Press Release; Friday 18 July 2008
The Free Gaza Movement UK
Setting Sail on August 5, 2008 to Break the Siege of Gaza
Around 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries will
sail to Gaza during the sixty-year anniversary of the Nakba – the
forcible expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their lands to
create Israel –to challenge Israeli control over the open-air prison
called Gaza.
Among ...
PRESS RELEASE
By LUISA MORGANTINI, Vice President of the European Parliament, Rome, 11th July 2008
"The ongoing raids, closures, arrests and confiscations actuated by the Israeli army against Institutions, associations and even schools in Nablus are illegal actions, representing not only a clear violation of the International law and more suffering and injustice against the Palestinian population but also a direct attack on the Palestinian PM Salam ...
A Palestinian-Scottish couple are driving to Gaza with 1.5 tons of medicine donated by the people of Scotland, leaving on Thursday July 10th.
Khalil Al Niss and Linda Willis will take a van loaded with 1.5 tons of medical supplies from Scotland to Gaza, leaving from the Scottish Parliament at noon on Thursday, July 10th and arriving at the Rafah crossing in Egypt on Tuesday, July 15th.
They will drive the medical supplies, which have all been ...
by StopTheWall on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 13:33, http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/179
On the fourth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s ruling that Israel’s Wall is illegal, the BNC is calling on the EU not to upgrade its relationship with Israel and to suspend the EU Association Agreement. Today’s call is supported by 100 European civil society organizations. Join in the campaign for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association ...
By Yoav Stern
Israeli Arabs will distribute 20,000 booklets on the Nakba - the "catastrophe," what happened to the Palestinians after 1948 - outside of schools in Arab settlements throughout the country. A camera crew from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television network will cover the handing out of the booklets tomorrow at 11 A.M.
The booklets, which were written by 150 Palestinian children in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Syria and ...
from Sameh A. Habeeb, Freelance Journalist based in Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian Medical sources reported today Saturday evening that 2 patients died. The new patients died due to the Israeli occupation measures resulted in the suffocating siege imposed a year ago.
The victim Lutfi Muhamad AL buhesiy,57, a Gaza resident was suffering from chronic heart disease. He tried several times to travel for treatment to Egypt and he obtained the permission, ...
