Thousands of books from Brighton and around the UK have arrived safely in Gaza Local activists worked flat out back in the summer to collect books for Samir Mansour’s bookshop that had been destroyed by an Israeli air strike during the assault in May. Our local members and supporters donated hundreds and hundreds of books, …
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First Covid-19 community transmission reported in Gaza Even before this announcement, the situation in Gaza was appalling. Israel has been bombing targets in Gaza for four weeks now, and has choked off the few access points in the 13-year long siege. Electricity supplies have been cut to 6 hours a day, and supplies of food …
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A new petition has been posted on the UK government website, calling on the government to impose an immediate two-way arms embargo between the UK and Israel. Follow this link to sign online. Once the petition has been signed by 10,000 people the government is required to respond. Palestinian civil society has called on the …
Today (April 5) Palestinians prepare for a second Friday of mass demonstrations in what Palestinians are calling the “Great March of Return”. A total of 22 Palestinians have died on Gaza’s border since the protests were launched – 17 were shot by Israeli soldiers on Friday, two others killed in shelling, and two more have died …
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Your help is urgently needed. Israel has announced its intention to carry out mass demolitions to the homes of 300 Palestinians in the Al Maleh area of the Jordan Valley, and to force the residents to leave the area. This is a humanitarian crisis, as well as a political one. On a humanitarian level, all …
Two of our members have just returned from Palestine, where they met Nureddin Amro in East Jerusalem and learned of the next phase in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in the city. A shortened version of this article was published by the Morning Star on 16th July 2016 at https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e34e-Ethnic-cleansing-in-all-but-name# Nureddin Amro, his brother …
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