Tag: Viva Palestina

  • International activists continue protests at Rafah border

    International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border 12 July 2009 We are actually 16 people in our camp with mainly Egyptian activists. Yesterday afternoon, the Egyptian authorities put barbed wire at the door of the bathroom and cut the water, so now, we have no more access to the bathroom. Chris says : “Fortunately, I…

  • US activists at Rafah, request to cross into Gaza with 1 million in supplies

    Ma’an News 7 July 2009 At least 100 Americans arrived in Egypt Sunday and made their way up to the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah with a rumored 1 million US dollars in medical supplies for the besieged Strip. Less than a week after Israeli naval boats seized and boarded the Free Gaza ship, the Spirit…

  • Viva Palestina: our convoy to Gaza

    George Galloway | Counter Punch 10 June 2009 “Where is the ummah; where is this Arab world they tell us about in school.” Those words will forever remain etched on my brain. They were spoken by a 10 year old girl in a bombed out ruin in Gaza in March. She had lost her almost…