Sunday 17 December 2006

"Gaza has been reoccupied" : Gideon Levy, September 2006

Gaza's darkness
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz, September 5, 2006
Gaza has been reoccupied. The world must know this and Israelis must know it, too. It is in its worst condition, ever. Since the abduction of Gilad Shalit, and more so since the outbreak of the Lebanon war, the Israel Defense Forces has been rampaging through Gaza - there's no other word to describe it - killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling, indiscriminately.

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'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'
Patrick Cockburn in Gaza, September 8, 2006
Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since 25 June, says Dr Juma al-Saqa, the director of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is fast running out of medicine. Of these, 64 were children and 26 women. This bloody conflict in Gaza has so far received only a fraction of the attention given by the international media to the war in Lebanon.

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Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps
Patrick Cockburn in Jerusalem, September 9, 2006
"Women in Gaza tell me they are eating only one meal a day, bread with tomatoes or cheap vegetables," said Kirstie Campbell of the UN's World Food Programme, which is feeding 235,000 people. She added that in June, since when the crisis has worsened, some 70 per cent of people in Gaza could not meet their family's food needs. "People are raiding garbage dumps," she said.

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Army invades Khazza'a town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip
IMEMC & Agencies - Saturday, 09 September 2006
Israeli army tanks and bulldozers invaded the eastern part of Khazza'a village east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza strip on Saturday morning. Tanks opened random fire at residents houses causing damage, no injuries were reported. Soldiers were also operating in the town on Wednesday and Thursday after invading it, two residents were killed and seven were injured. Farmlands and hothouses were bulldozed and destroyed by the army.

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Israel continues banning Gazans from studying in West Bank
Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondent, 08/09/2006

Army prevents 23 internationals on a Peace Tour from entering West Bank
George Rishmawi-IMEMC - September 7, 2006

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How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon
Jonathan Cook, September 7, 2006

How Israel failed its Arab citizens before, during and after the Lebanon war
Report, I'lam, September 7, 2006

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Soldiers severely abuse young Palestinian and take a picture of themselves on his cell phone
Report, B'Tselem, 6 September 2006

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Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story?
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth, September 5, 2006

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The First Post-Zionist War

Roni Ben Efrat, Challenge magazine, September 4, 2006

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Tenders issued for hundreds of homes in [illegal] West Bank settlements
Nadav Shragai, Yoav Stern and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, 04/09/2006

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Forced Migration Review 26: Palestinian displacement:a case apart?
The September 2006 issue includes a major feature on Palestinian displacement.Twenty-eight articles by UN, Palestinian and international human rights organisations, Palestinian scholars in the diaspora and Jewish and Israeli activist groups examine the root causes of the displacement of Palestinians, the consequences of the failure to apply international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Palestinian entitlement to protection and compensation.

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What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip
A Warning from Israel - July 15, 2005
URI DAVIS, ILAN PAPPE, and TAMAR YARON
We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees.

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