Galwaywoman back from Gaza

Date Published: 28-May-2009

AN Irish woman who has spent most of the past seven months working with Palestinian emergency services has urged Galway schools, sports clubs, hospitals, paramedics, and businesses to twin with their counterparts in Gaza as a gesture of solidarity in the wake of the attacks by Israeli forces in December and January which killed over 1,400 people and left the enclave in ruins.
Caoimhe Butterly, the coordinator of the Free Gaza movement, visited Galway last weekend to raise awareness of the devastation caused by the Israeli attacks, which resulted in the deaths of 313 children and left thousands of families without homes.
A blockade at the border crossing with Egypt, which has left an aid convoy from Galway ‘in limbo’ for weeks now, has ensured that not one bag of cement has made it into the enclave since November, a month before the onslaught occurred.