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<p><strong>Press Release: #<a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-ePX" target="_blank">FREEDOMWAVES</a> | Topic <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-ePJ" target="_blank">FreedomWaves</a> | Category <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/iremember-the-mavi-marmara-massacre-in-pictures/" target="_blank">Flotilla</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>PICTURED BELOW IS THE MV SAOIRSE AS IT WAS BEING LOWERED INTO THE WATER TO SAIL TO GAZA, ISN’T SHE LOVELY, SAIL TO GAZA SAOIRSE!!!</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">MV SAOIRSE IS LOWERED INTO THE WATER FOR HER HISTORIC VOYAGE TO GAZA</p>
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<p><strong>1st Photo of MV Saoirse being lowered into the water to start her journey to Gaza. Follow the flotilla at this website or find us on facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Irish-Friends-of-Palestine/164790956913702">HERE.</a> Our boys will be updating from the ship as they sail to break the siege. More photos to come very soon, check back often</strong></p>
<p><strong>Do not forget Gaza<br />
We are waiting for your boats at our shores</strong></p>
<p>September 30, 2011 | Derry Friends of Palestine</p>
<p>Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine</p>
<p>We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, are calling on the world: enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip must end. While attention is focused on the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN do not forget that the blockade and the suffering continue in Gaza.</p>
<p>Shortly after 2006 democratic election which was supervised by people and bodies from the international community, nations formerly supporting aid and cultural organizations in Gaza withdrew their support. In mid-2007, our borders, controlled by Israel and Egypt, fully closed, locking Palestinians within and preventing imports and exports from crossing our borders.</p>
<p>From December 27 2008 to January 18 2009, Israel waged an all-out slaughter on Gaza, killing over 1400 Palestinians, the vast majority innocent civilians and among them nearly 400 children, and destroying thousands of homes, businesses, factories and buildings including universities, schools, hospitals and medical care facilities, and damaging vast tracts of our water and sanitation system.</p>
<p>Almost three years following after Israel’s attacks, almost no homes and few buildings have been rebuilt, our sanitation and sewage system is more dire than ever, raw waste continues to be pumped into our sea –for want of proper treatment facilities –polluting our water and the fish along the coast which fishermen are forced to harvest because the Israeli navy shoots at them if they try to fish more than three miles from the Gaza coast—contaminating our drinking water and food supply.</p>
<p>Our farmers continue to be shot at, maimed and killed by Israeli soldiers along our border, prevented from working, growing and harvesting their land, denying us a rich supply of produce and vitamins. Nutrient deficiencies and malnutrition continue to rise, affecting our children’s growth and their ability to study. Our economy is shut down by lack of functioning factories and electricity. Our students hold little to no prospects of exiting for study abroad, even when placements and scholarships have been secured, due to the Israeli control of the Erez crossing and the Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing being closed more often than opened. Our sick suffer for want of necessary medications and medical supplies and equipment.</p>
<p>Since 2005, over 170 Palestinian organizations have called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions to pressure Israel to comply with international law. Since 2003, Palestinians have weekly met in villages in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, to protest Israel’s occupation policies.</p>
<p>Creative civilian efforts such as the Free Gaza boats that broke through the blockade five times, the Gaza Freedom March, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and the many land convoys must never stop their siege-breaking efforts, highlighting the inhumanity of keeping 1.5 million Gazans in an open-air prison.</p>
<p>On the 2nd of December, 2010, 22 international organizations including Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, and Medical Aid for Palestinians produced the report ‘Dashed Hopes, Continuation of the Gaza Blockade’ calling for international action to force Israel to unconditionally lift the blockade, saying that despite the reported June 2010 “easing” of the closure, the Palestinians of Gaza continue to live in the same devastating conditions. Human Rights Watch published a comprehensive report “Separate and Unequal” that denounced Israeli policies as Apartheid, echoing similar sentiments by South African anti-apartheid activists.</p>
<p>We call on the citizens of the world oppose this deadly, medieval blockade. The failure of governments and world bodies to condemn such crimes is tantamount to complicity. Only civil society is able to mobilize to demand the application of international law and put an end to Israel’s impunity. The intervention of civil society was effective in the late 1980s against the apartheid regime of South Africa. Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have not only described Israel’s oppressive and violent control of Palestinians as Apartheid, they have also joined this call for the world’s civil society to intervene again.</p>
<p>We call on the nations and citizens of the world to continue and/or reinitiate their plans to sail to Gaza to challenge and break the Israeli blockade. The civil society initiatives of the Freedom Flotillas are about taking a stance of justice and solidarity with besieged Palestinians when your governments will not. We call on the Flotilla movement to continue to sail until the blockade of Gaza is entirely lifted and Palestinians of Gaza are granted the basic human rights and freedom of movement citizens around the world enjoy.</p>
<p><strong>Signed:</strong></p>
<p>University Teachers’ Association<br />
Paleitinian Nongovernmental Organizations Network<br />
Al-Aqsa University<br />
Palestine Red Crescent Society in Gaza<br />
General Union of Youth Entities<br />
Arab Cultural Forum<br />
General Union for Health Services Workers<br />
General Union for Public Services Workers<br />
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers<br />
General Union for Agricultural Workers<br />
Union of Women’s Work Committees<br />
Union of Synergies—Women Unit<br />
Union of Palestinian Women Committees<br />
Women’s Studies Society<br />
Working Woman’s Society<br />
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel<br />
One Democratic State Group<br />
Palestinian Youth against Apartheid<br />
Association of Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Info<br />
Palestine Sailing Federation<br />
Palestinian Association for Fishing and Maritime<br />
Palestinian Women Committees<br />
Progressive Students Union<br />
Medical Relief Society<br />
The General Society for Rehabilitation<br />
Afaq Jadeeda Cultural Centre for Women and Children<br />
Deir Al-Balah Cultural Centre for Women and Children<br />
Maghazi Cultural Centre for Children<br />
Al-Sahel Centre for Women and Youth<br />
Ghassan Kanfani Kindergartens<br />
Rachel Corrie Centre, Rafah<br />
Rafah Olympia City Sisters<br />
Al Awda Centre,<br />
Rafah Al Awda Hospital,<br />
Jabaliya Camp Ajyal Association,<br />
GazaGeneral Union of Palestinian Syndicates<br />
Al Karmel Centre,<br />
Nuseirat Local Initiative,<br />
Beit Hanoun Union of Health Work Committees<br />
Red Crescent Society Gaza Strip<br />
Beit Lahiya Cultural Centre<br />
Al Awda Centre, Rafah<br />
Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Society<br />
women section -union of Palestinian workers syndicate<br />
Middle East Childrens’ Alliance -Gaza<br />
Local Initiative -Beit Hanoun</p>
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<strong><a href="http://www.derryfriendsofpalestine.org/?p=1697">Source and more at the website of Derry Friends of Palestine </a></strong></p>
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<p><strong> Gaza Under Attack &#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-b1M" target="_blank">in pictures</a> | Attacks on Gaza <strong>&#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-4Ey" target="_blank">Timeline</a></strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong> Gaza Under Attack &#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-eEB" target="_blank">Oct 29, 2011</a> &#8211; <strong>in pictures</strong> </strong></p>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Special Topic | <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/the-deathmasters-israeli-massacres-on-palestinians/" target="_blank">All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><strong></strong></strong><strong>iRemember… | <a href="http://wp.me/P16sn9-2U5" target="_blank"><strong>Confirmed Names of Martyrs Occupation 2011</strong></a> *</strong><strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>Special Topic | <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/special-topics/colonialism-ethnic-cleansing/" target="_blank">Ethnic Cleansing</a></strong><br />
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<li><strong>Israeli escalation in Gaza | <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/israeli-escalation-in-gaza-is-a-cover-up-for-settlement-activity/">A &#8220;cover-up for settlement activity</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>History of Resistance | <a href="http://t.co/odhOy0O" target="_blank">The Eagle of Palestine</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>History of 1000′s years of Zionist Genocide | <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-eAm" target="_blank">The Promised Land</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>The Palestinian <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-bdT" target="_blank">Right of Self Defense</a></strong></li>
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<h3>Israel is not looking for Peace</h3>
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<li>Israel is NOT looking for Peace but for this: <a href="http://bit.ly/eXIG72%20" target="_blank">“Greater Israel” Published by Radical Settler Movement </a></li>
<li>On Aug 30,2010 Before previous peacetalks Netanyahu V<a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/08/30/118062.html" target="_blank">OWED NO CONCESSIONS</a>: “Eretz Israel” stretches from the med 2 river jordan INCL West Bank &amp; Gaza</li>
<li>With his OP-ED in #NYT anny Danon confirmed Netanyahu as well: “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/opinion/19Danon.html" target="_blank">Making the Land of Israel Whole</a>“</li>
<li>Recently: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said: “<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4116118,00.html" target="_blank">The land of Israel is ours in its entirety</a>“</li>
<li>Knesset to vote on <a href="http://t.co/76rPyIlr" target="_blank">full Israeli annexation of the West Bank</a></li>
<li>Read what Israel thinks about US: <a href="http://t.co/MyDwM9F" target="_blank">Netanyahu: ‘America is a thing you can move very easily</a></li>
<li>Netanyahu:<a href="http://t.co/TQz5bM00" target="_blank"> ‘We won’t renew settlement freeze to lure PA to talks’</a></li>
<li>Israel plans 1000′s more settlement units as legislators call for <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/israel-plans-1100-more-settlement-units-as-legislators-call-for-full-annexation/" target="_blank"><strong>FULL ANNEXATION of the WEST BANK</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/ayalon-settlement-in-jerusalem-not-for-discussion/" target="_blank">Ayalon: Settlement in Jerusalem not for discussion</a> | October 16, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/occupation-is-planning-to-build-1-000-000-housing-units-in-ten-years/" target="_blank">Occupation planning to build <strong>1.000.000 housing unites</strong> in next 10 years</a> | October 26, 2011</li>
<li>Read, what <a href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story637.html" target="_blank">Leaders of Zionism</a> spoke about the Endlösung for Palestine</li>
<li>Israel’s Endlösung is going on for 63 years. List of <a href="http://t.co/FyEtxfD%20" target="_blank">All massacres</a></li>
<li>The massacre which is NOT covered by your local media: <a href="http://wp.me/P16sn9-2U5" target="_blank">2011</a></li>
<li>What is being ignored: <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-b1M" target="_blank">Gaza Under Attack</a> – in pictures</li>
<li>Save yourself time, Forget all details. It is only about this :<a href="http://bit.ly/hGaKwP%20" target="_blank"> Ethnic Cleansing</a></li>
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<h3><strong>History of Israeli Genocide</strong></h3>
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<p><strong>Essential Read: <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-eAm" target="_blank">The Promised Land</a> ~ by Jad KhairAllah</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">ஜ۩۞۩ஜ</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em>Martyred By Israeli Occupation Attacks<br />
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<h2 style="text-align:center;">انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون</h2>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em>May Allah Subhana wa Ta’ ala grant the Shuhada Jannatul Firdaus, and ease it for their families, loved ones and anyone around them. Allahumma Ameen ya Rabbil Alameen. ‘ Inna Lillahi wa ‘ Inna ‘ Ilayhi Raji’un, Allahu Akbar</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">ஜ۩۞۩ஜ</p>
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<p>* The list of shuhada does not display, the numerous victims of the zionist occupation which are undocumented by media. Nor it displays the victims of the “silent onslaught” due to restrictions of movement, ability to go to hospitals for treatment or life saving surgery, due to lack of medication because of the blockades and so on. For example: The Slow Motion Genocide by the Siege on Gaza only, killed 600 patients since Gaza got under Israeli Siege.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://bit.ly/f0sVsF" target="_blank">For an overview of All Israeli Massacres Palestinians go here</a></strong></p>
<p>Neither does this list, display the avoidable mortality. A clear and statistical factual evidence, about the number of deaths due to indecent ruling by occupation forces. For even an occupier has obligations under International Laws, Geneva Convention and the Hague regulations, which it is neglecting. These circumstances, together with deliberate policies of the occupier to neglect and even deny every basic human right, severes avoidable mortality which is totally silenced by media or reporting organisations. While in the Holocaust, 1 on 6 Jewish people directly died of deliberate neglect, so if we believe the facts over 1 million due to avoidable mortality, neither should these same circumstances be ignores which are ongoing in Palestine. For this report displays a <a href="http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2006/05/post-1967-palestinian-israeli-deaths.html" target="_blank"><strong>avoidable morality of at least 0,5 million Palestinians.</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>How many more dead corpses of Palestinians does the international community need to see in order to act? How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed to intervene so this ongoing warcrime is being stopped once and for all.</strong></p>
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