Palestine/Gaza Under Israeli Occupation & Siege - Yousef Al-Helou - 4 April 2011
He wrote 10's of articles and has been a correspondent for many radio stations and media outlets worldwide.
He covered the 2008/2009 Gaza war and the arrival of Freegaza boats, viva Palestina aid convoys, and other humanitarian aid convoys, siege-breaking boats. He produced over 1500 TV reports about the daily life in Gaza in all fields, health, education, economy, sport, culture, social, industry, art& music, fishing and farming sectors, political prisoners. He lived for 5 years in the UK between 2000 until 2005. In the past 2 years he visited the UK 3 times to take part in speaking tours about the situation in Palestine, especially in Gaza which has been under Israeli siege for almost 4 years.
For information contact Dr S. M. Sharkh (suleiman@soton.ac.uk)