Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Viva Palestina's convoy reaches Gaza
Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:46PM
Activists with the Viva Palestina-organized convoy chant slogans before their departure from Istanbul, Turkey on September 28, 2010.
Lifeline 5, the fifth aid convoy organized by the UK-based charity Viva Palestina, has crossed Rafah, the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, the aid mission of 150 vehicles entered the coastal sliver, carrying around $5 million in food, medicine and basic supplies.
The move signified disruption of Tel Aviv's siege of Gaza, which has been depriving its 1.5-million population of food, fuel and other necessities for more than three years.
Headed by former British lawmaker George Galloway, the convoy departed from London on September 18. It crossed France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt on its way to the enclave.
The trip was made despite the likelihood that the activists come under the attack of the Israeli military, which had killed nine activists in May during an assault on Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of the same mission.
Israeli paper The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday that the Israeli forces were awaiting the arrival of the activists.
Citing a source with Israel's military, the paper wrote, "The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is prepared" for the convoy.
There, however, has been no news yet of Tel Aviv-ordered aggression on the activists.
The convoy was also fearful of confrontation by the Egyptian authorities. In January 2010, the Egyptian riot police injured 55 people in the port of El Arish during clashes with the Viva Palestina's previous aid convoy.
Speaking to a Press TV correspondent, however, Lifeline 5's spokesman, Zaher Birawi, said that the Egyptians had refrained from imposing any conditions on the mission's entry into the sliver.
"The Egyptians are facilitating and making easy and smooth the entrance to Gaza," Birawi said.
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"We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel
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Kaukab Siddique, 67, an associate professor of English and literature, said that he had the support of his faculty and students and that he would continue to speak his mind, despite pressure from those who have referred to him as an "anti-Semite." Siddique is a tenured professor who has taught at the university since 1985. A vocal critic of Israel's record of human-rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, he said "I am against Israel - not against Jews." Seddique, speaking on Labor Day, said: "We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel - if possible by peaceful means." Backed by a crowd of cheering protesters, he continued: "Dear brothers and sisters, unite and rise up against this hydra-headed monster which calls itself Zionism." Siddique said Thursday that he was under pressure for his remarks. "It has become so abusive even my wife is beginning to be worried," he said. "If I were not tenured I might be under some pressure to leave." But he said he would continue to speak out in his free time, no matter how others might feel about those statements. "I don't believe in laying low," he said. | ||
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Anti-wall campaigner sentenced to 18 months in jail
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The decision aggravates the 1-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance. "Today the court of appeals has shown that it is serving as one more instance of political repression not as an actual court where justice is served. The court admitted what we all knew – that the entire system is trying to make an example of Adeeb in order to silence the entire Popular Struggle movement against Israel's occupation," defense attorney Gaby Lasky said. Abu Rahmah's sentence is the first to be handed by the Military Court of Appeals in a series of trials against anti-wall organizers. The decision is likely to affect other cases, most notably that of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the Bil'in organizer declared human rights defender by the EU who was recently sentenced to a year in jail by the first instance of the military court. The sentence "highlights the lack of equality before the law between Israelis and Palestinians, who are tried before two different legal systems. For instance, in a case of a Jewish settler convicted of incitement to murder, the court only imposedan eight months suspended sentence," the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee said. | ||
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Israeli fire injures 2 workers in northern Gaza
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Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmieh said the injured men were collecting rubble near Beit Lahiya, and were taken to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment. Palestinian workers were collecting rubble and gravel in the area along the border fence to make cement. In a recent report, Defence for Children International said "Due to a severe lack of job opportunities and a shortage of construction material entering Gaza from Israel, hundreds of men and boys scavenge for building gravel amongst the destroyed buildings close to the border fence." DCI documented 12 incidents in which children were shot by Israeli forces in northern Gaza over the summer. The organization said reports indicated that soldiers also shot and killed the donkeys used by workers, as well as targeting the workers themselves. Israel places severe restriction on the import of gravel into the Strip. At the current rate that Israel is allowing cement aggregates into Gaza, it would take 75 years for the UN to implement its reconstruction plan for Gaza, the report said. |
DAY 33: Thursday 21st October
VIVA PALESTINA CONVOY BREAKS SIEGE AND ENTERS GAZA TO JUBILANT CROWDS
The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza.
Amidst scenes of jubilation from thousands of Palestinians there to greet the convoy, Kevin Ovenden, the convoy director, expressed his joy at being in Gaza once again. "We have driven more than 3,000 miles to bring this essential aid and to break this illegal siege of Gaza. We have been joined by supporters from Morocco and Algeria and from the Gulf States and Jordan, to make this the biggest convoy ever to break the siege of Gaza. We are absolutely overjoyed to be here and to bring with us the soil from the graves of those who were massacred on the Mavi Marmara which will be used to plant trees as a memorial to their sacrifice."
The convoy set out four weeks and five days ago from London. It travelled through France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Syria. Everywhere the reception was fantastic and the generosity of well-wishers unsurpassed. Towards the end there was a frustrating delay in Syria whilst negotiations at the highest levels were conducted with the Egyptian authorities. In the end it was all worth it as the Egyptian authorities decided to allow passage of the whole convoy, sadly excluding just 17 members of the convoy including George Galloway.
The convoy will be handed over in its entirety to the relevant bodies tomorrow and the members of the convoy then expect to leave Gaza and return home in the next 48 hours after celebrations and formal thanks are given.
Convoy reaches Gaza - News report on Press TV
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Do you still remember Palestinian in Gaza
We are still under siege!
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We still fear daily hunger...
And when we have no choice...
Medicine is like rare diamonds.... .
Are dying every day in their beds.....
Due to the lack of Medication.. .
And others...
Have just tears to shed.....
Do you still...
Remember us?!
There was No place...
To hide!
Do you still remember us?!
It was a genocide...
It was Murder...
It was a vicious crime...
It was a CRUEL action...
An act of a MONSTER...
The manners of a COWARD...
It was the silence of a friend...
It is the dirty true FACE of Politics!
It is a FACT!
It's incomprehensible!
IT'S A PERMANENT SHAME!
It was BETRAYAL!
It is some how believable!
But this is Incredible!!!
Double standards!!
It is the continuous AID...
Made by...
The true forces...
Of Evil! .. SAME
Do you still remember us?!
The dead...
Were everywhere...
That sometimes we had no place...
To make even Our prayer.....
Do you still...
Remember us!
At that time...
Some watched...
From afar...
Some were happy...
And joyful...
Some said: "NO..."
To the massacre!
And the torture...
Do you still remember us!
Many carried...
The SHAME!
Many did not DARE!!
Others said i truly care...
But now we hear from them very..very.. very..rare!
Are you sure you still remember us?!
Now we have nothing...
But pain.....
And daily...
Sadness..... .
Do you really...
Still remember us?!
At least in your prayer???!
Gaza children and people implore you!
They are dying...
Due to the continues blockade!
Happening...
In Gaza.....
There is an EXTREME...
Restricted access to food...
Water...
And Medicine!
Please send it to entire world
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