GAZA popularity and GAZA trends

Canadians activists plan to start construction with the Palestinians this summer, aim to break out of the coastal strip.

£4m paid to Jewish foundation in Turkey, which will distribute the money to the victims and their familiesThe Israeli government has offered £4m in compensation to the families of Turkish activists killed by Israeli commandos who stormed a ship taking part in an aid flotilla in May 2010, according to a lawyer representing the victims.Ramzan Ariturk said the money would have been paid to a Jewis...

Le gouvernement du Hamas dans la bande de Gaza va rétablir l'enseignement de...

The two estranged Palestinian political parties, Hamas and Fatah, met in Gaza on Monday to discuss implementing a deal reached a day earlier to establish a unity government by June and to hold elections within six months.

Hamas prime minister tells int'l delegation in Gaza, "we will not recognize Israel," according to Hamas-affiliate Al-Resalah.

GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring seven Palestinians in an incident that broke a relative lull in the coastal enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

Headline Title:  Accountability for violations needed despite Palestinian prisoner deal 16 May 2012 Two thousand Palestinians held in Israeli prisons will halt a month-long hunger strike after Israel agreed several measures to improve prison conditions in a move seen by Amnes...

An estimated 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have agreed to end a hunger strike that has lasted nearly a month in a deal brokered by Egypt and assisted by Jordan after Israel promised better conditions. Three Palestinian men began the hunger strike on February 28, refusing food for 77 days, and were joined by almost one third of the Palestinian prisoners in one of the longest and...

Rallies and demonstrations in West Bank, Gaza and Israel as Palestinians commemorate displacement from lands in 1948.

Israeli authorities agree to return prisoners in solitary confinement to general prison population and to resume family visits for prisoners from Gaza

Explosion de joie dans la bande de Gaza. Des partisans du Hamas ont célébré ce lundi l'accord mettant un terme à la grève de la faim de 1600…

Las concesiones israelíes acaban con la protesta que amenazaba con incendiar Gaza y Cisjordania

Le Premier ministre du Hamas, au pouvoir à Gaza, Ismaïl Haniyeh, a indiqué samedi que l’Egypte et l’État hébreu faisaient des progrès dans les discussions vis...lire la suitehistoires liées10:55 Merkel croit possible un partenariat stable avec Hollande11:24 Scandale des écoutes : nouvelles révélations embarrassantes pour Jeremy Hunt11:52 Des milliers d’opposants se sont rassemblés à Kiev pour s...

Family blames IDF for US activist’s ’03 death in Gaza.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it had closed its inquiry into the deaths of at least 21 Palestinian family members during the 2009 Gaza war, and denied charges that forces deliberately attacked civilians.

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military said Wednesday it has closed its investigation into the shelling deaths of 21 members of a single Palestinian family and would not file any charges in what was one of the gravest incidents in the 2009 war in the Gaza Strip.The military's move, which exonerates Israeli soldiers from any responsibility in the killings, outraged relatives of the killed Palestinian...

The Israeli military closes an investigation into the killing of 21 members of an extended Palestinian family during its offensive on Gaza in 2009.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military said Wednesday it has closed its investigation into the shelling deaths of 21 members of a single Palestinian family and would not file any charges in what was one of the gravest incidents in the 2009 war in the Gaza Strip....

The United Nations food agency today called for an increase in efforts to stop foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) from spreading in the Middle East and North Africa after a new case of the disease was detected in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s military yesterday closed an investigation into a 2009 shelling of a house in Gaza that killed 21 members of a Palestinian family, saying it did not constitute a war crime and that the civilians had not been targeted purposefully.

HAMAS has secretly chosen new leaders for Gaza, starting movement-wide elections that could determine if the Islamic militants will moderate or maintain an alliance with longtime patron Iran instead, Hamas officials said.

At the Khan Younis zoo in the impoverished Gaza Strip, zookeepers stuff and embalm those that die and return them to their enclosures.

L'ex-détenue palestinienne Hanaa Chalabi, libérée en avril par Israël mais bannie pour trois ans à Gaza après une grève de la faim de 43 jours, encourage les prisonniers qui s'engagent dans une action similaire de masse.Articles en rapportUne vague d´« humour corrézien »Anders Breivik, cynique jusqu´au bout : « La peine de mort ou l´acquittement »Le régime d´al-Assad coopère peu, la mission de ...

GAZA CITY — The housing stipends, promised by Hamas social workers after much of Umm Mohammed’s neighborhood was demolished in an Israeli military assault three years ago, never came. The water barrels pledged by municipal authorities seemed to go only to Hamas cadres. Electricity is a rarity. Read full article >>

Leser H.-C. Buchmann arbeitet für eine Organisation, die palästinensische Kinder für Behandlungen nach Israel bringt. Täglich erlebt er dabei große Hilfsbereitschaft.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The Hamas authorities’ execution of three convicted prisoners by hanging on April 7, 2012, highlights the need for a moratorium on capital punishment in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch, which opposes the death penalty in all cases as cruel and inhuman punishment, said the persistence of unfair trials made ...

Au terme de la semaine pascale, le Pape a également prié dimanche pour la fin des conflits en Afrique. » EN IMAGES La place Saint-Pierre comble pour écouter le PapeArticles en rapportTrois prisonniers exécutés à Gaza, dont un «traître»Les chrétiens de Syrie divisés face au régime el-AssadEn Italie, le retrait de Bossi marque la fin d'une époqueBenoît XVI lance un appel au régime syrienDamas exi...

La Banque mondiale a annoncé vendredi vouloir renflouer son Fonds d'aide au Palestiniens, afin de pouvoir continuer dans les deux années à venir de soutenir le secteur privé palestinien et renforcer les institutions en Cisjordanie et dans la bande de Gaza. Le Conseil d'administration de la Banque a...

Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian detainee, was today transferred to Gaza by the Israeli authorities. She had been arrested on 16 February in Jenin and started a hunger strike in protest against her detention.

ISRAELI gunfire killed a 20-year-old man and 318 people were injured as violence erupted on the West Bank and Gaza to mark Land Day.

Con las negociaciones de paz paralizadas desde hace meses y el conflicto desplazado de la agenda internacional por la 'primavera árabe', los palestinos recordaron ayer la injusticia de la expropiación de sus terrenos y clamaron contra la 'judaización' de Jerusalén en el 'Día de la tierra'. Un joven de 20 años murió ayer y varias decenas resultaron heridos en enfrentamientos con el Ejército isra...

Una treintena de palestinos han resultado heridos, la mayoría leves, en los enfrentamientos con fuerzas israelíes que tienen lugar hoy por toda Cisjordania, Gaza y Jerusalén Este con motivo del Día de la Tierra.

Dozens have been injured in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem during mass independence rallies

At a conference on young Palestinian refugees, EU foreign policy chief Ashton spoke of children killed 'in all sorts of terrible circumstances'.

Speaking at a conference on Palestinian refugees on Monday, Catherine Ashton cited the tragedy of 'young people who have been killed in all sorts of terrible circumstances'

Remarks by the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, were perceived as equating the murders of three children at a Jewish school in France with the death of children during the fighting in Gaza.

Two Israeli ministers criticised remarks made yesterday by Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, saying she drew unfair comparison between children killed in the shooting in Toulouse, France, and those in the Gaza Strip.

EU foreign policy chief related shooting of French Jews in Toulouse to "what is happening in Gaza"; Ban condemns attack.

Estados Unidos renovó la alerta para los ciudadanos de ese país que planeen desplazarse al Medio Oriente, a los que advirtió sobre las "amenazas a ellos y a los intereses estadounidenses"

Allow me to respond to Dorothy Sank's letter, "Israel reports show bias" on March 14.

This time, it's not Hamas firing rockets into Israel -- it's Iranian proxies seeking to create havoc.

Why is it that every time an administrator from the University of California opens their mouth about social protest they immediately insert their feet? First...

GAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip was largely observed on Tuesday after four days of violence in which 25 Palestinians were killed and 200 rockets were fired at Israel.

Le ministre israélien chargé de la défense passive Matan Vilnaï ainsi qu’un porte-parole du Jihad islamique ont confirmé qu’un cessez-le-feu avait été co...lire la suite

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 told Reuters on Tuesday.

Israel hopes new missile defence system will stop Gaza rockets

Israel launched more air strikes in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians kept up rocket fire against southern Israel. 23 Palestinians have been killed so far.

no comment : Spirale de violence entre Israël et Gaza

GAZA CITY  - Three Palestinians, including a schoolboy, were killed on Sunday, raising the death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza to 18 in less than 48 hours, medics said. The latest raid hit an area northeast of Gaza City, killing a 60-year-old man who medics said was a civilian, several hours after a strike slightly further north killed a 12-year-old boy in Jabaliya refugee ...

GAZA CITY  - Three Palestinians, including a schoolboy, were killed on Sunday, raising the death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza to 18 in less than 48 hours, medics said. The latest raid hit an area northeast of Gaza City, killing a 60-year-old man who medics said was a civilian, several hours after a strike slightly further north killed a 12-year-old boy in Jabaliya refugee ...

GAZA CITY  - Three Palestinians, including a schoolboy, were killed on Sunday, raising the death toll from Israeli air strikes on Gaza to 18 in less than 48 hours, medics said. The latest raid hit an area northeast of Gaza City, killing a 60-year-old man who medics said was a civilian, several hours after a strike slightly further north killed a 12-year-old boy in Jabaliya refugee ...

Die gezielte Tötung eines palästinensischen Extremistenführers hat einen Schlagabtausch zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern in Gaza ausgelöst. Bei israelischen Luftangriffen starben 14 Palästinenser. Militante Palästinenser reagierten mit einer Raketen-Offensive auf Israel.

Israel hat bei Angriffen in Gaza insgesamt elf Menschen getötet, darunter einen Palästinenserführer, der im Austausch gegen den Soldaten Gilad Schalit freigekommen war.

[[369102]] PARIS (AFP) : Plus de onze ans après un reportage controversé de France 2 sur la mort d'un enfant palestinien à Gaza, la cour de cassation dira mardi si l'accusation de "supercherie" portée contre ces images est diffamatoire ou non. Au coeur de la polémique se trouve un reportage de...

ISRAELI warplanes have struck the Gaza Strip hours after Palestinian militants fired two rockets at southern Israel.

Amid the endless polarized chaos and bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, is there any space between protecting human rights and supporting terrorists? Seeking that elusive territory of meaningful compassion is the goal of Valerie Dillman's thoughtful and heartfelt original drama, "Sarah's War," a Freedom Theatre West production at the Hudson Mainstage.  Dillman's play is based on the life and death of...

Gaza runner Bahaa al-Farra treads carefully, braving the elements and potholed roads ravaged by years of conflict between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army, as he prepares to race at the London Olympics.

Wenig herzlich ist UNO-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon bei seinem Besuch im Gazastreifen empfangen worden. Demonstranten bewarfen seinen Konvoi am Donnerstag mit Steinen, Schuhen und sogar Stühlen (Bilder). Die Familien von palästinensischen Häftlingen wollten damit ihrem Zorn Ausdruck verleihen, dass internationale Politiker sich nicht ausreichend für ihre Angehörigen in israelischen Gefängnissen ...

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore begins a four-day visit to Israel and Palestine today.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The Hamas prime minister's office says the Gaza premier will be visiting Iran as part of his tour of Muslim countries next week....

Three years ago, on December 27, 2008 Operation Cast Lead began. During the operation, the IDF has increased the number of victims among the civilian population of Gaza, which caused outrage in the Arab world. According to the UN, within 14 days of the war, 250 children were killed, 1080 were injured

Berlin (ots) - Natürlich verfolgt Abbas eigene Interessen, wenn er die PLO für die palästinensischen Islamisten öffnet. Der Dachverband hat ja längst seine Rolle als die eine Vertretung aller Palästinenser in Gaza, dem Westjordanland und der Diaspora verloren. Wenn Abbas als PLO-Führer ...

Israel und die Palästinenserorganisationen Hamas und Fatah haben ihren umfassenden Gefangenenaustausch abgeschlossen - mehr als palästinensische 500 Häftlinge wurden am Sonntag in die Westbank und nach Gaza ausgeliefert. Zuvor wurden israelische Sicherheitskräfte von palästinensischen Demonstranten angegriffen.

El juez Andreu admitió a trámite una querella con un ex ministro de Defensa y seis altos cargos militares por un ataque a Gaza en julio de 2002 en el que murieron 15 personas.

In February, 2011, an Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Unit was established at the medical school of the Islamic University, Gaza, to promote EBM in medical schools in Gaza and throughout the Gaza Strip (). Gaza needs EBM for the same reasons that it is needed elsewhere: to improve people's health through evidence-based decisions that improve their lifespan and quality of life.

GAZA CITY (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will meet in Cairo this week despite the unrest rocking Egypt, Hamas and Fatah officials said on Tuesday. Egypt has been shaken in recent days by renewed protests calling for the ruling military council to step aside… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

The Portuguese forward raised the money from the sale of sports shoes by his club's charity foundation, which will dedicate the funds to schools in Gaza following an auction.

«Para vosotros la religión es algo que está en contra de la ciencia, para nosotros el Islam es democracia». Así de claro lo tiene. Quien se expresa es Adel Najjar, imán de la mezquita de Badajoz y voz de la comunidad musulmana en Extremadura. Su afirmación, cuanto menos, inquieta. Sobre todo desde la óptica occidental. Pero este palestino (de Gaza) de 46 años, afincado en el barrio pacense de E...

@Gustav Die Studie, die Sie hier anführen, wird doch wohl nicht in den letzten paar Tagen geplant, durchgeführt, ausgewertet, veröffentlicht und kommentiert worden sein. Sie stammt also eindeutig aus der Zeit vor der Unesco-Aufnahmeentscheidung. Was sie mit der aktuellen Diskussion zu tun hat, kann ich nicht erkennen. Es ist doch so: Israel besetzt tatsächlich völkerrechtswidrig Gebiete, die ...

The crash came two days after a warning, posted on Youtube in the name of the hacker group, said Anonymous would retaliate after Israel stopped two vessels carrying activists and journalists to Gaza.

Israel has said no one was injured in its takeover of the Canadian ship Tahrir

Being a moderator on a conference panel is a thankless task. By implication, you're the least important person on the dais (otherwise you'd be on the panel rather than moerating it). If you're good and you're lucky, no one notices you. For every other scenario, however, you get noticed for bad reasons.Reading this New York Times account by Katrin Bennhold, I feel some small measure of sy...