News archive
3 Jul 2008 - Vice Premier: Parts of East Jerusalem should be severed from capital
Haaretz
Vice Premier Haim Ramon (Kadima) told Army Radio on Thursday morning that Israel should treat the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Jabel Mukaber and Zur Baher as Palestinian villages, and revoke the permanent residency status of their residents.
3 Jul 2008 - Most Publics--including Americans--Oppose Taking Sides in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Worldpublicopinion.org
Israeli, Palestinian, American and Arab Leaders All Get Low Marks On Efforts to Resolve Conflict
2 Jul 2008 - From triumph to torture
John Pilger, Guardian
Israel's treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern
1 Jul 2008 - Israeli troops shoot Palestinian woman in southern Gaza
Maan News
Israeli forces shot a Palestinian woman in the foot on Tuesday morning while she was tending her sheep south of the city Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
1 Jul 2008 - Palestinians who approach Gaza fence will be shot, says IDF
Haaretz
Israel has informed Hamas it will fire "warning shots" at Palestinians
who enter an area west of the Gaza Strip border fence, extending for several hundred meters.
1 Jul 2008 - Palestinians face severe water shortage
Jerusalem Post
Palestinians living in the northern West Bank drink one-third of the per capita water consumption recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a report published on Tuesday by the NGO B'Tselem.
30 Jun 2008 - Egypt to open Rafah crossing for two days
Maan News
Egypt has decided to reopen its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip for two days beginning on Tuesday to allow the passage of holders of Egyptian nationality, as well as medical patients and Palestinians from Gaza stranded in Egypt.
27 Jun 2008 - Israel keeps Gaza crossings closed for third day
AP
Israel has refused for the third day in a row to fully open crossings with the Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket attacks. The rockets and closure both constitute violations of a cease-fire that began June 19.
27 Jun 2008 - overty rates in Gaza soars versus WBank - report
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 26 (Reuters) - The percentage of Gazans living in poverty topped 50 percent in 2007, the highest level recorded, as Israel tightened its blockade of the enclave, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
26 Jun 2008 - Gaza Strip closed for second day
BBC
Israel says it will keep its border crossings with Gaza closed for a second day after a Palestinian rocket attack breaching a week-old ceasefire.
25 Jun 2008 - Barak orders Gaza crossings sealed in response to Qassams
Haaretz
Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the closure of all crossings through which goods enter the Gaza Strip in response to Tuesday's Qassam rocket fire on the western Negev by Palestinians, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday.
24 Jun 2008 - Israelis 'kill two in West Bank'
BBC
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian sources say.
23 Jun 2008 - Gaza crossings opened despite court case
AP
Gaza crossings opened despite court case
23 Jun 2008 - The blockade begins to ease; some vital goods allowed into Gaza
Maan News
As the Gaza Strip ceasefire enters its fourth successful day, Israel began to allow the shipment of basic goods that have been made scarce in Gaza by a year-long Israeli-led blockade.
23 Jun 2008 - Aid convoy reaches camp of Palestinian refugees on Syrian-Iraqi border
Maan News
The Relief Committee for Palestinians in Iraq organised an aid convoy to the At-Tanaf refugee camp, on the Syrian-Iraqi border, to coincide with International Refugee Day on Friday, in cooperation with the Turkish charity LHH.
23 Jun 2008 - Humiliation and Gaza's dying children
By Ramzy Baroud
A six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire on 12 June. "Medics say the girl was decapitated by a [tank] shell," Associated Press (AP) reported the next day. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire in retaliation against "militants launching rockets into Israel".
20 Jun 2008 - Family of Palestinian killed by Israeli security guards donates his organs to save six Israelis
Maan News
The family of an 18-year-old Palestinian civilian, who died after being shot by Israeli security guards a few weeks ago, have donated his organs to save the lives of six Israelis.
19 Jun 2008 - Israel and Hamas ceasefire begins
BBC
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has begun, despite a last-minute flurry of cross-border attacks.
18 Jun 2008 - Haniyeh: Abbas is welcome in Gaza; Palestinian factions committed to ceasefire
Maan News
Isma'il Haniyeh, the de facto prime minister in the Gaza Strip, said he would welcome Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza.
17 Jun 2008 - Israeli troops invade Nablus, seizing seven Palestinians
Maan News
Israeli forces have seized seven civilians during an overnight raid in the West Bank city of Nablus and surrounding villages.
16 Jun 2008 - Rice warns on Israel settlements
BBC
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Jewish settlement building was having a "negative effect" on efforts to forge a Middle East peace deal.
16 Jun 2008 - West Bank poverty pushes boys into work force
Bethlehem – Ma'an – Israeli forces seized two Palestinians from Ad-Duheisha refugee camp in the West Bank city Bethlehem on Monday morning.
13 Jun 2008 - 'Jewish settler attack' on film
BBC
Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians in the West Bank.
13 Jun 2008 - Would-be donors get guided tour of Nahr al-Bared
Daily Star
NAHR AL-BARED REFUGEE CAMP: Representatives of potential donors toured the war-ravaged ghost town of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday, less than two weeks before a donor conference in Vienna to collect pledges for the estimated $450 million needed to rebuild the camp and surrounding communities.
12 Jun 2008 - Israeli cabinet approves further ceasefire negotiations and preparations for Gaza attack
Maan News
The Israeli security cabinet decided on Wednesday afternoon to support the Egyptian efforts aimed at achieving a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stopping Palestinian rocket fire on the western Negev, according to Israeli sources.
11 Jun 2008 - Girl, 6, killed by Israel tank fire in Gaza
AP
Palestinian officials say a 6-year-old girl has been killed by Israeli tank fire in Gaza.
11 Jun 2008 - Bill for rebuilding Nahr al-Bared to top $445 million
Daily Star
Rebuilding the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp and six surrounding Lebanese communities will cost about $445 million and "in a best-case scenario" will finish up by June 2011, said documents released by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Monday at a briefing session ahead of the June 23 donor conference in Vienna to solicit funds for the rebuilding.
10 Jun 2008 - Congress gets behind Israel's aid request
Haaretz
A year after U.S. President George W. Bush agreed to increase military aid to Israel by 25 percent, it now seems that all political obstacles that had prevented Democrats in Congress from coming on board and supporting the extra aid have been lifted.
9 Jun 2008 - Masked Israeli settlers attack Palestinian shepherds near Hebron
Maan News
Four Palestinians, including a woman, were injured when masked Israeli settlers attacked shepherds on Sunday in the West Bank village of Sussia, south of the city of Hebron.
9 Jun 2008 - Blair ducks issue of Israel's humanitarian obligations to Palestine
Liberal Democrats
Commenting on today’s appearance by Tony Blair before the Commons International Development Committee, Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, Michael Moore said:
"Tony Blair has ducked the central issue of the humanitarian obligations of Israel and the international community to deliver assistance to the Palestinian people.
6 Jun 2008 - One Palestinian killed, number injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza
Maan News
One Palestinian civilian was killed and 29 others were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes and ground attacks during Thursday night in the Beit Lahia area in the northern the Gaza Strip and east of Gaza City.
6 Jun 2008 - Olmert threatens Gaza offensive
Al Jazeera
Israel's prime minister has said that the country's military could launch fresh large-scale military operations in the Gaza Strip.
5 Jun 2008 - Hamas must be included in Middle East talks, says Hain
Guardian
Former cabinet minister Peter Hain today calls for Britain to open talks with Hamas, saying the veto on discussions is crippling the Middle East peace process.
5 Jun 2008 - Israeli forces shoot three Palestinians in Beit Ummar
Maan News
Three citizens seriously injured when Israeli forces opened fire on them in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron on Thursday.
4 Jun 2008 - ISRAEL-OPT: Palestinians give up on legal building route - UN
IRIN
Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank, under Israeli control, have given up on obtaining construction permits from the authorities and instead build without them, leaving 3,000 structures in the territory under constant threat of demolition, according to a UN report.
4 Jun 2008 - Israel court condemns student ban
BBC
The Israeli Supreme Court has called on the government to reconsider its almost total ban on Palestinian students leaving the Gaza Strip to study abroad.
4 Jun 2008 - Palestinians negotiator: Peace talks need miracle
AP
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The lead Palestinian peace negotiator says only a miracle will bring a peace deal with Israel by the year-end target.
3 Jun 2008 - Erekat: deep divide between Israelis and Palestinians on Israeli settlements
Maan News
Palestinian Liberation Organization Chief Negotiator Sa’eb Erekat described the differences between the Israelis and Palestinians on Israeli settlements in the West Bank as "strong, deep and intricate."
3 Jun 2008 - Settlers rebuild Hebron outpost after IDF razes it for 32nd time
Haaretz
Kiryat Arba settlers rushed overnight to rebuild the synagogue marking Hazon David, an illegal outpost of near Hebron, soon after the Israel Defense Forces and its Civil Administration arm destroyed the structure late on Monday.
2 Jun 2008 - Israel plans more settler homes
BBC
The Israeli government has announced plans to build nearly 900 new housing units in a part of East Jerusalem that is considered occupied territory.
2 Jun 2008 - Emergency committee to represent Palestinians in dialogue with Lebanese government
Maan News
The recently formed Palestinian emergency committee in Lebanon will take charge of dialogue with the new Lebanese government regarding the Palestinian presence in Lebanon, says Sultan Abu Al-'Aynayn, secretary of Fatah and representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon.
2 Jun 2008 - Repairing Nahr al-Bared to cost $400 million
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Rebuilding the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp will cost around $400 million and will take two to three years, Ambassador Khalil Makkawi, head of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, told The Daily Star Friday. The Lebanese government and Palestinian representatives will ask the international community to pay the reconstruction bill at a donor conference on June 23 in Vienna, and Makkawi said he believed donors would embrace the project.
15 May 2008 - Palestinians mark 'catastrophe'
BBC
Palestinians are set to mark the 60th anniversary of al-Nakba, or "the Catastrophe" - the founding of Israel - with a series of marches and protests.
14 May 2008 - Official: Israel to expand West Bank settlements
AP
JERUSALEM - An Israeli official says the Housing and Construction minister is planning to approve the construction of hundreds of homes in West Bank settlements.
13 May 2008 - Israeli bulldozers dig up vast areas of agricultural lands in Khan Younis
Maan News
Israeli military bulldozers on Tuesday dug up vast areas of agricultural lands east of Khuza'a in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
13 May 2008 - Briefing by UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd
UN
Capitol Hill - I extend my warm appreciation to Congressman Kucinich for kindly organising this hearing. Thanks also to his staff for their help in preparing it. The invitation reflects a growing interest on Capitol Hill in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The Congressman's invitation, and your participation, provide a welcome opportunity for me to brief on UNRWA's work, and update you on the grim situation in the West Bank and, in particular, the Gaza Strip.
12 May 2008 - Seventh Palestinian dies of wounds from recent Israeli attack
Maan News
Twenty-five-year-old Mu'ataz Abu 'Anza died on Monday morning of wounds he sustained during an Israeli incursion in the town of Khaza'a in the southern Gaza Strip last Wednesday, medic said.
12 May 2008 - UNRWA demands probe into killing of Gaza mother
AFP
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Sunday demanded that Israel conduct an inquiry into the death of a mother of six during an Israeli army operation in the Gaza Strip last week.
12 May 2008 - The blockade and the smugglers
BBC
Israel's fuel blockade has ground Gaza's infrastructure to a halt. In response, smuggling gangs bring fuel in from Egypt through underground tunnels
8 May 2008 - National day of mourning to commemorate Palestinian Nakba
Maan News
A national day of mourning will be held across the Palestinian territories on Thursday to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
8 May 2008 - A human rights crime
Jimmy Carter, Guardian
The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty
7 May 2008 - Barghouthi calls on PA to suspend negotiations until settlement construction stops
Maan News
Ramallah ? Mustafa Barghouthi, the former Palestinian Minister of Information and the head of the Palestinian National Initiative, called on the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday to suspend negotiations with Israel in order to force a halt to the construction of illegal settlements.
7 May 2008 - Gaza fuel, cooking gas shortages beginning to bite
IRIN
Intense political divisions in the Gaza Strip have split people on most issues, except one: the situation has never been worse, nearly everyone agrees.
6 May 2008 - Water crisis looming in Gaza due to Israeli blockade
Maan News
About 70% of families living in the Gaza Strip receive water once every five days, and 30% have access to water only once every week, says Rami Abdu the spokesperson of the Popular Committee for Countering the Siege on the Gaza Strip.
6 May 2008 - Temporary housing provides improved living conditions for Nahr el-Bared residents
Reliefweb
Joyfully cooking mojadarrah, the woman welcomed us into her shelter on plot 774 - next to Nahr el-Bared camp. She was smiling - as if a weight had been lifted from her shoulders - and she was full of vitality, moving from one corner of the room to another, evidently very happy with her new home.
2 May 2008 - Blockade puts Gaza on brink of serious food crisis, says UN
The Independent
Destitution and food insecurity among Gaza's 1.5 million residents has reached an unprecedentedly critical level, according to unpublished UN findings that they now need "urgent assistance" to avert a "serious food crisis" in the occupied Palestinian territories.
2 May 2008 - 12-year-old boy shot in head as Israeli forces invade Khan Younis
Ma'an News
Gaza ? A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and seriously injured when several Israeli military vehicles entered the Al-Faraheen neighborhood of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.
2 May 2008 - Tom Levitt MP Talks About Gaza and West Bank Trip
I am grateful to be called in a debate which, as my hon. Friend the Minister said, is timely not just for the reasons that he gave, but because it gives me the opportunity to report back briefly on the trip to the west bank, Gaza and Israel that four of us undertook two weeks ago. I was accompanied by my hon. Friends the Members for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) and for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove) and the hon. Member for Brent, East (Sarah Teather).
2 May 2008 - Gaza sewage pumped into the sea over past three months
Haaretz
Millions of liters of sewage have been released over the past three months into the Mediterranean Sea from the Gaza Strip, according to a new United Nations report.
According to the report, an estimated 50-60 million liters of waste per day have been pumped into the sea. This was done in an effort to prevent an overflow of sewage in residential areas.
1 May 2008 - Israel's dilemma over sick Gazans
BBC
Crying out in pain, Ahmed lies in a hospital bed in Barzilai Medical Centre, his blood-encrusted lower limbs heavily bandaged.
1 May 2008 - UN facing increased delays at Israeli checkpoints
IRIN
JERUSALEM, 30 April 2008 (IRIN) - Increased Israeli restrictions on the checkpoints around East Jerusalem have caused more delays and more lost man hours for UN staff in March 2008 than in all of 2007, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.
1 May 2008 - Latest on Gaza Sewage
UN
Between 50 and 60 million litres of partially treated and untreated sewage from the Gaza Strip have been flowing daily into the Mediterranean Sea since 24 January.
30 Apr 2008 - Israeli to allow entry of international aid to Gaza
Maan News
Israel decided on Wednesday to allow a shipment of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from Egypt and from international organizations.
30 Apr 2008 - Study: Israel can remove 10 key West Bank checkpoints
AP
Israel should remove 10 major West Bank checkpoints to give a badly needed boost to the Palestinian economy, a group of Israeli ex-generals and Palestinian officials said in a joint report Wednesday.
28 Apr 2008 - Four children killed in Gaza raid
BBC
At least five people, including four young children, have been killed in an Israeli missile strike in northern Gaza, Palestinian medics have said.
28 Apr 2008 - World Bank: Israeli blockade stalls Palestinian economy
AP
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian economy won't grow this year, largely due to Israeli restrictions on movement and despite billions of dollars in aid meant to shore up support for peace talks, the World Bank predicted Sunday.
24 Apr 2008 - Fuel crisis halts UN aid to Gaza
BBC
The United Nations has said it will have to suspend its humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip within hours unless it receives fresh fuel supplies.
23 Apr 2008 - Israel ships fuel to Gaza, averts power plant shutdown
AP
JERUSALEM - A threatened shutdown of the Gaza Strip's only power plant was averted Wednesday after Israel agreed to pump about 260,000 gallons of diesel fuel to the territory, enough to run the plant for at least three days.
22 Apr 2008 - Tony Blair's Palestine - By Chris Patten
Maan News
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has many positive attributes, including great charm. He will need all his skills to address the bewildering range of global tasks that he has taken on since being shoehorned out of office by his dour successor, Gordon Brown.
22 Apr 2008 - Gaza's sewage 'tsunami'
BBC
A five-month-old baby lay on a blanket in the shade of a hut made of metal sheets.
Thin tree branches, with leaves and twigs intact, were laced around the ends of the hut to insulate it against the hot wind that blows into the sand dunes, rolling away to the border fence and on to Israel.
21 Apr 2008 - Carter: Problem isn't that I met Hamas, but that Israel and U.S. won't
Haaretz
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Monday that the "problem" was not his decision to meet with the Islamist group, but rather the refusal of Israel and the U.S. to do the same.
21 Apr 2008 - Funerals for eight victims of Israeli action in Gaza
Maan News
Funeral processions were held on Sunday in the Gaza Strip for eight Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip.
21 Apr 2008 - Peace talks fail to hearten Gazans
BBC
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military over the last six months, but it was the high number of civilian casualties in the Israeli army operations over the last week that so shocked people in Gaza.
18 Apr 2008 - Israel to build 100 settler homes
BBC
The Israeli housing ministry has invited tenders for the construction of 100 new homes at settlements in the occupied West Bank.
17 Apr 2008 - Heavy fighting in Gaza casts doubt on Egyptian-led talks
AP
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza's worst day of violence in a month, in which at least 20 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers died, appeared to jeopardize Egypt's efforts to mediate a Middle East cease-fire.
17 Apr 2008 - Killing of Reuters journalist brings death toll in Gaza to 18
Maan News
A cameramen for the news agency Reuters was killed and five others wounded, including two journalists, when Israeli tanks fired at a bridge in Wadi Gaza, the valley in the central Gaza Strip.
17 Apr 2008 - Joint Statement of United Nations organizations on the fuel situation in Gaza
UN
United Nations humanitarian and development agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory are gravely concerned about the limited fuel supplies in the Gaza Strip which are having a severe impact upon daily life for the population, and UN operations. Israel?s announcement that it will resume deliveries of fuel to the power plant is a positive step, but is insufficient to address the severe shortages of fuel used for transport and generators. The current absence of fuel at petrol stations has meant that normal transportation has ceased; many students have been unable to get to school, and many health professionals have been unable to get to hospitals and clinics. There have been difficulties transporting essential items such as food throughout Gaza.
8 Apr 2008 - Gazans' latest crisis: fuel cuts
AP
JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip - Muin Abdul Ghani sleeps in his car, parked among dozens of other vehicles at a gas station, unwilling to give up his place in line in his desperate scramble for gasoline.
8 Apr 2008 - Official: Settlement on Palestinian land
AP
JERUSALEM - A top Israeli official has reportedly said that a large Jewish settlement in the West Bank was built on private Palestinian land.
8 Apr 2008 - Gazans brace for major incursion as Israeli forces enter Jabalia
Maan News
Gaza ? Thirty Israeli military vehicles entered the northern Gaza Strip city of Jabalia early on Tuesday morning, stopping 100 meters from a Palestinian residential neighborhood, witnesses said.
8 Apr 2008 - ISRAEL-OPT: More hope for the mentally ill in Gaza, West Bank?
IRIN
JERUSALEM, 6 April 2008 (IRIN) - For mentally ill Palestinians hope may be on the way: The implementation of a national mental health programme has started, officials involved in the project said.
8 Apr 2008 - UN official: Gaza medical system in "pathetic state"
Reliefweb
A high ranking UN official on Monday described the Gaza health system as being in a "pathetic state" and said that European prisoners had better access to basic services than residents of the coastal Strip.
7 Apr 2008 - Israeli tanks kill Palestinian child, injure two others in Gaza
Maan News
Gaza ? Ma'an ? Shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell killed a five-year-old Palestinian child and injured two others in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon, witnesses and medics said.
7 Apr 2008 - West Bank roadblock stifles peace hopes
AP
JERICHO, West Bank - The ordeal unfolds weekly in this oasis of palms and bright flowers: After bike tours and picnics and a few hours away from the tensions of daily life, Palestinian visitors get stuck in a chaotic traffic jam at an Israeli army checkpoint as they leave the West Bank's only resort.
7 Apr 2008 - Palestinians march to call for healthy generation of refugees
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Hundreds of Palestinians marched through the alleys of the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp Sunday morning, carrying banners and chanting slogans, while drawing the attention of many sleepy households adjusting to Daylight Savings time in Lebanon.
4 Apr 2008 - Gaza patients die as Israel denies treatment
IRIN
JERUSALEM, 1 April (IRIN) - "Tragedies that could and should have been avoided," was how Ambrogio Manenti, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Jerusalem, described the cases of Palestinian patients who died while awaiting medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip.
4 Apr 2008 - Israel Says Removed 50 W.Bank Dirt Roadblocks
New York Times
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it had removed 50 roadblocks in the occupied West Bank as part of promises made to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
4 Apr 2008 - OPT: Refugee stories - UNRWA embarks on large-scale camp rehabilitation with support of UAE Red Crescent Society
Relief Web
With more than 9,000 people crammed into an area 650 meters by 200 meters, Neirab camp near Aleppo has a population density that sadly rivals Gaza. Most of the population lives in small one-room shelters. Depending on the time of day, these tiny rooms may serve as living rooms, salons or bedrooms.
3 Apr 2008 - Arab home razed in Jerusalem
AP
JERUSALEM - An Israeli wrecking crew knocked down Shadi Hamdan's home in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem in just a couple of hours, reducing the upholsterer's savings to a pile of gray rubble.
3 Apr 2008 - Israeli Housing Ministry plans to build 1,900 new housing units across West Bank
Bethlehem ? Ma'an -
The freeze on building Israeli settlements announced by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert before the Annapolis summit appears to have come to an end with the announcement by the Israeli Housing Ministry that they are planning to build 1,900 housing units across the West Bank, the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot has reported
3 Apr 2008 - Israel Slow to Admit Gaza Patients, U.N. Says
New York Times
JERUSALEM ? A new report by the World Health Organization says that 32 Palestinians from Gaza have died in recent months largely because of Israeli restrictions that delayed their access to urgent medical treatment in Israel.
2 Apr 2008 - Israeli forces raid northern Gaza, seize three Palestinians
Maan News
Gaza ? Israeli troops and five military vehicles entered the Al-Amal neighborhood of the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.
1 Apr 2008 - Israel treats Bedouins unfairly: report
AP
JERUSALEM - Thousands of Bedouin homes in Israel's south are threatened with demolition because they were built on land Israel does not recognize as theirs, a leading human rights group said Monday.
1 Apr 2008 - Hundreds of new settler homes planned in Jerusalem
AFP
Local authorities announced the construction of hundreds of new houses in a Jewish settlement in Occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, dealing a new blow to faltering peace talks. The Israeli municipality made the announcement as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a tour of the region aimed at bolstering the peace process and amid Palestinian outrage at continued settlement activity.
31 Mar 2008 - Update of humanitarian trends and figures covering the last six months
UN
Increased obstacles restricting freedom of movement in the West Bank- 580 as of Feb. 2008.
Prior monthly averages of the number of obstacles:
472 in 2005
518 in 2006
552 in 2007
Between 1 January ?- 11 March 08:
259 Palestinians (43 children) and 14 Israelis (4 children) were killed
767 Palestinians (181 children) and 103 Israelis (5 children) were injured
31 Mar 2008 - Israel pledges to remove roadblocks
AP
JERUSALEM - Israel has pledged to remove 50 West Bank roadblocks as part of a package to improve everyday life for Palestinians, U.S. officials said Sunday.
The officials, traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said Israel and the Palestinians also have agreed that Palestinian security forces in the West Bank must assume "greater responsibility."
28 Mar 2008 - Barred From Main Road, Palestinians Fear Two-Tiered System
New York Times
BEIT SIRA, West Bank ? Ali Abu Safia, mayor of this Palestinian village, steers his car up one potholed road, then another, finding each exit blocked by huge concrete chunks placed there by the Israeli Army. On a sleek highway 100 yards away, Israeli cars whiz by.
27 Mar 2008 - Israeli forces demolish three houses, farm and groves in southern Gaza Strip
Gaza ? Ma'an ? Israeli forces demolished three houses in Al-Qarara in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening.
27 Mar 2008 - Rights group: Deaths in IDF Bethlehem raid were apparent executions
Haaretz
The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has requested a criminal investigation into the deaths of four wanted Palestinian militants in Bethlehem on March 12, saying that the deaths during the Israel Defense Forces raid appeared to have been an execution.
27 Mar 2008 - Gaza bakeries strike over bread prices
AP
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Bakers in Gaza refused to bake bread Wednesday, charging that Hamas is keeping prices artificially low to head off unrest among their sanctions-weary people
26 Mar 2008 - Blair: Middle East peace process is a race against time
Haaretz
Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Tuesday warned stakeholders in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process that they were facing "a race against time."
25 Mar 2008 - Loss of Palestinian infrastructure in destroyed camp is costly
Chronicle Foreign Service
The past several months have been Lebanon's coldest winter in 25 years, and Hanin Rafae is struggling to keep her family warm.
21 Mar 2008 - Lavrov: Ease on Gaza, stop settlements
AP
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Russia's foreign minister called on Friday for an end to the blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and demanded that Israel halt settlement activity in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
21 Mar 2008 - Situation of Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border continues to deteriorate
UNHCR
The situation of more than 2,700 Palestinians who have been stranded and are living in inhumane conditions in two border camps at the Iraq-Syrian border continues to deteriorate.
18 Mar 2008 - Court case reveals how settlers illegally grab West Bank lands
West Bank settlements have expanded their jurisdictions by taking control of private Palestinian land and allocating it to settlers. The land takeover - which the Civil Administration calls "theft" - has occured in an orderly manner, without any official authorization.
14 Mar 2008 - Abbas accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing
AP
DAKAR, Senegal - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of implementing policies he claimed were part of an "ethnic cleansing" campaign in the Palestinian areas of Jerusalem.
13 Mar 2008 - Israelis kill four in West Bank
BBC
Israeli commandos have opened fire on an unmarked car in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, shooting dead four Palestinian militants.
13 Mar 2008 - Egypt quietly lets in 230 patients from Gaza
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 12 March 2008 (IRIN) - Egypt has allowed over 200 Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip to make their way into Egypt via the Rafah border crossing, according to Palestinian health officials.
12 Mar 2008 - Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Gaza Update
Four Deaths: Whose Security?
Access-related deaths of patients referred to medical care outside Gaza are hard to estimate statistically. Since several factors are involved, it is very difficult to define how far the delay or denial of a permit has influenced the final outcome in each case. However, there is no doubt that every delay lessens the patient?s chances of recovery, and denies her or him the right to the best available medical care.
12 Mar 2008 - Barak 'Before calm, Gaza will escalate beyond anything we've seen'
Jerusalem Post
Continued combat in Gaza will bring an escalation beyond what we have seen so far, before we reach a period of calm," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday.
11 Mar 2008 - Palestinian cabinet condemns Israeli settlement expansion
Ramallah ? Ma'an ? The Palestinian cabinet convened on Monday evening to discuss Israel's decision to build 750 new residential units in illegal settlements in Jerusalem and Giv'at Ze'ev. The cabinet labeled the planned expansion destructive to the peace negotiations and a step that could draw the region further into the cycle of violence.
11 Mar 2008 - Lebanon: ICRC completes primary water supply to ruined refugee camp
EIRUT, 6 March 2008 (IRIN) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed rebuilding the primary water supply network in currently accessible areas of the ruined Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, north Lebanon.
10 Mar 2008 - Israel approves settlement growth
BBC
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a plan to build up to 750 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
6 Mar 2008 - Gaza conditions 'at 40-year low'
BBC
Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups.
6 Mar 2008 - UK rights groups: Gaza in severe crisis
AP
JERUSALEM - A human rights coalition charged Thursday that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has reached its worst point since Israel captured the territory in 1967.
6 Mar 2008 - Elderly Palestinian woman dies of heart attack after Israeli soldiers abducted her son
Maan News
Nablus ? Ma'an ? An elderly Palestinian woman died of a heart attack when Israeli soldiers raided her home in Balata refugee camp, in eastern Nablus in the northern West Bank, on Thursday.
5 Mar 2008 - Israel launches fresh Gaza raid
BBC
Israeli forces have briefly re-entered the Gaza Strip and clashed with Palestinian militants, with two people killed by gunfire, medics said.
4 Mar 2008 - Barak seeks legal okay to move Gazan civilians from homes
Haaretz
Legal experts in the government say it is difficult to decide whether Israel can move Palestinian civilians from areas in the northern Gaza Strip where rockets are fired against Israel. They say international law is based on precedents, and in Israel's case the matter is in many ways unprecedented
4 Mar 2008 - At Gaza hospital, they 'need everything'
NBC
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ? A 15-year-old Palestinian boy lay dying today in the intensive care unit of Gaza?s Shifa Hospital. Both his legs had been amputated above the knees after injuries sustained by what the hospital admission center called "an explosive device."
4 Mar 2008 - 'US plot against Hamas' revealed
AFP
Documents that appear to show that the US attempted to overthrow the Hamas-led Palestinian government have surfaced.
3 Mar 2008 - CAABU condemns Israel's disproportionate use of force in Gaza
CAABU
CAABU is gravely concerned by Israel's disproportionate use of force in Gaza and condemns all attacks against civilians.
3 Mar 2008 - Observer uncovers block on seriously ill patients being treated abroad
Observer
The latest bloodshed comes as an Observer investigation revealed how Israel is again deliberately obstructing the transfer of urgent medical cases for treatment outside Gaza, in the latest extension of its policy of collective punishment of Palestinians.
3 Mar 2008 - Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Abu Zayd
I speak to you today from a besieged and war-torn Gaza as head of the lead agency charged by the international community with bringing humanitarian relief to a suffering people. I am horrified at the violence engulfing Gaza, where the death toll of innocent civilians, including children, rises each hour. At the same time, I condemn the rockets, which lead to a senseless loss of civilian lives.
2 Mar 2008 - 10 killed in Gaza brings death toll to 98 since Wednesday
Maan News
The death toll in the Gaza Strip continued to rise on Sunday with 10 Palestinian citizens were killed in continued Israeli shelling and air raids in the northern Gaza Strip.
29 Feb 2008 - Israeli minister warns of Palestinian 'holocaust'
Guardian
An Israeli minister today warned of increasingly bitter conflict in the Gaza Strip, saying the Palestinians could bring on themselves what he called a "holocaust".
"The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defence minister, told army radio.
28 Feb 2008 - MAP statement on the ongoing violations of international humanitarian law
The international community has an obligation to ensure that international humanitarian law is upheld by all parties. International donors must take a stand against all ongoing violations, and particularly address the destruction of Palestinian civil society projects and infrastructure that they support.
25 Feb 2008 - Gaza protesters form human chain
BBC
housands of Palestinians have formed a "human chain" in Gaza in protest at Israel's blockade of the territory.
Organisers had hoped up to 50,000 people would make a 40km (25-mile) chain from Rafah to Beit Hanoun, but turnout was below expectation.
24 Feb 2008 - IDF braces for mass rally against Israeli blockade on Gaza border
Haaretz
Gasoline ran out in Gaza over the weekend in the aftermath of limitations imposed by Israel on imports into the Strip, excluding fuel for emergency vehicles. Diesel fuel is also said to be in short supply.
22 Feb 2008 - Limited incursion in Rafah; Israeli forces open fire on school
Maan News
Several Israeli military vehicles conducted a limited incursion in the Ash-Shuka area in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amidst heavy gunfire and artillery shelling on Thursday. No casualties have been reported.
22 Feb 2008 - Worried Rice to discuss Gaza with Olmert in Japan
Haaretz
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice while both are in Japan next week. The meeting was requested by Rice. It is particularly surprising because Rice is due to come to Jerusalem for a working visit the following week.
21 Feb 2008 - Israeli forces seize 23 Palestinians; clashes near Nablus
Maan News
Israeli forces on Thursday morning apprehended 23 Palestinians from different West Bank districts, claiming they were 'wanted activists.'
21 Feb 2008 - W Bank building 'bias' condemned
BBC
Israel passed fewer than 6% of building requests by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 2000-07, an Israeli anti-settlement group says.
21 Feb 2008 - European Parliament re-calls for the end of the blockade in Gaza
The European Parliament approved a resolution that calls once again, after a previous resolution already voted on 11th October 2007, for the lift of the Israeli blockade on Gaza Strip.
"Now, European Union has no more excuses - declared Luisa Morgantini- We must immediately take effective actions to implement these resolutions and stop the illegal and collective punishment of civilians in the Strip, where 98 Palestinian patients, including 17 children, already died for the lack of medicines and treatments due to the siege: the MEPs delegation visited the Shifa Hospital in Gaza and saw at least 30 premature babies still alive thanks to the incubators but that will die if generators would stop for the lack of fuel due to the cut off of refuelling supplies and to the closure decided by the Israeli Government. That?s unlawful and inhuman?.
20 Feb 2008 - Iraq: No solution in sight for Palestinian refugees stranded at border
BAGHDAD, 19 February 2008 (IRIN) - Palestinian refugees trapped in three makeshift camps along the Iraqi-Syrian border are living in very precarious conditions and their situation is deteriorating by the day, a senior Palestinian diplomat said on 18 February.
20 Feb 2008 - Gaza boy 'killed in Israeli raid'
BBC
Israeli troops have killed a 10-year-old boy during a raid into central Gaza, Palestinian medics say.
20 Feb 2008 - Palestinian man hospitalized for tenth day after attacked by wild boars released by Israeli settlers
Nablus ? Ma'an ? Wild boars released by Israeli settlers have attacked and seriously wounded a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank, Palestinian security sources said.
19 Feb 2008 - Source: U.S. agrees to delay talks on J'lem, Abbas rejects agreement
Haaretz
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed to defer talks on Jerusalem to the final stage of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. However, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas insisted Monday that discussions on the status of the city must not be postponed.
19 Feb 2008 - Fayyad: Progress in peace talks too slow for deal in 2008
Haaretz
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are making little progress and a peace agreement won't be possible by the end of the year if the pace isn't quickened, the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told a group of American Jewish leaders on Tuesday.
18 Feb 2008 - Hamas, Egypt hold talks on Rafah crossing: official
Xinhua News Agency
GAZA, Feb 14, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) - An aide to deposed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haneya revealed on Thursday that there are talks held between Hamas and Egypt on reopening Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
18 Feb 2008 - Imposing more checkpoints, Israel tightens grip on Nablus
Maan News
The Israeli forces on Sunday morning erected more military checkpoints impeding the movement of Palestinians in and out of the Nablus district in the northern West Bank.
15 Feb 2008 - Hamas leaders head to Egypt for renwed talks on Egypt-Gaza border
Maan News
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar lead a delegation to the city of Al-Arish in Egypt to meet with Egyptian officials to discuss the sealed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
15 Feb 2008 - Palestinians: Ailing woman dies after IDF denies her ambulance
Reuters
A Palestinian woman who was refused access to an ambulance at an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint died in her village in the West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian doctor and relatives said.
14 Feb 2008 - IDF experts suggest 'surprise' roadblocks in place of checkpoints
Haaretz
Military experts presented alternatives to the policy of roadblocks in the West Bank, suggesting instead surprise roadblocks, Palestinian Authority-coordinated patrols, and more fences around Israeli settlements, at a conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
14 Feb 2008 - UNRWA gets under way with plan to rebuild Nahr al-Bared Agency stresses enormity of project, keeps details private
By Michael Bluhm, Daily Star
BEIRUT: The authorities leading the rebuilding of the war-torn Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon launched the reconstruction's master plan on Tuesday, but they did not release the plan to the public and they have yet to gain full access to the area of the camp hit hardest by the conflict there in mid-2007.
13 Feb 2008 - Ex-Israeli generals denounce checkpoints
JERUSALEM (AP) - A group of retired Israeli generals has launched a campaign urging the army to remove West Bank roadblocks, warning on Wednesday that the travel restrictions sow Palestinian hatred of Israel and stymie the peace process.
12 Feb 2008 - Housing Min. denies delays in East Jerusalem construction
Haaretz
Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim denied Tuesday reports that the government is barring new housing construction for Jews in East Jerusalem, saying Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's order to freeze all construction that does not have his personal approval applies only to the West Bank.
12 Feb 2008 - Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village
Haaretz
The northern town of Kiryat Yam is suing Internet giant Google for slander, a local official said Monday, because a feature of its worldwide map service shows the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village.
12 Feb 2008 - Rats and Sewage
BBC - By Tim Franks
Journalists, aid agencies and foreign politicians spend a lot of time talking about the humanitarian distress of Gaza. But the picture in the West Bank has its ugliness, too.
11 Feb 2008 - Palestinian population in Gaza, West Bank, east Jerusalem grows by 30 percent in a decade
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian population in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem has risen about 30 percent in the past decade to 3.76 million, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported Saturday.
8 Feb 2008 - Teacher killed in Israeli raid on militants in Gaza Strip
The Times
By Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza
Friday, 8 February 2008
Israeli troops backed by tanks, helicopter gunships and warplanes have killed seven Palestinian militants and a schoolteacher in a raid in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, militant groups and hospital officials said.
7 Feb 2008 - Israel launches deadly Gaza raid
BBC
Israeli forces have killed at least six members of the Palestinian movement, Hamas, during a raid in the Gaza Strip
7 Feb 2008 - Blair: Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories must end
MAAN News
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories must end, Middle East Envoy to the Quartet Tony Blair said on Thursday.
6 Feb 2008 - 7 killed, 13 injured in Israeli attack on police headquarters in Khan Younis
MAAN News
Gaza ? Seven Palestinian policemen affiliated to the Gaza-based de facto government were killed and 13 others injured in an Israeli helicopter attack on the police headquarters in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon.
5 Feb 2008 - Starving Gaza
Saree Makdisi, The Nation,
The people of Gaza were able to enjoy a few days of freedom two weeks ago, after demolition charges brought down the iron wall separating the impoverished Palestinian territory from Egypt, allowing hundreds of thousands to burst out of the virtual prison into which Gaza has been transformed over the past few years -- the terminal stage of four decades of Israeli occupation -- and to shop for desperately needed supplies in Egyptian border towns.
5 Feb 2008 - Israeli strike kills five in Gaza
BBC
An Israeli air strike has hit a police station in Gaza, killing five members of the Hamas security force, Palestinian sources say.
4 Feb 2008 - Palestinian refugees in Iraq call for unity
IMEMC
Palestinian refugee in Iraq, facing repeated attacks, abductions and killings, voiced an appeal to the Palestinian people in Palestine and to all factions in order to save them and place their issue as a high
priority. The refugees called on all Palestinian factions to end the internal tension and to unite.
1 Feb 2008 - Egypt tightens Gaza border gaps
BBC
Egyptian forces have begun to prevent Palestinian vehicles from crossing sections of its Gaza border which were destroyed by Hamas militants last week
31 Jan 2008 - Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Written by Ilan Pappé
Not long ago, I claimed that Israel is employing genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. The responses I received indicated unease in using such a term. I rethought the term for a while, but concluded with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip.
30 Jan 2008 - Dark Truths About the Israeli Occupation
Daniel Levy, Washington Monthly
Edith Zertal and Akiva Eldar end their exhaustive study of Israeli settlement policy with a poignant question: Is it possible, they wonder, that Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will become a "first step in Israel's journey of liberating itself from the enslavement to the territories that it occupied in 1967, and which have occupied [it] since then and have brought it to the verge of destruction"?
30 Jan 2008 - OPT: Refugee Stories - Dire conditions for patients seeking medical treatment outside Gaza
Relief Web
Munir Mukheirz's health had deteriorated rapidly. He was suffering from a seriously debilitating, emaciating disease for which he required urgent medical treatment unavailable in Gaza. Despite strenuous efforts to move him to a hospital outside the Strip, the Israeli border closures and restrictions on the movement of people meant that Munir was forced to remain in a quarantine unit in Gaza European Hospital.
30 Jan 2008 - Israel court upholds Gaza sanctions
AP
JERUSALEM - The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's cutoff of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip, a court spokeswoman said.
28 Jan 2008 - Egypt clamps down on Rafah border
Maan News
Egypt is tightened control of its border with the Gaza Strip on Monday after five days of virtually unregulated cross-border traffic.
28 Jan 2008 - Narratives Under Siege: Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza city
PCHR
Moin Ali Mahmoud al-Wadiya at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.
28 Jan 2008 - PCHR Calls for International Resolution over Rafah Crossing Crisis
The Palestinian Centre for Human rights (PCHR) is concerned about the continuing state of chaos on the Egyptian-Palestinian border. The Centre believes the current situation does not provide a solution regarding civilians' rights to safe and unhindered travel into and out of the Gaza Strip, especially as Rafah International Crossing Point remains officially closed.
25 Jan 2008 - Egypt moves to seal Gaza border
BBC
Egyptian security forces have begun intervening to try to stem the flow of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip through its partly demolished border.
Riot police used water cannons against those still attempting to cross the border into Egypt, and announced it would be closed from 1500 (1300 GMT).
24 Jan 2008 - Plan to rebuild Nahr al-Bared to be ready this month
Daily Star
Unrwa warns cost estimate will be 'not very accurate' due to lack of access to battered camp
24 Jan 2008 - Gaza siege intensified after collapse of natural gas deal
Mark Turner, The Electronic Intifada
Israel has dramatically intensified its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, stepping up air strikes and shelling of the beleaguered coastal strip. UN officials and human rights advocates warn that Gazans now face a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented magnitude with widespread disease and famine rapidly becoming reality as electricity generation, water supply, sewage treatment, food supplies and medical services grind to a halt as a consequence of the ever tighter Israeli blockade.
23 Jan 2008 - Gazans flood through Egypt border
BBC
Thousands of Palestinians have surged into Egypt from the Gaza Strip after masked militants destroyed parts of the border wall.
23 Jan 2008 - This brutal siege of Gaza can only breed violence
The Guardian - Karen Koning AbuZayd
Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
22 Jan 2008 - UN says Gaza facing food shortage
BBC
UN food aid to about 860,000 people in the Gaza Strip will have to be suspended within days if Israel's blockade continues, the UN has warned.
22 Jan 2008 - Emergency meeting of UN Security Council to discuss deteriorating situation in Gaza
Ma'an News
Gaza ? The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip.
22 Jan 2008 - No light, no heat, no bread: stark reality for the powerless in Gaza
The Guardian
Besieged civilians pay the price for Israel's hardline response to rocket attacks
16 Jan 2008 - Israel launches lethal raids into Gaza
The Independent
Israeli forces using tanks and helicopters killed 19 Palestinians yesterday? including the son of a top Hamas leader ? in one of their most lethal raids into Gaza since the Islamic faction's enforced takeover of the Strip last June.
14 Jan 2008 - Gaza parents not allowed to accompany ill children into Israel
Haaretz
The parents of two young Gazans in need of urgent medical care to escort their children into Israel last week for treatment.
Despite many efforts to obtain a permit for own of Sausan al-Jaafri's parents or even a distant relative, the young girl had to travel to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on her own.
10 Jan 2008 - Bush fails to gain concessions on settlements from Olmert
The Guardian
The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, last night refused to rule out further settlement building in East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank, highlighting the deep gulf between Israel and the Palestinians that confronts George Bush on his first visit to Israel and the West Bank as president.
9 Jan 2008 - GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION REPORT POWER SHORTAGES IN THE GAZA STRIP
UN Report
On Saturday, 5 January 2008, the Gaza Power Generating Company (GPGC) reduced its power supply to the Gaza Strip by 23 megawatts, resulting in daily power cuts of up to eight hours to Gaza?s population of 1.48 million
9 Jan 2008 - Gaza demonstrators carry empty coffins in protest against siege
MA'AN News
Gaza - On the eve of the US President George W. Bush's visit to the Palestinian territories, hundreds of residents of the Gaza Strip rallied in Gaza City in protest against the crippling Israeli siege on the coastal area.
7 Jan 2008 - Evidence of Israeli 'cowardly blending' comes to light
by Jonathan Cook;
(Nazareth) It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of Israel and Hizbullah during the war on Lebanon 18 months ago. Belatedly, an important effort has been made to set that right.
7 Jan 2008 - Report calls Israeli courts unfair
Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Israel's military court system for Palestinian suspects in the West Bank produces almost automatic convictions, an Israeli human rights group charged Sunday.
4 Jan 2008 - Nine dead, more than forty injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip
Ma'an News
Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a site belonging to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades killing 25-year-old Atallah Qishta, a Fatah' member detained by Hamas, and injuring four others, one seriously. This brings the death toll since Thursday morning to nine. The number of those injured also rose to 46.
3 Jan 2008 - Our violent presence
By Amira Hass
There is no Israeli whose presence in the West Bank is neutral. Civilian or armed, soldier or woman settler, resident of a quality-of-life settlement or a nearby outpost, MahsomWatch activist or guest at a settlement, Bezek worker or client at a Palestinian garage. All of them, all of us, are in this Palestinian territory, in the West Bank, because our state occupied it in 1967.
2 Jan 2008 - Israel: West Bank roadblocks will remain
AP
Israel's network of roadblocks will remain in place across the West Bank, the defense minister said Tuesday, sparking an outcry from Palestinians who say they cannot rebuild their economy until people and goods move freely.
2 Jan 2008 - Second Gazan pilgrim dies at Al-Arish
MA'AN News
Palestinian medical sources announced the death of Palestinian pilgrim Mariam Udwan, a woman in her fifties, the second person to die while stranded at Al-Arish, Egypt, while attempting to return to the Gaza Strip from Mecca.
21 Dec 2007 - Gaza residents discuss the closure
BBC
Three Palestinians describe life in Gaza under the closure of the borders and how much they think the extra funding pledged by donors in Paris can help them.
20 Dec 2007 - Palestinian refugees from Iraq stranded in desert camp
McClatchy
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees who've been forced out of their homes in Iraq are stranded in a remote stretch of the Syrian desert, where they're living in tents that offer little shelter against blinding sandstorms and the biting cold of winter nights, according to humanitarian aid workers and refugees.
20 Dec 2007 - Israeli Policies at Erez Crossing: Bureaucratic Cat and Mouse
PHR
Over the past few weeks, Israeli authorities have changed their tactics regarding medical exit permits for Gaza patients: Instead of issuing a permit or a rejection on ?security grounds,? responses are delayed for weeks and defined as ?pending.? Since appeals can only be filed after a formal rejection has been issued, the significance of this tactic is denial of the possibility of appeal.
19 Dec 2007 - Lebanon: "No-one can negotiate on our right to return" - Palestinian refugees
IRIN NEWS
Palestinian and Israeli leaders may have agreed at the US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis but what of Palestinians in Lebanon
18 Dec 2007 - World Food Programme Report
The World Food Programme Report released this December concluded that the restriction on imports and freeze on exports have significantly reduced the livelihood viability of Gazas population, bringing larger segments of the population into the vulnerability circle.
14 Dec 2007 - Oxfam criticizes Israeli restrictions
AP - JERUSALEM - International assistance to the Palestinians will not be effective unless Israel eases travel restrictions that have stalled some aid projects and sent the costs of others soaring, Oxfam International warned on the eve of a donors' conference.
13 Dec 2007 - Red Cross demands Mid-East action
BBC
The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for immediate political action to contain the "deep crisis" in the West Bank and Gaza.
The statement was an unusual departure from its normally non-political stance.
11 Dec 2007 - Israeli tanks, bulldozers move into Gaza
Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the biggest operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control in June, setting off clashes with militants.
10 Dec 2007 - Gaza patient dies untreated
IMEMC & Agencies Saturday December 08
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza announced today the death of one more patient due to having been denied access to referral to hospitals outside the Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to impose restrictions on movement of Gaza patients.
10 Dec 2007 - Fuel crunch adds to misery in Gaza
Associated Press
Month-old Israeli reduction in fuel shipments to Strip hitting seaside territory hard: Service stations have shut off their fuel nozzles, tens of thousands of people have no fresh water because pumps can`t run. `One time there is no electricity. Then no water, or no wheat. It can`t get more unjust,` resident says
7 Dec 2007 - Al Jazeera Video on Situation in Gaza
Al Jazeera International investigates the impact of fuel shortages on the inhabitants of Gaza.
7 Dec 2007 - Testimony: Israel delays treatment of two Gaza toddlers
Report, B'Tselem, 7 December 2007
5 Dec 2007 - 60 wounded Palestinians demand passage through Rafah crossing
Maan News
Sixty Palestinians, seriously wounded during the recent Israeli attacks and targeted assassinations in the Gaza Strip, gathered near the Rafah crossing on Tuesday, demanding to be allowed to cross into Egypt for medical treatment.
5 Dec 2007 - Sick Gazans stuck in queue of death
Reuters
Palestinians suffering serious illnesses have long traveled from Gaza to nearby Israeli hospitals for treatments unavailable at facilities in the territory, which is home to 1.5 million people and was occupied by Israel for 38 years until 2005.
4 Dec 2007 - Rainstorms compound misery of displaced Nahr al-Bared refugees
Daily Star
BEIRUT: The arrival of winter has highlighted the housing crisis facing the tens of thousands of refugees displaced from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp by the conflict there earlier this year, a number of officials working with the refugees told The Daily Star on Monday.
3 Dec 2007 - Peace Summit: 'If these talks fail, we will all be in deep trouble'
The Independent
In Gaza, the Annapolis summit has brought hope ? and a realisation that this may be the region's last chance
3 Dec 2007 - Latest UN OCHA report into Conditions in Gaza
Gaza is experiencing shortages of food, medical and relief items, spare parts for critical health and water sanitation equipment, materials for humanitarian projects and raw materials for the Gaza Strip?s commerce and industry.
30 Nov 2007 - High Court orders state to delay power cuts to Gaza
Ha'aretz
The High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered the state to delay its reduction of power supplies to the Gaza Strip by at least a week, pending a full presentation detailing the proposed operation.
28 Nov 2007 - A Palestinian Woman Dies Due to the Prevention of Her Travel to Receive Medical Treatment
On Saturday morning, 24 November 2007, a Palestinian patient from the Gaza Strip died as Israel refused to grant her permission to enter Israel to receive medical treatment at Ichilov Hospital.
27 Nov 2007 - Sick are in the frontline as supplies and hope drain away for isolated Gazans
Guardian
As peace negotiators meet in Annapolis, sanctions mean doctors in Gaza remain without medicine or equipment and 85% of the population rely on UN food aid
26 Nov 2007 - UN official says Israel's siege of Gaza breeds extremism and human suffering
The Independent
A senior United Nations official has issued an unprecedented appeal to British MPs to use their influence to try to alleviate the impact of "indiscriminate" and "illegal" Israeli sanctions in Gaza which display "profound inhumanity" and are "serving the agenda of extremists".
23 Nov 2007 - Israel eases Gaza export block prior to US summit
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Israel said yesterday it would allow farmers in Gaza to export their high-quality strawberries and flowers into Israel and on to Europe in what is the first easing of the trade embargo imposed on the Palestinians in June.
21 Nov 2007 - Dying of occupation - a case of cancer and the Israeli right
Haaretz
This past weekend, a Gaza cancer patient named Nail al-Kurdi, 20, waiting since July for permission to cross into Israel for treatment, died of his illness. For five months, officials of the Shin Bet security service received request after request from Physicians for Human Rights, asking that they grant al-Kurdi a permit to be treated in Israel.
20 Nov 2007 - EVENT: A Taste of Palestine
1st and 2nd December - SOAS
A two day fair selling high quality and fairly
traded produce of Palestine
19 Nov 2007 - Gazan dies of cancer after being refused entrance into Israel
Haaretz
Nail al-Kurdi, a 20-year-old Gaza resident, died over the weekend from cancer while awaiting approval to enter Israel for medical treatment
16 Nov 2007 - The Palestinian path to peace does not go via Annapolis
The Guardian
World opinion is still on the side of the people of the occupied territories. But as long as they are divided, talks are futile
16 Nov 2007 - IRAQ-SYRIA: First death among Palestinian refugees on border
BAGHDAD, 15 November 2007 (IRIN) - Almost 2,000 Palestinians who fled violence in Iraq and are stranded at the Iraqi-Syrian border lack medical care, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). One person, identified as a priority in need of treatment, died on 13 November, the agency said.
15 Nov 2007 - PCHR Warn of an Environmental and Health Disaster from Uncollected Garbage in Gaza City
PCHR is extremely concerned by the accumulation of uncollected garbage throughout Gaza City as a result of a full strike by municipality employees who have not received their salaries for 8 months
14 Nov 2007 - Pedersen, top UNRWA official examine aid, recovery program at Nahr al-Bared
Daily Star, BEIRUT: UN special coordinator for Lebanon Geir Pedersen and Karen Abu Zayd, the commissioner general of the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA), toured the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared on Monday. The UN officials examined UNRWA-led emergency assistance and recovery efforts under way.
13 Nov 2007 - How Can A Dying Man Pose A Security Threat?
Ynet-By Roi Mandel
Na'al al-Kurdi, 21, from Gaza is dying of cancer; for the past four months Na'al has been waiting for a permit from the State of Israel to enter the country in order to receive medical care in one of its hospitals. This permit has not been granted so far due to "security concerns."
12 Nov 2007 - Gaza Hospitals on the Brink
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Gaza City - Hospitals throughout Gaza have shut down their operating rooms due to a lack of essential anaesthetic drugs, the de- facto Hamas
administration in the Strip said.
8 Nov 2007 - Palestinian patient dies in ambulance waiting at Israeli border
MAAN News
Gaza ? A Palestinian doctor named Nathmi Ashur died while waiting on the Israeli border in order to be treated for a blood clot in the brain
7 Nov 2007 - A moment before the lights go out
Amira Hass writes in Haaretz on the situation in Gaza
5 Nov 2007 - Report: US okayed wide-scale Gaza operation
Lebanese daily al-Akhbar quotes diplomatic sources as saying Washington gave 'green light' to Israel to launch extensive incursion in Strip, following Defense Minister Barak's reports about Palestinian factions' alarming military buildup
5 Nov 2007 - Human Rights Organizations Petition Supreme Court against Suspension of Power Supply to Gaza
B'Tselem
The Government Openly Decides, Apparently for the First Time, to Impose Collective Punishment on 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip; Petitioners: The Decision is Illegal and will Damage the Health, Safety and Welfare of the Population of Gaza
5 Nov 2007 - Letter from Raji Sourani to Scottish Parliament on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip
MAP-UK invited Raji Sourani to be a guest of honor and speaker in an event organized in the Scottish Parliament on 24 October 2007. Sourani was slated to speak about the humanitarian situation in Palestine, especially the Gaza Strip.
Despite efforts by many parties, including the British Consulate, Sourani was denied travel to attend.
This is the letter Sourani sent to the event:
1 Nov 2007 - The siege of Gaza is going to lead to a violent escalation
Seumas Milne in 'The Guardian'
Far from helping settle the Middle East conflict, the US and Europe are fuelling it with their contempt for democracy
30 Oct 2007 - EU warns Israel not to impose 'collective punishment' in Gaza
Haaretz
The European Union cautioned Israel on Monday against imposing "collective punishment" against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by cutting of delivery of fuel supplies to the territory.
30 Oct 2007 - Gazan cancer patient dies after being delayed entry into Israel for 10 days
B'Tselem
In August 2007, Mahmoud Abu Taha, 21, was diagnosed with cancer of the small intestine. He underwent surgery at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, but the operation failed. After receiving chemotherapy at the European Hospital in Gaza , physicians found that his intestines were blocked and that he required emergency surgery in Israel .
29 Oct 2007 - UN chief: Israel blocking aid deliveries to Gaza
MAAN News
Israel's plan to cut electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip will worsen an already dire humanitarian situation, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator said Saturday.
29 Oct 2007 - Event: Exiled and suffering: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
SOAS, Tuesday 30th Oct, 7PM
Khalili Lecture Theatre.
26 Oct 2007 - Twice turned away at Israeli border, Palestinian heart attack patient dies
MAAN News -
Gaza ? A Palestinian man suffering from a heart attack died Tuesday after Israeli forces twice refused to allow his ambulance to enter Israel where he was to be treated.
18 Oct 2007 - Abbas says Jewish state is sabotaging peace talks, threatens to stay home
AFP
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned on Wednesday he would not attend a US-sponsored Middle East meeting without real prospects for results and accused Israel of hampering peace efforts. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heard the strong message after a second round of talks with Abbas, underscoring that despite her four days of shuttle diplomacy the gaps between Israel and the Palestinians are still large.
17 Oct 2007 - Jerusalem is ours, warns Likud
The Independent
The right wing Israeli opposition party Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned the government against compromising on the status of Jerusalem in current talks with Palestinian negotiators.
17 Oct 2007 - "Joyous occasion" as Palestinian villages connect to electricity grid
IRIN
Renewed cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank allowed for what both sides described as a "joyous occasion", when this small town of about 300 Palestinian residents was connected on 16 October to the main power grid.
17 Oct 2007 - End illegal discrimination against Palestinians, says Amnesty
IRIN
The Lebanese government's practises against Palestinian refugees continue to breach the country's obligations under international human rights law and should be repealed immediately, according to a report released here on 17 October by Amnesty International (AI).
11 Oct 2007 - Exam failure
The price Gaza's children are paying for international blockade
Donald Macintyre
The Independent
9 Oct 2007 - Sunlight at Midnight
A play about the Sabra & Shatila massacre
12 and 14 October
London
www.palestineinmotion.com
23 Sep 2007 - The War on Gaza's Children
Israel's sanctions are leaving a generation of Palestinian children poorly educated and hungry.
31 Aug 2007 - OCHA Special Focus
At least 5,848 people have been killed as a direct or indirect consequence of the Israeli-Palestinain conflict since Sept 2000
21 Aug 2007 - Iraq to Kishangarh: Palestinians? hunt for postal address on in city
It has been a long and precarious journey for 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Thaiar. From Baghdad to Kishangarh village in the backyard of Vasant Kunj, via a bus ride through the sandy plains of Syria.
8 Aug 2007 - Israeli High Court rejects Attorney General?s decision denying access to medical treatment for a Palestinian in Israel
MAPs local partner the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) secured agreement from the Israeli Attorney General?s office to allow Mr Fadi Mahmoud al-Hour, 22, to enter Israel to receive medical treatment.
7 Aug 2007 - Guillotining Gaza by Noam Chomsky
7 Aug 2007 - Palestinian boy becomes 32nd to die at Rafah International Crossing
6 Aug 2007 - Israeli military forces invade Gaza airport, south-east of Rafah International Crossing, several Palestinians arrested
2 Aug 2007 - The conflict in Nahr el-Bared is Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
20 Jul 2007 - Curfew imposed on Egypt-Gaza border town of Rafah
16 Jul 2007 - Displaced refugees recall horrors of battle at Nahr al-Bared
4 Jul 2007 - HRW: End Abuse of Palestinians Fleeing Refugee Camp in Lebanon
3 Jul 2007 - Over 7,000 Palestinians stranded on Egyptian border
MAP warns of perilous health conditions at closed Rafah Crossing
2 Jul 2007 - UNHCR pleads for prompt medical aid to Palestinian refugees
The United Nations refugee agency has called for immediate evacuation of at least a dozen seriously ill Palestinians
29 Jun 2007 - Palestinian Workers Call For Reforms in European Emergency Aid Program
28 Jun 2007 - EU Monitors not returning to Rafah crossing
26 Jun 2007 - MAP warns of dire conditions for Palestinians in al-Waleed (Iraq) refugee camp
25 Jun 2007 - WCC International Peace Conference
20 Jun 2007 - Plight of Palestinian refugees worsening in most parts of Middle East
4 Jun 2007 - MAP warns of dire health situation in the Palestinian refugee camps
MAP is prepositioning medical supplies, hygiene kits and food.
4 Jun 2007 - Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon under Fire
MAP is concerned about the death of civilians
30 May 2007 - Statement of the Quartet
The Quartet Principals discuss the situation in the Middle East.
30 May 2007 - Speech by the President of the European Parliament to the Knesset
Hans-Gert Pöttering addresses the Knesset
21 May 2007 - Memories of Major Derek Cooper
by Dr Swee Ang
9 May 2007 - World Bank Report
Movement And Access Restrictions In The West Bank: Uncertainty And Inefficiency In The Palestinian Economy
4 May 2007 - "The people of Gaza and the West Bank are being crushed, slowly but surely"
UNRWA Commissioner-General addresses the political and Security Committee of the EU Council of Ministers
4 May 2007 - Palestinian refugees in despair
After a year stranded between Iraq and Syria, Palestinian refugees are losing hope
25 Apr 2007 - 28 Palestinian refugees injured as fire sweeps through Al Tanf camp
28 Palestinian refugees were injured and seven tents destroyed in a fire that swept through the Al Tanf refugee camp in no-man's land desert area between Syria and Iraq on Tuesday night.
23 Apr 2007 - Stranded Palestinian Refugees at Syrian-Iraqi Borders Exposed to Sand-Storm
Palestinian refugee camp at the Syrian-Iraqi borders was exposed on Thursday to sand storm resulting in uprooting and tearing tents
14 Apr 2007 - The ABCs of Home Demolitions in Israel
The Shawamreh home in the village of Anata, in the West Bank, has become the symbol of the Palestinian struggle against Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinian homes.
14 Apr 2007 - Poverty in Palestine: the human cost of the financial boycott
Oxfam calls for an end to Palestinian Boycott. 'If this situation continues, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) risk becoming a ?failed state?.
10 Apr 2007 - FAO publishes food security report
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation publishes food security and vulnerability analysis.
4 Apr 2007 - MAP responds to waste water flood in Gaza
MAP distributes hot meals to displaced after flood of Bedouin village.
3 Apr 2007 - MAP attends UN meeting in Rome
MAP represented at UN meeting in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
14 Mar 2007 - Two Palestinians killed in Iraq, others ordered to leave
Two Palestinian refugees in Iraq killed by militias, other Palestinians ordered to leave Baghdad
8 Mar 2007 - MAP marks International Women's Day
MAP participates in conference on Globalisation, Occupation and Palestinian Women.
6 Mar 2007 - Palestinians fleeing Iraq stranded at borders
MAP launches basic needs assessment of Palestinian refugee camps bordering Iraq.
6 Mar 2007 - UN condemns human rights violations in OPT
Special Rapporteur John Dugard reports on humanitarian crisis.
1 Mar 2007 - A future without a horizon
Lebanon's leftist daily as-Safir reports on the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
19 Feb 2007 - Palestinians claim 'ethnic cleansing' in Iraq
More than 600 Palestinians killed in Baghdad in 2006.
16 Feb 2007 - MAP operations in Gaza continue uninterrupted
MAP's humanitarian and emergency aid operations continue in Gaza throughout violence.
15 Feb 2007 - MAP secures ECHO support for Gaza water project
MAP launches 10-month project to improve public health in Gaza.
13 Feb 2007 - Lebanon bomb blasts kill eleven
Bombs explode on two buses near the Lebanese capital.
13 Feb 2007 - Palestinian PM urges end to international boycott
Hamas leader calls on international community to end sanctions on Palestinian Authority.
9 Feb 2007 - Palestinians to form unity government
Fatah and Hamas leaders sign power-sharing pact.
7 Feb 2007 - Avoiding Hamas costs EU £2m in bank charges
More than £3m of EU aid for Palestinians spent on bank charges by-passing Hamas government.
5 Feb 2007 - Palestinian refugees driven from Iraq
Syria refuses entry to Palestinian refugees forced to flee Iraq.
16 Jan 2007 - Tehran becomes single largest donor to PA
Iran's increasing influence over PA prompts push on new peace initiative.
1 Dec 2006 - Israeli court approves Bir Nabalah enclave
Israeli High Court approves plan to run Wall round five Palestinian villages.
21 Nov 2006 - Israel 'asks victims to foot hospital bills'
Palestinians accuse Israel of trying to profit from Beit Hanoun massacre.
10 Nov 2006 - Nablus in the spotlight
Guardian correspondent sends series of reports from Nablus.
9 Nov 2006 - Aid agencies condemn Gaza carnage
International aid agencies express dismay at Israeli attacks in which 18 Palestinian civilians died.
8 Nov 2006 - Israeli shelling kills 18 in Gaza
At least 18 Palestinians killed and 40 wounded by Israeli tank fire in Beit Hanoun.
8 Nov 2006 - Gaza hospital 'on verge of collapse'
A third of civilians killed in Gaza in last four months were children.
1 Nov 2006 - Israel launches major Gaza raid
Six Palestinians and one Israeli soldier are killed in heavy clashes in northern Gaza Strip.
30 Oct 2006 - West Bank village with nowhere to go
Israeli barrier and settlement to leave West Bank village with nowhere to go.
23 Oct 2006 - Israel admits use of phosphorous bombs
Israeli government admits that it used controversial weapon in Lebanon war.
19 Oct 2006 - UK won't back cluster bomb ban
UK refuses to back cluster bomb ban as the extent of their use in Lebanon is revealed.
17 Oct 2006 - Gaza death toll passes 23 in five days
Israeli search-and-destroy operations into Gaza kill at least 23 Palestinians in five days.
5 Oct 2006 - Unity talks fail as Rice arrives for visit
Attempts to form a coalition government fail despite mounting economic and security crisis.
2 Oct 2006 - Gaza factions clash
Eight killed in gunfights between Fatah and Hamas.
28 Sep 2006 - Power plant bombing "a war crime"
Israeli human rights group claims bombing of Gaza power plant was "the more harmful option" for civilians.
27 Sep 2006 - Gaza crisis reaches 'intolerable' levels
UN says standards of human rights in Gaza are now unacceptable.
27 Sep 2006 - Syria welcomes latest UN report on Hariri killing
UN commission investigating Hariri killing says Syria cooperating.
27 Sep 2006 - Israeli raids leave Gaza reeling
Relentless raids inflict much suffering on Palestinian civilians.
27 Sep 2006 - Beckett defends Lebanon policy
Foreign Secretary says government was active behind the scenes.
25 Sep 2006 - Coalition talks resume
Abbas to tell Hamas it must recognise Israel or leave government.
25 Sep 2006 - Israel lifts West Bank closure after holiday ends
Israel lifts blanket closure on the West Bank and Gaza as Jewish New Year comes to an end.
22 Sep 2006 - Palestinians split on unity plan
Hamas says there will be no explicit recognition of Israel.
22 Sep 2006 - Lebanese army struggles with new role
Poorly equipped Lebanese forces face tall order in south.
21 Sep 2006 - Quartet backs national unity efforts
The Middle East Quartet endorses idea of Palestinian national unity government.
21 Sep 2006 - Refugees protest disparity in UN aid distribution
Palestinian Popular Committees hold sit-in at UNRWA office in Sidon.
21 Sep 2006 - Jumblatt blasts Hizbullah as 'hostage' to Iran
Lebanese MP says Iran provides Hizbullah with money and artillery.
21 Sep 2006 - Palestinians killed in Israeli raids in Gaza
At least five Palestinians killed in three Israeli raids.
19 Sep 2006 - The forgotten children of Gaza
The Independent reports on the children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about.
19 Sep 2006 - Growing divide in life expectancy for Israeli Jews and Arabs
An Israeli government report shows widening gap between the life expectancies of Jews and Arabs.
15 Sep 2006 - US and EU diverge on Palestinians
The US insists freeze on aid will remain despite European concerns.
15 Sep 2006 - Gaza's poor struggling to survive
Gaza's poorest are suffering most under the international economic blockade.
14 Sep 2006 - Hizbullah accused of war crimes
Amnesty International accuses the Lebanese group of war crimes during recent conflict.
11 Sep 2006 - Palestinian unity cabinet agreed
Palestinian president strikes a deal with Hamas on the programme for a unity government.
11 Sep 2006 - Angry protests greet Blair
Beirut demonstrators accuse UK prime minister of complicity in Israel bombings.
8 Sep 2006 - UN warns Gaza at breaking point
Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza reach breaking point.
8 Sep 2006 - 'Gaza is a jail'
A whole society is being destroyed, the Indepdent reports.
7 Sep 2006 - Palestinian children pay price of Israeli offensive
Rights group says 197 civilians have been killed in Operation Summer rain, including 48 minors.
7 Sep 2006 - Haifa residents answer questions for BBC
BBC's Martin Patience puts readers questions to Haifa residents.
6 Sep 2006 - Five killed in Gaza airstrikes
Three Israeli air strikes in Gaza kill militants.
6 Sep 2006 - 76 Palestinians killed in August
B'Tselem releases Palestinian casualty statistics.
6 Sep 2006 - Israel to lift Lebanon blockade
Sea and air blockade to end Thursday evening.
5 Sep 2006 - UNIFIL chief upbeat about Israeli withdrawal
Commander of UN troops in Lebanon says Israeli pullout proceeding well.
5 Sep 2006 - Peres says talks will follow soldier's release
Israel says it will invite Abbas for talks after its soldier is freed.
5 Sep 2006 - Blast in southern Lebanon kills two
Bomb blast near Sidon seriously wounds senior intelligence officer.
5 Sep 2006 - Hamas on brink of deal to lead new coalition
A new power-sharing government could herald end to funding crisis.
4 Sep 2006 - Hundreds more settler homes to be built
Israeli government approves plan for new settlement construction.
4 Sep 2006 - Lebanese MPs in protest at Israeli siege
Lebanese MPs continue open-ended sit-in at parliament building in Beirut.
4 Sep 2006 - Palestinian health ministry in financial crisis
WHO warns of worsening humanitarian situation.
2 Sep 2006 - Donors pledge $500m to Palestinians
International donors pledge money for Occupied Territories.
1 Sep 2006 - 15 West Bank politicians face up to 10 years in jail
An Israeli military court yesterday ordered 15 Hamas leaders, including two cabinet ministers and the speaker of Palestine's parliament, to go on trial charged with membership of an outlawed organisation.
29 Aug 2006 - Beatings and abuse in the shadow of war
B'Tselem reports a substantial increase in cases in which Israeli soldiers and Border Police in the West Bank beat, abuse, and humiliate Palestinians.
24 Aug 2006 - Israel accused over 'war crimes'
Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.
23 Aug 2006 - The war in Lebanon
Guardian photographer Sean Smith chronicles events since the early days of the Israeli offensive.
21 Aug 2006 - Unexploded cluster bombs prompt fear and fury in returning refugees
Four dead and 21 injured from unexploded Israeli munitions as mine-clearing teams fear death toll could soar.
18 Aug 2006 - Rights groups warn of unexploded cluster bombs
UN explosives experts fear there could be many unexploded devices still left in southern Lebanon, according to Human Rights Watch.
15 Aug 2006 - A year after the pull-out, Gaza's hopes for peace and prosperity lie in ruins
'In less than two months, almost 180 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them civilians... It was not meant to be like this.'
14 Aug 2006 - Life amid the blood and bombs
The Guardian reports from the Jabal Amel hospital in Tyre.
10 Aug 2006 - Annan warning over Gaza situation
The war in Lebanon and northern Israel should not distract attention from events in Gaza, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warns.
9 Aug 2006 - Security fears force UN to suspend aid
The United Nations is forced to halt all attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to the thousands of civilians stranded in southern Lebanon.
8 Aug 2006 - Toll of a war that shames the world
The Independent counts the cost of the war in Lebanon.
8 Aug 2006 - Lebanese hospital crisis warning
Almost two thirds of hospitals in Lebanon could "cease to function" this week because of fuel shortages, the World Health Organisation has warned.
7 Aug 2006 - Prominent Hamas politician is seized
Israel has arrested a senior Hamas leader at his home in Ramallah, expanding its original front against the Palestinians in Gaza.
4 Aug 2006 - Civilian deaths 'should be seen as war crime'
Human Rights Watch accuses both Israel and Hizballah of war crimes.
2 Aug 2006 - 'The refugees' fury will be felt for generations to come'
Karma Nabulsi comments on the crisis in Gaza and Lebanon in today's Guardian.
31 Jul 2006 - Israel renews air attacks despite ceasefire
Israel continues to strike south Lebanon despite agreeing to desist for 48 hours after 60 civilians died in its attack on Qana.
29 Jul 2006 - The humanitarian disaster unfolding in Palestine
As the world focuses on the carnage in Lebanon, Israel's continuing assault on Gaza has 'turned the besieged Strip into a prison with no way in or out.'
27 Jul 2006 - Death toll rises as US and UK block ceasefire call
423 people killed in Lebanon, 140 in Gaza and 51 in Israel within the last month as the international community fails to call for an immediate ceasefire.
26 Jul 2006 - Israelis accused of using human shields
B'tselem reports the Israeli army have been using Palestinian civilians as human shields in northern Gaza.
25 Jul 2006 - Israel urged to stop use of cluster bomb
Human Rights Watch reports Israeli use of cluster bombs in civilian areas during its assault on Lebanon.
24 Jul 2006 - Gideon Levy: The cracks are opening
'...in Israel and Lebanon the blood is being spilt, the horror is intensifying, the price is rising, and it is all for naught.'
21 Jul 2006 - Nearly 20% of the Lebanese population displaced
Up to 500,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon as the result of the fighting with Israel, the UN reports.
20 Jul 2006 - UN warns against war crimes
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stresses the need to protect civilians.
19 Jul 2006 - Gazans continue to die in Israeli raids
At least nine Palestinians have been killed in fresh Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank.
18 Jul 2006 - Lebanon: the world looks on
Western leaders remain paralysed as Lebanon suffered one of its bloodiest days since Israel began its bombardment.
17 Jul 2006 - Refugee crisis unfolds in Beirut
Lebanon is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis as Israeli forces continue their bombardment and thousands of Shia Muslims either flee their homes or find themselves trapped.
17 Jul 2006 - MAP founding member dies, aged 95
The Telegraph remembers Pamela Cooper.
14 Jul 2006 - Death toll passes 60 as Israel steps up its offensive in Lebanon
More than 60 Lebanese have died as Israeli jets launches fresh strikes on suburbs of Beirut, the road to the Syrian capital and a power plant.
13 Jul 2006 - 47 civilian deaths in Lebanon as Israel launches assault
Israel strikes Beirut airport and blockades Lebanese ports, intensifying the offensive that has killed 47 civilians since Hizballah's raid yesterday in which two Israeli soldiers were seized and eight killed.
13 Jul 2006 - Ahdaf Soueif: Only sanctions will stop this brutal campaign
'The world is watching, and we are all made complicit by the failure of our governments to end Palestinian anguish'.
13 Jul 2006 - Destruction of the Foreign Ministry as Palestinian death toll continues to rise
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry is bombed the day after an Israeli warplane dropped a quarter-ton bomb that killed nine members of one family in Gaza City.
12 Jul 2006 - Hizballah abducts two Israeli soldiers
Hizballah guerrillas have abducted two Israeli soldiers from on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
12 Jul 2006 - Four Palestinians die at Rafah border
Four Palestinians have died in recent days awaiting entry into the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, which has been closed for nearly two weeks.
11 Jul 2006 - Captive in Gaza
Graham Usher: 'Israel has several objectives in Gaza - all mutually exclusive'.
11 Jul 2006 - Israeli rights groups ask court to prevent harm to Gaza
Six Israeli human rights organisations petition the High Court of Justice to end the "callous harm" caused to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip in the recent IDF offensive.
11 Jul 2006 - Aggression Under False Pretenses
The Palestinian Prime Minister comments in today's Washington Post.
10 Jul 2006 - UN warns of Gazans' struggle to survive
The population of the Gaza Strip is "struggling to survive" as a result of Israel's two-week assault, according to the UN.
7 Jul 2006 - Palestinian death toll rises as Israel pushes into Gaza
At least 20 Palestinians were believed dead, dozens more were wounded and an Israeli soldier was killed yesterday as Israel moved in to reoccupy part of the northern Gaza Strip.
6 Jul 2006 - Haaretz: It's never too late to talk
'There is no certain method of eliminating the infrastructure of hatred aside from constantly striving for dialogue, whoever the partner may be.'
6 Jul 2006 - Guardian: Europe's response to the siege of Gaza is shameful
'The outcome of the current crisis is unclear. However it ends, the moment has surely come for Europe to break from its useless policy of backing the US and Israel.'
5 Jul 2006 - Israel authorises army to step up Gaza operation
Israeli leaders today authorised the army to send troops into residential areas of Gaza and to push ahead with a plan to create a buffer zone meant to prevent militants from firing rockets into Israel.
4 Jul 2006 - Inquiry on barrier route misinformation
The Israeli Attorney General asks for an inquiry into partial and inaccurate information on the separation barrier route that was submitted by the Israeli Defence Ministry to the courts.
4 Jul 2006 - Hostage talks end as deadline expires
Palestinians holding an Israeli soldier said this morning that they had ended negotiations on his fate after Israel ignored an ultimatum to begin releasing prisoners.
3 Jul 2006 - 'The children wake up screaming. I am worried it will damage them.'
Media reports document the grave effects that the Israeli offensive is having on the lives of Gazans.
3 Jul 2006 - B'Tselem condemns sonic booms
Israeli human rights organisation calls for immediate end to use of sonic booms.
3 Jul 2006 - Israeli soldier's captors deliver ultimatum
Three militias holding the captured soldier today issued a dawn deadline for Israel to start releasing Palestinian prisoners.
30 Jun 2006 - Israel expels Hamas MPs as crisis looms in Gaza
Israel revokes the East Jerusalem residency rights of a Hamas cabinet minister and three MPs detained on Thursday, as Israeli forces continue their offensive in Gaza and the UN warns of a humanitarian crisis.
29 Jun 2006 - Israeli Army turns screw on besieged Gaza Strip
Israel widens its assault on the Gaza Strip by shelling the north of the territory and dropping leaflets warning residents of a pending attack by tanks and troops.
29 Jun 2006 - The Guardian: Storm over Gaza
'There can clearly be no negotiations until the guns fall silent and the harsh cycle of attack, retaliation and vengeance is broken.'
29 Jun 2006 - Israel seizes Hamas legislators
Israeli troops have detained dozens of Hamas ministers and lawmakers in the West Bank, as its offensive in Gaza continues.
28 Jun 2006 - Israeli Army enters Gaza as Hamas accepts two-state solution
Hamas' acceptance of a "final" settlement of the conflict with Israel is overshadowed as Israeli tanks and troops enter southern Gaza and planes attack three bridges and a power station.
27 Jun 2006 - Israeli army masses on borders of Gaza
Israel began assembling forces on the Gaza border yesterday amid frantic diplomatic and political efforts to secure the safe release of the captured Israeli corporal.
26 Jun 2006 - Gaza braced as Israel promises revenge for raid
Israel warns Hamas that it will pay a "deadly price" for a raid in which two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third was kidnapped.
22 Jun 2006 - Hamas reportedly agrees to Israeli state
Hamas has made a major political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders.
22 Jun 2006 - Palestinian Red Crescent and Israeli Red Star of David admitted to Red Cross
The Red Cross humanitarian movement has voted to give full membership to the Israeli and Palestinian organisations.
21 Jun 2006 - EU calls for international contributions to Palestinian aid plan
The EU has urged the international community, especially Israel, to send aid to the West Bank and Gaza through a World Bank account that continues to bypass the Hamas-led government.
20 Jun 2006 - Palestinian Authority staff begin to receive wages
Some Palestinian public workers in the Gaza Strip have been paid their first wages since international aid was frozen.
19 Jun 2006 - EU's Palestinian aid deal receives guarded welcome
Hamas and Israeli officials give qualified welcome to an international plan to renew aid while continuing to boycott Hamas.
19 Jun 2006 - Israel to review Separation Barrier route
Israeli defence minister orders review of Wall's route.
16 Jun 2006 - Low funds deprive Palestinian children of marrow transplants
Haaretz reports that children in urgent need of bone marrow transplants are not receiving necessary care.
15 Jun 2006 - BBC: Ramallah succumbs to civil strife
Fatah supporters storm parliament building, forcing Hamas speaker to flee.
15 Jun 2006 - Israeli court orders dismantling of Wall near settlement
High Court of Justice ordered to dismantle Wall where it encirles West Bank settlement of Tzufin.
15 Jun 2006 - Hamas minister brings cash to Gaza
Palestinian foreign minister evades international boycott by carrying suitcases of cash across the border.
10 Jun 2006 - Olmert: 'I can't afford to make mistakes'
Donald Macintyre interviews Israeli Prime Minister for 'The Independent'.
10 Jun 2006 - Al Jazeera: Hamas ends truce after Israeli attack
Palestinian Islamist group has shelved a 16-month-old truce after Israeli attacks killed 10 people.
10 Jun 2006 - Haaretz: Abbas will call referendum despite 'bloody massacre'
Palestinian Authority Chairman determined to push ahead with planned referendum on proposal that implicitly recognises Israel.
8 Jun 2006 - BBC: Olmert seeks Abbas meeting
Israeli Prime Minister has said he is ready to meet Palestinian leader
7 Jun 2006 - Abbas delays referendum over two-state proposal
The Palestinian President extends the deadline for calling a referendum.
5 Jun 2006 - BBC Report: Palestinian Workers Paid
Some Palestinian government workers have started withdrawing their salaries.
5 Jun 2006 - The Independent: Referendum deadline approaches
Mahmoud Abbas on brink of calling referendum to overcome Hamas's refusal to recognise Israel.
5 Jun 2006 - BBC: Palestinian PM's sisters living in Israel
Haniya family example of a pattern repeated in thousands of Palestinian families in region.
30 May 2006 - The Big Question:
The Independent: Can Hamas and Fatah ever agree on how to negotiate with Israel?
30 May 2006 - UN Pressure on Hizballah Impedes Lebanese Reform
According to Reinoud Lenders, professor of politics University of Amsterdam and former analyst at the International Crisis Group.
25 May 2006 - 'How can people live, I wonder?'
Eight months ago Palestinians were celebrating the end of the occupation of Gaza. Has anything changed for the better?
25 May 2006 - Israel must halt the crisis among the Palestinians
If Israelis won't deal with Hamas, they could end up facing a more radical alternative
24 May 2006 - Olmert agrees to US request for talks
Ehud Olmert agrees to President Bush's request that he start negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas
24 May 2006 - EU gives green light to additional aid
The European Parliament is to approve the new aid package in mid-June
22 May 2006 - Israel to free some Palestinian funds
Israel is to release up to $11m of frozen tax revenue due to the Palestinians
18 May 2006 - Israel opens Karni crossing
New defence minister has ordered the main cargo crossing with the Gaza Strip to be re-opened.
18 May 2006 - Isolation hits Palestinian life
The international attempt to force the Palestinian government to renounce violence and recognise Israel is having a profound impact on daily life
16 May 2006 - NGOs switch to emergency tactics
NGOs are switching over from health management to emergency tactics, as funding-starved services start to collapse.
16 May 2006 - Crisis in medical services
Cessation of transfer tax and financial assistance has created severe shortages in the territories.
15 May 2006 - Putin and Abbas in talks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
12 May 2006 - Petrol crisis 'over'
Palestinian official says fuel crisis threatening the Occupied Territories has been resolved.
12 May 2006 - Emergency aid may be too little, too late
The timetable for establishing the new emergency fund is far less clear than the scale of the crisis it will attempt to alleviate.
12 May 2006 - Israel 'could' release $60 million
Israeli foreign minister says funds withheld from PA could be released for humanitarian purposes.
10 May 2006 - Palestinians to get Aid
Middle East mediators have agreed a plan to channel aid directly to the Palestinians, bypassing the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
10 May 2006 - Cuts squeeze lifeline to Gaza's sick
Staff say that Western efforts to starve the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government of cash are partly to blame.
10 May 2006 - Palestinians flee Iraq
More than 200 Palestinians fleeing Iraq have been allowed to leave the country and enter Syria.
9 May 2006 - Quartet meet to discuss Hamas strategy
Middle East conflict mediators meet to discuss freeze on aid to Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
8 May 2006 - EU plans aid for Palestinians
The EU is preparing to go it alone and channel emergency funds to the Palestinians if talks with the US, Russia and United Nations on setting up an international mechanism for easing their financial plight fail this week, senior officials indicated at the weekend.
8 May 2006 - Aid row matter of life or death
A shortage of medical supplies is the first symptom of a crisis looming over 3.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank under the control of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA).
3 May 2006 - Hamas will consider Arab 2002 peace plan if Israel accepts it first
Hamas is ready to consider a 2002 Arab League peace plan - which calls for recognition of Israel and a return to pre-1967 war borders - but only if Israel accepts the proposal first, a senior Hamas official said Tuesday.
2 May 2006 - Hamas attempts to ease salary crisis
Hamas attempts to have government workers salaries paid directly from Arab League fund.
2 May 2006 - Avian flu: A virus without borders
The Gaza Strip is currently in the grips of a full-scale outbreak of avian flu.
26 Apr 2006 - B'Tselem condemns residency revocation
Israeli human rights group says revocation of residency of Palestinian MPs is illegal.
24 Apr 2006 - Augusta Victoria in dire situation
Financial boycott of Hamas-led government causing humanitarian crisis.
19 Apr 2006 - Hamas MPs barred from Jerusalem after suicide blast
Israel revokes Jerusalem residency rights of 3 Hamas MPs after bombing in Tel Aviv.
18 Apr 2006 - Palestinian suicide bomber kills nine
Israel holds PA responsible for Islamic Jihad attack in Tel Aviv.
10 Apr 2006 - Olmert 'hopes to finish plan by '08'
An Israeli newspaper reports that Ehud Olmert hopes to complete his plan to draw Israel's final borders before the U.S. presidential election in 2008.
4 Apr 2006 - UN aid workers: Gaza on verge of disaster
United Nations aid organisations warn that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster.
3 Apr 2006 - Finished with Likud
It was poverty not disengagement that determined the outcome of the Israeli elections, writes Graham Usher.
22 Mar 2006 - Court rejects route of Wall through Jerusalem neighbourhood
Jerusalem court moves fence to prevent isolation of Palestinian neighbourhood.
17 Mar 2006 - Colonization of Palestine precludes peace
Former US president Jimmy Carter says settlers are obstacl