Tag: Gaza
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The Observer: Israeli blockade ‘forces Palestinians to search rubbish dumps for food’
UN fears irreversible damage is being done in Gaza as new statistics reveal the level of deprivation By Peter Beaumont To view original article, published by The Observer on the 21st December, click here Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel’s economic…
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Free Gaza Movement: Dignity pulls into Gaza Port despite Israeli threats
Vittorio Arrigoni, one of the ISM volunteers kidnapped from Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy has returned to Gaza on-board the ‘Dignity’. Vittorio was deported by Israel, after engaging in a hunger-strike for the return of the Palestinian fishing trawlers stolen by the Israeli navy, despite never having been inside Israeli territory. He now returns…
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Free Gaza Movement: We do not ask permission from Israel
To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here December 18, 2008 The Free Gaza Movement is sending the Dignity on its fifth mission to Gaza with envoys on board from civil society organizations in Qatar. The boat also carries journalists, human rights observers, and Palestinians who want to return home and have been prevented…
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Free Gaza Movement: Dignity ship leaves Gaza with Palestinian students
(GAZA PORT, GAZA – 11 December 2008) – The Free Gaza Ship “Dignity,” departed from Gaza International Port at 22:10 hours, Thursday 11 December. Aboard the ship were eleven Palestinian students who had been denied exit by Israel to attend their universities abroad. Over 700 students are currently trapped in Gaza, unable to obtain permission…
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The Daily Star: Israeli court frees Jewish settler filmed shooting Palestinians
By AFP To view original article, published by The Daily Star on the 11th December, click here OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: An Occupied Jerusalem court Wednesday freed a Jewish settler who shot at Palestinians from point-blank range in the Occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Zeev Braudeh from the settlement of Kiryat Arba on the city’s outskirts…