Islington Friends of Yibna: A Personal Interview with Lauren Booth
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<p>Lauren Booth gives her personal testimony to the Friends of Yibna channel on Human Rights TV, (07 11 2008). Lauren was in the crew of a Peace Boat that sailed to the coast of Gaza. She talks about her experiences and describes the time she spent in Gaza and what she saw there.</p>
<p>Lauren was interviewed by Ruth Evans for HumanRights TV Links and extracts Journalism : As a journalist, Booth has written for the New Statesman, the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail.</p>
<p>She is a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq and a supporter of the Stop the War Coalition; she is also a member of Media Workers Against the War and the National Union of Journalists. She has appeared as a panellist on the BBC's Have I Got News For You, as well as working as a broadcaster in both radio and television. She currently writes columns and features predominantly for the Mail on Sunday. She regularly reviews the UK newspapers on television for Sky News, BBC One and BBC News 24.</p>
<p>In both 2005 and 2006 Lauren Booth traveled to the West Bank where she has interviewed Mahmoud Abbas. She has given two speeches on the condition of those living in the West Bank and Gaza, for the Royal Geographical Society and Arab Media Watch. Booth is also involved in campaigns such as the Stop the War Coalition and V-Day, a movement against violence towards women.</p>
<p>Gaza In August 2008 she travelled to Gaza by ship from Cyprus, along with 46 other activists[3], to highlight the blockade of Gaza[4] and deliver hearing aids and balloons to a deaf school in Gaza. Lauren Booth elected to remain behind in Gaza, and was subsequently refused entry into both Israel and Egypt.</p>
<p>She said that believed that, by refusing her the right to leave Gaza and return to her home country, Israel and Egypt were in breach of Article 13 of the United Nations Convention on Human Rights[5].</p>
<p>Booth also said that she believed the quot;situation in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis on the scale of Darfur" and called Gaza "the largest concentration camp in the world today," though the Jerusalem Post suggested that a photograph of Booth in a well-stocked Gaza grocery "bel[ied] the grim picture she painted of the Strip".</p>
<p>[6][7] Booth left Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing into Egypt on 20 September.[8] Extract from Wikipedia entry: Lauren Booth</p>
