Tag: Gaza

  • Gaza: A delegation of MEP’s call for an immediate cease-fire and for the protection of civilian population

    Press release from Luisa Morgantini – Vice President of the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) A MEPs’ delegation organized by Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament, will leave tomorrow 10th January and go to Gaza Strip passing through Rafah, the Border Crossing with Egypt, calling for an immediate cease-fire, for the protection of the civil…

  • The Gazan Holocaust: Bil’in demonstrates in solidarity with Gaza

    As a gesture of solidarity, residents in the West Bank village of Bil’in demonstrated against the current holocaust on Gaza in outfits symbolic of the clothing worn by victims of the Nazi holocaust. The Israeli army used several new weapons, one of which is a bullet filled with an unknown chemical substance, against the demonstrators.…

  • Children under fire

    By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip Visit Fida’s blog here. According to news reports, over 665 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,and more than 2950 injured. Of those, more than 214 children and more than 88 women were killed. This is the story of two of those children. January 2, 2008…

  • Israeli air-strike destroys Gazan medical centre

    In the early morning of January 5th, Israeli F16 planes bombed a medical center for the Union of Health Care Committees in Gaza City. The attack completely destroyed the two-story building along with three trucks equipped as mobile clinics that were parked nearby. These mobile clinics had operated as field hospitals for the northern and…

  • Petition against massacres on Gaza

    In support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action A Call from Within – signed by Israeli citizens As if the occupation was not enough, the brutal ongoing repression of the Palestinian population, the construction of settlements and the siege of Gaza – now comes the bombardment of the civilian population: men,…