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Gaza ambulances stop responding to calls as fuel reserves hit zero

Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 25 March 2012

As a fuel shortage has worsened across the coastal territory, the ambulance service has been forced to stop responding to all calls except the most critical cases. With fuel reserves at zero, medical officials are warning that in case of another large-scale military attack by Israel, the ambulance service would be unable to cope. 

Israel exploits Toulouse murders to justify no-charge jailing of hunger striker Hana al-Shalabi

Ali Abunimah 25 March 2012

What does the spokesman of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do when his propaganda efforts fail to conceal Israel’s abuses of Palestinians? He uses the blood of Jewish children murdered in the French city of Toulouse last week to try to blot them out. This is low, even for Israeli official propaganda. 

In Canadian first, Carleton University students pass Israel occupation divestment resolution by large margin

Ali Abunimah 23 March 2012

Graduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa have overwhelmingly voted for divestment from companies profiting from Israeli occupation and human rights abuses in what is the first ever such referendum on a university campus in Canada.