Tag: Cast Lead

  • Amnesty International urges Obama to halt further exports to Israel

    Ma’an News Agency 11 April 2009 The United States sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel despite evidence that US weapons were misused against civilians in the Gaza attacks, Amnesty International revealed on 1 April. The human rights organization said about 14,000 tons worth of arms and munitions sent to Israel on the…

  • Support the Gaza 6; citizens decommission weapons for Israeli use in attacks on Gaza

    Support the EDO Decommissioners 6 April 2009 On Jan 17th, while Israeli bombs were still raining down on the people of Gaza, six people gained entry to EDO MBM/ITT, a factory in Brighton manufacturing military equipment being used by the Israeli air force, and smashed machinery and computers causing at least 300 000 pounds worth…

  • Israel created ‘terror without mercy’ in Gaza

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 April 2009 The Israeli military attacked civilians and medics and delayed – sometimes for hours – the evacuation of the injured during the January war in Gaza, according to an independent fact-finding mission commissioned by Israeli and Palestinian medical human rights groups. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian…