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Palestinians Tear Down Apartheid Wall
Ramallah, November 9 This afternoon, exactly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, popular committees struggling against the Apartheid Wall and the settlements destroyed part of the Wall near Qalandiya. Hundreds of people, with some 30 international supporters, used a truck to pull down part of the Wall in the area east of the Qalandiya refugee camp and beyond the UN Vocational College. They also destroyed iron gates and other pieces of concrete in the same area.
After breaching the Wall, protestors approached the road on the other side where they burned car tires to slow the approach of Occupation forces, who quickly arrived in the area and began firing gas and rubber bullets. Protestors were wearing shirts upon which was written “Jerusalem we are coming”, the name of the planned action.
Today is 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and marks the first day of a week of resistance to the Apartheid Wall in Palestine and around the globe. Several demonstrations and campaigns are planned, including the November 12 launch of Stop the Wall’s campaign calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all anti-Wall activists currently imprisoned. -
Cycle4Gaza
gaza:
Thanks to the reader who sent this in. Support them if you can people!
We are a group of young people who are taking on a physical and mental challenge that will see us cycle from London to Paris. We are doing this in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Our aim is to raise £100,000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). This money will go into projects in Gaza focusing on children’s health.
yaay that’s me. thank you Gaza for putting this up :)
my friends have been training hard for this cycle for months now. they leave from london in 2 days, support them anyway you can! :)
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Cycling 4 Gaza
So some really good friends of mine are cycling from london to paris to raise money in solidarity with Gaza. They’re going to be cycling about 100kms/day from July 2nd-July 4th and are aiming to raise £100,000 for MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians, a non political, non-sectarian organisation that purely works to improve the health of palestinians). they’ve been going to spinning classes for months now (eeks, torture) and have been training really really hard for this. if you’d like to donate or find more information on the challenge click on the link above. watch my friend Tamara speak about the cycle on Press TV here
The Situation In Gaza
Between December 27th 2008 and January 17th 2009, the population of Gaza suffered 22 days of relentless aerial and ground attacks. During this offensive:

- Over 1,400 palestinians were killed and over 5,550 are injured.
- Over 400 of those killed were children.
- Hospitals, UN schools and shelters were targeted.
- Over 400,000 people have been left without running water.
- Over 21,000 homes have been destroyed.
- Over 90,000 people have been left homeless.
Posted on June 2, 2009
