By Kim Bullimore, 04.01.2010
Its New Year’s Eve and my team mate and I are on our way to Israel’s Eretz Crossing, one of the 6 border crossings into Gaza which has been repeatedly closed by the Zionist state as part of its illegal collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We have joined three bus load of Israeli and Palestinian activists in Jaffa to make the hour long journey to the Gaza border crossing to protest Israel’s ongoing siege. As we wait for the buses in Jaffa, I look around the slowly gathering crowd and recognize some of the faces from demonstrations in the Occupied West Bank: several of the courageous and dedicated activists from Anarchists Against the … Continue reading
Today, Saturday January 2, 2010, 15 Israeli and international solidarity activists joined members of Palestine Solidarity Project and members of the Soleiby family to plant over 100 olive and fruit trees in the Saffa valley. This was the first day of replanting the area, where more than 600 trees and grapevines were destroyed in the past year by Jewish Israeli settlers from the nearby Bat ‘Ayn settlement.
Any activity on behalf of the farmers in the Saffa valley has been repressed by the Israeli military, who have declared the area a “closed military zone”, preventing farmers and activists from entering, for most of the last 9 months, while consistently allowing … Continue reading
video by Yisrael Putermam
On Friday the Israeli military rang in the New Year in Al-Ma’asara by using more force than it has in the past two years of demonstrations to disperse a larger-than-usual crowd of demonstrators. After warning members of the Popular Committee of Al-Ma’asara that they would be arrested if the demonstrations continued in 2010, the soldiers at this week’s demonstration appeared more tense. The march, which contained more than 100 people from the Betlehem District, was dedicated to the 45th year anniversary of the Fateh movement.
Accompanied by a mobile sound … Continue reading
Two video reports from American independent news source Democracy Now! on the Gaza Freedom March, now in Cairo, Egypt being prevented from entering Gaza by the Egyptian government.
PSP is proud to have former volunteers and an official representative on the march, and was planning on expanding on our Gazan prisoners project while in Gaza.
Pam Rasmussen, The Electronic Intifada, 29 December 2009
This time is clearly different.
I have traveled to Gaza twice this year, in groups ranging from 40 to 60 persons, and although there was a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved in “greasing the wheels” with the Egyptian authorities, we pretty much sailed in. CODEPINK (the group that organized both of my previous trips) developed a well-earned reputation for being able to pull just the right levers to open the doors to the isolated enclave of Gaza — even more so than George Galloway’s Viva Palestina convoy, which is typically allowed in for only 24 to 48 hours (versus our four days).
But too … Continue reading
