Tanya Reinhart in CounterPunch Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the army was preparing for an attack months earlier and was constantly pushing for it, with the goal of destroying the Hamas…
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The Committee is an Israeli organization, which firmly believes that there can be no peace between Israel and Palestine so long as thousands of Palestinian so-called “security prisoners” and hundreds of administrative detainees continue to be held in Israeli prisons. Members of the Committee believe that the Palestinian prisoners can and should play a significant…
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Ismail Haniyeh is Prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) GAZA, Palestine — As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buildings, our power stations and water plants, and who attack our…
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THE IRONY IS almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier on June 25, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls ‘Summer Rain’. Because Israel bombed the power plant, and the area needs electricity to pump water, most of Gaza now has almost no access to…
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A press release sent to us by a Bristol teacher: A Bristol teacher, Ed Hill, from Easton, has just received shocking pictures and reports of the suffering of the town he stayed in last autumn in the Occupied West Bank of Palestine. The town, Marda, has now been completely encircled by new security fences built…
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Conal Urquhart in Gaza City The Guardian The population of the Gaza Strip is “struggling to survive” as a result of Israel’s two-week assault, according to the UN, with water and electricity shortages and the breakdown of the sewerage system leading to the pumping of raw sewage into the sea. “Daily life is a misery.…
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PENGON Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network During the early hours of 28 June 2006, the Israeli Occupation Force launched a ground offensive in Southern Gaza. As part of the assault, the Israeli Air Force attacked three bridges and the Gaza City power station, cutting power to much of the area. One of the bridges is that…
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Starving in the Dark By Virginia Tilley On the excuse of rescuing one kidnapped soldier, Israeli is now bombing the Gaza Strip and is poised to re-invade. It has also arrested a third of the Palestinian parliament, wrecking even its fragile illusion of capacity and reducing the already-empty vessel of the Palestinian Authority into broken…
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