GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles crossed into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses told Ma’an. Seven army vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza north of Beit Hanoun and dug up lands in the border area, they said, adding that gunshots were heard in the area. Meanwhile, four Israeli vehicles crossed the border east [...]
Palestinian women attend a rally to show solidarity with Palestinians prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 30, 2012. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Monday for a new intifada to support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, who started a mass hunger-strike two weeks ago. [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian prisoners continued their hunger strike for the 11th consecutive day in protest of Israeli policy. A mass march went out in Gaza City, which was called by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to support the prisoners. Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh affirmed his government’s support of the prisoners. He added [...]
Collectively Punishing Palestinian Prisoners and Families By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 19 April 2012 Collectively Punishing Palestinian Prisoners and Families by Stephen Lendman William Blum once called the holocaust the worst thing ever to happen to Jews. The second worse thing, he said, “is the state of Israel.” [...]
Hana Shalabi is being compared by some to Winnie Mandela who was also exiled for her activism [EPA] Santa Barbara, CA - As with Khader Adnan, Israel supposedly compromised with Hana Shalabi on day 43 of her hunger strike in protest against administrative detentionand her abysmal treatment. But Israel’s concept of “compromise”, if considered, becomes indistinguishable from [...]
On this Land Day, I was at Erez Crossing. Several hundred youth had managed to find their way around the Hamas policemen blocking the roads leading to Erez. They Shoot the Youth Don’t They? By Johnny Barber (about the author) Become a Fan — Page 1 of 1 page(s) opednews.com On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general [...]
A family rushes from the scene of an Israeli missile strike on a building in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 28, 2008. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The International Criminal Court will not investigate Israel’s conduct during its December 2008 offensive on Gaza because Palestine is not a state, the world prosecutor [...]
A woman holds a placard depicting prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City March 24, 2012. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian who was deported [...]
Death in war is simply murder no matter who commits the acts. Deaths related to a war are the same. That children can be slain as a part of any cause is the ultimate act of a coward or cowards. There is just no escaping [...]
A fuel tanker arrives at a power plant in the central Gaza Strip, March 23, 2012. Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production. (REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production, as [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Protesters on Wednesday held a rally in Gaza City against Mahmoud Abbas, accusing the president of neglecting his responsibilities to the Gaza Strip. They carried posters urging the president to resign if he could not fulfill his duties, and reminding Abbas that he presides over all Palestinian people and not just [...]
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton with President Mahmoud Abbas. (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The European Union contributed 13 million euros ($17.2 million) to upgrade the sole goods crossing into the Gaza Strip, a press statement said Monday. A further 22 million euros ($29.1 million) of EU funds will be used to build a medium [...]
Palestinian children fly kites to show their solidarity with the Japanese people near a Japanese-funded housing project in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2012. The event was organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to mark the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set [...]
Yahya Shalabi, father of prisoner Hana Shalabi, holds a poster of his daughter during a protest in front of their family house in Burqin, near Jenin March 16. (Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thirty Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike of Hana Shalabi, who has consumed only water for 33 days, the head [...]
Palestinians take part in a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 18, 2012. (Reuters/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians gathered at the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday, to protest continuing fuel shortages in [...]
Gaza. Everything as usual. (Al Jazeera) By Uri Avnery ‘What have you learned in school today, my son?’ ‘There was no school today. There is an emergency!’ ‘And what have you learned from that, my son?’ Actually, quite a lot. This week’s “round”, as the army likes to call it, followed a well-established pattern, as [...]
Gaza power plant stops due to smuggled fuel shortage By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA | Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:17pm EST Feb 14 (Reuters) – The Gaza Strip’s only power station, which supplies the Palestinian enclave with up to two-thirds of its energy needs, was shut down on Tuesday because of a [...]
We ask you to arm Gaza too MARCH 14, 2012 BY OCCUPIEDPALESTINE 0 COMMENTS Aren’t the Arabs supposed to be as one body? Isn’t it forbidden for anyone to shed Arab blood, especially the Israelis? MEMO | March 14, 2012 News about Israel’s latest killing spree against the people of the Gaza Strip has only occupied a [...]
Why did Israel decide to attack Gaza again? (PalInfo) By Ramzy Baroud The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise of two terrorists. Zuhair Qasis was the head of the Popular [...]
A Farewell to a Purity of Arms By Richard Lightbown In response to the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Hillary Clinton repeated the political mantra “Israel has the right to self-defence”. The statement is absolutely true of course, but that right does not allow Israel to commit offensive strikes [...]
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — The latest military campaign in Gaza should have been stronger, the country’s internal security minister said Tuesday after a ceasefire with Palestinianarmed groups.Yitzhak Aharonovich said that “This round was too long, unnecessarily so, and we should have increased our response. We need to learn our lessons so that next time [...]
Gaza Activists Prepare for Israeli Apartheid Week By Rana B. Baker and Joe Catron – Gaza After two successful Israeli Apartheid Weeks (IAWs) in 2010 and 2011, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI), together with the One Democratic State Group (ODSG) and the [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The prime minister in Gaza said Tuesday that an agreement had been reached to stop Israel‘s military campaign against the Gaza Strip and an end to its assassination policy. Ismail Haniyeh told a visiting delegation that Egyptian efforts resolved the deadly escalation, as “the people and the government will not accept [...]
(Illustration: Luis Vazquez/Gulf News) By Ramzy Baroud On March 8, Palestinian women rallied in Gaza and Ramallah to mark International Women’s Day. Activities were held in various cities, villages and refugee camps. Women in Palestine are united by a shared struggle, untold hardship, and also a legendary ability to withstand, survive and flourish [...]
Palestinians carry the body of Islamic Jihad militant Bassam al-Ajla during his funeral in Gaza City, March 13, 2012. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces opened fire on a funeral procession east of Gaza City on Tuesday, injuring three Palestinians, hours after a truce was agreed to halt cross-border violence. Mourners carried the [...]
Gaza violence: ‘we don’t want to escalate but maybe we have no choice’ Rockets from militants are slamming into Israeli cities, Israeli air strikes are killing Palestinian children, and no end is in sight Palestinian relatives of 12-year-old schoolboy Ayoub Useila grieve during his funeral in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. Link to this video The yellowing [...]
Israelis survey the damage to shops following a rocket attack in Gaza. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Israel and militant factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-brokered truce to end four days of cross-border violence in which 25 Palestinians have been killed, a senior Egyptian security official said. Both sides had “agreed to end the current [...]
‘IAW is important, especially in Gaza.’ (Rana Baker) By Rana B. Baker and Joe Catron – Gaza After two successful Israeli Apartheid Weeks (IAWs) in 2010 and 2011, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI), together with the One Democratic State Group (ODSG) and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and [...]
Gazans wait to fill containers with fuel at a petrol station in Khan Younis on March 3, 2012. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA CITY (Reuters) — Hamas faces growing discontent in its Gaza stronghold because of renewed tax hikes and the mismanagement of a power crisis that has led to lengthy blackouts across [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The head of Gaza’s gas station owners organization said Wednesday that the Gaza Strip is experiencing a domestic-use gas crisis after Israel reduced the amounts of fuel entering the enclave. Mahmoud al-Shawwa said that over the past two weeks, Gaza has received 40 to 60 tons of domestic gas, but it [...]
by Stuart Rees ABC – The Drum 6 March 2012 In the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, the Qdeh family’s modest rabbit farm is one of several Australian trade union humanitarian aid (Apheda) projects which is bolstering food security for poor families. On a Spring evening in April 2011, Najah Qdeh and [...]
An elderly Palestinian man waits bags full with olives at an olive oil factory following a harvest in Gaza City. (MaanImages/Wissam Nassar, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The leader of the business community in the Gaza Strip warned on Sunday that dozens of factories are at risk of closure due to Gaza’s fuel crisis.Ali al-Hayik, [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The prime minister in Gaza on Thursday called on Palestinian leaders to visit the Gaza Strip, saying they all have a right to visit the enclave as part of an undivided Palestine. Speaking during a lunch meeting with leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ismail Haniyeh [...]
Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre, Justice or Nothing! Tuesday, 27th December, 2011 Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make [...]
Creativity under siege. (UNRWA) By Stuart Littlewood Imagine a handful of engineering students imprisoned in the tiny Gaza enclave taking on the cream of Europe’s technical universities in a competition to build a race car and compete with it. They did it last year. And they’re planning to do it again this year – at [...]
(MaanImages/file) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday supplied 150,000 liters of fuel to the ministry of health in the Gaza Strip. “The lack of fuel restricts the functioning of vital public services, especially hospitals,” Irfan Sulejmani, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Gaza, said in a statement. [...]
Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore (MaanImages/HO) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore visited the Gaza Strip on Friday, where he slammed Israel‘s blockade on the coastal enclave. Gilmore, who is also Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, told reporters: “Ireland is completely opposed to the blockade … It is [...]
Israeli soldiers sit atop tanks near Kibbutz Nir Am, just outside the northern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2012. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen) GAZA CITY GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An Israeli army tank fired an artillery shell at a Palestinian home east of Gaza City on Saturday morning, causing damage but no injuries, locals said. The shell [...]
UN Slams Gaza Blockade: Collective Punishment of Civilians Blockade Causing Serious Human Rights Issues, Food Insecurity by Jason Ditz, January 18, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A child could see that what Israel does in Gaza is criminal in the [...]
Abdel Azim and his wife’s son was gunned down by Israeli troops a day after Israel declared a ceasefire on Jan. 17, 2009. (MaanImages/HO) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The day before his death, Maher Rajailah asked if his father could write a will for him. But he didn’t actually believe he was going to die, not [...]
Relatives of Muhammed Abu Odah mourn during his funeral in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip Jan. 18, 2012. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces opened fire on the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing two people and seriously injuring at least two others, witnesses and medics said. The health ministry in [...]
Palestinians survey damage after Israeli authorities destroyed ancient water wells and natural reservoirs used by Bedouins southeast of Bethlehem in March 2011. (MaanImages/HO) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Ramallah-based cabinet on Monday welcomed a French parliamentary report that said Israel’s control of Palestinian water resources broke international law. The document published by French parliament’s Foreign Affairs [...]
Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Invasion ‘Within Months’ Military Eyes ‘Similar Model’ to 2008 Invasion by Jason Ditz, January 16, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Jerusalem Post reports today that Israel’s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a [...]
(MaanImages/Wessam Saleh, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have told Ma’an that the recent restrictions on Western Union money transfer services are tightening the siege on the coastal strip. The currency wire service enabled residents to avoid lengthy bank transfer procedures, and the monitoring of transactions by Israel and the US, [...]
Medics wheel a wounded Palestinian man into a hospital in Rafah (MaanImages/Hatem Omar, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An explosion in the southern Gaza Strip killed a member of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the group said late Saturday. Khalid al-Qaisi, 38, died and five others were injured in the blast at [...]
You may have wondered why there is such a lot of material at this site on Israeli attacks on Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine. The primary reason is to remind readers of this site that the Israeli offensive, unlawful settlement and the detention of Palestinians continues on a 24/7 basis. This is of course combined [...]
Israeli tanks patrol the border of northern Gaza. (MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles entered the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, with witnesses reporting heavy gunfire in the area. Forces accompanied bulldozers around 300 meters inside the border near Jabalia to raze lands in the area, witnesses told Ma’an. No [...]
Hamas Prime Minister in the Gaza Strip with Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas. (MaanImages/File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Fatah and Hamas on Sunday accused each other of using an aborted official Fatah visit to the Gaza Strip as a pretext to scupper the fragile reconciliation deal between the parties. As officials announced that committees set up to [...]
Smoke rises over Gaza City after an airstrike during the 2008-9 war on Gaza. (MaanImages/Wissam Nasser) By Daoud Kuttab Three years ago the Israeli army initiated a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip with the aim of stopping the shelling from Gaza and the release of one of their soldiers that [...]
Fatah delegation leader Azzam Al-Ahmad with Damascus-based Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq at reconciliation talks in Cairo in August, 2011. (MaanImages/HO) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A reconciliation committee has agreed that all political detainees will be released on Jan. 15, Hamas committee member Khalid Al-Batsh told Ma’an. The public freedoms committee, one of the cross-party [...]
