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Gaza Lives On [Video]

One year later, it is very important to remember what happened in Gaza. But it is more important to realize the aspirations of the Palestinian people in Gaza. They deserve our solidarity, respect and reverence. They deserve justice. It is the duty of every person to contribute to break the unprecedented siege and bringing the [...]

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Egypt allow humanitarian group Viva Palestina to enter Gaza

Press release: Government of Egypt changes policy to allow humanitarian group Viva Palestina to enter Gaza December 27, 2009
Gaza Freedom March congratulates the Government of Egypt on its change of policy to allow international missions into Gaza during December with the decision to allow the Viva Palestina convoy to go into Gaza on December 27, [...]

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Gaza Freedom March is Determined to Break the Siege

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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Elderly refugee to join Gaza March

Palestinian refugee Yusif Barakat will return to Palestine with 1,000 international delegates of the Gaza Freedom March set for 31 December, the event's organizers said on Monday.
Yusif Barakat, 74, was born in Haifa, Palestine under the British Mandate. Barakat’s family was compelled to leave their home when Jewish immigrants were settled in Palestine after World [...]

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Christmas in the Holy Land – 2009 [Video]

When celebrating Christmas, it would be a good idea to think about the birthplace of Jesus. What is like in the Holy Land under the Israeli occupation, injustice and racism? How does Christmas feel when the Holy Land is under siege?
Help bring joy to the Holy Land.
Help break the siege.
Support the Freedom March to Gaza, [...]

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Israel Must End Siege, Appear Before ICJ

The former Vice-President of the European Union, Louisa Morgantini, said that Israel must end the siege on the Gaza Strip and that it is necessary that it appears before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
She told WAFA after a press conference held on the occasion of launching the launch of the book, 'Palestine's Guernica', that [...]

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Free Gaza "Dignity" First Anniversary

Free Gaza Boat "DIGNITY" – Maiden Voyage to break Israel's Siege on Gaza


By Greta Berlin *
A year ago today, our boat, the DIGNITY, made her first voyage to Gaza. She was a beautiful white and silver yacht, donated by people who believed in the Free Gaza movement after our first successful voyage in August. On [...]

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Huwaida Arraf – Free Gaza and Palestine

By Huwaida Arraf*
Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, toolkits, a fifty-kilo bag of cement and school supplies on our small converted ferry boat.
At 2 AM on June 30, almost [...]

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Adam Shapiro – Threatened And Beaten On The Way To Gaza

By Adam Shapiro
I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our intent was to bring Palestinians toys, medicines, toolkits, olive tree saplings, and one 50-kilo bag of cement while breaking the sea [...]

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Gaza Bonanza

[Sabbah's Blog note: For simplicity, read COGAT = OCCUPATION ADMINISTRATORS. For your info, these are administrators in military uniform.]
By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
Every week, about 10 officers from the Israel Defense Force's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit convene in the white Templer building in the Kirya, the Defense [...]

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Gaza siege also hits disabled people

By Luisa Morgantini*
They worked for years for Israeli companies. For years, they paid their taxes and social insurance contributions in Israel in compliance with Israeli labour and fiscal law. But they also had accidents at work suffering serious and invalidating injuries in Israel's factories, building sites or fields.
Until the period following the Oslo agreements, [...]

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Will You Continue To Ignore Gaza's Suffering, Mr Obama?

By Kathleen and Bill Christison
Image by: Ben Heine

Palestine and Palestinian suffering have always taken a back seat in the world's attention while the United States starts this war, finishes off that war, or expands it; while the world deals with wars and economic crises; while the attention of the compassionate is taken up by starvation [...]

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The Israelis Attack us Every Day

[From: Narratives Under Siege]
"I've been a fisherman for fifteen years now, ever since I was fifteen years old. My father was a fisherman and so was my grandfather. I have spent half my life at sea. But every day we face problems from the Israeli gunboats: they follow us, and then they start shooting at [...]

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Gaza: Siege report for the past 20 days

Popular Committee Against Siege PCAS issues a comprehensives report on the latest of siege outcomes which hit all life aspects. The crisis came up strongly as Israel completely closed crossings, banned food stuff, fuel shipments and all products into Gaza Strip.
The recent Israeli hazardous siege tightened 20 days ago is considered as a death sentence [...]

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Stories of Two Little Girls From Gaza

Here are two stories from two very bright young ladies from Gaza, Occupied Palestine.
The first one is a moving clip taken from an Arabic TV show where she tells her story.
Watching it made me and my family cry, so I decided to translate it and share it with you. (Hat tip: Rasheed)

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