December 28, 2009
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Gaza London Demonstration 27 December 2009
A video in two parts by journalist James Penn on the Free Gaza demo in London, outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington High Street on 27 December, 2009. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Update: Gaza aid convoy to change course
Organisers of Viva Palestina aid convoy, which is trying to reach the Gaza Strip, have now agreed to go via Syria en route for Egypt. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina members start hunger strike
She said the hunger strike began at 11:25 on Sunday, marking the first bombs Israel dropped on the besieged population of Gaza on December 27, 2008. “Volunteers on the convoy are on a hunger strike and will only take fluids until the Egyptian side gives them the nod,” said the convoy’s press officer, Alice Howard. Continue reading
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What is the Aim of the Gaza Freedom March? By Bianca Zammit
As the days of December 2009 draw in, two events which each have a role to play in world peace draw closer. The first is on the 27th and is commemorating the start of the 22 day attacks on Gaza, an operation which targeted unarmed civilians, schools, hospitals, journalists and emergency staff. The second, The… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Update
Yesterday was a great day. We went down to a major bridge across the Nile and tied cards of rememberance and flowers to the bridge railings. These were removed almost immediately by the police who follow us everywhere. It is evident that there are spies at our meetings. The police challenged us to move on,… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina: Urgent Action Needed
Viva Palestina is a UK charity; some the supplies are rotting at the Aqaba crossing. Please write urgently (in addition to the Egyptian embassies in London and Dublin) to the British embassy in Cairo, David Miliband etc. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina: It is very late. Chaos around the French Embassy. Roads blocked …
No I do not need legal assistance as yet … Others are organizing things for various delegations … The worst that is happening to internationals is hotel arrest … No one has been deported yet. We came here to go to Gaza and that is my focus … Continue reading
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George Galloway, a UK politician who is leading the convoy, tells Al Jazeera why the group must be allowed to proceed
George Galloway, a UK politician who is leading the convoy, tells Al Jazeera why the group must be allowed to proceed: It was Christmas Day but there was no room at the Inn for the weary travellers. Turned away by the Arab Republic of Egypt, the 500 members of the Viva Palestina Convoy to Gaza… Continue reading
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Gaza aid held-up in Jordan
Since June 2007 Gaza has been under a crippling blockade with few essential goods making it through.Now an aid convoy of 250 trucks and ambulances is attempting to reach the Strip to deliver much needed supplies.But a bureaucratic argument with Egypt is holding it back in Aqaba in southwest Jordan. Continue reading
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Total racism, total war By Saleh Al-Naami
According to Palestinian medical sources, the number of patients with cancerous tumours residing in areas that the Israeli army targeted during its war on Gaza is on the rise. As the first anniversary of the war on Gaza approaches, the Palestinians are shocked to discover more of its damaging effects. A Palestinian woman whose house… Continue reading
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Hunger strike of activists in Egypt for Gaza, Palestine By John Hurson
At 11 35 am, the time of the first attack, a group of humanitarians on the “Viva Palestina Convoy” will embark on an International Hunger Strike in the main square in Aqaba, Jordan. The International Hunger Strike will aim to highlight the ongoing illegal siege imposed on Gaza, and to remember the victims of the… Continue reading
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