Tag: Gaza

  • From beneath the rubble

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 4 February 2009 “This is at the beginning, when they started digging survivors and bodies out of the rubble,” Abu Qusay said. Just a few weeks after being buried alive by the bombing which attacked the building he was in, only a mere scar at his left eyebrow hints at…

  • Urgent call to all social movements

    Open Gaza Borders! We reiterate the need for a call from Palestinian community based organisations and the over 130 grassroots NGOs in the Palestinian NGO Network for an immediate opening of all border crossings currently controlled by Israel and Egypt. Gaza is in the grip of a man-made humanitarian crisis. Thousands of tons of food,…

  • Shooting at farmers, what gives Israel the right?

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 3 February 2009 I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today. This morning, farmers from Abassan Jadiida (New Abassan), to the east of Khan Younis , the southern region, returned to land they’d been forced off of during and following the war on Gaza. The continual…