The blockade on Gaza began long before Hamas came to power By Mya Guarnieri Mya Guarnieri is a Tel Aviv-based writer and journalist. She is covering the flotilla for Maan News Agency. Her articles have appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, Tablet, and many other international outlets. Her short stories have been published [...]
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Hamas MP’s Hold A Meeting With South African Embassy In Ramallah
Hamas MP’s Hold A Meeting With South African Embassy In Ramallah by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Wednesday February 02, 2011 11:08 Palestinian sources in Ramallah reported, Monday, that officials of the South African Embassy in the city held a meeting with elected Hamas members of parliament to discuss the current situation in Palestine [...]
Mishaal meets South Africa’s deputy president in Damascus
Palestine Foundation Pakistan Khaled Mishaal, head of Hamas’s political bureau, met on Friday with Kgalema Motlanthe, South Africa’s deputy president, in the Syrian capital Damascus and discussed the main files of the Palestinian issue topped by Palestinian national reconciliation and the peace process. After the meeting Mishaal and Motlanthe held a joint press conference and [...]
“Like living in a big factory” in Gaza
Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 24 August 2010 “Uff, uff, uff, you can never get time to rest or sleep quietly and you can’t even work. Wherever you are, you hear sound of power generators which makes it seem we are all living in a big factory,” Ahmad al-Bar explained, expressing the frustration of many Palestinians [...]
Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement
There may be some semblance of civil life and stability in Gaza, but it is our freedoms that are under siege Laila El-Haddad guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 August 2010 It’s three years since I’ve been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, [...]
Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
Independent - 31 July 2010 The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary [...]
Amira Hass: The Palestinian Authority is imprisoning Gazans
The same government that includes a call to end the blockade on Gaza, in practice aids in imprisoning the Gazans by preventing them from holding valid Palestinian passports. Haaretz - July 28, 2010 Lies and power go hand in hand. But what is considered outrageous in a sovereign state is catastrophic for a society fighting for its [...]
Amira Hass: Disloyalty on the part of the occupied
Haaretz - July 07, 2010 Were it not for Mohammed Abu Tir’s red beard, this would perhaps be only a marginal news item: Israel is working to expel four Palestinian residents of Jerusalem affiliated with Hamas from the city of their birth. There are those who see this expulsion as demonstrating a proud national stance, but [...]
Jerusalem politicians face expulsion :: Israel creating loyalty test, warn lawyers ::
by Jonathan Cook Media Monitors Network – Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Israeli human-rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week. The Israeli government revoked their residency rights in Jerusalem a few weeks [...]
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