Barak Ravid | Ha’aretz 02 August 2009 Israel on Thursday asked the government of Spain to halt its funding for the human rights group Breaking the Silence, which has been critical of the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct during January’s Operation ...
Read More »International movements breaking the siege on Gaza
Suzanne Morrison | Common Dreams 28 July 2009 Since June 2007 the Israeli government has imposed almost complete closure over the Gaza Strip. The siege prevents nearly all movement of people or goods to and from the coastal region with ...
Read More »UN: Israel must allow building supplies to Gaza
Rizek Abdel Jawas | Associated Press 28 July 2009 U.N. agencies and two dozen international aid groups urged Israel on Tuesday to lift its blockade of Gaza or at least allow in construction materials to repair war-damaged schools. Out of ...
Read More »Israel pushes Dutch to freeze funds for group exposing ‘IDF crimes in Gaza’
Barak Ravid | Ha’aretz 26 July 2009 Following protests by Israel, the Netherlands will reevaluate its funding of an organization that alleged that Israeli troops used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza. Acting on instructions from the Foreign Ministry in ...
Read More »ISM Gaza accompanies Palestinian farmers
Israel’s Open-Fire Policy: shooting the donkey (as an old woman hides behind it) Resisting the Zionist Gun – Part 1: Letaemat 07/05/2009 Resisting the Zionist Gun – Part 2: Letaemat 09/05/2009 Harvest in the Automated Kill Zone, Part 1 – ...
Read More »Well-watered and soldier-free: the good old days on Palestinian farmland
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 23 July 2009 The young farm worker wasn’t oblivious to the danger: working in the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone” is no task for the faint-hearted. But, like so many, he either needed the paid labour, or ...
Read More »Lebanese urged to help break Gaza siege
Josie Ensor | The Daily Star 24 July 2009 A Lebanese human rights worker with the Free Gaza Movement made a plea on Thursday for Lebanon to show solidarity over the issue of the Palestinian right of return and play ...
Read More »Farmers and ISM Human Rights Workers to repair damaged well
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 23 July 2009 Thursday 23rd July 2009 at 8am – Farmers from Abassan Jeddida (East of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip)and human rights workers from the International Solidarity movement will be repairing ...
Read More »Stolen Beauty: the struggle for a just peace in the Middle East coming to a store near you
Code Pink 21 July 2009 As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International to Physicians for Human Rights/Israel issued ...
Read More »Why is South Africa still helping apartheid Israel?
Sayed Dhansay | Electronic Intifada 21 July 2009 A few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing ...
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