Tag Archives: Gaza

Herald Express 21 July 2009 A totnes peace activist who spent a year in Gaza has returned to the UK. Jenny Linnell flew back from the Middle East in London at the weekend following weeks of being stuck at the ...

Dear friends, Please take a few minutes on Monday to call the Egyptian embassy in your country to demand the Rafah border be opened! Since June 13, when International Movement to Open the Rafah Border members set their sit-in at ...

Adam Shapiro | Huffington Post 17 July 2009 I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our ...

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 18 July 2009 Interview with a 16 year old Palestinian farmer who got injured by shrapnel, above his eye, on the 15th of July while working about 500 meters from the Green Line between ...

International Movement to Open the Rafah Border 16 July 2009 Yesterday, July 15, should have been a day of rejoicing here at Rafah Gate because the Viva Palestina convoy had finally been authorized to enter Gaza, but it turned into ...

Huwaida Arraf | The Nation 17 July 2009 Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, ...

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 15 July 2009 “There are some people who buy frozen meat, because it’s much cheaper: 20 shekels (five dollars) per kilo versus 60 shekels for fresh beef.” According to the 45-year-old father of ten, ...

Natalie Abou Shakra | Electronic Intifada 15 July 2009 I will never forget the image of the elderly woman whose son was dying in a hospital in Egypt. She only wanted to be with him. Crying, her hand touching the ...

14 July 2009 2 pm the final negotiations are still underway at the moment; it looks like we may have an extension of the stay beyond 24 hours (all those protests in the US have paid off); all of our ...

Amos Harel | Ha’aretz 15 July 2009 The Israel Defense Forces used Palestinians as human shields during Operation Cast Lead last January despite a 2005 High Court ruling outlawing the practice, a Golani brigade soldier says. He says he did ...