Veröffentlicht: 13. March 2008
Al Ahram Weekly, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/887/re4.htm
With scores of Gazans killed by Israel, the position of President Abbas and the PA comes into focus, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
With Gazans being killed and maimed in the thousands, and with Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatening them a "bigger holocaust", Palestinians...
Veröffentlicht: 13. March 2008
Prepared by Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), The Gaza Strip, Palestine, 10th March, 2008
Introduction
As of 12/6/2007, the strangling siege over the Strip reached its eighth month and the siege's drastic results on all economic sectors of life in the Gaza Strip make it a catastrophic zone of the first degree, as 1.5 million citizens are living under the effect of the siege. The...
Veröffentlicht: 12. March 2008
BY STEVE NIVA
The Counterpunch
March 8-9, 2008
http://www.counterpunch.org/niva03082008.html
Steve Niva is a Member of the Faculty, Middle East Studies, The Evergreen State College.
1. There seems to be a massive upsurge in violence in Gaza these past few days; what is happening?
It is important to recognize that the violence is mostly one-sided. On the one side, Israel is conducting...
Veröffentlicht: 6. March 2008
The murderous embargo must be lifted!
In the Gaza Strip one and a half million people virtually live under siege, behind barbed wire and without a chance to escape this prison camp. The living conditions are unbearable due to a severe shortage of food, medicine and clean water, strictly limited power supply and worsening hygienic...
Veröffentlicht: 4. March 2008
BBC News, 29 February 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7270650.stm
Israeli leaders are warning of an imminent conflagration
in Gaza after Palestinian militants aimed rockets at the
southern city of Ashkelon. The deputy defence minister
said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he
called a "bigger holocaust" in the Hamas-controlled
coastal strip....
Veröffentlicht: 1. March 2008
Ramallah, 28/02/2008. An Israeli airstrike aimed at the ministry of interior building in Gaza City also destroyed the nearby Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) head office in Gaza and killed a 5-month-old baby in a residential building in the same area.
The PMRS head office was housing the main PMRS clinic in the Gaza Strip, the main pharmacy, an ambulance, a loan centre for handicapped people and all the administrative offices. The ambulance, all the medicine and most of the equipment have been destroyed. The building itself is badly damaged and...
Veröffentlicht: 29. February 2008
Haaretz Editorial, February 25, 2008
Three years ago, the CBS television network broadcast photos of American soldiers abusing prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The horrifying pictures led to the trials of eight soldiers, dismissals and a storm of outrage in America. At the trial of one prison guard, who was sentenced to...
Veröffentlicht: 29. February 2008
Gaza Strip, 27, February, 2008- (PCAS) The water authority in the Gaza Strip has warned of severe epidemics and disease due to water pollution. This will be happening due to the Israeli ban of entering antiseptic and antigerms materials needed for water treatment.
Head of water authority, Munbzer Shoblaq, said in a press conference that water will be polluted if Israeli will prevent these materials into Gaza strip for at least the two coming days.
He added in his talk, "We gave orders of suspending work in 52 water wells due to the lack of chlorine...
Veröffentlicht: 29. February 2008
One Palestinian has been killed and three others injured in a raid against a police station in the west of Gaza City. The station is located next to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's house.
One Palestinian has been killed and three others injured in a raid against a police station in the west of Gaza City. The station is located next to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's house.
Dr. Mu'awiya Hassanain, head of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian Health...
Veröffentlicht: 12. February 2008
We were all pleased to see a new wall tear down, but unlike the Berlin Wall, this does not mean that the occupation is over and Gazans are free.
Egypt closed the border back and the 5 days of freedom the Gazans courageously allowed themselves by demolishing the walls of their prison didn't allow...
The mainstream media reported that Israel will resume its fuel deliveries to Gaza, but they forget to mention that it will deliver only 20% of the amount necessary to the Gaza needs.
Israel has also announced that on February 7, it would reduce by 5% its electricity supplies to Gaza where power...