Convoy

admin on February 25th, 2010

British Legislator, George Galloway, stated that Viva Palestina is preparing to send another convoy filled with humanitarian aid to the impoverished Gaza Strip. Convoy members from different countries around the world, will be sailing …

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jedwan on February 21st, 2010

Muhammad Al-Majdalawi, UAD manager, said “the Egyptian authorities allowed the convoy into Gaza through Rafah . The convoy was sent by the Emergency Relief Committee in the Federation of Arab doctors in Egypt.” …

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jedwan on February 12th, 2010

One of my first glimpses of the Gaza Strip was a youth on a motorcycle who threw me his red kuffiyeh.

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In the Wake of War is testimony-based, telling but some of the stories of survival, tragedy, and ongoing hardship in Gaza – with no effective action to end the blockade, no reconstruction, no accountability. …

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A talk a Quay Arts by those who went to Gaza should be very interesting.

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jedwan on February 2nd, 2010

Our readers may remember the writers of this blog covered the “Hope Convoy” to Gaza back in May 2009 directly from the Irish delegation who were on the convoy and were successful in getting into Gaza . We received updates and photographs …

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The Viva Palestina Convoy broke the siege on Gaza in a historic act of solidarity. Despite being attacked by Egyptian riot police at the port of Al Arish, the ’strong willed’ convoy of humanitarians from all over the world carrying much …

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admin on January 19th, 2010

The last time I set foot in the usually sleepy Sinai tourist town, just 40 kilometers away from the Egypt- Gaza border (or, should I say, iron wall of oppression) at Rafah was back in March 2009, when I met up with the first Viva …

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admin on January 18th, 2010

The last time I set foot in the usually sleepy Sinai tourist town, just 40 kilometers away from the Egypt- Gaza border (or, should I say, iron wall of oppression) at Rafah was back in March 2009, when I met up with the first Viva …

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Israel stopped all but the most essential food and medicine entering Gaza in June 2007. Hamas, the Islamist party which won the parliamentary elections against Fatah in January 2006, took control of Gaza in order to pre-empt a Fatah …

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