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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 6 July 2007
 
Signs of our times

• AT a packed meeting in Islington Town Hall on June 21 activists from Islington Friends of Yibna discussed plans to forge friendship links with the besieged residents of Yibna Refugee Camp in the south of Gaza.
Adwan Adwan, from Yibna, detailed the work he had done with international activists such as north London student Tom Hurndall to prevent human rights abuses by the Israeli Army.
He described how Mr Hurndall succeeded in rescuing a Palestinian child from Israeli gunfire, but was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper when he tried to rescue a second child.
Daniel Machover, the Israeli-born Islington human rights lawyer, described how his firm had obtained an arrest warrant for an Israeli general suspected of war crimes who was due to visit Britain.
He paid tribute to Emily Thornberry, MP for Islington South and Finsbury, for leading the call for a full investigation into the failure of the Metropolitan Police to arrest the general, who was warned by a diplomat to leave Britain.
Dr Andrew Rouse, recently returned from Palestine, made an impassioned plea to Islington Friends of Yibna to help medical students and hospitals in Gaza.
The speakers’ suggestions and other possible ways of helping Yibna will be discussed at the Practical Twinning free workshop, at Nolias Gallery and Café, in Liverpool Road, tomorrow (Saturday) from noon-1pm. For more details, contact Yael Kahn on 07880 731865 or at energineer@googlemail.com  
CATHERINE HESELTINE
N1

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Islington Tribune, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@islingtontribune.co.uk. Deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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