Gaza

NOVANEWS Blockade! Dockworkers, Worldwide, Respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege July 14, 2010  by Michael Leon Freedom Flotilla: Massacre at Sea By Greg  Dropkin in CounterPunch Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli Zim Lines ship for 24 hours, the Swedish Dockworkers Union began a week-long blockade of Israeli ships and containers, dockers in the Port of Cochin, India, refused to handle Israeli cargo, and the Turkish dockworkers union Liman-Is announced their members would refuse to service any Israeli shipping. In South Africa, Durban dockers had already boycotted a Zim Lines ship in response to the invasion of Gaza last year. On the 5th Anniversary of the United Palestinian Call for Boy...

NOVANEWS The Targeting of Medical Centers, Ambulance Teams and Civil Defense Teams during the Israeli Offensive “Operation Cast Lead” against the Gaza Strip. 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 2.Testimonies "Some wounded people simply die while waiting for an ambulance," said Antoine Grand, head of the ICRC office in Gaza. "This is of course absolutely appalling. The ambulances must reach the injured as fast as possible." 1.Statement by the ICRC “ help them. I was shocked by a powerful explosion hitting the rear of the ambulance. I fell out of the ambulance with the force of the explosion. After a few moments, I checked myself and found that I was injured in the head. I got up and went to the rear of the ambulance to check on my colleagues…..I saw the third injured person who was being car...

NOVANEWS Richard Falk, Huwaida Arraf & Norman Finkelstein on the Freedom Flotilla In the middle of the night Monday, Zio=Nazi torrorist boarded ships in the "Freedom Flotilla" attempting to bring humanitarian aid to residents of still-blockaded Gaza. The aggressive response by the Zionist torrorist turned deadly, after with at least nine activists killed. The international community has reacted with shock and outrage; protests have erupted around the world outside Zionist embassies, with protesters even teargassed in Paris. Zio=Nazi Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a meeting with President Obama and headed back to the Zionist state of 'Israel' to do damage control, and Turkey, from where the flotilla departed, has recalled its ambassador and issued a travel warning ...

NOVANEWS Children of Gaza, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s Dispatches on 15 March. A moving, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s Dispatches on 15 March. BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann follows the lives of three children for over a year. The children are amazing: well-spoken, reflective, resilient, understandably vengeful and fearful, but very endearing. The toll this inhumanity has taken is also clear. Tuesday, April 13,2010 02:14

Campaigning to end the siege of Gaza and for a free Palestine Dear members and supporters of PSC, Thank you for all your support. To the thousands of you who came out on the streets to protest against Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara. To the thousands of you who jammed the Foreign Office with phone calls and emails demanding that they oppose Israel’s criminal acts. And to all of you who, every day, every week and all year round, refuse to be complicit in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, refuse to aid Israel’s economy, and refuse to buy Israeli goods. Israel’s murderous attack on the Mavi Marmara and the rest of the Freedom Flotilla generated a further wave of support for Palestinian rights and justice. Support for Palestinians, particularly amongst young people, is runn...

NOVANEWS By: Michael Leon Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli Zim Lines ship for 24 hours, the Swedish Dockworkers Union began a week-long blockade of Israeli ships and containers, dockers in the Port of Cochin, India, refused to handle Israeli cargo, and the Turkish dockworkers union Liman-Is announced their members would refuse to service any Israeli shipping. In South Africa, Durban dockers had already boycotted a Zim Lines ship in response to the invasion of Gaza last year. On the 5th Anniversary of the United Palestinian Call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Israel faces the prospect of targetted industrial action to implement boycotts. How did it happen, what does it mean, and how can the solid...

NOVANEWS I didn’t know before I came to Gaza how laptop batteries wear out. It turns out that laptop batteries wear down from the constant charge-discharge cycle. Massive power stations produce a relatively smooth flow of energy, as do very large generators. Smaller generators, rougher pulse. That rougher pulse destroys laptop batteries, one of the smallest—but very expensive, laptop batteries cost about 120 dollars—abrasions the constant occupation perpetrates on the people living here. If you want to preserve your battery, you plug it in when you’re on grid power, and unplug it when you’re on generator power. The problem is when there is no grid power. And for the last few weeks there has been very little grid power.Gisha statistics show that from June 13 to June 19, 741,000 liters of fu...