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NOVANEWS Those readers who are used to blogging, Facebook and Twitter may already be familiar with the postings from the Viva Palestina convoy that is making its way from Britain to Gaza. The convoy of lorries, minibuses and ambulances, full of medical and other supplies, is expected to enter Gaza on 27 December (the anniversary of Israel's bloody assault). The lead is being taken by the 15 ambulances, each one named after a medical worker killed, while trying to help people, by the Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza. All the vehicles and equipment, as well as the aid, will be left in Gaza. Our comrade, Joti Brar, is part of that convoy and is sending out updates as the journey progresses. This, the third Viva Palestina convoy, set off on 5 December and is aiming to not only break the...

NOVANEWS It’s encouraging that Palestinians in Gaza are peacefully protesting their situation and we should salute their bravery: alestinians on Saturday entered 50 meters into the Israeli army’s buffer zone east of As-Salqa in central Gaza, near the Israeli military post at Kisufim. Mahmoud Az-Zeq, one of the activists, described the rally to Ma’an as “clear, popular, daring, and a real breakthrough,” adding that Israeli forces did not open fire at protesters, despite being carried out “directly next to Kisufim.” Protesters waved Palestinian flags, with young men reaching the barbed wire which separates Gaza from Israel by only 50 meters. “The goal of this peace action is to re-guide the compass of the popular struggle toward the Israeli occupation, in addition to get Palestinians out of ...

NOVANEWS A fine and internationally recognised journalist from Gaza, Mohammed Omer, is trapped in diplomatic limbo: Effectively canceling a planned speaking tour, the US consulate in the Netherlands has put an extended hold on the visa application of award-winning Palestinian journalist and photographer Mohammed Omer, scheduled to speak on conditions in Palestine, on 5 April in Chicago. In 2008, Omer became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, for his firsthand reportage of life in the besieged Gaza Strip. As his prize citation explained, “Every day, he reports from a war zone, where he is also a prisoner. He is a profoundly humane witness to one of the great injustices of our time. He is the voice of the voiceless … Working alone in extremely dif...

NOVANEWS Zio-Nazi Basterds: ' There shalt not be any Holocausts before thee.' غزة تحت النار أكثر من مئتي شهيد و ثمانمائة جريح سقط عشرات الشهداء والجرحى في غارات شنتها الطائرات الحربية الاسرائيلية على كافة المقرات الأمنية للحكومة المقالة في قطاع غزة. وقال متحدث باسم حركة حماس أن عدد الشهداء وصل إلى أربعين شهيداً على الاقل وعشرات الاصابات التي يتم اخلاؤها الى مستشفيات القطاع. وأدى القصف الذي وقع في قترة متزامنة إلى انتشار جثث عناصر الامن التابعين للحكومة المقالة في محيط المقرات التي دمرها القصف. فيما شرعت عشرات سيارات الاسعاف والسيارات المدنية بنقل الجرحى الى المستشفيات في القطاع. وذكرت مصادر في حركة حماس أن معظم المواقع الامنية في القطاع تعرضت لتدمير كامل خلال القصف الاسرائيلي. واعتبر القيادي في حركة الجهاد الاسلامي خالد البطش الهجوم الاسرائيلي الواسع على قطاع غزة، حرباً مفتوحة على الشعب ...

NOVANEWS Here's one of many reasons why, and why a one-state struggle is the right[er] struggle. Bookmark and Share Technorati Tags: '48, apartheid, discrimination, Gaza, Palestine, refugees, Zionism Related posts: 1. Egyptian Security Forces Attack Gaza Protesters [Reprinted from Truthout] Cairo, Egypt — Egyptian security forces were... 2. A Letter to a Friend about Zizek [but im still on vacation]* ______, Thanks for inciting me to put my thoughts and... 3. Gaza Freedom March, Update The orga­ni­za­tional issues have been ironed out, not without some... 4. Viruses in Gaza Swine flu is in the Gaza Strip. This is Israel’s... 5. The Tunnels in Gaza I attempted a trans­la­tion then recruited assis­tance from someone... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts ...

NOVANEWS Hamas strongman unsatisfied with renewed rocket fire, hinting it is aimed at undermining organization's rule in Gaza. 'We are aware of the fact that there are elements wishing to help the enemy divert the attention from what is happening in Jerusalem,' he says Ali Waked Published: 03.21.10, 07:25 / www.ynetnews.com Hamas strongman Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar on Saturday night slammed the Palestinian groups firing rockets at Israel. Zahar told the Iranian al-Alam television station that the rocket fire was a "suspicious action aimed at allowing the enemy to gain points in its favor in the public opinion and divert the attention from its crimes in the territories." According to Zahar, "The enemy wants to portray itself as defending itself against the rocket fire while being criticized by ...

NOVANEWS Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009 Posted by admin on Mar 21st, 2009 and filed under Gaza, Human Rights, IDF Hate Culture, IDF/War Crimes, International-Law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed. IOA Editor: Haaretz Internet edition is published in both Hebrew and English. The two language versions are not always exactly the same. The English version reports included here may be shorter, providing less detail than the Hebrew version. Furthermore, sometimes the English version is a watered-down version of the original Hebrew text: for example, it may leave out important more-critical details, or soften a headline. The English version of this story differs from its Hebrew original as f...

NOVANEWS Amos Perlmutter  Summary:  Through nearly four decades, the circumstances of its creation and existence have forced the modern state of Israel into a deep-seated preoccupation with security, the precondition for its survival. As the nature of the threats to its continued existence changed at various junctures between 1947 and the present, so have the military and security doctrines guiding national policy. Israel now stands at another turning point, and the time has come for a new security doctrine, a strategy resting upon long-standing principles, but significantly modified to meet the circumstances of 1985 and beyond. Amos Perlmutter is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at American University, and Editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies. He is the author ...

NOVANEWS by James North There’s a disappointing story in the New York Times today about that fatal rocket attack on Israel yesterday. It plays pretty big, on page three. In the first paragraph we are informed that the rocket was fired from "Hamas-controlled" territory. It isn’t till we reach the fifth or sixth paragraph that we are told that "Ansar al-Sunna, a small, fiercely anti-Western jihadist group that challenges Hamas" takes responsibility for the attack. And then, much lower down, it says that Hamas "has made some efforts to prevent rocket fire by smaller militant groups." So, basically, Israel went in, destroyed the Gaza police force, smashed everything to pieces, and now is holding the Hamas government responsible for everything that happens in every square inch of its territo...

NOVANEWS לקריאת העדכון בשפה העברית   With the arrival of spring, we decided to present a selection of photographs taken during the past winter in Gaza.   The winter brought with it terrible storms. Restrictions on the entry of supplies made it difficult for Gaza's infrastructure to cope. Sewage was overflowing, houses were flooded and families were forced to live without heating- all of this became a normal part of life in Gaza during the last couple of months.               But the winter also brought other pictures in Gaza, such as farmers delighted by their ripe strawberries. In December, for the first time since the closure of Gaza began in June 2007, Israel permitted limited export of strawberries from Gaza. This was a reminder of earlier times, when the export ...