Debate taking place in parliament regarding Government policy on the Goldstone Report

11AM , Tuesday 12th January 2010

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Quds center for social and economic rights has warned of an unprecedented colonialist project currently being implemented by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) in occupied Jerusalem.

In an absurd twist of events, while Viva Palestina activists who ventured across Europe to break the inhumane siege on Gaza were brutally attacked by Egyptian forces; the British government continued to promise to protect Israeli war criminals by changing British laws.

A humanitarian aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies has arrived in the Gaza Strip nearly a month after it embarked from the UK.

Egyptian security forces clashed today with a pro-Palestinian convoy led by the British MP George Galloway as it tried to deliver aid supplies into the Gaza Strip.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) has said that part of the main street in Silwan suburb in occupied Jerusalem had caved in due to the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) intensified digging underneath the neighborhood.

A long-delayed aid convoy destined for the Gaza Strip is expected to arrive in the coastal territory on Monday, nearly a month after it set out from the UK.

Telling the truth in Cairo, as I have now discovered, can be a rather precarious thing to do and certainly does not endear you to people in power or authority. I have been told that I will never be allowed to enter Egypt again.

I have never met Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit but he thinks that I am a very bad European; that’s me and 1400 other peace activists from the Gaza Freedom March who are trapped in Cairo on New Year's Eve.

On Tuesday 29th December the letter below was delivered to the Egyptian Embassy to seek assurance from Egypt that the Viva Palestina Convoy will be allowed into Gaza.