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It was June 2009, and I hadn’t been to Gaza since 2003 when I went back for the first time. A lot had changed. In 2003, the roads in the refugee camps were nicely paved, some with tree-lined streets. Now there were potholes and demolished houses instead.

Organising your own Gaza event

You can use the following leaflets if you're organising an event to raise awareness of the crisis in Gaza

Gaza Petition sheet

Backgrounder on Gaza crisis

Gaza emergency flyer

Throughout most of the history of Judaic/Islamic co-existence in the Holy Lands there has been strife. That strife is being rehashed on 24 hour news channels in the wake of the Gazan crisis and what is most frightening is the assertion by some Arab commentators that what we are witnessing is as catastrophic for the Palestinian people as the Nakba or the founding of the jewish state in 1948 and 1967's Six Day war when Israel captured the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and some parts of modern-day Israel such as the Golan Heights.

12 January 2008

The road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is no simple highway connecting two major cities. Not for one moment are you allowed to forget that you are enveloped in the world’s most complex political skirmish. Metres-high concrete walls bear down on you from either side. Highly-fortified Land Rovers ply the lengths like the old police vehicles in Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. Israeli settlements sit loftily and well-lit upon every hilltop; crooked Palestinian villages cower, ashamed and dark, in the valleys.