ISRAELI WATER THEFT: Mohammed Abbas is sick, with chronic diarrhoea. Not for the first time.

He and his family live in a Palestinian village with no running water, no sewage system, and no prospect of getting either any time soon.
Watching her son, eyes closed, clutching his stomach on a mattress on the floor, his mother, Sunna, told me she is desperate.
Water tanker, Faqua village, West Bank
Faqua residents complain they have [...]

UN war investigators arrive in Gaza

United Nations team has arrived in the Gaza Strip to investigate possible war crimes and other violations of international law during Israel’s assault on the territory earlier this year.
The 15-member team, headed by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on Monday.
The team entered from Egypt after [...]

Barak: There is neither hunger nor crisis in Gaza

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the cabinet on Sunday that he felt that there was no crisis in the Gaza Strip.
“There is no hunger or crisis in Gaza,” he said during a security briefing. “More supplies pass through the border crossings today than did during some points of the last cease-fire. Only sensitive materials or [...]

Amnesty: Israel repeatedly violated rules of war in Gaza

A new Amnesty International report has accused Israel of repeatedly violating the laws of armed conflict during the three-week Israel Defense Forces offensive in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009.
The report claims that 1400 Palestinians died in the offensive – including 300 children – and that 5000 people were wounded.
The Amnesty report [...]

Living Next to Settlers – “They Have Done Nothing for Palestinians in 20 Years”

Last week the Hebron team (Simphiwe, Elaine and I) made it a priority to visit the Da’ana family in Wadi al-Hussein. We soon discovered what it was like for an isolated Palestinian family to be located beside a settlement. The Da’ana family (17) live on an isolated farm land with no Palestinian neighbors. Their land [...]

HOLOCAUST DAY: in the past and present

Gaza villages Wiped off the map

Jewish groups slam ‘hideously anti-Semitic’ cartoon on Gaza (hers the cartoon that the Nazi hunter want to stop)

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the group founded by a famed Nazi hunter which has more than 400,000 members in the United States, says the cartoon denigrates and demonizes Israel and mimics the Nazi propaganda.
It called on The New York Times and other media groups to remove the cartoon from their Web sites.
“Pat Oliphant’s outlandish and [...]

GAZA: “We run out of plastic bags to distribute the food” as Israeli banality continues…

UN officials reiterated their call for Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza and open the crossings for urgent supplies to be sent in to the Palestinian territory.
“It is absolutely crucial that Israel allow the crossings to be opened”
Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN special envoy
“It is absolutely crucial that Israel allow the crossings to be opened and [...]

PERSPECTIVE; Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in Al Faraheen

February 6, 2009

The soldiers continued to shoot on the group, despite the fact that many members of the group had their arms in the air and were wearing fluorescent vests to make them highly visible, and identify them as Human Rights Workers; had erected a banner indicating that the farmers and [...]

FIGHT ISRAHELL: Boycott Israel: Montreal Professors and Academic Employees

We are a group of teachers and employees at Quebec colleges and universities who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and with the people of Gaza who have suffered through the Israeli siege as targets of Israel’s brutal military attack. It will take more than ceasefires to bring a just and lasting peace in [...]