Tag: Gaza
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More than 40 international and local organizations launch Civil Peace Service Gaza
22 April 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza On Wednesday 20th of April, at 11:30 (local time), more than 40 international and local organizations launched a human rights monitoring mission to report potential violations in Palestinian waters. Deploying an international third-party nonviolent Civil Peace Service in Palestinian territorial water is not the initiative of a…
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Vik’s not gone
22 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Vik, habibo, you’re not gone, not for me at least. In life you brought the warmth every time I met you, and to everyone else. You did not see it as a duty or a service but it was just how you were, to rouse and stir…
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Colonel Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz to testify in Corrie trial Wed, April 27th
20 April 2011 | Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice In a breaking development, an Israeli court has granted the State’s request to move the testimony of former Brigade Commander Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz to next week, Wednesday, April 27, nearly one month prior to his originally scheduled appearance. A 5-page affidavit for the witness…
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Thousands of Gazans participate in slain Italian activist’s funeral
19 April 2011 | Palestine News Network On Monday, politicians, NGO workers, and activists took part in the funeral of Vittorio Arrigoni who was killed last Friday by a Salafist group in Gaza. Palestinian police officers carried Arrigoni’s coffin and marched in the funeral. Those in attendance carried his picture and, in reference to his…
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Vittorio, never more alive than now
Egidia Beretta Arrigoni, Mother of Vittorio Arigoni | Il Manifesto Translated by Sebastiao Nascimento. Italiana segue. One has to die to become a hero, to hit the headlines and to have TV crews around the house, but does one have to die to stay human? I recall Vittorio in the Christmas of 2005, detained and…
