By SUZANNE BAROUD, http://www.counterpunch.com/baroud03292008.html
In a place just a few miles from sandy beaches and soaring sky-scrapers, white stone villas and sky-blue swimming pools, it seems the epitome of irony and injustice that over 1.5 million people would be subjected to drinking sewage-contaminated water. When there is such a fine line bordering wealth and poverty, privilege and need, how unsettling to realize that just a stones throw away, ...
Gaza Strip, March, 21, 2008, (PCAS)
More victims are falling down due to the illegitimate and criminal siege imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip. The number of dead patients has risen up to 104 in the past two days.
Muhammad Baroud, 69, died due to shortage of medications in the Gaza hospital. He was suffering from heart disease and there are no enough medications available in Gaza.
The other patient was Shafeeq Abu Al kas, he was not able to get ...
Sameh Habeeb, Freelance journalist based in Gaza strip, blog: http://gazatoday.blogspot.com
Hope into my Way to Home
After I finished all along day of work on my office I went back to my home. I was planning to fill an application for a master scholarship I go lately. Besides, sending some news for my friends abroad about siege, urging and asking them to lobby people and mobilize for our "lost Palestinian cause"
I wasn't shocked too much when I ...
The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza
In support of the suffering Palestinians in Gaza and in protest against
the Israeli aggression, The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza
invites all European activists and Politicians to take part in a
solidarity demonstration against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Place: the Rafah Border Crossing
Time: Last week of March 2008
People wishing to participate must e-mail the Campaign ...
Al Ahram Weekly, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/887/re4.htm
With scores of Gazans killed by Israel, the position of President Abbas and the PA comes into focus, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
With Gazans being killed and maimed in the thousands, and with Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatening them a "bigger holocaust", Palestinians -- intellectuals and ordinary people -- are wondering if the present calamity won't unite them, ...
Prepared by Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), The Gaza Strip, Palestine, 10th March, 2008
Introduction
As of 12/6/2007, the strangling siege over the Strip reached its eighth month and the siege's drastic results on all economic sectors of life in the Gaza Strip make it a catastrophic zone of the first degree, as 1.5 million citizens are living under the effect of the siege. The movement of people and goods from and to the strip is paralyzed, ...
