As a gesture of its peaceful intentions, Israel yesterday announced to great fanfare that it would allow shoes and clothes into the besieged Gaza Strip for the first time in three years.
The latest round of false US indignation over continued Jewish-only settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank masks another criminal Israeli policy that has the full support of the Obama administration: the illegal siege and mass imprisonment of Gaza’s 1.5 million people,half of whom are refugees. The siege is around 1,000 days old now and [...]
Like many organizations Hamas is not a one unified group and it seldom speaks with one voice. In Gaza, there are few reasonable men and women who are in leadership positions in Hamas Gaza government. Those Hamas leaders, many educated in the West have no military background and that’s why many in the international community do not mind working with them. However, since those leaders have no militant connection, they are often weak in the ranks of Hamas and its decisions making. The bands of tugs and militant groups that is commissioned with protecting the establishment of Hamas and its leaders are the dangerous one. Most Hamas militants do not mind breaking into people’s homes and even kill individuals of interest. As long as you are away from the Radar of those Hamas militants, you are safe.
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It’s been exactly four months since Israel’s savage onslaught on the Gaza Strip came to an end, but the two year blockade that preceded the assault remains firmly in place, leaving the people of Gaza with no way to rebuild their shattered lives. Immediately after the indiscriminate campaign of killing and wanton destruction was halted, [...]
To follow-up on Kalash’s post, British MP George Galloway arrived successfully to Gaza with an aid caravan, “Viva Palestina” that drove all the way from London. The British politician known for his political radicalism and oratorical prowess as a “hero.” He was booted from the Labour party for his opposition to the 2003 invasion of [...]
The Gaza ceasefire ended last week, fulfilling its six-month mandate. Hamas and the other Palestinian factions fighting the Israeli occupation from Gaza announced that in its present form, the truce would not be extended. Many took that to mean that the Palestinian factions had decided to ‘end’ the truce. There is a difference between deciding [...]
As we saw with the war on Iraq, those who support immoral actions keep changing the justifications for their support as each previous excuse gets exposed as false. And so it is with the siege of Gaza. At first, it was meant to put the population on a ‘diet’ as Dov Weisglass put it, as [...]
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID;=33276 Israel today banned the entry of 15 truckloads of medicine into Gaza. What legitimate threat do truckloads of medicine present to Israel?
For the 9th day in a row, Israel has banned food from entering Gaza. For the 3rd day in a row, Israel has banned industrial fuel into Gaza to power the territories only power station. Hospital generators have hours of fuel left to work on. For the 9th day in a row, Israel has banned [...]