Egypt forces Viva Palestina convoy to long Gaza road Egypt forced Viva Palestina aid convoy to return to Syria, which is a long trip to reach the Gaza

Egypt forced Viva Palestina aid convoy to return to Syria, which is a long trip to reach the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:15

Egypt forced Viva Palestina aid convoy to return to Syria, which is a long trip to reach the Gaza Strip.

The agreement came after a Turkish mediator reached a deal with the Egyptian consul in Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba.

The convoy will now head to the Syrian port of Latakia to sail from there to the Egyptian port of El Arish, and then to Gaza.

Lebanon army opens fire on Israeli jets

Lebanese anti-aircraft guns have opened fire on four Israeli fighter planes that were violating airspace over the southern part of the country.

"The army's anti-aircraft guns fired in the direction of four Phantom-type enemy Israeli planes that had been overflying the southeastern Hasbaya region at low altitude since Tuesday morning," an army spokesman told AFP.

Let the Gaza Freedom March Enter Gaza!

Contact the Egyptian government for the Gaza Freedom March


Let the Gaza Freedom March Enter Gaza!
I am writing to express my full support for the December 31, 2009 Gaza Freedom March. I urge the Egyptian government to allow the 1,300 international delegates to enter the Gaza Strip through Egypt.

The aim of the march is to call on Israel to lift the siege. The delegates will also take in badly needed medical aid, as well as school supplies and winter jackets for the children of Gaza.

Please, let this historic March proceed.

Three Condition which Egypt has stated to let the March to continue

1. We hand all our vehicles and aid over to UNRA.

2. We drive 500 miles back to Syria, and take a 24 hour ferry through the Suez Canal.

3. We have to ask Israel for permission to cross from Egypt to Gaza.

Egypt blocks Turkish MPs in Viva Palestina convoy from entry

Saturday, 26 December 2009 17:42

World Bulletin / News Desk

Egyptian government blocked on Saturday 16 Turkish lawmakers from ruling AK party to entry country among "Freedom convoy for Gaza", a member of Turkey's IHH organisation told World Bulletin.

Turkish Prime Minister and head of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said that he supported the convoy and urged Egypt to allow them to enter.

Analysts said that the move of Egypt may rise tenions between Turkey and Egypt.

Husnu Tuna, MP from Konya said that "We wanted to enter Egypt within the convoy. But Egypt blocked this according to information that I took from our Foreign Ministry. Our Foreign Ministry is enable."

"This is a convoy for peace and humanity. I can't make of the attitute of Egypt."

Around 250 trucks laden with European, Turkish and Arab aid -- both food and medical supplies-- arrived in Jordan from Syria this week and were headed to the Red Sea port of Aqaba for the ferry journey across to the Egyptian Sinai port of Nuweiba.

Israeli soldiers shoot dead six Palestinians

Israeli soldiers have shot dead six Palestinians and left a seventh one wounded in separate incidents in the West Bank and the north of the Gaza Strip.

According to a Palestinian medical source, three Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza as they were on their way to cross over a wall to work in Israel on Saturday.

The source further added that another Palestinian was also wounded in the incident.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers shot and killed three members of the Fatah Movement in another incident in the West Bank city of Nablus after surrounding their homes, Press TV correspondent Sari al-Khalili reported.

The victims were members of the Fatah Movement, led by Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Sources say the two had been previously ordered by Fatah to disarm, and that one of them was wanted by Israel.

Saudi would have nuked Houthis: Yemeni MP

Yemeni lawmaker Yahya al-Houthi says Saudi Arabian warplanes are engaged in the relentless bombardment of civilian positions in Yemen's war-torn north.
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Yemen's beleaguered north, bordering the Saudi kingdom, has been the scene of a massive military operation by the Saudi-Yemeni forces, since the Sana'a government stepped up its offensive against the Shia fighters in August.
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Washington is reportedly providing Sana'a with firepower and intelligence in addition to some 70 million dollars worth of military aid Pentagon has poured into Yemen this year.
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in addition 73 Saudi Soldiers were reported to be dead , while al Houthi claim there were more casulties to Saudies.

Yemen Tribal area still under sever bombardment of Saudia Arabia

Saudia Arabia continues bombardment of Yemeni Alhouthi tribal area despite pretending to be out of war
Saudia Arabia use illegal weapons and severly bombs civilian population of Alhouthis

Friends, I arrived with the Gaza Freedom Marchers to Cairo and the news does not look good. Read the letter to Mubarak.

Your help is greatly appreciated. Call the Egyptian Embassy ASAP and let us all pray that they will change their mind.

Please call the Egyptian Embassy(in the US 202-895-5400) and tell them to let us into Gaza. Then callyour representatives' offices and let them know you are going. If theyare sympathetic, ask them to call the Egyptian Embassy on your behalf.

Also, please call your representative and try to get some help from that source too.

The more we do to get press and officials involved, the better our chances of getting into Gaza!!!

Burhan

World Fails Gaza: Aid Groups

"It is not only Israel that has failed the people of Gaza with a blockade that punishes everybody living there for the acts of a few,” Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam International, said in the report cited by the Guardian.

“World powers have also failed and even betrayed Gaza's ordinary citizens.

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Israel bans the entry of materials needed to rebuild Gaza, such as cement and steel, effectively undermining efforts to rebuild the strip.

The siege has sharply increased poverty in the strip, leaving eight out of every 10 Gazans dependent on aid and leading businesses to close and lay off workers.

"The wretched reality endured by 1.5 million people in Gaza should appal anybody with an ounce of humanity,” Kate Allen, Amnesty International’s UK director, said.

GAZA MEMORIAL EVENTS DECEMBER 27 & DECEMBER 31

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2009
Gaza Memorial, Interfaith Service 4-6pm. Union Square, San Francisco. Candlelight Vigil to remember the 1,400 men, women and children killed in the attack on Gaza. Dec. 27 will mark the first anniversary of the Israeli attack and invasion of the Gaza Strip. We will educate the public with handouts.

Gaza Freedom March 12/31/09 is being blocked by Egypt.

A group which moved from London toward Gaza to break inhuma siege is in trouble. How anyone can help ? Only if I could help !

Palestine | San Francisco
Egypt Blocking Gaza Freedom March; Need Event at SF Egyptian Consul In
Solidarity
by Gaza Freedom March
Thursday Dec 24th, 2009 12:47 PM
Gaza Freedom March 12/31/09 is being blocked by Egypt. 1300 people
from 43 countries have assembled for a Ghandian non-violent march. We
should be planning events at the San Francisco Egyptian Counsulate to
publicize Egyptian complicity.

Falk has urged the Western powers to insist that Israel immediately end its blockade of the Gaza Strip

Just days before the first anniversary of the Israeli Cast Lead military operation which cost the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has urged the Western powers to insist that Israel immediately end its blockade of the Gaza Strip, threatening to enforce economic sanctions.

Falk also urged that the Goldstone Report’s recommendations, which suggest that Israel and Hamas have perpetrated war crimes possibly amounting to crimes against humanity, be fully and swiftly implemented. Falk said that “people having common sense, anywhere in the world, should become conscious of the dramatic situation in Gaza, where the suffering of over 1.5 million people, half of them children, has carried on without any formal objection from governments and the UN”.

01:50 12/24/2009
	Israel Threatens Another Large-scale Gaza War
Israel has threatened another massive war against the Gaza Strip as the impoverished enclave continues to suffer in the aftermath of the devastating January offensive. Israeli planes have been dropping thousands of leaflets across Gaza, warning Palestinians against cooperating with the resistance fighters based in the coastal sliver. The leaflets also threaten Gazans with a new attack just ahead of the first anniversary of Israel's 22-day onslaught against the Palestinian territory.

Secretary-General expresses hope that Israel will allow more items to enter Gaza

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24 December 2009 – After Israel’s announcement that it will allow glass into Gaza following United Nations requests to repair homes damaged during last year’s fighting, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced hope that this will pave the way for other much-needed materials to enter the area.

Just yesterday, a UN independent human rights expert underlined in a statement that building materials necessary to repair the damage resulting from the heavy bombardment and artillery assaults could not enter Gaza.

Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, also blamed the blockade for continued breakdowns of the electricity and sanitation systems due to the Israeli refusal to let spare parts needed for repair get through the crossings.

UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky told reporters today that the Secretary-General hopes the decision to allow glass into Gaza “will be followed by further imports of needed material for reconstruction.”

take action ? I opened it too late, but still worths a look!

TAKE ACTION!
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of Israel's three-week assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, which reportedly killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, injured and displaced thousands more, and caused billions of dollars of damage to Palestinian civilian infrastructure.

Before Congress goes on its winter recess, scheduled for Friday, December 18, Representatives Jim McDermott and Keith Ellison are seeking signatures on a "Dear Colleague" letter to President Obama. This letter states that Israel's blockade of Gaza is a "de facto collective punishment" leading to the "unabated suffering of Gazan civilians". Click here to read letter.

Days before Christmas; What about Palestinians?

Palestinians also celebrate new Georgian year , they use both the Georgian and Arabic(Islamic) Calendar.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:18 GMT
Israel denies Gaza entry to European lawmakers

Beit Lahia, a town in the northern Gaza Strip with a population of 60,000, lies in ruins, after the three-week Israeli onslaught.

Israeli authorities have prevented a European parliamentary delegation from visiting the Gaza Strip which has long been under a crippling siege.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ban high-profile diplomats from entering Gaza under the pretext that such a visit may grant legitimacy to Hamas, which seized the coastal strip in 2007, Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.

The ban came hours after the European Union called on Israeli and Palestinian officials to sit down at the negotiating table to discuss Jerusalem Al-Quds — which both sides claim as their future capital.

The lawmakers were scheduled to inspect areas struck by Israel's operation in Gaza last winter, meet officials from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and hold talks with senior members of Hamas movement.

On Wednesday, the European parliament, meanwhile, demanded a convincing explanation as to why Israel prevented a delegation of lawmakers from traveling to the Gaza Strip despite initially sanctioning the visit.

12 December

BREIJ, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Saturday, medical sources reported.

They told the PIC that Sami Abu Khosa, 45, was hit with several bullets in the abdomen and other parts of his body and his condition was critical.

The citizen was admitted into ICU but died of his wounds shortly afterwards, the sources said.

IOF soldiers opened machinegun fire at the area east of Breij hitting and killing Abu Khosa.

14 December

Soldiers Kidnap Two Children In Northern Gaza

Israeli soldiers invaded the Industrial Area located near the Erez Crossing, west of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and kidnapped two children. One of them was released after several hours while the second remained in custody. Soldiers advance approximately 350 meters into northern Gaza while Palestinian workers were trying to remove the rubble of the Industrial Area that was shelled by the army during the war on Gaza earlier this year.
Troops then kidnapped Mahmoud Jamil Al Yaziji, 16, and Mohammad Hatim Al Kafarna, 17. Al Kafarna was released several hours later, while Al Yaziji remained in detention.

A lawyer working with the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights reported that Al Yaziji was moved to the Al Majdal prison, and is currently under interrogation.

The Israeli District Court extended his remand until Friday, December 18...
15/12 /2009
Report: Prisoner going blind as Israel refuses treatment
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Shawqi Abu Athera, 37, is going blind as a result of the Israeli Prison administration's refusal to allow him to undergo treatment, according to the movement. Despite having surgery on his right eye nine months ago, IPS prohibited Abu Athera from pursuing further necessary treatment for his condition, the general director of the movement said.

The statement added that Abu Athera remains in "unbearable pain" as a result.

Additionally, Abu Athera suffers from critical injuries to his left hand and back , which he sustained during the first Palestinian uprising.
16/12/2009
Israeli navy grabs four Gaza fishermen
A police representative identified the four as Atef, Muhammad, Tahsin and Fakher Abu Reyala, all from Ash-Shati Refugee Camp, all in their twenties.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said that the fisherman left the "designated fishing area, approaching Israeli territorial waters, near the Gaza Strip's northern edge. The boat and crew were hauled to the Israeli port of Ashdod and the crew questioned, the spokeswoman added.

The crewmembers were later released to Gaza through the Erez land crossing, according to the military.

The Israeli Navy patrols a “no fishing” zone inside Gaza’s waters. According to fishermen and the United Nations, the zone is extends three nautical miles into the Mediterranean, and along most of the length of the Strip.
17 Dec 2009
Remember the samuni family which were pushed into a house and fired on deliberatly
29 member of family died as a result the youngest was unfant of 6 months

18 December

The US Central Intelligence Agency has co-operated with the Preventive Security Force (PSF) and General Intelligence Service (GI) in the Palestinian territory, the report on Friday said.

"The [Central Intelligence] Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services," a western official told the Guardian.

Most of the detained Hamas supporters are held without trial and allegedly tortured by the Palestinian agencies in the West Bank.

20/12/2009

From Turkey to Gaza: Rings and bracelets were donated to People from Adana to Gaza

22/12/2009

Tadamun: Skin disease spreading among Palestinian prisoners in Askalan

NABLUS, (PIC)-- A skin disease has spread among Palestinian prisoners in one of the wards in the Israeli Askalan jail with no medical treatment accorded by the prison administration, prisoner Abdul Hakim Hanani said.

The prisoner told the lawyer of the international Tadamun (solidarity) for human rights that the 220 prisoners in Askalan had boycotted the clinic because of the deliberate medical neglect and delay in providing treatment.

Petition to obama by congressmen to pressure israel

In August, AAPER supporters across the United States met with their members of Congress to request that they sign a letter asking President Obama to press Israel's government to end its closure of and restrictions on Gaza. On Wednesday, four members of Congress began circulating two letters calling on their colleagues to support the same. In short, our work continues, but you are making a difference!
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) circulated a letter asking their colleagues to call on President Obama to "press for immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza". While AAPER believes that the Israeli government's objectives in imposing restrictions on Gaza are other than those stated in the letter, we welcome the letter's specific request that the President "advocate for immediate improvements for Gaza" in access to clean water, food, agricultural materials, medicine and health care products, sanitation supplies, construction materials for repair and rebuilding, fuel and spare parts. It further seeks improvement in the ability of people as well as commercial and agricultural goods to move into and out of Gaza.

here link to petition

Chrismas and BeitLahem , What if history was going to be repeated?

Chomsky says Israel, 'US military base'

Chomsky says Israel, 'US military base'

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:11:44 GMT

Renowned American sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky says Israel functions as Washington's main weapons storage base in the Middle East.
"Israel is essentially a US military base, the US positions weapons there, that's a very close military and intelligence tie,"
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"[Israel] is receiving weapons constantly. In fact, weapons were sent during the invasion of Gaza. They tried to send them, they were supposed to send them from Greece, and Greece refused to ship them," he said.
"When pentagon was asked about this, they responded (I think correctly) that the weapons were not being sent for the Gaza invasion which was underway with the US weapons of course; rather, the US was positioning weapons in Israel," he added.
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"[The US and Israel] consistently and regularly… resort to force and the threat of force… carry out aggression regularly and repeatedly… invade other countries, occupy other countries, [and] invoke terror and violence," he said.

According to jewish law , israel has right to bombing

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal121209.htm

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97 attacks during 1 month on Gaza by ... guess who?

israel attacked Gaza strip 97 times during previous month in diffrent ways . It has entered it by tanks , it has bombed it by planes and shooted even one civilian deliberately , more were martyred in bombings
israel is not a state ! it is colonialism and practicing torture of entire palestinian nation. Don't you believe? try to live in such conditions

US warned China that Israel could bomb Iran

'US warned China that Israel could bomb Iran'

Nov. 26, 2009
Jpost.com staff and ap , THE JERUSALEM POST

Two senior officials from the White House, Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Bader, made a trip to China on a "special mission" to garner support in Beijing over the Iranian nuclear program, according to a Thursday report in The Washington Post. The officials visited China two weeks before US President Barack Obama arrived in Beijing.

The officials reportedly carried the message that if China would not support the US on the issue, Israel would be likely to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. The paper quoted the officials as saying that Israel saw the issue as "an existential issue," and that "countries that have an existential issue don't listen to other countries."

They stressed that were Israel to bomb Iran, the consequences for the region would be severe.

The efforts seemed to have yielded results, according to White House officials quoted in the report, as the six world powers, including both China and Russia, put together a resolution critical of Iran's nuclear program earlier this week.

The development was significant as it groups Russia and China with the four Western powers - the US, Britain, France and Germany - in unified criticism of Iran's nuclear program. Russia and China have acted as a drag on Western calls for tougher action against Iran.

While the board passed an IAEA resolution critical of Iran in 2006 with the support of all six world powers, subsequent attempts by the West to get backing from all 35 board nations foundered on resistance from Russia and China.

While any board resolution is mostly symbolic, it does get reported to the UN Security Council. Beyond that, unified action in Vienna could signal that both Russia and China may be more amenable to a fourth set of Security Council sanctions on Iran than they have been in past years.

The draft urges Iran to open its nuclear program to wider perusal by the IAEA, they said. As well, it calls on Iran to answer all outstanding questions on that enrichment facility, comply with UN Security Council demands that it suspend enrichment and further construction of the plant, and stop stonewalling an IAEA probe of allegations it tried to develop nuclear weapons.