GAZA

Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
Monday Morning Sep 5 2008 6:44PM GMT ...

Source: egypt-news.asfory.com --- 1 day ago
Lauren Booth, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, is stuck in GAZA because Israel and Egypt refuse her to leave via their territories after she arrived in GAZA with a group of international campaigners by sea. The two boats docked in GAZA on August 23, carrying Booth and other human rights and peace activists [...] ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
A Palestinian official said Monday that the amount of cooking gas that Israel allows into GAZA Strip has increased recently. ...

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'Though Israel withdrew from the GAZA Strip in 2005, it still controls our borders.' As a Palestinian from the GAZA Strip, I could not have been more proud to learn last June that I had earned a prestigious ... ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 1 day ago
By his own description, the past month for Dr. Bill Dienst of Omak has been more like a James Bond movie than the life of a rural physician who practices emergency room and family medicine. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
A walkout of medical staff throughout GAZA has strained services at hospitals and clinics throughout the territory, the latest in a series of crippling strikes that are deepening bitter divisions between GAZA's militant Hamas rulers and loyalists of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The strike has forced non-complying doctors to pull double shifts and left residents struggling for treatment, adding to the hardships in a territory suffering from international isolation since Hamas wrested control of GAZA from Fatah-allied security forces in June 2007. ...

Source: time-blog.com --- 1 day ago
Trying to exit GAZA isn’t easy, even when your brother-in-law is Tony Blair. Lauren Booth, whose sister Cherie is married to the ex-British Prime Minister, sailed into GAZA last month aboard one of two vessels chartered by human rights activists trying to draw attention to Israel’s blockade on the Palestinian enclave. When the two ships returned to Cyprus, Booth, a journalist and human rights advocate, stayed behind along with 10 other international activists to examine how the blockade was hurting GAZA’s 1.5 million people. “I thought: I have a British passport, no criminal record. Leaving GAZA shouldn’t be a problem,” she told me in a telephone interview. So Booth and the others –Americans, a Dane, an Irishman and several other nationalities-- tried to leave via the Israeli checkpoint at Erez. They were accompanying a middle-aged Palestinian woman who had a medical referral for surgery in Jerusalem to remove a tumor on her spine. The woman had been turned back at Erez seven times in the last eight months, for no apparent reason, says Booth. “She was utterly in pain and desperate.” But when the party arrived at the no-mans’ land of Erez, a message was relayed from the Israelis. “We were told to stop or they’d open fire on us,” says Booth, adding caustically, “This is Israel’s approach to medical treatment.” Next, after assurances from the British consul that she and the others would be let out through Egypt, they headed south to Rafah ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
Dina Ezzat charts the fortunes or otherwise of Cairo's latest attempts to contain the situation in GAZA Next Monday, Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo for their regular autumn gathering that is likely ... ...

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Bridges." I plan to present a paper, described in this abstract: Palestinians Under Siege: A Critical Psychology Perspective on Barriers to Mental Health and Justice The drastic mental health consequences of ... ...

Source: www.labourstart.org --- 1 day ago
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Source: www.palsolidarity.org --- 1 day ago
To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 2nd September, click here Two Gazan fishermen were injured when Israeli naval vessels fired on Palestinian fishing boats on Monday. Palestinian medical sources told Ma’an that 32-year-old Husam Sultan was hit in the head with shrapnel. His wounds were described as serious. Ninteen-year-old Muhammad Sultan was [...] ...

Source: www.grassrootsonline.org --- 1 day ago
In a part of the world where hope is scarce, this past weekend has been one of those rare moments that have defied testing times in GAZA. More than 40 civilians from more than a dozen countries arrived on Gazan shores after a long sail from Cyprus on Saturday evening August 23, breaking the siege and bringing with them a powerful message of commitment to human rights for the Palestinian people. read more ...

Source: opt2007.wordpress.com --- 1 day ago
UPDATED: Vittorio Arrigoni’s Account of the Israeli Shooting For Immediate Release (OFF THE COAST OF GAZA) 1 September 2008 - Israeli Naval vessels are currently firing on unamrmed Palestinian fishing boats and international human rights workers off the coast of the GAZA Strip. The fishing boats are several miles off the coast of GAZA City, in Palestinian [...] ...

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Free GAZA explains the postal service, following their first successful sail from Cyprus to GAZA to Cyprus anew in August 2008: “It was the first time in over forty years that international ships docked in GAZA Port, and the first time in over sixty years that Palestinians freely entered and exited their own country.” “On September 22nd the Free [...] ...

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Interview with Huwaida Arraf and Ranaan Gissin (Former advisor to Ariel Sharon) regarding the Free GAZA Movement and the siege on GAZA broadcast by Al Jazeera English. video clip part 1 video clip part 2 ...

Source: www.ynetnews.com --- 1 day ago
GAZA residents should be treated the same way Gilad Shalit is being treated ...

Source: www.bizcommunity.com --- 1 day ago
Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in GAZA Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km. Read full story... | Send to a friend ...