Palestine Solidarity Project

Since at least the 9th of November, the Israeli Occupation Forces have prevented journalists from entering the Gaza strip, and have encouraged journalists in the region to leave. A more than week-long ban makes the current blackout unprecedented in Gaza, and has led international press organizations to condemn the … Read more

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The United Nations’ highest-ranking human rights officer urged Israel to end its blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

“By function of this blockade, 1.5 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forcibly deprived of their most basic human rights for months,” said UN … Read more

From the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza City

The Israeli Occupation Forces continue to blackmail the Palestinian patients who need to travel for treatment in Israeli hospitals or Palestinian hospitals in the West Bank. They seek to travel outside Gaza due to the deteriorating conditions of the … Read more

MIDEAST: Hospitals in Need of Care
By Nora Barrows-Friedman

JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, Jun 11 (IPS) - In the brightly painted new intensive care unit wing of al-Awda, northern Gaza’s only emergency medical facility in the massive Jebaliya refugee camp, doctors, nurses, aides and administrators are ready to provide emergency surgery … Read more

By Mohammed Omer

GAZA CITY, Apr 12 (IPS) - “I am bleeding uncontrollably, I need an ambulance.” That was not a call to emergency services, it was an appeal broadcast live on radio in Gaza City.

Who knows whether there will ever be an ambulance or not. But this way the ambulance … Read more

Note from PSP: We’d like to reiterate our position as being non-sectarian and not affiliated with any political parties. In addition, however, we are committed to a free and just Palestine, and do not support any efforts, neither from within nor without, that undermine legitimate Palestinian resistance and quest … Read more

Today, Monday march 3, the females of Beit Ommar marched against the atrocities being committed by the Israeli military in Gaza. More than 200 women from the village and girls of all ages gathered on the main street and began marching towards … Read more

For those who cannot get Al Jazeera’s television coverage in English, here are recent reports on the situation in Gaza.

Israel Continues to Bombard Gaza
March 1, 2008

Anger Explodes in West Bank Over Israeli Raids
March 2, 2008… Read more

In Ramallah, thousands participated in a demonstration called jointly by Fatah and Hamas. In Betlehem, Palestinians gathered near the Church of the Nativity, in Hebron, near a University. Schools were closed throughout the West Bank as thousands marched to apparatuses of the Israeli Occupation: checkpoints, watchtowers, the Annexation … Read more

Yesterday, Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Palestinians risked a “shoah”, the Hebrew word used to describe the Holocaust. Today, over 60 people have been killed, bringing the 4-day death toll throughout the Gaza Strip to more than 80 with more … Read more