Rafah

Pitch black under siege

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Saleh Al-Naami | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Dr Moawya Hassanein, head of Emergency Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, warns that the lives of thousands of patients with kidney failure who require dialysis three times a week are at risk because of power failures. “There is little we can do at hospitals for [...]

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Egypt Approves Gaza Freedom March Passage, Viva Palestina Blunders Paperwork and Blames Egypt

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2009

In a press conference conducted earlier this evening, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced some threats, warnings, surprises as well as some good news. The press conference that aired on Egyptian official TV a few hours ago was boiling with Aboul Gheit’s very firm and angry answers to the journalists’ questions who did [...]

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Photos: Rafah Iron Wall

by Haitham Sabbah December 23, 2009

Here are few new photos from “Rafah Iron Wall” project, which is being built by the Egyptian authorities on their side of Gaza borders. Egyptian government first denied such project and Americans said they have no part in it. More and more on-ground evidences are confirming that the project is in progress despite all calls [...]

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Gaza Freedom March is Determined to Break the Siege

by Haitham Sabbah December 22, 2009

Citing escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry informed us on December 20 that the Rafah border will be closed over the coming weeks, into January. We responded that there is always tension at the border because of the siege and that if there are any risks, they are risks we are [...]

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Video: Rafah razed

by Haitham Sabbah January 9, 2009

Video supplied to the Guardian by the International Solidarity Movement shows razed suburbs of town of Rafah close to border between Gaza and Egypt:

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The Israeli occupation through artists’ eyes

by Haitham Sabbah May 14, 2007

This is quoted from Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project: For the last three years, community members in Olympia, WA, and Rafah, Palestine, have been working together to create a lasting, sincere partnership to better foster understanding between people who have not traditionally had a chance to get to know one another. It is our belief that [...]

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