Tag: CODEPINK

  • Stolen Beauty: the struggle for a just peace in the Middle East coming to a store near you

    Code Pink 21 July 2009 As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International to Physicians for Human Rights/Israel issued reports condemning Israel’s attack and alleging that the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces…

  • Hundreds call for Erez to open, siege on Gaza to end

    Upwards of 300 Palestinians, with a number of international supporters, rallied at the road to the Erez crossing in northern Gaza on Wednesday morning, calling for the crossing to be opened and an end to the 3 year long siege, in place since shortly after Hamas was elected in early 2006 and escalated dramatically following…

  • Leftists protest siege on Gaza

    Daniel Edelson | YNet News 7 June 2009 Dozens of left-wing activists arrived at the Erez crossing Sunday morning with sweets, toys, food items and medicines they asked to transfer to Gaza in defiance of the Israeli siege on the Hamas-ruled territory. In protest of the IDF’s ban on the transfer of humanitarian aid to…