Teen dies of Gaza war wounds
GAZA CITY (Ma’an News Agency) — A Palestinian teenager died on Wednesday from wounds sustained during Israel’s recent military assault on the Gaza Strip. Ahmad bin Saed 19, died in […]
Our Task at This Hour as Rabbis For Human Rights
Huff Post: Rabbi Arik Ascherman. We Israelis must remember that our greater power entails greater responsibility. When we hear “There would be no attacks on Gaza if their would be no rockets on the Western Negev,” we must remind our fellow Israelis that this may be true, but we can […]
The suffering of Sderot: how its true inhabitants were wiped from Israel’s maps and memories
The people of Huj – now almost forgotten – had helped the Jewish Haganah army escape the British. The thanks they got was to be sent into Gaza as refugees by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK I think I found the village of Huj this weekend – but the road […]
Israel said to ease restrictions on Gaza fishing and farming
Reuters | Nov 24, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES GAZA — Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen on Saturday, further implementing a three-day-old truce brokered by Egypt after a week of […]
Gaza: Behind the pillars of cloud
The food and farming sector in Gaza has been severely maimed, worsening the condition of agricultural sector. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has used food and nutrition as a […]
Gaza ceasefire hangs in the balance
by Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald AS MIDDLE East leaders work with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to broker a ceasefire agreement acceptable to both Israel and Hamas, United Nations ambassadors in New York said the Security Council would hold an open debate on the […]
US blocks UN Security Council statement calling for Gaza ceasefire
RT: The United States has blocked a Moroccan-brokered UN Security Council call for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, labeling it “unbalanced.” “The draft press statement failed to address the root cause of the current escalation – the continuing barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel,” the spokeswoman for the […]
UNRWA condemns Israeli “creation” of footage, tweets falsely claiming Gaza schools used to launch rockets
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, has hit back at Israeli allegations, made through social media, that it allows schools it runs in the Gaza Strip to be used […]
Gaza invasion: it’s been done before, but this is different
By Douglas Hamilton DAILY STAR LEBANON Story Summary Big armoured bulldozers with blades tall enough to plough through houses and carve a path for tanks and infantry were lined up on Israel’s border with Gaza on Monday, ready to invade if given the order. Israel says it is prepared to […]
Israel and Gaza: Then and Now
Source: Stratfor: Four years ago on Nov. 4, while Americans were going to the polls to elect a new president, Israeli infantry, tanks and bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip to dismantle an extensive tunnel network used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons. An already tenuous truce mediated by the Egyptian […]
Gaza family wiped out by Israeli bomb
The four youngest members of the El Dallo family were the first to arrive at the Shifa hospital morgue. Sara, 7, Jamal, 6, Yusef, 4, and Ibrahim,2, children of rumoured […]
Gaza: Flawed recourse
Story Summary Source: Daily Star, Lebanon The race is now on between a new war in the Gaza Strip, and a flurry of efforts by countries and organizations to contain the situation. Compared to the last Israeli military offensive four years ago, this time around holds more unknowns; Jerusalem and […]
Qatar PM slams ‘wasteful’ Arab League meetings
Story Summary Qatar’s prime minister on Saturday delivered a biting criticism of Arab League meetings during emergency talks in Cairo, and called for a review of the pan-Arab body’s dealing with the Palestinian issue. At the meeting, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said the bloc should review its peace proposals […]
Gaza dominates Twitter
BREAKING LIVE UPDATES Mohammed Ghoul@MhamdG Number of martyrs increased to 52 martyrs, including 15 children #Gaza 18 Nov 12 Reply Harry Fear@harryfear 4 children killed in Jabalia in #Gaza this morning (2 of them brothers) #StopIsrael 18 Nov 12 Reply Lina Al-Sharif @livefromgaza Tamer (3,5) & Jumnah (18 months) killed […]
Unless we forget: Hamas history tied to Israel
By Richard Sale UPI Terrorism Correspondent 06/18/02 “UPI” — — In the wake of a suicide bomb attack Tuesday on a crowded Jerusalem city bus that killed 19 people and […]
Iraq envoy says won’t propose Arab action vs Israel over Gaza
By Shaimaa Fayed REUTERS Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:13pm IST REUTERS – Iraq’s envoy to the Arab League said it would invite Arab states to use oil as a weapon to press for a halt to Israeli attacks on Gaza, but later appeared to withdraw the remark, saying Baghdad would […]
Another Open Letter to President Obama – this time from Rabbi Brant Rosen
Please, please read this recent blog post by my friend Abby Okrent. I will have more to write about Israel’s most recent outrages in Gaza very soon. http://rabbibrant.com/ Dear Mr. President, My younger brother was an early believer in you. He worked for your Senate campaign. At the age of […]
Gaza calls for help
Source: New Straits Times BANGI: Gaza is in great need of basic medical supplies, which have dwindled since the recent intensified aerial attacks by the Israeli army, killing at least 20 people and injuring 200 individuals, including children. Hatem Shurrab, Media Manager at Islamic Relief Palestine (IRP), said that medical […]
Israel considers resumption of Gaza assassinations (why not just ‘murders’?)
by Ami Teibel, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary Israel is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an effort to halt intensified rocket attacks on Israel’s south, according to defense officials. With Israeli elections two months away, rocket barrages from Gaza […]