Update from Jenny Linnell in Gaza

By PRSD, on Sunday, January 25, 2009

News from Devon peace worker Jenny Linnell in the Gaza strip for International Solidarity Movement is that she is escorting visiting journalist, filming and interviewing, and trying to follow the cases of some of the children attempting to leave the country for treatment. The boy who lost his sister and grandfather and was burned by phospherous has made it to a hospital in Egypt, she says. Two other seriously injured kids were going to try and cross the southern border today.

Yesterday she had a brief chance to catch up with the fishermen that she had been accompanying before the shelling started. Despite the bombardment from the sea they survived, but have lost relatives.

The BBC has blocked broadcasting of the joint Disasters Emergency Appeal for aid to Gaza. They can be forced to do a U turn if enough people complain. This is a mass campaign. Use this web address to post your complaint: www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/