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The New York Review of Books reports on Gaza and the Israeli Peace Movement one year after the Gaza offensive.
David Hulme

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Posted on January 12th, 2010 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Israel, peace movement. Comments: None

B’Tselem, the Israeli organization that focuses on human rights in the occupied territories issued its assessment of fatalities during the Gaza offensive known as Operation Cast Lead.
David Hulme

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Posted on September 9th, 2009 under conflict. Tags: B'Tselem, Gaza, human rights, Israel. Comments: None

Helena Cobban has a very detailed run down on the latest Israeli-Palestinian behind-the-scenes negotiations over prisoner releases that could free key Hamas and Fateh militants from Israeli hands, and one Israeli soldier held in Gaza since 2006. All of this could be the precursor to declaration of another truce between Hamas and Israel. At the [...]

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Posted on February 16th, 2009 under agreements. Tags: Fateh, Gaza, Israel, Palestine. Comments: None

People around the world, among them journalists, commentators, bloggers, scholars and government leaders have decried the Israeli attack on Gaza. International Herald Tribune and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen writes in The New York Review of Books (February 12 issue), “I have never previously felt so despondent about Israel, so shamed by its actions, [...]

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Posted on February 9th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israel. Comments: 1

The latest war in the region ended January 18 when Israel and Hamas each declared separate ceasefires. During 23 days of bombardment and ground fighting, 1300 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 13 Israelis (3 civilians) died. The disproportionate death toll tells the story of military asymmetry, but not the true dimensions of the human tragedy. In [...]

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Posted on February 9th, 2009 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israel. Comments: None

Israeli author, David Grossman has a reasoned piece in the NYT today about the current Israeli campaign to crush Hamas. He argues for a 48 hour unilateral ceasefire on Israel’s part. Grossman, whose eldest son was killed in the 2006 Lebanon War, maintains that such an approach taken early in that conflict, would have put [...]

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Posted on December 31st, 2008 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Grossman, Hamas, Israel, Palestine. Comments: 1

The Free Gaza Movement claims to have smuggled at least 11 university students out of Gaza, reaching Cyprus on Friday, according to reports by Al Jazeera. Israel’s blockade has previously not permitted students studying in Gaza to leave. The move is intended to allow the students to study at universities elsewhere in Europe and Canada, [...]

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Posted on December 16th, 2008 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Israel. Comments: 2

Supporters of Hamas gathered in Gaza City on Sunday to mark the 21st anniversary of the Sunni organization’s founding. Presumably in recognition of the occasion, a meeting involving Israeli and Egyptian officials took place in Cairo in an attempt to seek renewal of the current ceasefire agreement between Hamas’ military apparatus and opposition forces in [...]

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Posted on December 16th, 2008 under conflict. Tags: ceasefire, Gaza, Hamas. Comments: None

Public sector employees in the Gaza Strip have recently encountered difficulties collecting their salaries due to the severe cash shortage faced by area banks. The shortage is in part a result of the Israeli blockade that has prevented many from traveling freely to and from Gaza – a detrimental effect on business, especially with regard [...]

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Posted on December 16th, 2008 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Palestinians, West Bank. Comments: None