Gaza blockade threatens education crisis: UNICEF "Children are forced to work in catastrophic conditions, without heat or electricity," UNICEF spokeswoman Veronique Taveau told journalists.
Leaflet: IDF will fire at residents if they hurl stones As if Palestinians didn't already know that.
Three injured in the weekly Bil'in protest
OFID extends US$5 million grant to assist relief efforts in the Gaza Strip
Palestine Red Crescent: working and living under siege in Gaza
Arab Israelis strike over dropped shooting probe
Mashaal: Shalit being treated with kid gloves
"We Can't Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans" A dual Israeli-American national, Grossman has promoted the neocon agenda of forcing "regime change" in the Middle East. "[T]he time has come now," he declared on the eve of the Iraq invasion, "to make a stand against this kind of connection between weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. And we think Iraq is a place to make that stand first . . . the great threat today is the nexus between weapons of mass destruction and terrorism."
Hamas bulldozes Egypt-Gaza crossing Hamas has used a bulldozer to widen a breach in the Gaza-Egypt border so trucks could pass out of the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory, despite Egypt's efforts to seal the crossing, witnesses said.
Hundreds of Hamas supporters protest against Egypt's attempts to close border breach Hundreds of Hamas supporters protested on the breached Gaza-Egypt border Friday to demand it remain open, while Egyptian troops poured cement and laid down metal spikes in a new attempt to halt the influx of Gazans.
MCC responds to Gaza blockade crisis with emergency assistance Mennonite Central Committee is responding to this crisis by providing $25,000 in emergency assistance to buy food, blankets and warm winter clothing for 180 of Gaza?s most vulnerable households in the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp and Gaza City.
Hamas release senior Fatah aide Hamas has freed an aide of Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad seven weeks after he was detained in the Gaza Strip.
The Nation: The Strangulation of Gaza All this is supposed to be in response to Palestinian militant groups' firing of crude homemade rockets into Israel, which rarely cause any actual damage. There can be no excuse for firing rockets at civilian targets, but Israel was squeezing Gaza long before the first of those primitive projectiles was cobbled together.
Travel brings surprises to Gazans One Egyptian truck driver ignored a policeman's order to stop and rolled through an intersection in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Instead of being reprimanded by the normally stern Hamas traffic police, he was cheered by onlookers.
Ambassador upset by newspaper column on Israel Israel's ambassador to New Zealand has criticised as "outrageous" an article in a New Zealand newspaper which called Israel a "terrorist state"......."What's the next move for Israeli leaders? They could have to follow the example of the Nazis who in the end massacred everyone inside the compound," The truth hurts.
Israeli delays mean no Gaza schoolbooks: UN Children in Gaza will start the second half of their school year on Saturday without textbooks because Israeli authorities delayed authorising imports of paper to print them on, a UN official said.
Poll: Most U.S. Muslims reject attacks on civilians The poll also found that 75 percent of respondents agreed that "brokering a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would improve America's reputation in the Muslim world."
"Breaking the Silence" on Israel's occupation An Israeli veterans group will tour the U.S. East Coast to talk about the moral price of Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
The Road to Gaza ? This little bit of freedom was so precious to the Palestinians that they obviously thought going to sleep for the night was obviously a waste of time. Every moment in Egypt became party time.
State: Abbas will be funded The letter was supported by a broad array of pro-Israel groups, notably including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, because Ackerman made it clear the moneys should be project-based. That qualification arose out of a concern that direct funding of the P.A. might not include controls that would keep the money from corrupt officials or terrorists.
Gun attack on Israeli embassy in Mauritania The attack comes after political parties in Mauritania, an Islamic republic which includes black and Arab Africans, called for the government to break diplomatic ties with Israel.
Religious leaders back President's Israeli-Palestinian peace pledge
CPT Palestine Announces ?The Way of the Cross, in Occupied Palestine? Campaign
Tragedy in Beit Ummar: A closer look
"Hebron" Snow Blankets Hebron
British Jewish group sparks new outrage with condemnation of Gaza blockade A controversial coalition of prominent Jewish activists and academics has reignited controversy in the British Jewish community after taking out an paid advertisement in The Times thsi week calling for Israel to lift its economic blockade of the Gaza strip and accusing the state of breaching international law.
New cable cut compounds net woes A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
Horowitz Returns to Meet Officials Horowitz said he wants to discuss his campus appearance on Oct. 24 ? a speech on ?Islamo-Fascism? that he ended prematurely due to repeated interruptions by outside protesters.
Let There Be Light Students gather at People?s Park in I.V. on Thursday night for a Candlelight Vigil for the Palestinian People
Bloggers try to counter anti-Israel media bias with bad news on other states Over the past months, seven activists from Israel and elsewhere have been exposing online readers to scandalous yet accurate reports from media in Britain (violent drunk teens), France (high homeless mortality), Norway (serial child molesters), Finland (sexual harassment in parliament), Sweden (soaring suicide rates), The Netherlands (menacing Muslim unrest), Mexico (rampaging flood victims) and Los Angeles (drive-by killings).
Crowds expected for Gaza siege demo Organisers are expecting a large turn-out at a rally in Preston this weekend against the siege in Gaza, Palestine.
Deminers find new cluster bomb sites without Israeli data while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.
Newspaper columnist freed after being held by Hamas for 49 days
Divisions deepen Palestinian despair
People Power in Gaza Armies can be defeated but human spirit cannot be subdued. Gaza's act of collective courage is one of the greatest acts of civil disobedience of our time
Palestinians are victims of collective punishment
Russia slams Israeli blockade, Palestinian rocket attacks
'I'm absolutely passionate about the Middle East. Nothing is more vital to world peace' Mr Blair believes that the current strategy towards Gaza, which was until recently blockaded by Israel as punishment for Hamas rockets that had been fired at Israeli civilians, is badly flawed.
Chronicle readers question the candidates: Sen. John McCain What is your position on Palestinian property rights? He doesn't even have the cojones to directly answer the question.
Palestinian refugees in Iraq call for unity 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
Chronicle readers question the candidates: Gov. Mike Huckabee What is your position on Palestinian property rights? Huckabee believes in ethnic supremacism. Well, at least he answered the question.
Defending Israel to the "End Times"
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