Tag: Gaza
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PCHR: A Warning from Gaza
PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Date: 25 October 2007 Israeli Occupation Authorities Seek to Impose More Measures of Collective Punishment on the Palestinian People, and PCHR Warns of Further Deterioration to Humanitarian Conditions in the Gaza Strip PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva…
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Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Urgent Appeal for Intervention
Sunday, October 14, 2007 Help Demand Access of Seven Gaza Patients to Lifesaving Care Unavailable in Gaza. On the 10th of October Physicians for Human Rights-Israel sent an urgent request to the Israeli army and Minister of Defense, demanding that seven patients from Gaza whose access to medical care outside Gaza had been denied for…
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The European Parliament calls for change in Gaza
By: LUISA MORGANTINI Vice President of he European Parliament (GUE/NGL) Brussels 11th October 2007, In a resolution voted today in the Parliament, MEPs, called on Israeli Government for the lifting of the blockade of the Gaza Strip and to fulfill its international obligations under the Geneva Conventions to guarantee the flow of humanitarian aid, humanitarian…
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Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone – The children of 5767
By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately,…
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Guardian: Life behind the wire
By: Chris Doyle September 24, 2007 Imagine if, after an IRA bombing, a British prime minister declared Catholic areas in Northern Ireland to be hostile territory, and threatened to reduce or cut off goods, water, fuel and electricity supplies. It sounds implausible but the one and a half million residents of the Gaza Strip, an…