Israel-Palestine conflict (Gaza)

by Alex Kane It was a shocking event in a twenty-two day assault filled with them:  the Israeli military shelled a United Nations compound in Gaza City January 15, where humanitarian aid like fuel and water pumping stations were stationed as well as hundreds of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment.  John Ging, the Gaza Director of Operations of the …

Nearly 1,100 Palestinian children have been arrested by Israeli troops in 2010, a new report by the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Detainees' Affairs shows. The ministry said on Wednesday that about 500 of the above-mentioned figure were detained in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, Maan news agency reported.  PA Detainees' Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe …

  THE planned dispatch of a flotilla of ships attempting to break the blockade on Gaza “must be stopped”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a group of European representatives. Speaking at a lunch with EU heads of mission in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said stopping the flotilla from heading to the coastal territory was a “common interest” for Israel and …

The international justice collapsed and the evil, war mongers, ravaging today’s world triumphed. This is how one could describe the plight of   South African Jewish Judge Robert Goldstone’s effort to retract his own, United Nations, Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza during its December 2008-January 2009 war. His U Turn speaks volume for the extreme blackmail to which …

Israel launched a witch hunt against Palestinian educators and pupils who commemorated Land Day by participating in the community’s declared strike. Education Ministry supervisors visited Palestinian schools on Land Day and schools were ordered to send lists of teachers absent that day. On 30 March 2011, the 35th commemoration of Palestinian Land Day, the Israeli Ministry of Education launched a …