Palestinians suffering

By Jacob Chamberlain | Agencies | 13 Dec 2012

The U.S. Department of Defense stated this week that it will now replenish all of the munitions used by Israel in its recent eight day siege on Gaza, which lead to the deaths of over 180 Palestinians and hundreds of injuries—a large portion being children.

By Reuters | 12 Dec 2012

Israel will withhold tax revenues from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration until March at least in response to his statehood campaign at the United Nations, Israel’s foreign minister said.

Under interim peace deals, Israel collects some $100 million a month in duties on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank -- money that is badly needed to pay public sector salaries.

By AFP | 03 Dec 2012

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon warned Sunday that if Israel implemented its latest plan for new settlements it would deal an “almost fatal blow” to any prospects for peace with the Palestinians.

Israel’s announcement about the 3,000 Jewish settler homes, whose planned location was not revealed, came in the wake of a historic vote by the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade Palestine’s diplomatic status.

Source : Agencies | 29 Nov 2012

Fifty-two Nobel peace prize-winners, activists and others today called for an international military boycott of Israel after its latest deadly assault against Palestine earlier this month.

By Reuters | 29 Nov 2012

The repeated exposure to violence has left many of Gaza’s children suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Children, who account for more than half of the 1.7 million people in Gaza, have been back to school, but there is still a long way for them to be back to normal.

These children, who have lived through two wars with Israel, are still coming to terms with what happened during Israel’s week-long bombardment of Gaza.

Saad Hasanat, 13, who lost six of his cousins, said the memory of seeing their bodies still haunts him.

By Qasim Rashid | 27 Nov 2012

As the volatility between Israel and Gaza continues to transform, one constant remains: rising "collateral damage." Unrest in Israel traces back six decades but the concept of collateral damage stretches back several millennia. And while in modern times we are allegedly "more civilized," 11-month-old Omar Masharawi's funeral, three dead Israelis, and a horrifying 120 killed Palestinians, tell a different story.

By Associated Press | 26 Nov 2012

Thousands of home owners and businessmen in the Gaza Strip are hoping to rebuild houses, shops and factories which were reduced to piles of rubble during eight days of Israeli air raids.

Forty-eight hours after a ceasefire came into effect, and despite torrential rains, many ruined buildings were still smoldering when Hamas official Dr. Mahmoud Zahar toured bomb sites in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.

By Al Arabiya | 21 Nov 2012

The determination of people in Gaza has defeated Israel’s long-followed strategy of deterrence, a prominent Palestinian journalist wrote in a U.S. newspaper Tuesday.

Daoud Kuttab, also former professor of journalism at Princeton University, argued against “the idea is that if Gazans feel enough pain, they will refrain from attacking Israel,” in his op-ed piece for The Los Angeles Times.

Source : Agencies | 20 Nov 2012

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lashed out at Israel and said that it is committing ethnic cleansing against Palestinians as Israel's air offensive against Gaza left more than 100 people, mostly civilians, dead.

Erdoğan, addressing his deputies in a parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday, said Israel is undermining peace and international law in the region and committing ethnic cleansing in the region.

“Israel is occupying Palestinian lands step-by-step,” Erdoğan said, adding that Israel is terrorizing the Middle East.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams | Reuters | 19 Nov 2012

Israel bombed dozens of suspected militant sites in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Monday and Palestinians kept up their cross-border rocket fire as international pressure for a truce intensified.