Tag: Gaza

Al-Haq: End the Siege of the Gaza Strip

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ref.: 01.2008E 21 January 2008 On Sunday 20 January 2008, Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, including the blocking of fuel supplies, forced Gaza’s only power plant to shut down, plunging over 800,000 Palestinians into darkness. According to the General-Director of the plant, the shortage of electricity caused by the lack…

January 21, 2008
Ma’an: Gaza Strip’s water, sewage systems to shut down ‘within hours’

The Gaza Strip’s water and sewage systems are hours away from shutting down as supplies of fuel used to run critical pumps run out, the international aid agency Oxfam said on Monday evening. As of 5pm local time on Monday, only 37 of the 122 water supply pumps have fuel and most will run out…

January 21, 2008
Gaza and the recognition of Israel

By: Bobby Noe As has been covered in the news extensively, Gaza’s only power plant has shut down as there is no longer any fuel left to run it. 1.5 million people are in darkness and according to a health ministry official the hospitals ” have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in…

January 21, 2008
Relief convoy to Gaza on Global Day of Action, January 26th

LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON GAZA!! Saturday 26.1.08: A countrywide relief convoy and Israeli demonstration in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian demonstration in the Strip. On Saturday, 26 January 2008, a humanitarian convoy of supplies headed by peace and human rights organisations will go from Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva…

January 21, 2008
GAZA: AN ISRAELI CALL FOR URGENT ACTION

We, the Israeli organizations signed below, deplore the decision by the Israeli government to cut off vital supplies of electricity and fuel (and therefore water, since the pumps cannot work), as well as essential foodstuffs, medicines and other humanitarian supplies to the civilian population of Gaza. Such an action constitutes a clear and unequivocal crime…

January 21, 2008