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The following list of primary documents, fact sheets and analysis is courtesy of Racheli Gai and JVP's Chicago chapter, also known as Not In My Name. These documents go back to December, 2007. To see a more comprehensive list of documents, go to JVP Chicago/NIMN's website here.

2008-03-12SOURCE: Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
TITLE: Four Deaths: Whose Security?
AUTHOR: PHR-Israel
The stories of the deaths of three women and one baby girl ... give a small glimpse ... in which the suffering of sickness and the cruelty of a hostile bureaucracy combine to embitter the last days of these people’s lives.

2008-03-06SOURCE: Oxfam
TITLE: [PDF] Gaza: A Humanitarian Implosion
AUTHOR: Oxfam
The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been since 1967. [It] is man-made, completely avoidable and, with the necessary political will, can also be reversed.

2008-03-06SOURCE: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
TITLE: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OPT
AUTHOR: PCHR
110 Palestinians, including 51 civilians, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip. The victims include 27 children (including 2 babies) and 6 women and a paramedic. 69 of the victims were killed by IOF in Jabalya ....

2008-03-04SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF] ESCALATION IN VIOLENCE: 27 FEB - 3 MARCH 2008
AUTHOR: OCHA Humanitarian Update
The IDF operation exacerbated an already deteriorating humanitarian situation emanating from the near total blockade on Gaza since June 2007...

2008-03-04SOURCE: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
TITLE: Narratives Under Siege (6): Abed Rabbo St, East Jabaliya
AUTHOR: PCHR
“I heard shooting, then screaming. I rushed upstairs to see what had happened, and they were both on the floor. Jaqueline was already dead, but Iyad was still alive....

2008-03-03SOURCE: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
TITLE: PCHR Press Releases and Photos
AUTHOR: PCHR
These press releases [and photos] detail the mounting ... toll in the Gaza strip. ...108 Killed, 54 of them Civilians.

2008-03-03SOURCE: B'TSELEM
TITLE: At least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting
AUTHOR: B'Tselem press release
Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting

2008-03-03SOURCE: Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
TITLE: Palestinian Health System in Gaza on Brink of Collapse
AUTHOR: PHR-Israel
Following Israel's military operations in Gaza, hospitals in Gaza are now finding it almost impossible to function due to massive overload of injured people continuing to arrive for admission.

2008-03-02SOURCE: Palestinian International Campaign to End the Seige of Gaza
TITLE: Health Situation in Gaza
AUTHOR: Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza
The MoH (Ministry of Health?) has declared a state of emergency in all the MoH hospitals..

2008-02-15SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF]THE SITUATION IN GAZA IS "GRIM AND MISERABLE"
AUTHOR: UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF
"I have been shocked by the grim and miserable things that I have seen and heard today, which are the result of current restrictions and the limitations on the number of goods that are being allowed into Gaza...”

2008-02-13SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF]Protection of Civilians Weekly Report
AUTHOR: UN-OCHA
30 January – 5 February 2008

2008-02-08SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF]Electricity Shortages in the Gaza Strip: Situation Report
AUTHOR: OCHA
The majority of Gazan households have power cuts of at least eight hours per day. Some have no electricity for long as 12 hours a day.

2008-01-30SOURCE: Haaretz
TITLE: Israeli High Court Okays Siege
AUTHOR: Yuval Yoaz
High Court okays reducing fuel and power supply to Gaza Strip

2008-01-30SOURCE: Gisha and Adalah
TITLE: In response to the Supreme Court
AUTHOR: Press Release
"This is an unprecedented decision authorizing collective punishment in its most blatant form..."

2008-01-29SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF]Gaza Closure: Situation Report
AUTHOR: OCHA-oPt
Access to Egypt and its shops may have provided some psychological respite from the closure of the Gaza Strip but 1.5 million Gazans still rely on Israel for all their supplies

2008-01-29SOURCE: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
TITLE: Narratives Under Siege
AUTHOR: PCHR
In order to highlight the impact of the siege and closure of the Gaza Strip on the civilian population, PCHR is publishing a series of "Narratives Under Siege." ... based on personal testimonies

2008-01-26SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald
TITLE: Gaza escape: too little, too late
AUTHOR: Ed O'Loughlin in Rafah.
Aid agencies warn that the goods coming across from Egypt this week... cannot even begin to compensate for the thousands of daily tonnes of imported fuel and supplies cut off by the now near-total Israeli blockade.

2008-01-23SOURCE: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
TITLE: Resolve the Crisis at the Rafah Border Crossing
AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights Call Upon Israel, Egypt and the International Community to Resolve the Crisis at the Rafah Border Crossing

2008-01-21SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF]Gaza Strip Humanitarian Fact Sheet
AUTHOR: Inter-agency fact sheet
... shortages of food, medical and relief items, spare parts for critical health and water sanitation installations, materials for humanitarian projects and raw materials for Gaza’s commerce and industry.

2008-01-21SOURCE: PCHR Press Release
TITLE: PCHR Calls On the International Community to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza
AUTHOR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
PCHR believes that the conspiracy of silence practised by the international community has encouraged Israel to act as if it is above the law and encourages Israel to violate international human rights and humanitarian law.

2008-01-21SOURCE: B'Tselem
TITLE: Israeli and Palestinian organizations petition High Court to resume fuel supply to Gaza
AUTHOR: B'Tselem
This request was filed as part of a petition against the sanctions on the Gaza Strip, from October 2007.

2008-01-13SOURCE: B'Tselem
TITLE: Any Palestinian killed by Israel defined as Terrorist
AUTHOR: B'Tselem
It appears that the head of the ISA defines every Palestinian killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip as a terrorist.

2008-01-09SOURCE: Physicians for Human Rights
TITLE: Emergency convoy of medical supplies/ High Court denies 8 life-threatening cases access to medical care.
AUTHOR: PHR-Israel Update 9.1.08
Despite a previous High Court Ruling that stipulated that patients with security prohibitions should be ensured alternative routes of access to care, the Court refused to compel the State to ensure passage to the patients.

2008-01-08SOURCE: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TITLE: [PDF]POWER SHORTAGES IN THE GAZA STRIP
AUTHOR: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Households in the Gaza Strip are now experiencing regular power cuts.

2008-01-08SOURCE: Xinhua
TITLE: Demonstrators hold symbolic funeral for victims of Gaza siege
AUTHOR: www.chinaview.cn
Palestinian demonstrators held a symbolic funeral for 60 late patients who died due to an Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip since June 2007.

2008-01-04SOURCE: Middle East Times
TITLE: Gaza sewage, water disaster looms
AUTHOR: MEL FRYKBERG
Gaza Palestinians are facing an impending health disaster from decaying sewage and water systems that lack vital spare parts, fuel, and maintenance work, due to an Israeli economic siege on the Gaza Strip.

2008-01-03SOURCE: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights etc
TITLE: Gaza Human Rights Organizations Condemn Violence between Fatah Supporters and Palestinian Police in the Gaza Strip
AUTHOR: PCHR Press Release
Violence erupted after the Government in Gaza banned celebrations to mark the ... anniversary of the establishment of the Fatah movement, in what appears to have been a response to the ban imposed by the Government in Ramallah on Hamas marking the ... ann

2008-01-03SOURCE: Associated Press
TITLE: Supreme Court rejects rights groups' appeal against Gaza fuel cuts
AUTHOR: Ynet News
Court refuses to issue injunction against fuel cuts to coastal territory, says rights groups failed to prove Israeli measure would cause humanitarian harmAssociated Press

2007-12-26SOURCE: Gisha
TITLE: Israel Supreme Court Sharply Criticizes State Attorneys
AUTHOR: News Release, Tuesday, December 25, 2007
In court petition to prevent electricity and fuel cuts to Gaza,Supreme Court Sharply Criticizes State Attorneys for Submitting Erroneous Information on Gaza Electricity Supply

2007-12-20SOURCE: Gisha
TITLE: Court Document Reveals Military's Reckless Electricity Gamble in Gaza
AUTHOR: News Release - December 20, 2007
State admits plan to cut electricity in Gaza is based on erroneous dataGisha and Adalah: The military is recklessly endangering Gaza residents

2007-12-19SOURCE: The Jewish Daily Forward
TITLE: Israeli Operations in Gaza Meet Little Resistance in Washington
AUTHOR: Nathan Guttman
As Israel stepped up air attacks on Gaza this week, the Bush administration refrained from blocking any measures or criticizing Israel’s activity...

2007-12-14SOURCE: Gush Shalom
TITLE: The Situation in Gaza
AUTHOR: Dr. Eyad Sarraj
A shocking first-hand report about living conditions in the Gaza Strip was delivered Thursday (Dec. 13, 2007) to a group of Israeli peace activists...

2007-12-13


Sara Roy: The Economy of Gaza
http://www.counterpunch.org/roy10042006.html

Uri Avnery: "Worse than a Crime"
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1201278309

Jeff Halper: Power to the (Palestinian) People!
http://www.counterpunch.org/halper01242008.html

Saree Makdisi: The Strangulation of Gaza
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/makdisi

Ramzy Baroud: People’s Power in Gaza 
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-013108182747.htm

Joel Beinin: Overview of Present Events
http://www.hagada.org.il/eng/hagada/html/modules.php?
name=News&file=article&sid=215

Eyad al-Sarraj and Sara Roy: Ending the stranglehold on Gaza
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/26/ending_the_stranglehold_on_gaza/


Rebecca Vilkomerson's report on her participation in the convoy to Gaza
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_955.shtml

Nurit Peled Elhanan: At the Gates of Gaza
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=24811

Yonat Atlas: Left-wing activists protest Gaza blockade at Erez border
crossing
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3498945,00.html




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