December 2008
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Medical Aid for Palestine Emergency Appeal for Gaza
MAP has launched an Emergency Appeal for Gaza: our aid workers on the ground desperately need additional funds for emergency burns, surgical and medical kits. Continue reading
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Yvonne Ridley: PIRATES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
“The gunboats gave us no warning. They came up out of the darkness firing flares and flashing huge floodlights into our faces. We were so shocked that at first we didn’t react. We knew we were well within international waters and supposedly safe from attack. They rammed us three times, hitting the side of the… Continue reading
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Agent of a foreign power? By William Bowles
The BBC is directly complicit in selling a war crime of monstrous dimensions and should the day arrive when the architects of the slaughter are brought to justice, I really hope the managers of the BBC ‘News’ are along there with them in the dock. Continue reading
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Beit Hanoon By Ewa Jasiewicz, reporting from besieged Gaza
Sabrine had been hit in the face with small chunks of her neighbour’s home. One side of her right cheek was covered with a thick white dressing. She looked watery eyed and exhausted. Debris had also struck her in her heavily pregnant stomach. With only a month to go until giving birth, she spent two… Continue reading
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PCHR: On the 4th Day of IOF Offensive on the Gaza Strip, the Number of Palestinians Killed Mount to 310, Mostly Civilians, Including 37 Children and 9 Women
All of the victims of recent attacks are civilians, and dozens of houses have been heavily damaged. Due to the current siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, the reconstruction or reparation of the houses that have been destroyed or damaged is extremely difficult. Continue reading
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PCHR 9 Palestinian Children Killed Raising the Number of Children Killed Since the Beginning of the Current IOF Offensive against the Gaza Strip to 31
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued to launch an open war against the Gaza Strip for the third consecutive day. IOF have continued to attack children, women and old people in disregard to their lives, humanitarian appeals and international humanitarian law and human rights law. Continue reading
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Seamus Milne: Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is a crime that cannot succeed
Israel’s decision to launch its devastating attack on Gaza on a Saturday was a “stroke of brilliance”, the country’s biggest selling paper Yediot Aharonot crowed: “the element of surprise increased the number of people who were killed”. The daily Ma’ariv agreed: “We left them in shock and awe”. Continue reading
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Nir Rosen: Israel’s failure to learn
Israel’s notion of a truce with Hamas was that the Palestinians would quietly accept the siege. Israel would deny them the basic means of survival, let alone the basic means to create a functioning society. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: – Israeli Gunboats Came out of the Darkness and Rammed us Three Times
The Dignity, on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, was attacked by the Israeli Navy at approximately 6am (UST) in international waters, roughly 90 miles off the coast of Gaza. Several Israeli warships surrounded the small, human rights boat, firing live ammunition around it, then intentionally ramming it three times. According to ship’s captain… Continue reading
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Damaged Gaza aid boat docks in southern Lebanon
A boat carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza has arrived in Lebanon after being turned back by the Israeli navy. The Dignity set off from Cyprus on Monday carrying three tons of emergency and medical aid to the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Gaza: The Killing Zone – Israel/Palestine
May 2003 Background: Life in Gaza is a constant gauntlet of Israeli sniper fire, military rockets and army bulldozers. No one is safe. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1916650 more about “Gaza: The Killing Zone – Israel/Pales…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Ran HaCohen: Pacifying Gaza
30 December, 2008 Defense Minister Ehud Barak (the Hebrew surname means “lightning,” German “Blitz”) did it again: a historic record of over 200 Palestinians killed in a single Sabbath’s blitz (Dec. 27). Polls now predict five additional Knesset seats for his Labor Party in the coming February general election. That’s 40 Palestinian corpses per seat. Continue reading
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Join the protests across the UK and take action to stop the massacre in Gaza!
PSC thanks the thousands of people who came out to demonstrate outside the Israeli embassy in London and across the UK, to call for an end to the killing and an end to the siege of the people of Gaza. Continue reading
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Mustafa Barghouti – Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood
Israel cannot and would not act against the will of its economic allies in Europe or its military allies in the US. Israel may be pulling the trigger ending hundreds, perhaps even thousands of lives this week, but it is the apathy of the world and the inhumane tolerance of Palestinian suffering which allows this… Continue reading
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PCHR: 251 Palestinians, Mostly Civilians, Including 20 Children and 9 Women, Killed and 584 Others, Including 130 Children and 28 Women, Wounded
PCHR believes that this declared war target Palestinian civilians and their property, and statements of Israeli political and military officials herald a humanitarian catastrophe and a persistent war at all levels. Continue reading
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Gaza Emergency Appeal from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
Since the beginning of attacks in Gaza three days ago, over 300 people have been reported dead, more than 1000 wounded, and many hundreds more are in need of immediate medical attention. With a medical system already on the verge of collapse as a result of the ongoing closure, 1.4 million civilians are in desperate… Continue reading
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Take Action – (USA) Palestinians in Gaza are bleeding
Write letters to members of Congress and the State Department, demonstrate at the White House and Israeli Embassies and consulates, write letters to the editor and op-eds for every news outlet, call radio talk shows, protest the U.S. representatives at the UN and their protection of Israeli crimes. Continue reading
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Dan Freeman-Maloy: Israeli Slaughter, International Culpability
There is every reason to be outraged. But despite the severity of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, we have little right to act surprised. Whatever else can be said, Israel has made it abundantly clear that until its actions are met with credible international sanctions, it will subject Palestinians (and very likely others in the region)… Continue reading
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Gaza media blackout
The blockade of Gaza has now been extended to the media In this week’s News Divide we turn our attention to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has now been extended to the media, creating a news blackout that has severely restricted the reporting of the suffering in Gaza to the outside world. In the Continue reading
The New Dark Age 