April 4, 2010, Free Gaza Movement
Istanbul, Turkey – Following months of preparation, a coalition bringing together a number of organizations and movements working to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza was announced yesterday in Istanbul. The coalition, comprised of the Turkey-based IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) organization, the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), the Greek Ship to Gaza campaign, the Swedish Ship to Gaza ...
by Max Ajl
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=64779
t r u t h o u t, April 3, 2010
At night in Gaza, the narrow alleyways of the refugee camps echo loudly with clatter amidst the darkness. The clatter is the sound of small generators. Families in the camps, and many stores in the camps and in the cities, rely on such portable units for electricity during the rolling blackouts that now afflict the Gaza Strip. They're a ...
The reality of Palestinian detainees in the Israeli occupation jails in 2009 by Friends of Humanity International
Report prepared by:
By: Fuad Al Khoffash (Researcher),
Ghassan Obaid (Human Rights Activist)
Translated by:
Mohammed S. El-Nadi
Vienna, April 01, 2010
Doc. No.: P/ME/805/10/E
*introduction
Candles down the road, burning candles, ...
by Saed Bannoura, http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=64568&s2=28
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a 5-year-old child died on Saturday at a local hospital due to the ongoing illegal Israeli siege on the coastal region.
The child, Fuad Swerih, 5, suffered respiratory issues, and Israeli prevented his transfer to hospitals outside the besieged and war- torn Gaza Strip.
Swerih is from ...
by Hamida Ghafour, http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=64574&s2=28
House by house, street by street, Israeli families are taking over an area that Palestinians want as the capital of their future state. Armed with eviction notices and backed by police, settlers are forcing Arabs from their homes. Hamida Ghafour reports from Jerusalem’s new flashpoint
The City of David excavations just outside the southern wall of Jerusalem’s ...
by Stephen Lendman; http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=64558&s2=28
The numbers vary but range at any time from over 7,000 to 12,000 or more. In April 2008, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel cited 11,000, including 345 children and 98 women. Over 1,000 suffered from chronic or other diseases. Around 150 were seriously ill from heart disease, cancer, and other diseases, and 195 or more Palestinians died or were killed in ...
