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Gazans told to boil water as Israeli-Egyptian siege leads to chlorine shortage

Gazans told to boil water as chlorine runs low Siege enforcers blame  Gazans  GAZA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – The Palestinian water utility urged Gazans on Wednesday to boil their drinking water and said contamination was a risk because an Israeli-led blockade was choking off chlorine supplies.  The Coastal Municipalities Water Utility, which runs the Gaza…

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Glasgow Uni Students “to campaign vigorously to secure Vanunu’s release from Israeli detention.”

Glasgow University Students Representative Council voted on January 17th “to campaign vigorously to secure Vanunu’s release from Israeli detention”. Glasgow University students can now call on Glasgow City Council for assistance, after Scotland’s largest city council pledged on February 21st to also support the campaign for Vanunu’s freedom.  With both Glasgow students and the City Council singing…

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Luisa Morgantini, EU Parliament, on wave of Israeli kidnappings and killings in the West Bank

Palestine: Tel Aviv’s collective punishments Stories by witnesses from the village of Beit Ummar. By Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament. Published in Liberazione, Italian newspaper on 19th February 2008 Friday 15th February: after three days in a row of siege and curfew, Israeli tanks eventually leave and water and electricity can be restored…

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EU helped farmers during the years they prepared their new groves of fruit and nut and olive trees..

The farmers of Beit Ula spent two years preparing their new groves of fruit and nut and olive trees, clearing rocks, building stone terraces and digging deep cisterns to catch the scarce rainwater. It took the Israeli Army less than a day to destroy it. “We heard they were here at 6.30 in the morning,…

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“I’m alive because there’s a temporary shortage of death” (John Berger: Undefeated Despair)

John Berger January 2006 All this is clear; it is not happening in some remote, war-locked corner of the globe, every foreign office of every rich nation is watching and not one takes measures to discourage the illegalities. “For us,” a Palestinian mother says at a checkpoint after an IDF soldier has lobbed a tear…

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