Stop GAZA Siege Protest
outside the Israeli Embassy, London 27 December 2009
Gaza Demonstration Against Egypt-Paris مظاهرة باريس لغزة تندد بتواطؤ مصر
Abdel Naser Zemo sits with his wife, Suheir, in her room at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Suheir’s leg was blown off by a missile shot from an Israeli apache helicopter while the couple sat in their family’s home during Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
Indymedia Ireland
28 December 2009
Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the Gaza Freedom March participants into Gaza. Ms. Epstein was part of a delegation with participants from 43 countries that were to join Palestinians in a non-violent march from Northern Gaza towards the Erez border with Israel calling for the end of the illegal siege. Egypt is preventing the marchers from leaving…
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 27 December 2009
That “much of Gaza still lies in ruins,” a coalition of international aid agencies stated recently, “is not an accident; it is a matter of policy.”
This policy has been clear all along and it has nothing to do with Israeli “security.”
One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still.
Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones — more than 1,400 persons, almost 400 of them children — there has been little healing and virtually no reconstruction.
According to international aid agencies, only 41 trucks of building supplies have been allowed into Gaza during the year.
Promises of billions made at a donors’ conference in Egypt last March attended by luminaries of the so-called “international community” and the Middle East peace process industry are unfulfilled, and the Israeli siege, supported by the US, the European Union, Arab states, and tacitly by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah, continues.
Ali Abunimah is also blogging about his trip with the Gaza Freedom March.
Get News & Follow the convoy: http://readingpsc.org.uk/convoy/
The Viva Palestina aid convoy to Gaza which left London on December 6th has been blocked from entering Egypt, they are held at the Jordanian port of Aqaba. The convoy, which is made up of more than 200+ vehicles, planned to reach Rafah on December 27th.
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