Veröffentlicht: 28. January 2010
By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent
Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip.
The letter was the initiative of Representatives Jim McDermott from Washington and Keith Ellison from Minnesota, both of whom are...
Veröffentlicht: 23. January 2010
by The Palestinian Return Centre
As Palestinians continue to suffer in occupied Palestine, actions and events escalate in the UK and Europe. University of Bradford Union (UBU), Palestine Return Centre and Let Palestinians Study are organizing Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) and remembrance in Bradford city.
The PAW...
Veröffentlicht: 17. January 2010
PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 466, Jan 15, 2010
HIGHWAY 443 FULFILLS AN ISRAELI NATIONAL DREAM:
TO MAKE PALESTINIANS INVISIBLE IN THEIR OWN LAND
First Israel expropriated Palestinian land in the West Bank and paved Highway 443. Then it prevented the "local population" from using the road. And then Israel built a wall with...
Veröffentlicht: 11. January 2010
Donation of dozens of corneas went down the drain
The Israeli authorities at Erez checkpoint this week prevented the exit of 17 sight-impaired patients, suffering from various eye diseases, from the Gaza Strip in order to undergo cornea transplants, a treatment that is not available in the Gaza health system. Because of this delay, the medical...
Veröffentlicht: 8. January 2010
PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) #465, Jan 8th, 2010
The World Likud Movement held a cornerstone-laying ceremony yesterday for the expansion of the neighbourhood of Nof Zion, despite - or possibly because of - American pressure against building in East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlement is in the middle of the Arab village of Jabal Mukkaber. Meanwhile...
Veröffentlicht: 8. January 2010
Press Release, Friday 8th January
British MP George Galloway was officially deported from Cairo today (Friday), when Egyptian ununiformed plane clothes police officers bundled him onto a London plane. Galloway had been trying to return to Rafah after news broke that seven of the Viva Palestina convoy members were said to be...
Veröffentlicht: 7. January 2010
A week of Events across UK in Remembrance of Gaza and Palestinian Victims
Palestine Memorial week will be lunched with the first anniversary of the indiscriminate war against the besieged people of Gaza approaching, a number of organizations based in the UK and Europe are preparing for a week of events and actions. The events which will last one week will remember the...
Veröffentlicht: 6. January 2010
distributed by the International Action Center, 5th Jan 2010
One Year After the Gaza Massacre:
Tell Egypt and the U.S. to Stop the Attack on Viva Palestina!
Let the Convoy into Gaza! End the Blockade Now!
Video from the attack: http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_06.html
IN NYC: EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
Wednesday...
Veröffentlicht: 3. January 2010
from: PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 464, Jan 2, 2010
Tzipi Livni orchestrated massacre in Gaza in 2008
Senior officials in Israel have confirmed that a British court issued an arrest warrant against Israeli opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2008. Ehud Olmert...
Veröffentlicht: 3. January 2010
For immediate release, January 1, 2010 (Cairo) Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid.
Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel's illegal siege. They were prevented from entering Gaza by the Egyptian authorities.
As a result, the Freedom Marchers remained in Cairo. They staged a...