Netanyahu stands by his hardline terms on peace
13 October 2009
Daily Star - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave no ground on peace with the Palestinians in a speech on Monday, reasserting they must recognize Israel as a Jewish...
In Gaza, only the dying get to see their Israeli relatives
12 October 2009
Amira Hass (Haaretz) Qassem al-Masri's father has been suffering from liver problems for years. Sometimes he is hospitalized, and usually he doesn't feel well (but then again, no one...
HRW: Stop Blocking School Supplies from Entering Gaza
12 October 2009
JERUSALEM, October 10, 2009 (WAFA) - Israeli authorities should immediately lift restrictions that have left students in Gaza's public schools without textbooks and the most basic school supplies, such...
Textbook injustice in Gaza
9 October 2009
Mohammed Omer (New Stateman) Schoolchildren are stuck for basics as Israel blocks supplies
As the 456,000 schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip start their academic year, they face chronic shortages of...
Animation confronts Gaza breast cancer taboo
9 October 2009
West Bank (CNN) -- The harsh reality of life and death in Gaza is a common theme for Palestinian filmmakers.
But it was the 2004 death of a young Palestinian...
Israel foreign minister: Peace deal impossible now
8 October 2009
AP - Israel's foreign minister says there's no chance of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says efforts to reach a final peace deal have...
Increases in the detention of young Palestinian children
7 October 2009
(DCI) According to the latest figures compiled by DCI-Palestine from sources including the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and temporary Israeli army detention facilities, the number of Palestinian children detained...
Police increase presence in volatile Jerusalem
6 October 2009
AP - JERUSALEM - Israeli police have mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem after days of violent Palestinian protests.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said thousands of...
Health ministry reports death of 358th victim of siege
1 October 2009
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian health ministry announced on Wednesday that a four-year-old child died in Gaza city from liver tumor after he could not travel outside Gaza Strip for...
Israel green-lights France bid to rebuild Gaza hospital
30 September 2009
After refusing for several months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to a request by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to rebuild
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Netanyahu...
Israeli minister Ehud Barak faces war crimes arrest threat during UK visit
30 September 2009
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Palestinians unite around Goldstone report on Gaza
29 September 2009
Palestinians unanimously support Justice Richard Goldstone's call for further investigations into allegations of war crimes committed during Israel's war on Gaza last winter.
Goldstone, a Jewish South African judge, is...
Medics: Teens hurt by shelling in central Gaza
28 September 2009
Ma'an - Two Palestinians were reportedly injured when an Israeli artillery shell landed at a farm in the Al-Musddar neighborhood near Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip...
UNRWA 60th anniversary event
25 September 2009
A high-level commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) today highlighted not only the stabilizing presence of an Agency created in 1949...
UNRWA chief: Palestinian refugee crisis unparalleled
25 September 2009
No current world refugee crisis has gone unresolved longer than the Palestinian exodus, said the UN Relief and Works Agency's commissioner-general, Karen Abu Zayd, in New York on Thursday.
"The...
President Obama speaks out against Israeli settlements
24 September 2009
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to address you for the first time as the 44th President...
Netanyahu: Israel won't agree to 1967 borders
24 September 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Haaretz on Wednesday that he would not agree to the Palestinian demand to accept the 1967 borders as a condition for renewing peace negotiations.
Netanyahu...
Justice in Gaza
24 September 2009
The New York Times - RICHARD GOLDSTONE, September 17 2009
I ACCEPTED with hesitation my United Nations mandate to investigate alleged violations of the laws of war and international human...
Commercial and humanitarian goods flow into Gaza slows
23 September 2009
The Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip will be the only crossing open for the second day in a row, marking the steepest decline in...
Textbooks Become a Dream
21 September 2009
GAZA CITY, Sep 17 (IPS) - A chronic shortage of school supplies, and severely overcrowded classrooms are crippling Gaza's educational system as tens of thousands of children begin a...
