Archive for the “Israel/Palestine” Category

What an achievement on the part of Israel that approaching the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the state it can claim to have so consistently denied and violated the rights of the people of the Gaza Strip that more Gazans are more dependent on food aid than ever before, hospitals suffer the longest power […]

Holding Israel to Account

Writes ck on February 20th, 2008

Read More: International, Israel/Palestine

I had forgotten until reading this story about two men, lawyers, I met while in America who on behalf of a Palestinian lobby group based in the States were constructing a case suing the State of Israel for injustices done to the Palestinian people. Only one of the lawyers made his name public and worked […]

Two Irish women trapped in Gaza

Writes ck on February 7th, 2008

Read More: International, Israel/Palestine

BBC Coverage

Israel apologises to the Beatles

Writes ck on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Israel/Palestine, Random, The Arts

The Israeli Ambassador to the UK, on visiting a Beatles museum in Liverpool handed a letter of apology to the sister of John Lennon for the decision of an Israeli Education Committee to ban a performance by the foursome in Israel in 1965. The decision was made seemingly due to budgetary concerns and also fears the […]

Gaza Strip

Writes ck on January 25th, 2008

Read More: International, Israel/Palestine

Hamas militants have used a bulldozer to try to open a new passage through the border fence between Gaza and Egypt after Egyptian troops tried to close off the area. Gunfire could be heard as thousands of Palestinian onlookers cheered on the militants as they rammed the chain-link and barbed-wire fence at the crossing near […]

Gaza Strip in Darkness

Writes ck on January 21st, 2008

Read More: International, Israel/Palestine, Politics

Israel continue their hypocritical defence of their security by adding to the plight of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by severing fuel supplies to the power station supplying 60% of the areas power. Access to the Gaza Strip has been stopped since last week even to aid workers and a representative of the […]