Tag: Gaza
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Leftists protest siege on Gaza
Daniel Edelson | YNet News 7 June 2009 Dozens of left-wing activists arrived at the Erez crossing Sunday morning with sweets, toys, food items and medicines they asked to transfer to Gaza in defiance of the Israeli siege on the Hamas-ruled territory. In protest of the IDF’s ban on the transfer of humanitarian aid to…
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War crimes in Gaza: Palestinian lawyers take on Israel
Juliane von Mittelstaedt | Der Spiegel 5 June 2009 Four months after the war in Gaza, Palestinian lawyers have prepared 936 lawsuits against the Israeli military over alleged war crimes. Some of the cases could soon be tried at Spain’s National Court under universal jurisdiction. Four months after the war in Gaza, Palestinian lawyers have…
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Playground for bombed kindergartens in Gaza
For Immediate Release: Sunday 7th June, 10:00, Erez checkpoint More than 750,000 children are incarcerated without a trial in Gaza – the largest prison in the world. It is forbidden to send toys and playground equipment into Gaza. The Israeli authorities define even paper and crayons a “Security Hazard”. In defiance of this obituary and…