Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution

Karen Koning AbuZayd in Gaza City
Wednesday January 23, 2008

Gaza is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution, with the knowledge,...

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22 January 2008
Security Council
SC/9232
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Security Council
5824th Meeting (AM & PM)

Palestinian Observer States Situation ‘Humanly Unbearable and Morally Unacceptable’;
Israel Says Hamas, Rather Than Engage in Dialogue, Had...

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Business tycoon Lev Leviev’s website boasts a contribution to a human rights organization, but there was no contribution at all.

by Gal Karniel

January 21, 2008

Economics Page

Ma’ariv On-Line (NRG)
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/16/ART1/685/919.html...

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On Friday 14th March, dozens of residents from the village of Bil’in, joined by Israeli and international activists, protested against the illegal annexation of their land by Israel’s segregation wall. 6 demonstrators were injured, while one international was kidnapped and arrested as Israeli soldiers charged the demonstration. American...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ref.: 01.2008E
21 January 2008

On Sunday 20 January 2008, Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, including the blocking of fuel supplies, forced Gaza’s only power plant to shut down, plunging over 800,000 Palestinians into darkness. According to the General-Director of the plant, the shortage of...

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The Gaza Strip’s water and sewage systems are hours away from shutting down as supplies of fuel used to run critical pumps run out, the international aid agency Oxfam said on Monday evening.

As of 5pm local time on Monday, only 37 of the 122 water supply pumps have fuel and most will run out of fuel within hours.

Oxfam fears...

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By: Bobby Noe

As has been covered in the news extensively, Gaza’s only power plant has shut down as there is no longer any fuel left to run it. 1.5 million people are in darkness and according to a health ministry official the hospitals ” have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart...

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On the 21st January 2008, over 200 people took to the streets of Nablus to demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli prisons. Organised by the local municipality, Nadi al Aseer (prisoner support...

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LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON GAZA!!

Saturday 26.1.08: A countrywide relief convoy and Israeli demonstration in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian demonstration in the Strip.

On Saturday, 26 January 2008, a humanitarian convoy of supplies headed by peace and human rights organisations will go from Haifa, Tel Aviv,...

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We, the Israeli organizations signed below, deplore the decision by the Israeli government to cut off vital supplies of electricity and fuel (and therefore water, since the pumps cannot work), as well as essential foodstuffs, medicines and other humanitarian supplies to the civilian population of Gaza. Such an action constitutes a clear and unequivocal...

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