Tag: Cast Lead

  • Open Rafah for Ayman – a request for solidarity and a signature

    January 25, 2009 Together we can make a difference for Ayman, together we can make a difference for Palestine Please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/salam123/petition.html Ayman Talal E. Quader is a Palestinian that was born on July 19, 1986 in Gaza and has lived in Gaza City for his entire life. As a young Palestinian student…

  • Amnesty: Israel’s Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life

    Amnesty International Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Amnesty International’s briefing paper Suffocating: The Gaza Strip under Israeli…

  • ISM Gaza: Education under attack

    Bianca Zammit | ISM Gaza 14 January 2010 On December 28th 2008 mid-term examinations had been scheduled to take place at the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) in Gaza. When the day arrived, however, the University College’s rooms, which usually cater for 8000 students, were void of any life. This was the second day…