17 May 2012
Several prisoners in Israeli jails are still on hunger strike, officials said Thursday, days after a deal was struck to end a mass hunger strike movement. Israeli Prisons Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman told Ma’an that Mahmoud al-Sarsak and Akram al-Rekhawi are refusing food. They are being held in Ramle prison clinic, she said. Al-Sarsak [...]
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17 May 2012
In cooperation with the International Committee for Breaking the Siege on Gaza, the Jordan Lifeline to Gaza (Ansar 2) and Partners for Peace and Development (Miles of Smiles) humanitarian development convoys arrived in Gaza today (17th May). Ansar 2, the Jordanian leg of the convoy consists of 91 Jordanians representing all sectors of Jordanian Society arrived in Al-Arish airport this [...]
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12 May 2012
Prefatory Note John Hurson in Ireland has been keenly conscious of the affinities between the historic Irish hunger strike of 1981 and the ongoing Palestinian hunger strikes. He has travelled to Gaza on several occasions on humanitarian aid convoys, and is the founder of the on line Gaza TV News service. I suggested that [...]
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12 May 2012
A letter from Thaer Halahleh, on day 75 of hunger strike against his detention without charge, to his two-year-old daughter Lamar, who he has never seen. “My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my first born child that I [...]
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11 May 2012
This year’s CRH Annual General Meeting in Dun Laoghaire on Wednesday, 9th May, was again the scene of calls for the company to divest from its Israeli business interests which are involved in building the illegal wall and settlements in Palestine. Two Palestinian women made impassioned pleas from the floor asking CRH to heed [...]
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09 May 2012
In a statement released to Gaza TV News this evening, Sinn Fein have called for the Israeli Government to end it’s policy of Administrative Detention. Below is their statement in full: Serious concern as Palestinians enter 73 days on hunger strike Sinn Féin MLA and spokesperson on the Middle East Pat Sheehan has [...]
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08 May 2012
During the Irish Hunger Strike in 1981 that was led by Bobby Sands, a statement was smuggled out of Nafha Prison from the Palestinian prisoners and sent to the families of the 10 men who died. That support has never been forgotten, and while Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi were on Hunger Strike, several [...]
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03 May 2012
Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights, has said that 120 new prisoners joined on Thursday the massive hunger strike launched by Palestinians in Israeli occupation jails. He told the PIC that the prisoners, all in Ofer jail, were 50 from Hamas, 40 from the popular front, and [...]
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16 April 2012
“Welcome To Palestine” organisers say that the 50 passengers detained by Israeli forces solely for wanting to visit Palestinians are going on hunger strike tonight, starting at midnight Palestine time (which is 10pm UK time). They have been in detention 36 hours or more now and are now in Givon prison near Tel Aviv. They [...]
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14 April 2012
Israeli forces Saturday broke up with force a cycling tour around the Jordan Valley and assaulted the participants injuring and arresting a number of them, said a press release. It said Israeli soldiers stopped the 250 participants at road number 60 in the West Bank village of al-Ouja and refused to allow them to start [...]
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14 April 2012
In letter to pro-Palestinian activists, Israel says ‘You could have chosen to protest Syrian regime’s daily savagery, but instead you chose to protest against Israel, the Middle East’s sole democracy’ Pro-Palestinian activists who plan on arriving in Israel on Sunday and Saturday as part of a “flytilla” will receive a formal “welcome” letter from the [...]
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13 April 2012
British airline company, Jet2.com, have become the latest airline to cancels tickets for those who intend travelling to Tel Aviv on Sunday, en route to Palestine. Today, Lufthansa and Air Brussels also caved into Israeli pressure to cancel tickets. Below is a copy of a letter from Jet2.com sent to a customer who had [...]
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Freedom Flotilla 2 to sail in late June to Gaza
How Turkey sent ships loaded with aid to Ireland during the famine in 1847
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