26 August 2011 | International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border Fed up with the closure of Gaza that has kept more than a million and a half Palestinians locked in to the strip’s tight borders, a beacon call is coming from Gaza and resonating across to Egypt, to break Israel’s siege and re-open the…

  • Call from Gaza: open the Rafah crossing permanently and unconditionally

    Today, a call demanding the re-opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Palestine has come from Gaza. It is propelled by support from Egypt and has been endorsed by dozens of organizations, citizens’ groups, associations and coalitions in many countries, as well as by distinguished international personalities. The call to action underscores the Geneva…