Tag: Humanitarian relief
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Aid agencies denounce Gaza blockade
Ma’an News 17 June 2009 A group of 38 United Nations and non-governmental organizations issued a denunciation of Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip. The groups, which include UNRWA, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and Oxfam International, the amount of goods now allowed into Gaza is still one-quarter of what it was…
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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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UK medics go on hunger strike after being refused entry into Gaza
Haroon Siddique | The Guardian 19 May 2009 Three British medics began a hunger strike in Egypt today to protest against being refused entry into Gaza for a humanitarian mission. Their aim is to establish a cardiac surgery unit at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which currently has no such facility, and to help train…
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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,…
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‘Unity of Ni’lin to Gaza urgently’
On the 17th of January 2009, residents of Ni’lin began a collection of clothes and food to be sent to the besieged people of Gaza. Calls from the mosques announced that contributions of clothes, shoes and food could be brought to the village center. Aid collection for Gaza from the people of Ni’lin had been…