Cartografia crítica de la ciudad dividida de Rafah en la frontera de Egipto y Gaza, donde un sistema clandestino de tuneles constituye una parte de la linea de la vida para 1,5 millones de palestinos sometidos a un bloqueo y asedio brutal.
Gaza : Forbidden to Journalists
by p -- 21/1/2009 10:53:04
Tags: israel, egpito, accion_no_violenta, desinformación, bloqueo
The guy with sunglasses seated in front of me is young, may be 30 years old. He is the contact between Egyptian intelligence and people who intend to enter into Gaza.

Another guy, older, too with sunglasses and wearing a black coat, surely from intelligence, is listening without saying an... [Extend]
Corredor Philadelphi
by p -- 17/1/2009 01:08:49
Tags: bloqueo, egpito, tecnología
picture by Philip Rizik [Extend]
Police blockade to get to el Arish
by p -- 12/1/2009 08:37:34
Tags: bloqueo, acción_internacional, accion_no_violenta, egpito
Two buses of demonstrators were denied to get to Rafah at this point [Extend]
Tunnel Vision
by p -- 11/1/2009 02:56:30
Tags: bloqueo, israel, egpito, acción_internacional, tecnología
As I write, we can hear the dull thud of explosions in the distance. Israeli airstrikes continue to blast targets in southern Gaza. Merciless bombing of the small Gaza Strip continues into a third week. I heard some people here in Egypt wonder if the Israeli Air Force must be running out of places a... [Extend]
Activists pledge new boat mission to Gaza
An activist group says it will send a boat with doctors and medical aid to Gaza this weekend, despite the Israeli blockade.
The Free Gaza movement said Wednesday that the Greek-flagged Arion will leave the Cypriot port of Larnaca Saturday with 30 passengers and more than three tons of aid. ... [Extend]
Gaza children attempt to demolish Rafah Wall with plastic hammers
by p -- 1/1/2009 08:19:38
Tags: bloqueo, niños, accion_no_violenta, supervivencia
In a nonviolent act, hundreds of Palestinian children gathered on Wednesday afternoon near the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt carrying plastic saws and hammers and symbolically attempted to demolish the wall in a move that shows their rejection of the siege imposed on Gaza. [Extend]
Tunnel trade documentary
by p -- 20/1/2009 00:38:28
Tags: bloqueo, supervivencia, israel, guerra, egpito, tecnología
21 min (for Al-Jazeera International)

A Film by Laila El-Haddad and Saeed Taji Farouky

When Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, the city of Rafah was suddenly split, between Egypt and Gaza, by an immense metal and concrete wall. Families found themselves divided b... [Extend]
Rafah in 2005
by p -- 16/1/2009 01:54:01
Tags: bloqueo, israel, tecnología, egpito
FOR MANY THE NAME Rafah evokes an image of poverty and despair. It has been called the last city of Gaza, "the place at the end of the world". Once the entry and exit point to Palestine from Egypt, the city suffered tremendous hardship during nearly four decades of Israeli occupation. ... [Extend]
The wall
by p -- 10/1/2009 17:15:26
Tags: bloqueo, israel
Demolishing houses to build the wall [Extend]
War of the Tunnels: Economic Aspects of the Israeli Attack on Gaza
by p -- 5/1/2009 11:20:42
Tags: bloqueo, supervivencia, accion_no_violenta
link via Josep Saldaña from Barcelona

The Hamas party in Gaza was able to put some dents into the Israeli mechanism of exploitation. By breaking through the fence to Rafah in early 2008, and later by importing goods from Egypt via underground tunnels to supplement the diet of belea... [Extend]
Gaza tunnel trader vows to carry on - 1 Jan 09
by p -- 2/1/2009 15:20:41
Tags: bloqueo, supervivencia
Tunnels used to bring essential goods into the besieged Gaza Strip from Egypt are being bombed by Israel in its current assault on the territory.

Israel says the tunnels are used to arm Hamas and other factions.
Amr El-Kahky meets one of the men in Egypt making a living from Gaza... [Extend]
Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble
by p -- 25/1/2009 01:15:29
Tags: bombardeo, bloqueo, supervivencia, guerra
By IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press Writer

via Lina Attalah

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—I live alone in my office. My wife and two young children moved in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its... [Extend]
"Rainbow" film review
by p -- 19/1/2009 23:58:31
Tags: israel, guerra, supervivencia
(41min/Palestine/Dir:Abdalsalam M.A Shehada/Prod:Ramatan Studies Company)
"Hearing is not like seeing and seeing is different from living the experience," reflects Shehada's mother about life in Rafah. And for a week in May 2004, that experience worsened as Israeli forces pushed ... [Extend]
Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war
by p -- 19/1/2009 12:16:50
Tags: israel, guerra, bombardeo, supervivencia
Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war. Even in the darkness, we could see the piles of rubble: one had been the police station, destroyed in the heavy bombing on the first day of Israel's offensive, killing 22 Hamas policemen; another pile accounted for the houses that had been destro... [Extend]
Palestine's Guernica
by p -- 11/1/2009 02:38:54
Tags: guerra, acción_internacional, desinformación
Mustafa Barghouti* cuts down the myths Israel spins in the media to justify its most recent campaign of slaughter.

The Israeli campaign of "death from above" began around 11am on Saturday morning and continues as I write these words.

The bloodiest single day in Palest... [Extend]
Israel attacks Rafah tunnels
by p -- 10/1/2009 16:48:58
Tags: guerra, supervivencia, bombardeo, israel
ISM report [Extend]