Israelis kill 46 Gazans on Day 12, raising toll to 342
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: The Gaza death toll hit 342 on Saturday as Israeli warplanes intensified their bombardment and troops pressed a ground assault on the 12th day of a […]
Israeli ground offensive kills 44 Gazans on first day
CAIRO: Egypt renewed its call for a truce to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Friday as the overall Palestinian death toll since July 8 to 285, including 44 killed on Friday as Israel pressed a major ground offensive in the coastal enclave.An Israeli soldier was […]
Editorial: Daily Star Lebanon: Murder with impunity
Summary Israel has been successful at portraying its actions in the Gaza strip as a war against the Hamas movement; the simple fact is that it is a war against Palestinians. The Israelis have expended considerable effort, as they always do, in generating a wall of propaganda about their actions, […]
PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: Swiss asked to boost Geneva Conventions in Gaza
The Swiss foreign ministry is holding exploratory talks for an international conference on the respect of humanitarian law in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian authorities. The ministry confirmed it received a letter from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, urging Switzerland as a depository state of the Geneva Conventions […]
Abbas' son: Peace talks are futile, one-state solution only peaceful resolution to conflict – Tareq Abbas says his father should abandon peace talks, dissolve PA, force Israel to take over West Bank.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ youngest son Tareq told the New York Times on Tuesday that he believes peace talks with Israel are futile and that the one-state solution is the only peaceful way to resolve the conflict. Like many Palestinians, Tareq objects to extending the US-led peace talks, and […]
Abbas’ son: Peace talks are futile, one-state solution only peaceful resolution to conflict – Tareq Abbas says his father should abandon peace talks, dissolve PA, force Israel to take over West Bank.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ youngest son Tareq told the New York Times on Tuesday that he believes peace talks with Israel are futile and that the one-state solution is the only peaceful way to resolve the conflict. Like many Palestinians, Tareq objects to extending the US-led peace talks, and […]
30 Palestinians killed and dozens of injuries as Israel continue its ground invasion of Gaza
PNN’s correspondent in Gaza, Hassan Dohan, reports that the Israeli Occupation Forces raided several border areas last night, entering the Strip from the eastern and northern borders. The Israeli army attacked Gaza by land , sea and air. They targeted several residential areas, killing 30 Palestinians and injuring dozens. In […]
Looking back: How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
By ANDREW HIGGINS Updated Jan. 24, 2009 Editor’s Note: This article dates back to 2009, but we feel today’s readers should be reminded. Moshav Tekuma, Israel Surveying the wreckage of […]
MIDDLE EAST Israel launches Gaza ground invasion Hamas says Israel will pay a “high price” as tanks seen entering Palestinian territory in major escalation of offensive.
Gregg Carlstrom ALJAZEERA Israeli tanks entered Gaza on Thursday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion, a major escalation in a ten-day offensive that has already killed more than 230 Palestinians. Witnesses in Gaza reported heavy bombing from jets, warships and artillery stationed along the border, with […]
MIDDLE EAST Israel launches Gaza ground invasion Hamas says Israel will pay a "high price" as tanks seen entering Palestinian territory in major escalation of offensive.
Gregg Carlstrom ALJAZEERA Israeli tanks entered Gaza on Thursday night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion, a major escalation in a ten-day offensive that has already killed more than 230 Palestinians. Witnesses in Gaza reported heavy bombing from jets, warships and artillery stationed along the border, with […]
Israel-Gaza conflict: Medical charity likens work to ‘patching up torture victims in an open-air prison’ Comments by senior Médecins Sans Frontières official expose ethical dilemma of humanitarian work in conflict zones
by Robert Fisk, The Independent In an unprecedented criticism of the Israeli siege of Gaza, a senior official in the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) humanitarian charity has described his organisation’s work among the 1.8 million besieged Palestinian refugees as akin to being “in an open-air prison to patch up prisoners […]
Hamas demands changes to Egypt’s Gaza plan
Summary Hamas demanded changes Wednesday to an Egyptian proposal to end the deadly conflict with Israel in and around the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said. Hamas’ demand came as the Palestinian death toll from Israel’s punishing air campaign, now in its ninth day, rose to 220 people after the […]
Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer reports from Gaza: "Stunned in Gaza"
Gaza, July 15. For three days I am with my son Frederic in Gaza. We will have to spend this night in Gaza t00. The borders are closed. The people […]
Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer reports from Gaza: “Stunned in Gaza”
Gaza, July 15. For three days I am with my son Frederic in Gaza. We will have to spend this night in Gaza t00. The borders are closed. The people […]
Israel student union sets up “war room” to sell Gaza massacre on Facebook
As the death toll from Israel’s savage bombardment of Gaza continues to climb, Israel has once again turned to students to sell the slaughter online. “Although they haven’t been called […]
Jimmy Carter: "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Editor’s Note: This book dates back to 2006, but its importance is as “NEW” (acute) as ever. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is accusing Israel of creating an apartheid system […]
Jimmy Carter: “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”
Editor’s Note: This book dates back to 2006, but its importance is as “NEW” (acute) as ever. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is accusing Israel of creating an apartheid system […]
Cease-fire is no solution
The Daily Star Lebanon Since the full headlines usually added that, in stark contrast, Israel had accepted the Egypt-brokered initiative, why is Hamas seemingly acting stubborn in the face of overwhelmingly superior military firepower, and amid horrific destruction in terms of lives and livelihoods in the Gaza Strip? In effect, […]
7 days of tyranny: Gaza toll hits 177
GAZA CITY: The death toll from Israel’s seven-day air campaign against Gaza militants rose to 177 on Monday, as a UN official said more than a quarter of those killed […]
Gaza bleeds, world sleeps
GAZA CITY: As the Palestinian carnage enters a fifth day, there has been no concrete action from any country or leader that could halt savage Israeli attacks against defenseless Gazans. […]