SOURCE: WAFA GAZA, March 30, 2018 (WAFA) – Thousands of Palestinians Friday launched the Great March of Return in the besieged Gaza Strip to protest against Israel’s refusal to allow refugees right of return to their pre-1948 homes. More Palestinians are expected to arrive to tent cities that have been set up in five locations … Continued
SOURCE: WAFA WASHINGTON, March 14, 2018 (WAFA) – The Washington meeting on Gaza was an attempt to exploit the humanitarian situation in the besieged coastal strip for political ends, Palestinian’s head of delegation to the United States, Husam Zomlot, said on Tuesday. He told heads and representatives of civil society organizations in Washington that the … Continued
The discussion brought national security officials from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain together for an exceptional diplomatic moment. SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: MICHAEL WILNER WASHINGTON – Trump administration officials worked the phones for weeks to bring Israeli and Arab diplomats around the same table at the White House, … Continued
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA BY: ZENA TAHHAN It was 2008 in the Gaza Strip. When winter arrived, so did the Israeli warplanes. Reem Alfranji lived in a second-floor apartment with her husband, Mohammad, and two sons – five-year-old Aboud and Amro, a toddler. During glass-shattering uninterrupted bombardment, the family would stay at her uncle’s downstairs, where the vibrations … Continued
SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES BY: ABIER ALMASRI http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-almasri-no-electricity-in-gaza-20170820-story.html Some friends threw me a surprise birthday party last month. They placed a chocolate cake lit with candles before me and told me to make a wish for the year ahead. I immediately blurted out, “24-hour electricity and air conditioning.” They laughed and suggested I wish … Continued
SOURCE: AL-MONITOR BY: AHMAD MELHEM RAMALLAH, West Bank — On Aug. 3, Palestinian Minister of Health Jawad Awad authorized the installation of solar panels in public hospitals in the Gaza Strip, financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Awad, Takeshi Okubo, the Japanese representative to Palestine, and JICA officials met in Ramallah to discuss the deal. The solar panels are … Continued
Source: Middle East Monitor The EU has hired an Israeli who advocates Gaza be “wiped out” to improve EU-Israel relations, Electronic Intifada reported. Avishai Ivri appears in a promotional campaign in which he outlines the European Union’s benefits for Israel, declaring it “the best neighbours we have”. However, in tweets published during Israel’s November 2012 attack on … Continued
A general view of Gaza City after last conflict between Israel and Hamas. By: Alice Rothchild Source: The Globe Post While the world is appropriately focused on the massive humanitarian crises in places like Syria and Mosul and South Sudan, two million Gazans face a growing manmade disaster that is largely invisible. After 50 … Continued
The mobile theatre puts on a performance at a kindergarten in Gaza (Photo courtesy of Palestine Theatre Entertainment Team) By: Ibrahim Abdelhadi Source: The Middle East Eye Inside the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the Nuseirat area of Gaza, 11-year-old Mohammed Abu Arab, who suffers from leukemia, is sitting in his chair anxiously awaiting for … Continued
By: Sara Roy Source: London Review of Books Sara Roy is based at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. The third edition of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development was published last year. My last visit to Gaza had been in May 2014, just before Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, an … Continued
By: Pam Bailey Source: Mondoweiss Today is the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of what now is called the Palestinian territories. This shameful milestone is being marked with a plethora of pundit commentary about Trump’s potential role, the continuing division among the Palestinian leadership and—in the background—the ever-expanding Israeli settlements. But in addition to … Continued
By: Rania Elhilou ANERA Early this week, I took a day off to stay home. It wasn’t for family time, school meetings or having friends over for dinner. I simply took the day off to wash the piles of laundry that had amassed on my balcony. Sadly, people here cannot focus on anything but the … Continued
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