The Independent, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 They are threatened with drowning by the Egyptians and punitively taxed by Hamas. Our correspondent meets the Palestinian smugglers bringing oranges, car batteries and bottle tops to a territory under siege They are the real resistance. They are the lung through which Gaza breathes. True, missiles must pass along their subterranean tracks, … [read more]

PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 469, Feb. 5, 2010 ‘ARAB WOMEN WORKERS NEED NOT APPLY’ A recent report from Israel’s National Insurance Institute showed that half of all Arab families in Israel are classified as poor compared with just 14 per cent of Jewish families.   Yuval Steinitz, the finance minister, told a conference on employment discrimination this month … [read more]

Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) and Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) are holding a report back event on the successful trip to the occupied Gaza Strip. Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) and Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) are holding a report back event on the successful trip to the occupied Gaza Strip. The meeting will take place on Monday 1st … [read more]

The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week Solidarity in Action: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions March 2010 www.apartheidweek.org   Mark your calendars - the 6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will  take place across the globe from from the 1st to the 14th of March 2010! Since it was first launched in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most important global events … [read more]

Translations of this press release are available at: http://www.freegaza.org/our-last-port-is-freedom Sending a Flotilla in the Spring to Break the Siege of Gaza Contact: * IHH, Ahmet Emin +90 530 341 19 34 * Free Gaza Movement, Eliza Ernshire +44 754 011 22 94     [Istanbul, Turkey, 28 January 2010] Today the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), … [read more]

by Adam Horowitz on January 26, 2010 · The following letter is being circulated in advance of Shimon Peres’s visit to Germany to commemorate international Holocaust Remembrance Day.     January 2010   Shimon Peres Does Not Speak for Us !   We are writing this letter as Israeli citizens. Some of us are 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Holocaust survivors, and … [read more]

The biggest European Parliamentary Delegation comprised of 55 MEPs and MPs from across Europe visited Gaza between 14 and 18 January 2010. The visit was prepared by the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza and The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC). The biggest European Parliamentary Delegation comprised of 55 MEPs and MPs from across Europe visited Gaza between 14 and 18 January 2010. The … [read more]

By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip.   The letter was the initiative of Representatives Jim McDermott from Washington and Keith Ellison from Minnesota, both of whom are Democrats. Ellison is the first American Muslim to ever … [read more]

by The Palestinian Return Centre As Palestinians continue to suffer in occupied Palestine, actions and events escalate in the UK and Europe. University of Bradford Union (UBU), Palestine Return Centre and Let Palestinians Study are organizing Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) and remembrance in Bradford city.   The PAW starts from Monday 1st February with a live graffiti about … [read more]

PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 466, Jan 15, 2010 HIGHWAY 443 FULFILLS AN ISRAELI NATIONAL DREAM: TO MAKE PALESTINIANS INVISIBLE IN THEIR OWN LAND   First Israel expropriated Palestinian land in the West Bank and paved Highway 443. Then it prevented the "local population" from using the road. And then Israel built a wall with drawings of creeks and meadows on it so that … [read more]

Donation of dozens of corneas went down the drain The Israeli authorities at Erez checkpoint this week prevented the exit of 17 sight-impaired patients, suffering from various eye diseases, from the Gaza Strip in order to undergo cornea transplants, a treatment that is not available in the Gaza health system. Because of this delay, the medical window of opportunity to perform the transplants … [read more]

PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) #465, Jan 8th, 2010 The World Likud Movement held a cornerstone-laying ceremony yesterday for the expansion of the neighbourhood of Nof Zion, despite - or possibly because of - American pressure against building in East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlement is in the middle of the Arab village of Jabal Mukkaber. Meanwhile, the Jerusalem municipality razed two … [read more]