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Gaza 2009 Archive
End the Gaza Blockade: Support the Gaza Freedom MarchFrom the Gaza Freedom March organizers: Israel’s blockade of Gaza is a flagrant violation of international law that has led to mass suffering. The U.S., the European Union, and the rest of the international community are complicit.
The International Coalition to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza
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January 16, 2009 - UNRWA center and three hospitals bombed "The situation for hospitals, medical workers and the injured in Gaza is alarming and deteriorating"
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| January 15, 2009 - Humanitarian crisis reaches desperate level "Gaza City is under unprecedented IOF attack"
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| January 15, 2009 - Israel bombs hospital and a UN school "Nowhere in Gaza is safe anymore"
Gaza City/Jabiliya We woke up this morning in order to travel to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where we were to offer emergency medical assistance to families who had fled their homes and taken shelter in a United Nations school in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
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| January 11, 2009 - White phosphorus used against Pal civilians HRW claims US-made weapons illegally used against Palestinian civilians
Israel should stop using white phosphorus in military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 9 and 10, 2009, Human Rights Watch researchers in Israel observed multiple air-bursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over what appeared to be the Gaza City/Jabaliya area. Israel appeared to be using white phosphorus as an “obscurant” (a chemical used to hide military operations), a permissible use in principle under international humanitarian law (the laws of war). However, white phosphorus has a significant, incidental, incendiary effect that can severely burn people and set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on fire. The potential for harm to civilians is magnified by Gaza’s high population density, among the highest in the world. < Read Full HRW Alert >
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| January 10, 2009 - KC Protest Calls for Immediate Ceasefire "Let Gaza Live" Silent Protest Honors Deaths, Participants are encouraged to wear white in honor of the over 700 Palestinians killed and 3200 injured in the Israeli attacks, as well as the 10 Israelis that have been killed. Visit the Facebook event page for details. < PRESS RELEASE > |
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| January 6, 2009 - "Everyone in Gaza is a target..." "Gaza's carnage - 40 dead as Israelis bomb UN schools"
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| Israel's assault on Gaza has exacted the bloodiest toll of civilian lives yet, when the bombing of UN schools being used as refugee centres and of housing killed more than 50 people, including an entire family of seven young children. < Full GuardianUK Story > |
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| January 3, 2009 - Protest in Lawrence draws 50 "Protesters decry Gaza Strip bombing" - Report in Lawrence Journal-World From article - "On the same day that Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza Strip, protesters in Lawrence marched down Massachusetts Street denouncing the country’s military escalation. "Wrapped in or waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags, carrying signs that asked for peace, handing out pamphlets and chanting for a free Palestinian nation, protesters were speaking out against what they said was the killing and harming of innocent civilians by the hand of Israel."
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| January 1, 2009 - Gaza Protest Draws 450 Protesters Seek Protection of Palestinians in Gaza
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Kansas City area residents show activism against Israeli attacks January 1, 2009, Kansas City, Missouri - While Palestinians in Gaza are running out of food, medicine, and fuel, 450 Kansas City residents demanded a stop to the attacks in Gaza. The event organized by the Muslim American Society Freedom group and Citizens for Justice in the Middle East brought out scores of people from the diverse Muslim and Arab communities in Kansas City. A large presence of high school and college-age students encouraged chants demanding "We must take a stand, get off our land!" and "Stop the Massacre Now!" Speakers with family members in Gaza addressed the crowd sharing stories about the carnage and desperation of conditions there. Reporters from area TV stations and newspapers covered the event, broadcasting reports of the event on their 6 PM newscasts. See the following links for local news reports -
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| December 28, 2008 - UN Security Council calls for ceasefire Security Council calls on Israel, Palestinians to end violence immediately In a statement issued today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “deplores that violence is continuing today, and he strongly urges once again an immediate stop to all acts of violence.” “Certainly the rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel are unlawful,” UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk in a statement. “But that illegality does not give rise to any Israeli right, neither as the Occupying Power nor as a sovereign State, to violate international humanitarian law and commit war crimes or crimes against humanity in its response.”
General Assembly President Miguel D''Escoto, in a statement issued last night, said that “the behavior by Israel in bombarding Gaza is simply the commission of wanton aggression by a very powerful State against a territory that [it] illegally occupies.” < Read the full UN Press Release >
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| December 27, 2008 - Emergency Alert from US Campaign Stop Israeli Attacks on Gaza
This morning, December 27, Israel started a massive offensive in the Gaza Strip, leaving behind death, destruction and intense suffering. Medical teams, fire fighters and civilians have been working all day to safe those buried under the rubble of destroyed houses, to transport the injured and death to the hospitals, to extinguish the fires, to protect the children, whilst fearing for the lives of their loved ones in the face of renewed attacks. < Respond to an Action Alert today! > |
January 16 - "Yesterday witnessed the most intense fighting to date in the Gaza Strip, with Israeli ground forces advancing deeper into densely populated areas, particularly Gaza City with an estimated population of 500,000 people. Intense Israeli shelling hit the main UNRWA compound in Gaza City and three hospitals - Al Wafa, Al Fata, and Al Quds. Two ambulances were also hit by Israeli fire. The Al-Quds hospital was surrounded by Israeli forces and the administrative and pharmacy buildings of the hospital were shelled and badly damaged. Fires broke out and all of the patients and staff were evacuated. The patients were later transferred to Shifa hospital."
January 15 - Gaza - Excerpt from report by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - "The violent war launched by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against the population of the Gaza Strip has continued for the twentieth consecutive day. During the reporting period, IOF escalated their ground and air attacks against civilians in densely populated areas across the Gaza Strip. IOF continue to target civilians with total disregard for their lives." 
Citizens for Justice in the Middle East and Muslim American Society Freedom groups urge concerned Kansas City area residents to join a "Let Gaza Live" silent protest, Saturday, January 10, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the JC Nichols fountain, 47th & Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri. < see 
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