Tag: Gaza

  • BBC: Diary – Challenging Gaza blockade

    To view original reports, published by the BBC, click here Activists from the California-based Free Gaza Movement are planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade of the territory. The BBC’s Rachid Sekkai will be on board and sends his first diary entry. About 45 people are here in the…

  • The Guardian: Cherie Blair’s sister joins battle to break Gaza blockade

    By Rachel Williams To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 5th August, click here A group of activists including Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth plans to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip by sailing into the Palestinian territory. Some 46 campaigners, among them several Britons, a Holocaust survivor and an 81-year-old…

  • Give ‘Free Gaza Movement’ thumbs up!

    By Debbie Menon Edward Said reminded the world shortly before his death in 2003 that it is easier for the West to demonise the Palestinian – through ‘the vicious media and government campaign against Arab society, culture, history and mentality’ – than actually attempt to humanize what they don’t fully understand. The Gaza imprisonment in…

  • Daily News Egypt: Scottish couple barred from delivering medical supplies at Gaza’s Rafah crossing

    By Eva Bartlett July 21, 2008 To view original article, published by the Daily News Egypt on 21st July, click here Ten days after setting out from Edinburgh, five days past their projected July 15 arrival, Scottish humanitarian Khalil Al Niss and his wife Linda Willis finally pulled up Sunday afternoon at the Gaza-Egypt Rafah…

  • Scottish Medicines for Gaza stopped in El Arish

    For more information, click here. (SUNDAY JULY 20th 4.45pm) The 1.5 tons of medicines from Scotland to Gaza are now a few metres outside the gate into Gaza at Rafah on the Egyptian side of the Israeli-built wall that has enclosed the people of this area. The Egyptian authorities in Rafah are refusing entry of…