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Showing posts with label Free Gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Gaza. Show all posts

Friday, May 07, 2010

The Pretext of 'Security' Along Gaza's Buffer Zone


According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the buffer zone was established during the Oslo accords, taking 50 meters of land on the Palestinian side only and all along the border. In 2000, this was unilaterally expanded by the Israelis to 150 meters on the Palestinian side only, expanded again to 300 meters with the threat to shoot anyone found within that distance in January 2009, a threat reiterated by air-dropped leaflets in May 2009.

The buffer zone renders inaccessible approximately 30 percent of Gaza's agricultural land. Tens of Palestinian farmers, workers and residents living in or near the buffer zone have been injured and killed by Israeli soldiers' shooting and shelling.'

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Saturday, March 06, 2010

Ireland Says Israeli Siege on Gaza 'Medieval'


Ireland blasts the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip as "medieval," urging the European Union to pressure Tel Aviv into easing the restrictions.

"I genuinely believe that the medieval siege conditions being imposed on the people of Gaza are unacceptable," wrote Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune.

The already-impoverished coastal sliver has endured almost three years of an Israeli-imposed blockade which has deprived it of its most direly-needed requirements.'

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Israeli Forces, Warships Fire on Gaza Workers in North

Palestinians collecting small stones and concrete rubble in the As-Saifa area, part of the northern 'no-go zone' at the western tip of the Strip, were targeted by Israeli fire from a military patrol and warships on Wednesday morning, sources said.

The workers, reportedly collecting fragments for construction projects in Gaza City, were able to escape the fire unharmed, local sources said.

Israeli gunboats were also reported to have opened fire on the northern Gaza Strip in the early morning, fishermen in the Al-Waha area of the coast reported. The zone, north of Beit Lahiya, is adjacent to the area where workers were collecting construction materials.

It was not immediately clear if the incidents were related.

In the southern Strip, witnesses said an Israeli military patrol entered 100 meters beyond the buffer area into civilian areas.

An Israeli military spokesman said he was looking into both reports.

A weekly report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted an escalation in violence "in areas along the Gaza-Israel border," last week, which killed one and injured six. According to the the UN office, "Since the beginning of 2010, Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians and injured 13 others in Gaza; no Israeli casualties have been reported."

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Gaza is Not Alone; The Entire West Bank is Under Seige

In a new effort to discourage, in fact stop, foreign nationals from volunteering in Humane organisations in the Occupied Territories, Israel has stopped issuing work permits to them. Israel has been successful in maintaining the siege on Gaza by not allowing foreigners to enter the area with much needed medical and building equipment. That, apparently is not enough; the zionist’s tentacles have now reached over to the entire Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as well….. as can be seen in the following report……'

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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Aid Convoy Breaks Israeli Blockade of Gaza

The Viva Palestina aid convoy entered Gaza Wednesday, after it received the approval of Egyptian authorities to bring into the besieged, impoverished coastal sliver several tons of humanitarian supplies.

The activists entered Gaza through Rafah border crossing. More than 500 international activists accompany the convoy organized by the British-based group Viva Palestina, a Press TV correspondent reported.'

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Peace Activists Hold Demo for Gaza

Over 1,000 Israeli, Arab, and foreign activists have held a peace rally in Tel Aviv, calling for "liberty and justice for Gaza" and the lifting of the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip.'

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Gaza Ceasefire in Jeopardy as Six Palestinians are Shot

Israeli troops yesterday shot dead six Palestinians in two separate incidents, as evidence emerged that an increasingly fragile ceasefire between armed groups loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and Israel appeared to be in danger of breaking down.

The shootings, the most serious violence in months, came a day before today's first anniversary of the outbreak of Israel's war against Gaza in which almost 1,400 Palestinians died – and as allegations have emerged from Israeli human rights campaigners who opposed the war that they are facing concerted attempts to silence them.'

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

To All Those Who Live Under Conflict Or Fear



It is extremely hard for me to send you all seasonal greetings from England when I know in my heart that this is just another day for you either living under the terror of conflict, torture, rape, breaches of human rights or simply harassment.

It is also hard to know that we here will be receiving presents and eating more food than one could ever imagine and you on the other hand do not have a meal today or what you have you give to your children. Mahatma Ghandi once said:

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of Bread" he also said a very inspiring comment for those who live under a cloud of terror or duress: "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind".

So how does one even attempt to send a greeting to the people of Gaza, West Bank, Iraq, Afghanistan and all those distant lands that have succumbed to the excessive greed of the west? How does one apologise on behalf of United Nations and the international community for not standing up for you in your hour of need?'

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Another Wall That Must Fall


Even before it’s completed…. IT MUST FALL!
The reasons Netanyahu (see report below) gives for construction of the proposed wall are nothing but LIES!

The wall is to guarantee the further imprisonment of the people of Gaza…. no other reason.

The crossings into Egypt are the only ways out of the existing prison camp.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at least lied in a more diplomatic manner when discussing the situation, as can be seen in THIS report.'

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Nuke Gaza: A World Gone Mad


Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans too. Yet Americans should worry even more.Israel’s “legitimacy” will not last.

Of course, that assumes its legitimacy was deserved. That issue also is now called into question in light of the consistency of Israeli behavior over the past six decades. The emerging issues are these: When and how will the recognition of Israel’s nation-state status be withdrawn? How will Tel Aviv behave in the interim?

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman may have tipped his Masada hand when he reportedly told Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan that Israel may use nuclear weapons against Gaza. The threat to Israel is not the 1.5 million Gazans who reside in the world’s largest open-air prison. The threat is the fast-growing global outrage at the abuse inflicted on Palestinians, commencing with the ethnic cleansing of 400-plus villages six decades ago.

Not since 1948 has this enclave of extremists mounted such a public relations offensive. Christian Zionist President Harry Truman trusted Jewish Zionist lobbyists when he solicited assurances that they would not become what they immediately became: a racist theocratic state with an expansionist agenda destined to create serial crises in the region.

The merciless global agenda pursued by Colonial Zionists is the single greatest threat to world peace, as confirmed yet again by Lieberman’s warning. As the primary remaining ally of these Jewish nationalists, the risks to the U.S. increase with each passing day as Tel Aviv works behind the scenes to catalyze yet another conflict. This entangled alliance was destined to provoke resentments that would eventually endanger their super power ally and foremost arms provider.

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Four Council Workers Sacked for Comparing Holocaust to Israeli Occupation of Palestine


Four council workers have been sacked for sending a racist email to colleagues comparing Nazi death camps to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
It is believed those involved brought memory sticks containing the anti-Semitic material in to work to bypass the Lancashire County Council's security system.
Authority bosses deemed the 'highly inappropriate' content to be a sacking offence after a three-month investigation, which saw a total of 14 staff suspended.
Five others received formal written warnings and a further five have since returned to work.


What utter bollocks! This just shows that here in the UK any criticism of Israel and their nazi like policies to the Palestinians is classed as anti semitism

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Israel Attacks Free Gaza Boat and Kidnaps Cynthia McKinney and Other International Activists

Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.

"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip," said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate. "President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do. We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey."

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So where is the International Outrage over this?? Bit different to the outrage shown when workers at the British embassy in Tehran were arrested for protesting! David Miliband is a Rothschild Zionist Puppet!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Israel Destroying Gaza's Farmlands

On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza's eastern border with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed, including wheat and barley ready for harvest, as well as vegetables, olive and pomegranate trees.

Local farmers report that the blaze carried over a four-kilometer stretch on the Palestinian side of the eastern border land. Ibrahim Hassan Safadi, 49, from one of the farming families whose crops were destroyed by the blaze, said that the fires were smoldering until early evening, despite efforts by the fire brigades to extinguish them.

Safadi says he was present when Israeli soldiers fired small bombs into his field, which soon after caught ablaze. He explained that "The Israeli soldiers fired from their jeeps, causing a fire to break out on the land. They burned the wheat, burned the pomegranate trees ... The fire spread across the valley. We called the fire brigades. They came to the area and put out the fire. But in some places the fire started again." According to Safadi, he lost 30,000 square meters to the blaze, including 300 pomegranate trees, 150 olive trees, and wheat.

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Monday, May 04, 2009

The Zionist Jewish Third Reich

By Khalid Amayreh
World View News Service

The pornographic mass slaughter perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, 27 December, once again reveals the Nazi nature of the Zionist state.

It also underscore the genocidal nature and brutal ugliness of the Zionist mentality, a mentality based on and shaped by murder, bullying, coercion, aggression, brutality and criminality.

Furthermore, it shows that Israel is capable, both mentally and physically, of carrying out a real holocaust against the Palestinian people and other peoples of the Middle East .

In fact, it is quite safe to say that there are no moral restrictions that would prevent Israel from committing the unthinkable, namely a campaign of extermination against the Palestinian people.
Zionism is simply Jewish Nazism, pure and simple, and the Israeli army is in fact "the" Jewish Wehrmacht. Jews may not like the comparisons, but the Nazi reality of Israel is as conspicuous as the sun in a bright day.

Undoubtedly, this is the message that governments and leaders all over the Arab-Muslim Middle East ought to understand and internalize. It is brief and simple: If you are not powerful enough to deter the Nazis of our time, you will be attacked, enslaved and even annihilated.

For the Judeo-Nazis, e.g. the Israeli state, the Palestinians are nothing more than "a test case" which would be applied later to Turks, Iranians and, of course, other Arab peoples in the region.

In short, the writing is on the wall, and if Muslims and Arabs don't possess sufficient physical power to deter the expansionistic whims of the Judeo Nazis, what is happening to the Palestinians in Gaza will happen to them, perhaps sooner than many people think.

Far-fetched? Well, don't be too sure. In 1948, Zionist leaders told the world that all they wanted was a small shelter that would protect Jews from another possible holocaust. Today, the "small shelter" has grown into a wild Nazi-like power that is committing a virtual holocaust against the unprotected the Palestinian people.

Well, the murderous onslaught against unprotected and thoroughly starved people in the besieged Gaza Strip is a cowardly act of immense proportions. What else can be said of F-16 fighter aircraft and Apache Helicopters being used to rain death and havoc unto unprotected and unfortified police headquarters?

Israel often argues that refraining from killing innocent people represents Christian, not Jewish morality, as many Israeli leaders have said ad nauseam.

Well, if so, then this should a clear Jewish vindication of all the crimes that the Nazis perpetrated against Jews and non-Jews several decades ago.

Besides, even in war there is proportionality, a principle that Israel has ignored rather wantonly by killing dozens or hundreds of mostly innocent Palestinians and Lebanese as a reprisal for the death of a Jewish soldier or settler.

Israel says its enemy is Hamas, not the Palestinian people. This is a big lie that is meant to gain the sympathy of the western world, given the success of Zionist hasbara, through the Jewish-controlled media in Europe and North America , in demonizing the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement.

Otherwise, why would Israel blockade and starve and savage millions of Palestinians who have nothing to do with Hamas.?

We are talking about ordinary people, people who struggle to make ends meet, people who toil from sunrise to sunset to put food on the table for their children. It is mostly these people who are being killed and maimed and starved by the Judeo-Nazi entity.

The Black Saturday massacre, which by no means will be the last, is a damning proof that Israel can only survive by shedding blood.

Without shedding blood, without threatening its neighbors, without killing their children and destroying their homes, without tormenting and savaging them, Israel wouldn't be Israel . It would be some entirely different.

Israel is simply a cancer upon humanity. If you don't eradicate it, it will eradicate you. This is the harsh fact the people of the Middle East must come to terms with, hopefully before it is too late.

Although the executive mass murderer, Israel non the less shouldn't be held solely responsible for the genocidal carnage in Gaza .

Treacherous Arab regimes are also guilty of giving Israel the impression that it can murder Palestinians at will without having to worry about any negative ramifications from the Arab world.

It is really lamentable that powerful states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia appear so timid and so powerless in the face of the Judeo Nazi state that they appear completely impotent.

We all know that tens of billions of dollars' worth of modern arms have been purchased to protect Arab interests. So, where are the Arab armies? Where are the Arab air forces? Where is the Arab dignity?

To be sure, the Palestinians have long given up on Arab regimes and don't expect these regimes to protect them or fight on their behalf. For in the final analysis, a regime that has no good for its own people, can't be expected to defend the Palestinians or fight for their just cause.

In fact, all that the Palestinians want from these regimes is to stop colluding and conspiring with Israel against them. Is that asking for too much?

But the real message ought to be conveyed to the Arab masses, not the regimes that are conspicuously morally, politically and even humanly bankrupt.

The Arab masses have a religious and moral duty to depose these hateful despots whose main job has been to torment and savage their peoples on behalf of the United States and Israel .

Otherwise, the Arabs will continue to move from bad to worse as they have been ever since the downfall of the Ottoman state following the First World War.

God simply doesn't change the condition of a people unless they are willing to change it themselves.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Gaza's Gas - Destined for Israeli Nightclubs or Palestinian Refugee Camps?



The Palestinian Authority’s economic plan announced in Sharm El-Sheikh in early March hoped for accelerated development of the Gaza Marine Gas Field, 30 kms off the coast of the Gaza Strip in Occupied Palestine. However, the issue of who receives the revenues, consumes the gas and controls the supply remains highly problematic.


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Saturday, March 21, 2009

'You are Fighting a Religious War Against Gentiles': What Rabbis Told Israeli Soldiers in Gaza War

Rabbis in the Israeli army told battlefield troops in January's Gaza offensive that they were fighting a 'religious war' against gentiles, it has been revealed.

An army commander wrote of the shocking command in an Israeli newspaper today - one day after it emerged that Israeli soldiers were told they could kill innocent civilians during the war.

'Their message was very clear: we are the Jewish people, we came to this land by a miracle, God brought us back to this land and now we need to fight to expel the gentiles who are interfering with our conquest of this holy land,' the commander said.

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Israel's Right Not to be Critisised

How serious can the international community's commitment to eliminating racism be taken when it succumbs to Israeli pressure to boycott the Durban II conference, asks Amira Howeidy.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Israeli Soldiers Admit 'Murdering' Gazans


The soldiers who fought in the Gaza war told a post-operation conference that they had killed Palestinian civilians and intentionally destroyed their property under permissive rules of engagement.
"When we entered a house, we were supposed to bust down the door and start shooting inside and just go up story by story... I call that murder. Each story, if we identify a person, we shoot them. I asked myself - how is this reasonable?", an Israeli soldier said.