24. Juli 2014 - The Lancet:
An open letter for the people in Gaza
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories
"We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are also informed people; we teach the ethics of our professions, together with the knowledge and practice of it. We all have worked in and known the situation of Gaza for years.
On the basis of our ethics and practice, we are denouncing what we witness in the aggression of Gaza by Israel.
We ask our colleagues, old and young professionals, to denounce this Israeli aggression. We challenge the perversity of a propaganda that justifies the creation of an emergency to masquerade a massacre, a so-called "defensive aggression". In reality it is a ruthless assault of unlimited duration, extent, and intensity. We wish to report the facts as we see them and their implications on the lives of the people.
18. Juli 2014 - DemocracyNow!
18. September 2013 - Al Jazeera, Pam Bailey and Medea Benjamin:
Egypt joins Israel as Gaza's jailer
A grassroots protest petition circulates as the Egyptian military increasingly isolates the Gazans.
There was a time when activist groups that focused on helping the Palestinians in Gaza reserved their harshest language and protests for Israel, which long has prohibited both air and sea traffic in and out of Gaza; tightly limited exchanges through its Erez terminal; and banned exports altogether.
While movement in and out of Gaza via the Egyptian terminal at Rafah was restricted as well, it nonetheless was a critical lifeline for Palestinians needing to travel, and for humanitarian aid. Likewise, members of the Egyptian government often played a constructive role in facilitating negotiations between the various Palestinian factions, as well as with international parties.
However, in the two months since the Egyptian military took control, it has made clear it will no longer serve as that "bridge". In fact, as the military and other opponents of ousted President Mohamed Morsi increasingly blame Palestinian "elements" for growing unrest and violence, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, the interim government of Egypt has increasingly allied itself with Israel in strategy and actions - becoming just as much Gazans' gaoler as its neighbour to the east. As The Washington Post reported, "with Egypt's military-backed interim government shutting down the tunnels and largely closing its own pedestrian crossing at Rafah, Gaza is increasingly shut off from the world".
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17. Juli 2014 - DemocracyNow!
10. Oktober 2012 - Washington, The Palestine Center:
The 2012 Edward Said Memorial Lecture
with Dr. Sara Roy
>"A Deliberate Cruelty: Rendering Gaza Unviable"
[ Aufzeichnung (ca. 1h15) ] [ alternativ ]
[ The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy Of De Development ]
26. Juni 2011 - Ha'aretz, Amira Hass:
Fear and no clean clothing:
Amira Hass preparing to sail for Gaza
Participants aboard the Canadian ship dubbed the Tahrir are gearing up to join the upcoming Gaza flotilla.
26. Juni 2011 - Ha' aretz, Danna Harman:
Ireland Forgeign Minister warns Israel
against violent interception of Gaza flotilla
Eamon Gilmore reiterates Ireland’s position that Gaza blockade is ‘unjust and counterproductive’ but does not advise Irish nationals to join the flotilla, which includes the Irish boat MV Saoirse.
4. April 2011 . Ilan Pappe:
Goldstone´s shamefull U-turn
"If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone's much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might have tampered with the text and that the original sentence ought to have read something like: "If I had known then that the report would turn me into a self-hating Jew in the eyes of my beloved Israel and my own Jewish community in South Africa, the Goldstone report would never have been written at all." And if that wasn't the original sentence, it is certainly the subtext of Goldstone's article.
1. April 2011 - The Washington Post, Richard Goldstone:
Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes
We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.
18./19. März 2011 - Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky:
Stop the US War Against Libya and Bahrain
The International Action Center calls on all anti-war and social justice activists to call Emergency Response STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN actions in their areas on Friday, March 18 or Saturday, March 19, or to mobilize support for any already existing anti-war demonstrations called to mark the anniversary of the Iraq War, with this statement and signs to STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN, as well as to intensify the mobilization for the April 9th and 10th Anti-War demonstrations in New York and San Francisco called by the United National Antiwar Committee.
Dezember 2010 - amnesty international u.a.:
Dashed Hopes
Continuation of the Gaza Blockade
[ vollständiger Bericht (PDF, 12 Seiten) ] [ ... bei OXFAM ]
31. Mai 2010 - Gaza Civil Society:
CALL FROM GAZA FOR GLOBAL RESPONSE TO KILLINGS
ON THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA
We, Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists, call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel’s attacks against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla sailing for Gaza, and begin a global response to hold Israel accountable for the murder of foreign civilians at sea and illegal piracy of civilian vessels carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza.
11. Januar 2009 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator
Ministry of Health figures as of 1500 hours 11 January are 884
Palestinians dead, of whom 275 are children and 93 are women. Twelve
medical personnel number among the fatalities. The number of injured
stands at 3,860, of whom 1,333 are children and 587 are women. An
estimated 413 are considered critically injured. The danger to medical
staff and the difficulty of extracting the injured from collapsed
buildings makes proper evacuation and estimation of casualties difficult.
It is not possible at this stage to determine the number of Palestinian
civilian casualties vis-à-vis combatants.
8. Januar 2009 - Washington Post, Jimmy Carter:
An Unnecessary War
The devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided.
27. Dezember 2008 - The Alternative Information Center:
AIC Condemns Deadly Attacks on Gaza,
Calls for Civil Society Mobilization, International Sanctions
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) condemns today’s deadly attack by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of (at this moment) over 150 Palestinians. The AIC calls on social movements throughout the world to mobilize against these Israeli war crimes and demands that the international community implement sanctions against Israel and indict Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli political and military leadership for these blatant war crimes, committed as part of Israel’s election process.
Israel’s military attack on the Gaza Strip is not, as Israel is attempting to claim today, retaliation against Gazan resistance to the Israeli occupation and ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, but part of a publicly admitted political goal of eliminating the Hamas government in Gaza. Israel is exploiting the last moments of the Bush administration to implement the deadly but ineffective neoconservative policies of utilizing military force to effect political change.
Demonstrations against the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip are planned for the major cities of the West Bank, and a joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstration will be conducted tonight in Tel Aviv.
April 2008 - Vanity Fair, David Rose:
The Gaza Bombshell
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
[ 7.3.2008: More Leaked "Talking Points" ]
[ 6.3.2008: More Empty Denials on Gaza ]
7. Juni 2007- Ha' aretz:
Fatah to Israel: Let us get arms to fight Hamas
Senior Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip have asked Israel to allow them to receive large shipments of arms and ammunition from Arab countries, including Egypt. The group says it needs the weapons to counter attacks by Hamas, which has an overwhelming advantage in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has not officially responded to the request, which includes dozens of armored cars, hundreds of armor-piercing RPG rockets, thousands of hand grenades and millions of rounds of ammunition for small caliber weapons.
25. Juli 2006 - Ye' diot Achronot, Lila M. el-Haddad:
Highest security open-air prison on earth
Last August, Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. The world rejoiced, rushing to declare that Gaza was now 'free.' So why is it that Palestinians are not satisfied, we hear time and again?