GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants in Gaza have agreed to stop firing rockets into southern Israel. Hamas announced the agreement this evening, saying it's intended to prevent Israeli retaliation and give Gaza residents more stability. Hamas' interior minister says it should make it easier for residents to rebuild the infrastructure that was destroyed in last winter's war with Israel....
Thanks to our pals at Infidels Are Cool - good guys who are on-the-ball when they say "...And the left whines about “living conditions” in Gaza…": GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Gaza "charity" headed by the interior minister of the Hamas terrorist organization on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Arabs and Muslims...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on Israeli Arabs to abduct Israeli soldiers, but this is the first time that money has been offered. The Waad group from Gaza offered the bounty for Israeli soldiers in an e-mail...
By Lawahez Jabari, NBC News Producer BETHLEHEM, West Bank – "I felt very nervous and frightened walking through the Erez Crossing today. I was forced to go back to Gaza. My family was waiting for me to return with my university degree, but I came home without carrying the dream that they were waiting for," said Berlanty Azzam, a 22-year-old woman from Gaza, in a phone interview Tuesday....
Putting international aid to good use! And the left whines about “living conditions” in Gaza… GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on Israeli Arabs to abduct [...]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.
Tariq Abu Dia, owner of the late President Yasser Arafat souvenir shop in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, said: “Today we put out 50 keffiyehs made of white fabric with the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the name ‘Goldstone’ embroidered on them, to honor his work.”
From The Toronto Star : In January, during the final hours of Israel's three-week war in Gaza, a pair of Israeli tank shells blasted through a bedroom on the third floor of the Abuelaish home in Jebaliya, north of Gaza City. Never fully explained, the strike ended the lives of three of Abuelaish's daughters – Bisan, 20, Mayar, 15, and Aya, 13. The shells also killed their cousin, Nour, 14, and...
Jerusalem/Gaza City - A Palestinian unilateral declaration of independence would not succeed and would not be ratified by the UN Security Council, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday, reacting to a Palestinian threat to declare sta...
Gaza City - Hamas rejected Monday a Palestinian suggestion to seek UN Security Council support for unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Such a declaration would have no meaning and was merely an attempt by the r...
The Goldstone Report accuses Israel of a 'massacre' at the al-Maqdamah mosque in Gaza City. According to Goldstone, fifteen people were killed when an Israeli shell hit the mosque during prayers on January 3, 2009.Writing in YNet, Johnathan Dahoah HaLevi has a different take on what happened at the mosque. What really happened at the Ibrahim al-Maqadmah mosque, named for one of the heads of Hamas
Gaza – Ma’an – The European medical aid convoy “Miles of Smiles” arrived in Gaza late night Wednesday night after spending 25 days waiting on the Egyptian side of the crossing. Hamdi Sha’th, head of the committee against the siege, told Ma’an over the phone that the convoy will stay in Gaza only 48 hours and will leave on Friday after the noon prayer. The short...
From PCHR : At approximately 19:00 on Tuesday, 10 November 2009, members of the [Hamas] police investigation bureau and the Internal Security Service, who were armed and wearing civilian clothes , broke into the offices of Ramattan News Agency in Shawa and Hussari Building in the center of Gaza City. They prevented a press conference organized by the National Action Commission in Gaza City to publicize...
Baird explains his Mideast position on Al Jazeera TV Saturday, November 7 | 7:00 p.m. BY KATHIE DURBIN COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER Rep. Brian Baird D-Vancouver U.S. Rep. Brian Baird appeared on the Al Jazeera television network last week to discuss his House vote in support of a United Nations report that concluded Israel violated international human rights conventions in its bombing of Palestinian Gaza...