Sameh Habeeb, Freelance journalist based in Gaza strip, blog: http://gazatoday.blogspot.com
Hope into my Way to Home
After I finished all along day of work on my office I went back to my home. I was planning to fill an application for a master scholarship I go lately. Besides, sending some news for my friends abroad about siege, urging and asking them to lobby people and mobilize for our "lost Palestinian cause"
I wasn't shocked too much when I ...
The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza
In support of the suffering Palestinians in Gaza and in protest against
the Israeli aggression, The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza
invites all European activists and Politicians to take part in a
solidarity demonstration against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Place: the Rafah Border Crossing
Time: Last week of March 2008
People wishing to participate must e-mail the Campaign ...
Al Ahram Weekly, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/887/re4.htm
With scores of Gazans killed by Israel, the position of President Abbas and the PA comes into focus, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
With Gazans being killed and maimed in the thousands, and with Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatening them a "bigger holocaust", Palestinians -- intellectuals and ordinary people -- are wondering if the present calamity won't unite them, ...
Prepared by Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), The Gaza Strip, Palestine, 10th March, 2008
Introduction
As of 12/6/2007, the strangling siege over the Strip reached its eighth month and the siege's drastic results on all economic sectors of life in the Gaza Strip make it a catastrophic zone of the first degree, as 1.5 million citizens are living under the effect of the siege. The movement of people and goods from and to the strip is paralyzed, ...
BY STEVE NIVA
The Counterpunch
March 8-9, 2008
http://www.counterpunch.org/niva03082008.html
Steve Niva is a Member of the Faculty, Middle East Studies, The Evergreen State College.
1. There seems to be a massive upsurge in violence in Gaza these past few days; what is happening?
It is important to recognize that the violence is mostly one-sided. On the one side, Israel is conducting a major military operation into the Northern Gaza Strip that ...
The murderous embargo must be lifted!
In the Gaza Strip one and a half million people virtually live under siege, behind barbed wire and without a chance to escape this prison camp. The living conditions are unbearable due to a severe shortage of food, medicine and clean water, strictly limited power supply and worsening hygienic conditions. Despite this situation the blockade of the Gaza Strip is tightened and the Israeli Army is launching military ...
