The announced press conference that Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman were to have on Monday June 22, 2009 at 12 pm was cancelled in the morning, without explanation.

Since the Israeli courts refuse to hear Bi’lin’s case in its entirety, the village has enlisted the help of Canada to hold two Canadian corporations that are complicit in the occupation accountable. American-Israeli lawyer Emily Schaeffer, who works with a small human rights law firm located in Tel Aviv, is currently collaborating with a Canadian firm in presenting the lawsuit (initially filed in 2008) as it enters a crucial phase.

Many times during the six days I spent in Gaza, I wished the whole international community could see the level of destruction and the misery I saw in those long busy days.