January 2010 Archives (Blog)

January 14, 2010

January 13th 2010 - Day 1

On the plane now from Cairo to Brussels with several MEPs including Nessa Childers and Aidan O Sullivan from Nessa's office. Further up the plane I see German MEP Helmut Scholz and Portugese MEP Marisa Matias, while Borris Zala MEP from Slovakia sits across the aisle from us. He speculates… Read more

January 15, 2010

Gaza blog 2010 Day 2

After less than four hours sleep we set off from Cairo to make the long journey through the Sinai desert to get to the crossing point into Gaza. Read more

January 16, 2010

Gaza blog 3 day 2 Sat 16 January

This morning I visit Isbit Abd Rabu for the second time. I visited here one year ago with a group of MEPs after the Israeli offensive. I was horrified and shocked by what I saw then, as I wrote in my blog at that time. I am anxious to see… Read more