Tag: Gaza
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Egyptian activists in Ismailia : “Police is still stopping us and we attend to stay there till tomorrow”
Egyptian Committee Against the Gaza Siege: At 8am this morning (10th September), a first group from the Egyptian Committee Against the Gaza Siege, mainly Labor Party’s members, left Cairo in 4 micro-buses with food and medicine to go and try to break the criminal siege of Gaza. Photos from www.newspalestina.blogspot.com When they arrived at Ismailia,…
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ISM Rafah: Israeli navy vessels again open fire on Gazan fishermen
On Monday 8th September at least ten fishing vessels left Gaza City port and traveled out into the Mediterranean Sea up to 10 miles offshore. ISM volunteers were onboard three of the boats. They were equipped with video cameras to record and document the aggressive actions of the Israeli naval gunboats towards the fishing vessels.…
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Ynet: Blair sister-in-law – “Gaza world’s largest concentration camp”
British left-wing activist Lauren Booth remains stuck in Strip after journey to ‘break’ Israeli naval blockade, equates situation to Holocaust, Darfur By Noa Raz To view original article, published by Ynet on the 11th September, click here To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here Unlike her brother-in-law, Quartet envoy to the Middle East…
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J-Post: ‘Israel is dividing Gazan, W. Bank populations’
By Dan Izenberg To view original article, published in the Jerusalem Post on the 11th September, click here In the past year, Israel has stepped up its policy of separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank and forcing Palestinians registered in Gaza or wishing to visit Gaza to forgo their right to live in…
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ISM Rafah: Fishing in Gaza
Saturday 6th September, it was just 09:30 and we were only 4 miles out to sea, having barely left Gaza’s coastline behind, when the gunboat’s heavy machine gun opened up, spraying the wake around our hull with bullets. There was no surprise. We’d just spent the previous 10 minutes watching as this Israeli gunboat harried…