Tag: Gaza

  • El-Farra: Palestinians must have hope to move forward

    by: Mona El-Farra, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR As a physician from Gaza, I have treated far too many Palestinians wounded by Israeli troops. Now a day has come that I thought I would never see. Throughout our 59-year struggle to obtain our freedom, we Palestinians debated strategy and tactics. Political factions competed for popular support. But never…

  • The Crisis in Gaza: Made in Israel

    by Michael Warschawski, ICAHD The old dream of Ariel Sharon is becoming a reality: Palestinians are killing Palestinians, and Israel is counting the number of victims with great satisfaction. The tears of Israeli leaders are crocodile tears, and their claims that they are sorry for the tragic developments in Gaza are mere hypocrisy. The bloody…

  • The Free Gaza Movement

    from Free Gaza Project Description This movement is an international nonviolent resistance project to challenge Israel’s siege of Gaza. Israel claims that Gaza is no longer occupied, yet Israeli forces control Gaza by land, sea and air. We’ll enter Gaza from international waters at the invitation of Palestinian NGOs but without Israeli authorization, thereby recognizing…

  • Open Gaza’s Borders to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis

    Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups to Israeli Defense Minister: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 June 2007 As we write these lines, hundreds of refugees are trapped between Erez crossing, which is sealed, and the Hamas military force preventing their return to Gaza. The sick and those injured from recent events are trapped in Gaza.…

  • CounterPunch: Sailing to Gaza

    An Interview with Greta Berlin By SILVIA CATTORI, 7 June 2007 Greta Berlin, 66 years old, is a businesswoman from Los Angeles, CA. She is the mother of two Palestinian-American children and has been to the occupied territories twice in the past four years with the International Solidarity Movement. She is also a member of…