Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News 29 December 2009 A student group affiliated with the socialist ‘Hadash’ party in Israel had organized a conference commemorating and condemning the Israeli invasion of Gaza one year ago, but the Hebrew University administration banned ...
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Sami Abdel-Shafi | The Guardian 29 December 2009 On my way to visit a friend in the Abed Rabbo district, north of the Gaza Strip, the taxi driver handed me a small pack of biscuits for change. There are nearly ...
Read More »Gaza massacre reflections
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 28 December 2009 The anniversary of the first day of Israel’s massacre of Gaza last winter passed yesterday. Palestinians still locked in Gaza couldn’t avoid thinking about that hell, recalling to others where they were ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March: 85 year old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein begins hunger strike to open Gaza border
Gaza Freedom March 28 December 2009 Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the Gaza Freedom March ...
Read More »1 Year after Gaza Massacre: Over 500 Academics and Cultural Workers Call for Boycott
United States Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel | Dissident Voice 27 December 2009 December 27, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s 22-day assault on the captive population of Gaza, ...
Read More »Gaza one year ago: ‘I prayed to my god to be the first in my family to die’
Khulood Ghanem | Mondoweiss 27 December 2009 Khulood Ghanem, 27, kept a Gaza diary a year ago. What follows is Ghanem’s entry from the first day of the war, 27 December 2008. I finished my work in Khan Younis at ...
Read More »Egyptian forces detain Gaza Freedom Marchers in el-Arish and shut down Gaza Memorial in Cairo
Gaza Freedom March 27 December 2009 On Sunday, 27 December, the Egyptian security forces detained a group of 30 internationals in their hotel in el-Arish and another group of 8 at the bus station. They also broke up a memorial ...
Read More »War on Gaza: Operation Cast Lead One year later
Jeremy R. Hammond | Palestine Chronicle 27 December 2009 One year ago today, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast Lead’, a murderous full-scale military assault on the small, densely populated, and defenseless Gaza Strip. The operation resulted in the massacre of over ...
Read More »Was Israel’s Gaza offensive worth it?
Gideon Levy | Ha’aretz 27 December 2009 Today offers us an ironic conjuncture of commemorations: the fast of the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tevet and the first anniversary of Operation Cast Lead. On the day of the fast, ...
Read More »What is the Aim of the Gaza Freedom March?
By Bianca Zammit | Palestine Chronicle 23 December 2009 As the days of December 2009 draw in, two events which each have a role to play in world peace draw closer. The first is on the 27th and is commemorating ...
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