Gaza

SOURCE: YAHOO Israel was under mounting international pressure amid calls Tuesday for an independent probe after its forces killed 60 Palestinians during violence along the Gaza border as the United States opened an embassy in Jerusalem. On Monday, tens of thousands had gathered near the border while smaller numbers of stone-throwing Palestinians approached the fence … Continued

SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES BY: NOGA TARNOPOLSKY It should have been a relaxing time as Shlomit Almog and her husband, Giora, nursed cups of coffee at their favorite cafe, the C Espresso, early on a Friday afternoon. But she can’t distance herself from the news — or the worry. “I can’t disconnect,” she said. It’s … Continued

SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: ANNA AHRONHEIM Approximately 10,000 Palestinians protested along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip for the sixth consecutive Friday, with dozens attempting to breach the fence and others sending incendiary kites into Israel. For the first week since the demonstrations began on March 30, no Palestinians were reported killed by … Continued

SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: JACK KHOURY Forty Palestinians have been killed and 5,511 were wounded in the mass protests along the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel since March 30, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Tuesday. The protests have been held every Friday since then. The information on the casualties is … Continued

SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY: JAMES J. ZOGBY To say that the situation in Gaza is deplorable and desperate is an understatement. That impoverished strip of land on the Eastern Mediterranean has been deplorable and desperate for decades. I traveled to Gaza many times during the 1990’s, in my capacity as co-Chair of Builders for … Continued

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: MARC LYNCH On Friday, March 30, Israeli troops killed more than 20 protesters and wounded more than 700 after the March of Return protest approached a fence dividing the Gaza Strip and Israel. Clashes recurred during protests the following Friday. The confrontation between activists in Gaza and the Israeli military … Continued

SOURCE: THE NATION BY: ALEX KANE The videos that have streamed out of the Gaza Strip over the last two weeks are disturbing, digital testaments to extreme force and terror. In one widely circulated video taken on March 30, on the first day of what has been dubbed the “Great Return March,” 19-year-old Abdul Fattah al-Nabi can … Continued

SOURCE: TIMES OF ISRAEL BY: LEAH SOLOMON Seventeen human beings killed in Gaza, more than 1,000 wounded. By my government, my army, my people, our sons. As of yet, thank God, there are no Israeli injuries or deaths. We are very well prepared. Yes, I know that while most of the tens of thousands of … Continued