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Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East 31 December 2009 Sixty human rights advocates protested outside Egypt’s Mission to the United Nations today to demand that Egypt open its border with the Gaza Strip. The New York protest ...
Read More »Release Abdallah Abu Rahmah and other leaders and members of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace 29 December 2009 Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a leader of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was arrested at his home during a military operation in Ramallah by the Israeli Army on December 10. ...
Read More »UN expert repeats call for threat of sanctions against Israel over Gaza blockade
United Nations News Centre 29 December 2009 The United Nations independent expert on Palestinian rights has again called for a threat of economic sanctions against Israel to force it to lift its blockade of Gaza, which is preventing the return ...
Read More »Israel continues to violate rights of human rights defenders and peaceful activists
30 December 2009 Addameer * Al-Haq * Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights * Al Dameer Association for Human Rights * BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights * DCI – Palestine Section * ENSAN Center * Jerusalem ...
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 »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 »Three Palestinian men executed by Israeli military during Nablus night invasion, several wounded
26 December 2009 The Israeli army invaded the Palestinian city of Nablus shortly after midnight, Saturday 26 December, raided three houses and executed three men. Several family members have been injured and houses, where families of the three killed men ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March: The siege has to end
Bianca Zammit | Palestine Chronicle 24 December 2009 “Is this our fate? Is this what we are worth? Nothing more than pictures on the wall?” said Um Rabia referring to what has now become a custom in Palestine, covering walls ...
Read More »London joins International Day of Action Against Ahava
ISM London 19 December 2009 Ahava, an Israeli beauty product company that operates on stolen Palestinian land, was the target of protest on Saturday by approximately 20 pro-Palestine activists. With Dead Sea mud covering their faces and dressed in bath ...
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