Israeli navy warns Gaza fishermen: “When the internationals leave Gaza, you will all be made to pay”
Via a megaphone, the gunboat crew then made the threat that ‘When the internationals leave Gaza, you will all be made to pay.’ Gazan coastal waters, Gaza, 17:00 Wednesday 10th September 2008 – At high speed an Israeli gunboat rammed a Palestinian fishing vessel. The gunboat smashed through the upper hull, careened over the top…
Scottish activist films Israeli navy shooting at Gaza fishermen Claims of 14 deaths in previous incidents Billy Briggs in Sunday Herald Sep 14, 2008 A SCOTTISH human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The footage,…
Continue Reading Video by Scot of Israeli gunboats shooting at Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza
Shattering a ‘national mythology’By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz March 21, 2008 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, ‘the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish farmers who were numerous and a majority in…
Continue Reading Shlomo Sand on the danger of Zionism’s racist mythology
Early December 2008, date to be confirmed soon. Dayschool – All day event in Edinburgh. Full details to be confirmed soon. Speakers include: Emanuel Abdel Al, member of the Executive Committee of the PGFTU (Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions. Katherine Nastovski, member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), former chair of the…
Israeli jailed over baby tragedy There are hundreds of blockages to the movement of Palestinians Between 2000 and 2006, at least 68 Palestinian women gave birth at Israeli checkpoints, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Of these 35 women miscarried, and five died in childbirth. An Israeli soldier has been removed from duty and jailed…
Continue Reading Another Palestinian woman in labour stopped at checkpoint – baby dies
Read it and weep “The United States and Europe worked closely with Israel to form a united position towards the Hamas government, and the siege on Gaza [which] stemmed from that”. Montell described the latest moves to clamp down on so-called “illegal aliens” in the West Bank as an “exacerbation” of this ostracising approach towards…
Continue Reading Israeli ingenuity finds another way to tear Palestinian families apart