{"article":{"id":223860,"heading":"1\/14: Palestine Watch:Latest News\/Videos from Israeli Invasion & Killings in Gaza","author":"Lee Siu Hin - Peace NO War Network, ActionLA","created":"2009-01-15 11:13:49","modified":"2013-11-11 00:59:40","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:59:40","article":"
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\r\n 1\/14 Latest News & Videos from Israeli\r\n Invasion and Killings in Gaza\r\n  \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n
      <\/td>\r\n                                      \r\n               <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <\/table>\r\n A Palestinian woman covers her face as smoke rises following an\r\n explosion caused by Israeli military operations in Gaza city, Wednesday,\r\n Jan. 14, 2009. (Associated Press)\r\n Attacks\r\n At\r\n least 20 Palestinians killed Monday; 900+ in ongoing assault
\r\n The death toll in Gaza rose to 20 on Monday when Israeli fighter jets\r\n continued shelling targets throughout Jabaliya Refugee Camp into the early\r\n evening.  A Palestinian paramedic was killed while evacuating the\r\n wounded of an earlier strike soon after an Israeli jet fired a missile that\r\n scored a direct hit on his ambulance, which exploded.
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\r\n Offensive\r\n continues in Gaza; 917 kill, more than 4260 wounded
\r\n The Israeli army continued its offensive against the Gaza Strip for the\r\n seventeenth day on Monday, killed twenty-six Palestinians, including 23\r\n civilians, and wounded dozens of residents. At least 917 Palestinians were\r\n killed and more than 4260 were injured since the army initiated its attack.
\r\n http:\/\/www.imemc.org\/article\/58441\r\n U.S.\r\n arms shipment to Israel canceled due to Gaza conflict\r\n 13 Jan 2009 A U.S. military plan to ship munitions from a Greek port to\r\n a U.S. stockpile in Israel has been canceled due to the conflict in the Gaza\r\n Strip, the Pentagon said on Monday. The United States Navy's Military\r\n Sealift Command issued a tender on December 31st for a ship to deliver 325\r\n standard 20-foot containers of ammunition on two separate journeys from the\r\n Greek port of Astakos to the Israeli port of Ashdod in mid-to-late January.\r\n 1\/9: U.S. covertly shipping arms to Israel >> Read\r\n More\r\n 1\/8: U.S. Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza\/Resource: War in Gaza,\r\n Weapons from the USA >> Read\r\n More \r\n  \r\n
\r\n Latest Videos from Israel Invade Gaza at\r\n ActivistVideo.org\r\n For more videos visit: http:\/\/www.ActivistVideo.org   \r\n  \r\n
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\r\n 1\/13: Israeli's Picnic On Israel Gaza Border To view Action (presstv.ir\/news)
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\r\n 1\/13: Gazastrip (Al Jazeera)
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\r\n 1\/13: Gaza today (Press TV)
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\r\n 1\/13: Why the children of Gaza don't deserve to be killed?
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\r\n 1\/13: UK Campaign for Gaza Press Conference (1\/2\/2009)
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\r\n \r\n 1\/13: Israeli coverage of Gaza under scrutiny (al Jazeera)\r\n
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\r\n \r\n 1\/13: Hamas popularity worries Arab governments (al Jazeera)\r\n
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\r\n \r\n 1\/12: Israeli army 'using white phosphorus' (al Jazeera)\r\n \r\n
\r\n \r\n http:\/\/www.activistvideo.org\/views.asp?id=602\r\n 1\/12: Intense clashes erupt in Gaza City (al Jazeera)\r\n \r\n
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\r\n \r\n News Summary:\r\n (compiled by Citizens for Legimate Government, Electronic\r\n Intifada and others)\r\n Guantanamo\r\n Bay Prisoners Could Be Arraigned Before Inauguration Day 13 Jan\r\n 2009 The suspected 'Sept. 11 conspirators' held at the Guantanamo Bay prison\r\n could be arraigned the day before Inauguration Day, sources tell FOX News,\r\n even though President-elect Barack Obama is planning to order the facility\r\n shut down. This means some prisoners could enter guilty pleas the day before\r\n Obama is sworn into the office and two days before the president-elect is\r\n expected to issue an executive order shutting down Guantanamo.\r\n Synagogues\r\n attacked across France --Unidentified attackers hurl petrol bombs\r\n at Jewish places of worship in Paris, eastern France. 12 Jan 2009 Vandals\r\n hurled petrol bombs at Jewish places of worship in Paris and eastern France\r\n on Sunday night, the latest of a string of anti-Semitic attacks since the\r\n start of Israel's Gaza offensive. In the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, the\r\n local synagogue was attacked with two petrol bombs as the rabbi was inside,\r\n sparking a fire in the next-door cafeteria, the local prefecture said.\r\n Israel\r\n accused of Gaza 'genocide' 14 Jan 2009 The president of the UN\r\n General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians in its Gaza\r\n offensive as \"genocide\". Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann also told Al\r\n Jazeera he had never believed that the UN Security Council would be able to\r\n stop the violence in Gaza and that Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister,\r\n had practically told the UN to \"mind their own business\" by\r\n continuing the offensive.\r\n 'I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory\r\n for new weapons.' Israel\r\n testing 'extremely nasty' weapon: Norwegian doctors 13 Jan 2009\r\n Israel is testing a new \"extremely nasty\" type of weapon in Gaza,\r\n two medics charged as they returned home to Norway on Monday after spending\r\n 10 days working at a hospital in the war-torn Palestinian territory.\r\n \"There’s a very strong suspicion I think that Gaza is now being used\r\n as a test laboratory for new weapons,\" Mads Gilbert told reporters at\r\n Oslo’s Gardermoen airport, commenting on the kinds of injuries he and his\r\n colleague Erik Fosse had seen while working at the Al Shifa Hospital in\r\n Gaza.\r\n Israeli\r\n leader warns Hamas of 'iron fist' 12 Jan 2009 Israeli troops\r\n advanced into Gaza suburbs for the first time early Tuesday, residents said,\r\n hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Islamic militants of an\r\n \"iron fist\" unless they agree to Israel's terms to end the\r\n fighting. Hamas showed no signs of wavering, however, with its leader,\r\n Ismail Haniyeh, saying the militants were \"closer to victory.\"\r\n Hill\r\n of Shame where Gaza bombing is spectator sport --A beauty spot\r\n has turned into a vantage point for viewing of Israel's bombardment of the\r\n Gaza Strip 13 Jan 2009 In times of peace Parash Hill is a beauty spot where\r\n Israelis from the nearby town of Sderot come to picnic and enjoy the\r\n magnificent view across a nature reserve and bright green fields to distant\r\n Gaza City and, beyond, the deep blue Mediterranean. There are benches for\r\n sightseers, a swing, a sculpture of a man on horseback and fences to stop\r\n children tumbling down the steep northern slope. Today the hill attracts a\r\n very different sort of visitor -- the ghoulish and vengeful, the curious and\r\n anguished, not to mention television crews. They come not to enjoy the\r\n flowers or birdsong, but for a spectacular panoramic view of Israel's\r\n relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip.\r\n Israel\r\n launches new attacks against Gaza from air, ground and sea 13 Jan\r\n 2009 Israel launched new attacks against the Gaza city early Tuesday from\r\n air, ground and sea, and large sound of explosions was heard. The Israeli\r\n forces attacked Gaza backed by artillery and helicopters. Some witnesses\r\n said that a batch of Israeli special forces advanced into the southern Gaza\r\n city and exchanged fire with Palestinian militants.\r\n IDF\r\n officer critically hurt in Gaza; 6 other soldiers also wounded 13\r\n Jan 2009 An Israel Defense Forces officer was critically wounded Tuesday in\r\n Gaza, as Israeli ground troops battled Palestinian militants in the streets\r\n of a densely populated Gaza City neighborhood.\r\n Hamas\r\n leader boosts morale of bombarded Gazans 13 Jan 2009 The leader\r\n of Hamas in the Gaza Strip vowed on Monday the Palestinian resistance,\r\n backed by the population, would emerge victorious over Israel's offensive.\r\n \"We are approaching victory,\" Ismail Haniya, the prime minister of\r\n the Hamas government in Gaza, said in his broadcast from an undisclosed\r\n location. \"I tell you that after 17 days of this foolish war, Gaza has\r\n not been broken and Gaza will not fall.\"\r\n Ten\r\n Israeli soldiers choose jail over Gaza 12 Jan 2009 At least ten\r\n soldiers have opted for prison terms rather than going through with their\r\n deployment. The refusals would be the first of their kind since Israel\r\n launched its massive air, sea and ground assault on the Gaza Strip. On\r\n \"conscience’s grounds,\" the soldiers refused orders to head to\r\n the Gaza Strip, they said.\r\n Olmert\r\n call 'behind US abstention' 13 Jan 2009 Ehud Olmert, the Israeli\r\n prime minister, has said a last-minute telephone call to George Bush forced\r\n the US to abstain in a crucial UN vote on the Gaza war. In a speech late on\r\n Monday, Olmert said Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, was left\r\n \"pretty shamed\" at the vote and had to abstain on a resolution she\r\n had personally arranged.\r\n Rice\r\n shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert 12 Jan 2009 US\r\n Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President\r\n [sic] George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza\r\n war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday. \"She was left\r\n shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did\r\n not vote in favour,\" Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of\r\n Ashkelon.\r\n US\r\n Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rules out talks with Hamas\r\n --But says Obama team has new approach [Yeah, right!] 14 Jan 2009 US\r\n secretary of state Hillary Clinton has ruled out negotiations with the\r\n Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas unless it drops its extremist\r\n stance, saying her position is \"absolute\".\r\n Spate\r\n of bomb attacks in Baghdad 12 Jan 2009 At least eight people have\r\n been killed and more than a dozen injured after a series of bomb blasts\r\n ripped through Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.\r\n IS GAZA A TESTING GROUND FOR EXPERIMENTAL WEAPONS?
\r\n By Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 13 January 2009
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\r\n Concerns about Israel's use of non-conventional and experimental weapons in\r\n the Gaza Strip are growing, with evasive comments from spokesmen and\r\n reluctance to allow independent journalists inside the tiny enclave only\r\n fueling speculation. The most prominent controversy is over the use of\r\n shells containing white phosphorus, which causes horrific burns when it\r\n comes into contact with skin. Jonathan Cook reports.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10176.shtml
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\r\n PALESTINE : DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE:
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\r\n HOW DOES ONE PREPARE FOR A WAR CRIME?
\r\n By Maha Mehanna, Live from Palestine, 13 January 2009
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\r\n Since the start of the Israeli offensive on Gaza, Israeli warplanes have\r\n been bombing and shelling several locations in the area near our house, very\r\n near our house. With each bombardment, we feel our house shake like an\r\n earthquake and windows break, not to mention our utter fear and horror. Maha\r\n Mehanna writes from the besieged Gaza Strip.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10178.shtml
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\r\n PALESTINE : DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE:
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\r\n TARGETING A CUP OF TEA IN GAZA
\r\n By Rami Almeghari, Live from Palestine, 12 January 2009
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\r\n Only a tea cup, a broken chair and some spots of blood were left where a\r\n short time before five members of the the Abu Jbarah family had been sitting\r\n in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The Electronic Intifada\r\n correspondent Rami Almeghari writes from besieged Gaza.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10175.shtml
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\r\n PALESTINE : DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE:
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\r\n ISRAEL IS TARGETING MEDICS
\r\n By Eva Bartlett, Live from Palestine, 12 January 2009
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\r\n On 7 January, as Spanish human rights advocate and documentary filmmaker,\r\n Alberto Arce, and I accompanied Palestinian medics to retrieve the body of a\r\n man shot earlier by invading Israeli forces, we were also shot at as the\r\n medics carried the body towards the ambulance. It was in Dawwar Zimmo,\r\n eastern Jabaliya, near the area which has been occupied by Israeli soldiers\r\n since the land invasion began. Eva Bartlett writes from the besieged Gaza\r\n Strip.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10174.shtml
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\r\n PALESTINE : DEVELOPMENT:
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\r\n GAZA SEWAGE LAGOONS COULD COLLAPSE
\r\n Report, The Electronic Intifada, 13 January 2009
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\r\n JERUSALEM (IRIN) - The Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) is concerned that\r\n waste water lagoons in the northern Gaza Strip could collapse due to the\r\n current fighting between Israel and Hamas. \"With Israel's latest\r\n bombardment, there is a real risk that earth retention walls of a number of\r\n wastewater lagoons will break, releasing an estimated three million cubic\r\n meters of wastewater into the surrounding communities,\" said Shaddad\r\n Attili, head of the PWA, in a statement on 12 January.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10177.shtml\r\n PALESTINE : OPINION\/EDITORIAL:
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\r\n BLUEPRINT FOR GAZA ATTACK WAS LONG PLANNED
\r\n By Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 12 January 2009
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\r\n As Israel rejected the terms of the proposed United Nations ceasefire at the\r\n weekend, Israeli military analysts were speculating on the nature of the\r\n next stage of the attack on Gaza, or the \"third phase\" of the\r\n fighting as it is being referred to. Having struck thousands of targets from\r\n the air in the first phase, followed by a ground invasion that saw troops\r\n push into much of Gaza, a third phase would involve a significant expansion\r\n of these operations. Jonathan Cook analyzes.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10170.shtml
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\r\n PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
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\r\n ISRAELIS RAIN PHOSPHOROUS BOMBS OVER GAZA
\r\n By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 12 January 2009
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\r\n RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - \"There is no doubt that Israel is\r\n using phosphorous bombs over Gaza. Israel is flagrantly violating the Fourth\r\n Geneva Convention,\" says Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Centre\r\n for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza. \"This is not the first time we have\r\n documented Israel using this kind of prohibited weapon against Gaza's\r\n civilian population,\" Sourani told IPS on phone from Gaza.
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\r\n http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10171.shtml
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\r\n Call to Actions, and Solidarity\r\n Actions Against Israeli War & Massacre Around the World\r\n  \r\n
\r\n (1) ACT NOW: Are you tired of a biased media coverage?\r\n  \r\n  \r\n
\r\n Demonstrate Fri, Jan 16 4:00 pm
\r\n Washington Post 1150 15th Street NW
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\r\n Metro to Farragut North or McPherson Square
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\r\n Everyone should bring at least one issue of the\r\n Washington Post multiple copies if you can literally dump\r\n them on the Post's doorstep as we denounce their biased\r\n pro-Israeli coverage of the massacre in Gaza and their\r\n complete whiteout of protest activities in the United\r\n States, including last Saturday's march of tens of thousands\r\n of people.\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <\/table>\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <\/table>\r\n The Washington Post refuses to cover the demonstrations of\r\n thousands of people protesting the massacre in Gaza. Many thousands of local\r\n residents, especially from the Arab-American and Muslim community, have\r\n demonstrated on Dec. 30, Jan. 2 and last weekend on Jan. 10 in a mass march\r\n in Washington, D.C. Not one article in the Washington Post about these\r\n demonstrations!
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\r\n The Washington Post is an expression of anti-Arab racism and bigotry.
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\r\n How could the Post ignore the National March on Washington?
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\r\n The Post has barely covered the hundreds of thousands of people who have\r\n taken to the streets to say no to the war in Gaza. They completely ignored\r\n the largest demonstration that took place on Saturday, January 10 that\r\n involved tens of thousands of people who had traveled by bus from the\r\n Midwest, East Coast and South, and who had come out in huge numbers from the\r\n DC Metropolitan Area. The Washington Post claims to pride itself on its\r\n extensive \"local\" coverage, yet the massive mobilization that has\r\n take place largely in the Arab and Muslim community locally is apparently\r\n invisible to them.
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\r\n This Friday, January 16 will be the 21st day of the Israeli war in Gaza. By\r\n that time, well over 1,000 Palestinian people will have been killed, and\r\n many thousands more wounded. This massacre must end now! Be at the\r\n Washington Post office (1150 15th Street NW, between L and M Sts.) at 4:00\r\n pm to make your voice heard.
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\r\n This demonstration is initiated by the ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American\r\n Society Freedom, National Council of Arab Americans and others.
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\r\n Help spread the word: Click\r\n here for the flyer, which you can print and copy.
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\r\n To volunteer and get involved, call 202-544-3389 x14 or email dc@answercoalition.org\r\n \r\n \r\n .
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\r\n Donations are urgently needed. Click\r\n here to make a contribution online using our secure server, where\r\n you can also find information about how to donate by check.
\r\n  \r\n A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
\r\n http:\/\/www.answercoalition.org\/
\r\n info@internationalanswer.org\r\n \r\n \r\n
\r\n National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389 
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\r\n (2) NO IMMUNITY FOR GAZA WAR CRIMES!
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\r\n Rally and Pack The Courts!
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\r\n Friday, 1\/16\/2009 @ 11:30 am, Foley Square
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\r\n In a case particularly relevant to the current crisis, the Center for
\r\n Constitutional Rights (CCR) will be arguing the appeal of Matar v.
\r\n Dichter next Friday in Manhattan. Please come out in support!
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\r\n Just before midnight on July 22, 2002, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
\r\n dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential apartment building in Gaza
\r\n City. The aerial bomb killed 15 people, including 8 children and
\r\n injured more than 150 people. Avi Dichter, former Director of Israel's
\r\n General Security Service, planned and directed this \"targeted\"
\r\n assassination with the knowledge that civilians would be killed. The
\r\n case, filed by the CCR in 2005, was dismissed in 2007 because,
\r\n according to the Israeli government, Dichter was acting in the course
\r\n of his official duties and therefore immune from liability. The appeal
\r\n is being heard next Friday, January 16 (details below). For more
\r\n information on the case, see CCR's factsheet
\r\n (www.ccrjustice.org\/files\/1.8.09\r\n final dichter factsheet.pdf).
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\r\n Immunity cannot be granted for these war crimes - and Dichter must be
\r\n held accountable. Join DRUM-Desis Rising Up and Moving, Muslim
\r\n American Society, National Lawyers Guild- NYC Chapter, New Jersey
\r\n Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, NYC Labor
\r\n Against the War, WESPAC Foundation and others in demanding
\r\n accountability at a rally outside the courthouse:
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\r\n Rally and procession to courthouse
\r\n Friday, January 16, 2009
\r\n 11:30pm to 12:30pm
\r\n @ Foley Square
\r\n between Worth & Centre Streets
\r\n Near Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall 4,5,6 and R,W trains
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\r\n Argument starts at 2 p.m.*, U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 500
\r\n Pearl St., 9th Flr, Ceremonial Courtroom
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\r\n *Arrive at least one hour prior due to expected long lines
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\r\n Rally sponsored by (list still in formation):
\r\n Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
\r\n DRUM- Desis Rising Up and Moving
\r\n Muslim American Society
\r\n National Lawyers Guild- NYC Chapter
\r\n New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
\r\n NYC Labor Against the War
\r\n WESPAC Foundation
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\r\n Contact january16rally@gmail.com\r\n \r\n \r\n with questions
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\r\n  (3) The Lancet: Doctors call for Boycott of Israel:\r\n Lancet letter: Health and human rights in the Palestinian West Bank and\r\n Gaza\r\n http:\/\/www.stjerome.co.uk\/tsaonline\/
\r\n \r\n The Lancet is one of the two top
\r\n medical journals in the world.
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\r\n Ann Arbor, ask your People's Food Coop (PFC) to boycott Israel at once...
\r\n (email dresses of PFC managers are available with this Email)
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\r\n International medical community suggests\"-- in view of the failure of\r\n other
\r\n measures to influence those in power, serious consideration be given to
\r\n targeted academic and trade boycotts [of Israel]--\" From the lancet.com
\r\n <http:\/\/lancet.com\/>\r\n  Published online January 9, 2009
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\r\n Health and human rights in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza
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\r\n Palestine is split geographically into the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
\r\n Gaza is the most densely populated area on earth: after first being crippled
\r\n by blockade of its borders since 2007, Gaza is currently being bombed by the
\r\n Israeli armed forces.1\r\n Unlike Gaza, the West Bank does not threaten Israel with missiles, but
\r\n nevertheless suffers widespread erosions of human rights which we witnessed
\r\n on a fact-finding tour in November, 2008.
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\r\n Restriction of movement due to the separation barrier and checkpoints,
\r\n combined with the need for travel permits, delay access to hospitals for
\r\n both patients and health workers. We saw 33-week-old triplets delayed for
\r\n over 5 h while awaiting permits and finally transferred without their
\r\n parents, and heard of hospital workers' commuting times increasing from 30
\r\n min to more than 2*5 h after the closure to them of nearby checkpoints. At
\r\n the medical schools we heard of the immense difficulties staff and students
\r\n face as a result of the paralysing restrictions on travel between
\r\n institutions in the Occupied Territories.\r\n The total blockade of Gaza meant our entry there was denied, as it has\r\n been
\r\n for humanitarian workers and essential food, energy, and medical supplies
\r\n since the closure of the border in early November. We heard from Physicians
\r\n for Human Rights-Israel, of the reduction in exit permits being granted for
\r\n treatment outside Gaza, and of the practice of denying exit to some patients
\r\n unless they collaborate with the security service in intelligence gathering.
\r\n We saw how the Palestinians' opportunities to make a living are being
\r\n eroded, both by illegal Israeli settlements on their farmland and by
\r\n discrimination against their industry.
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\r\n Violence continues at all levels: we spoke with schoolchildren, injured in
\r\n stone-throwing attacks by Israeli children occurring while Israeli soldiers
\r\n looked on. Children as young as 12 years are prosecuted in the Israeli
\r\n military courts. The most common charge against children in the military
\r\n courts is for stone-throwing, which under military law carries a maximum
\r\n penalty of 20 years.
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\r\n Our experience in the West Bank caused us grave concerns, which have been
\r\n realised more rapidly and deva-statingly than any of us could have
\r\n anticipated, in the current dispro-portionate attacks by Israeli forces on
\r\n Gaza. Our personal insight into this includes the attack by the Israeli navy
\r\n on the boat Dignity when underway to provide emergency health care to Gaza,
\r\n and which was carrying a member of our tour group.
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\r\n This report is for our colleagues around the world who might be unaware of
\r\n the deliberate erosion of human rights in both the West Bank and Gaza. We
\r\n suggest that, in view of the failure of other measures to influence those in
\r\n power, serious consideration be given to targeted academic and trade
\r\n boycotts.
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\r\n We declare that we have no conflict of interest.
\r\n *David Worth, Su Metcalfe, John Boyd, Adrian Worrall, Paola Canarutto
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\r\n dworth@doctors. <mailto:\r\n dworth@doctors.org.uk\r\n \r\n \r\n > org.uk
\r\n York Hospital, York YO31 8HE, UK (DW); Department of Surgery, University of
\r\n Cambridge Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK (SM); St
\r\n George's Medical School, London, UK (JB); Royal College of Psychiatrists'
\r\n Centre for Quality Improvement, London, UK (AW); and Ospedale S Giovanni
\r\n Bosco, Turin, Italy (PC)
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\r\n 1 Falk R. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
\r\n in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
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\r\n 2 Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Holding health to ransom: GSS
\r\n interrogation and extortion of Palestinian patients at Erez crossing.
\r\n http:\/\/www.phr.org.il\/phr\/files\/articlefile_1217866249125.pdf
\r\n (accessed Jan 5, 2009).
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\r\n (4) The Grand Hotel Intercontinental cancels the Israeli Tourism Fair\r\n Confronted with the indignation expressed by so many people in France\r\n and abroad who had heard about the scheduled Israeli Tourism Fair in this\r\n great Parisian hotel, the management of this establishment has made the\r\n decision to cancel this event, which was supposed to open on January 15.\r\n The hotel's management, as the Paris police prefecture\r\n has confirmed to us, has indicated that it has disinvited the 50 Israeli\r\n exhibitors who had planned to present their tourism products.\r\n We express our profound appreciation for all the\r\n individuals and associations in France and abroad that made the effort to\r\n express their arguments to the hotel management, arguments that were\r\n certainly taken into account in the decision to cancel the event. We also\r\n thank the management of the hotel for this decision, and we stress that\r\n commercial relations and all other interactions should be guided by basic\r\n ethical rules.\r\n As long as Israel makes martyrs of an entire people in\r\n order to annex their lands, defying all international conventions as well as\r\n the most fundamental human rights, we must avoid any acts that would turn us\r\n into accomplices.\r\n Holding an Israeli tourism fare would have been\r\n especially obscene while the Israeli army continues its massacres in the\r\n Gaza Strip. But it is the web of relations and collaboration with Israel\r\n which we have the moral duty to freeze, as long as there is a continuation\r\n of the occupation and enslavement of a whole people, deprived of liberty for\r\n more than 60 years.\r\n Together, we have not only the duty but also the power\r\n to reject the impunity enjoyed for so long by Israeli state terrorism.\r\n Impunity which encourages it to increase the violence carried out against\r\n Palestinian men, women and children, and to multiply, here in France,\r\n provocative actions such as the benefit galas for the Israeli army and the\r\n attacks by the thugs of Betar or the JDL (Jewish Defence League) who last\r\n week wounded two students of the Janson de Sailly high school.\r\n Please stay mobilized ! At the present time we are\r\n publishing information almost by the hour on our site http:\/\/www.europalestine.com.\r\n That is how we announced the entry, yesterday, into Gaza of a surgical\r\n mission led by Prof. Christophe Oberlin, and we praise the courage of the\r\n French, Greek, German and Egyptian specialists who have broken the siege in\r\n order to aid the wounded.\r\n Have a look at the short video on our site showing\r\n the big demonstration for Gaza that gathered 100 000 people in Paris streets\r\n last Saturday : http:\/\/www.europalestine.com\/article.php3?id_article=3620\r\n With best wishes,\r\n CAPJPO-EuroPalestine\r\n  \r\n
\r\n (5) Trains, trams, the tube stop for 2 minutes in Norway\r\n  From the Stop the War Coalition in the UK:
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\r\n The Norwegian Locomotive Drivers Union has shown what trade unions in Britain\r\n should be doing now: taking action in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.\r\n On Thursday 8 January all trains in the whole of Norway, and all trams and\r\n subways in Oslo, stood still for two minutes in protest against the Israeli\r\n invasion. The union issued the following information for passengers: Because\r\n of the situation in the Gaza Strip, the Locomotive Drivers Union in Norway\r\n has decided to demonstrate our solidarity with the Palestinian people. This\r\n will be organised by adding two more minutes of stoppage at the station. The\r\n same action applies to all passenger trains in Norway simultaneously. We\r\n demand the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Palestinian\r\n territory. Thank you for your understanding.
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\r\n There are also some South African trade unions considering carrying forward\r\n this campaign.\r\n http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/2009\/01\/is-gaza-a-testing-ground-for-experimental-weapons\/\r\n \r\n
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