Gaza

Redefining civilians and legitimate targets: Israeli soldiers testify on Gaza war

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man |Published May 4, 2015 SOURCE:  http://972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-testify-on-gaza-war-redefining-who-is-a-civilian/106311/ Two themes are present in almost all of the 60-plus testimonies collected by Breaking the Silence from Israeli soldiers who fought in the last Gaza war: loose rules of engagement and systematic, wanton destruction. But can the new documentation serve […]

No Umrah for sealed Gazans

GAZA CITY: With the war-battered Gaza Strip’s borders closed, thousands of people have been shut out of a Haj because they cannot leave the sealed territory. Some 7,500 Gazans have sought to travel to Saudi Arabia, for Umrah but have been turned away. Egypt restricts movement in and out of […]

The true Gaza back-story that the Israelis aren’t telling this week A future Palestine state will have no borders and be an enclave within Israel, surrounded on all sides by Israeli-held territory

by Robert Fisk, The Independent OK, so by this afternoon, the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won’t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours. It’s about land. The Israelis of Sederot are […]