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Montreal This is The Third Intifada!

12 mai 2011 | معتمد Events, Other

Rally in commemoration of 63rd anniversary of the Nakba

Sunday, May 15 · 1:00pm – 4:00pm

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Israel’s blockade of Gaza is cracking

11 mai 2011 | معتمد Palestine

Al Jazeera by Noura Erakat, 09 May 2011.

Photo: An Israeli tank moves near the border with the northern Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Egypt has announced that it will open its border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, thereby reversing Egypt’s collusion with Israel’s blockade regime. The interim Foreign Minister, Nabil al-Arabi, has described support for the blockade by the previous Egyptian regime as “disgraceful“. While Israeli officials have responded to this announcement with alarm, they have limited capacity to undermine the new Egyptian government’s prerogative.

Since the capture of Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit in June 2006, the Rafah crossing has been closed to Palestinians in Gaza, except for “extraordinary humanitarian cases”. In June 2007, after Hamas’ ousting of Fatah, Israel imposed a naval blockade on Gaza and sealed its five border crossings with the territory. Egypt’s closure of Rafah made the siege comprehensive, and effectively cut off the 360sq mile Strip from the rest of the world.

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