End the Siege on Gaza : AFSC

By Erin CunninghamIPS News, Inter Press ServiceMay 13, 2009Um Abdullah cannot remember the last time she was able to feed meat to her eight children. She does know that for the past week the sing...

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Apr 30th 2009 | GAZA CITYFrom The Economist print editionThree months after Israel’s war ended, life for Gazans is still dismalMUHAMMAD KHADER places some rugs and blankets amid the ruins of hi...

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Thursday, Apr 23, 2009LONDON (AFP)The Israeli army's investigation into its recent war in Gaza "lacks credibility" and is no substitute for an independent probe, London-based ...

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By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 12 April 2009RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - John Ging, head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, has urged Israel to ease aid f...

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Physicians for Human Rights-IsraelMarch 23, 2009Prevention of medical assistance from the trapped and the wounded, severe difficulties to emergency medical evacuation, attacks on medical personne...

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Live from Palestine ReportsRami AlmeghariMarch 2, 2009Last Thursday, relatives, friends and local community representatives attended an unusual wedding party in Gaza. The celebration was held in ...

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Videos from the visit of Congressman Baird and Congressman Ellison's visit to Gazahttp://baird.house.gov.hillclips.tv/messages/view/4256/0http://baird.house.gov.hillclips.tv/messages/view/4243/0A...

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Express Shock at Gaza devastationAgence France-PresseFebruary 20, 2009US Democratic representatives Brian Baird and Keith Ellison expressed shock at the plight of the war-shattered Gaza Strip dur...

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Report, Palestine Centre for Human Rights10 February 2009Foreign correspondents and camera crews have now begun to leave Gaza, in search of the next headline-grabbing location. But ongoing air st...

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UN envoy: Gaza's children traumatized by war, despite ceasefireHa'aretz, February 10, 2009 Children in the Gaza Strip continued to suffer and feel insecure despite a ceasefire that has mostly end...

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By Griff Witte Washington Post Foreign ServiceSunday, February 8, 2009BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip -- Mohammed Irhaiem's former home was a spacious 1,500 square feet and was built from solid concrete ...

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US Members of Congress Press for Humanitarian Aid to Gaza(A letter was circulated in the US Congress to urge Sec. of State Clinton to have "the United States play a leading role in alleviating th...

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From Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative NonviolenceJanuary 21, 2009 Rafah—Traffic on Sea Street, a major thoroughfare alongside Gaza’s coastline, includes horses, donkeys pulling carts, cyclist...

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Katharina Ritz (International Committee of the Red Cross):"Gaza will take several years at the very least to recover from the Israeli military campaign. This is the best case scenario, assuming t...

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From the Gisha website:Human rights organizations in Israel today called on the State of Israel to immediately and fully open the crossings of the Gaza Strip to the passage of goods and people. T...

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by Miguel d'Escoto,General Assembly PresidentNew York, 15 January 2009We here in United Nations headquarters have remained too passive for too long as the carnage continues. I am responding to th...

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By Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour January 15, 2009"Israel and Hamas are not equals on the battlefield - not at all, clearly - and when the power to harm or control others is this uneven, it is me...

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Amira Hass writing in Ha'aretz:The siege of Gaza did not begin when Hamas seized control of the Strip's security organs, or when Gilad Shalit was taken captive, or when Hamas was elected in democ...

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From the B'Tselem website:Since the beginning of the campaign in Gaza on December 27, a heavy suspicion has arisen of grave violations of international humanitarian law by military forces. After ...

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From the Palestine Center:Since the start of the December 2008 Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip, the most often asked question has been how to achieve a durable ceasefire. Pundits have ...

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From the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation:Last Friday, the House of Representatives voted 390 yes, 5 no, and 22 present to pass H.Res.34, “recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself...

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by Nomika Zion, SderotJanuary 8, 2009Translated from the Hebrew by Assaf Oron“I talk with Sderot people and everyone’s cheeks are rosy again”, boasted Fuad on the war’s second day . “Th...

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No Other Option?! By Sam Bahour January 10, 2009"... I am a Palestinian American based in Al-Bireh, the sister city of Ramallah in the West Bank. I can see how an observer from abroad could be bl...

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By Rashid KhalidiJanuary 7, 2009, The New York TimesNearly everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversat...

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by Khalid Mish'al, head of the Hamas political bureauJanuary 6, 2009, The GuardianFor 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off...

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