Past Features

  • Siege of Gaza

    CNI Urges a Complete End to the Political and Economic Siege of Gaza
    January 23, 2008
    Action Alert

    The situation in Gaza is bleak and awful. John Ging, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza said two days ago the civilian population was living in "abject misery" and had been stripped of their human dignity.
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  • The Killing in Gaza Has Not Stopped; There has only been a brief lull.

    PALESTINIAN YOUTH NETWORK
    March 5, 2008

    Breaking the Siege of Gaza, Taking to the Streets

    After three and a half weeks of waiting at Rafah with much needed medicines for Gaza, on the evening of Wednesday, March 5, Saif Abu Keshek, General Coordinator of the Palestinian Youth Network (PYN) managed to enter the besieged Gaza Strip. Carrying 50,000 euros worth of medicines unavailable or in very short supply in Gaza, Saif has been at Rafah since February 12, 2008, waiting for permission to enter, each day told to wait a little longer. “I finally made it in,” said Saif, but there are tons more aid for Gaza in dozens of trucks, still held up at the border.”
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