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IDF intercepts Gaza boat trying to escape the blockade
Carrying 17 people, including university students, cancer patients, and protesters wounded by Israeli forces during the Great Return March, the Gaza boat was headed towards Cyprus before IDF gunboats intercepted it. By Meron Rapoport, Mohammed Zaanoun, and +972 Magazine Staff Israeli gunships intercepted a Palestinian boat attempting to break Israel’s naval siege of the Gaza…
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May 29, 2018
‘We’re dying slowly in Gaza, it’s better to die along the fence trying to be free’
In the days leading up to the culmination of the Great Return March, in which organizers expect masses to breach the Gaza border fence, we speak with three Gazans about what the protests have accomplished, what hope they carry, and where they have disappointed. By Meron Rapoport The organizers of the Great March of Return…
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May 14, 2018
Love under siege in Gaza
In honor of Valentine’s Day, three tales from Gaza of the impossible conditions for families and couples created by Israel’s closure of the Strip. By Tania Hary To receive a permit to travel to and from Gaza via Erez Crossing, Israel must determine that your reason for travel is humanitarian in nature or that you…
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February 14, 2017
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A siege of inertia: Israel’s non-policy on Gaza
One government inherits the siege from another, the prime minister admits it’s more harmful than helpful, the cabinet never formulates or even discusses a policy, and one minister goes as far as admitting that the only driving force behind Israel’s Gaza policy is inertia. By Itamar Sha’altiel There is something tempting about trying to connect all…
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October 13, 2014
Why Israel won’t sign any ceasefire that’s fair
A fair ceasefire would bring major relief for Gaza, which would mean Hamas wins the war. The ceasefire that the world is now pushing for – one that, as UN chief Ban Ki-Moon put it, not only ends the fighting but also ends Israel’s “chokehold on Gaza” – is one that the Netanyahu government will…
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Larry Derfner
July 26, 2014
Government releases ‘Red Lines’ document detailing Gaza food restrictions
After a three and a half year legal battle, Israeli NGO Gisha has obtained the state’s ‘Red Lines’ documents, which detail Israel’s severe restrictions on the amount of food that could enter the Gaza Strip between 2007 and 2010, including calculations of Palestinians’ caloric needs. The “Red Lines” document was based on research compiled by…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
October 17, 2012
Flotilla report: So how did the activists die?
Why does Israel still refuse to show us the full footage from the Mavi Marmara? Perhaps because it knows what we’ll see Last weekend saw the release of the Palmer Report (which can be read here – a PDF file) dealing the Flotilla incident and the assault on the Mavi Marmara last year. To make…
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Yossi Gurvitz
September 7, 2011
Rightist blog’s discovery: Palestinians buy Israeli goods!
US-based blog Elder of Ziyon has posted a somewhat Orwellian piece: The latest installment in the “there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza” Hasbara-project actually celebrates the fact that a new Gaza supermarket sells Israeli goods. … if [passengers of the flotilla] do visit Metro [the new Gaza supermarket], they would be forced to protest the fact…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 18, 2011
Hundreds to challenge restrictions on traveling to Occupied Territories
Israel is not yet done with the second flotilla, and a new effort to challenge its control over the travel to and from Palestinian Territories might take place this week – in no other place than the Tel Aviv International Airport This post was updated. A coalition of organizations has made public [French, PDF] its…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 2, 2011
Greece: Israeli assault on the Flotilla is well underway
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4E3uHBq1R8[/youtube] ATHENS: Israeli diplomatic and economic pressure is looming large over preparations of the second Gaza aid flotilla, set to sail from a number Greek ports at the end of the month. Israel has clearly stated that it will use every diplomatic and military avenue to maintain its naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The…
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Joseph Dana
June 24, 2011
12-hour-long relay race in Yarmouk stadium, Gaza (by Jared Malsin)
Gaza – I’ve been critical in the past of feature reporting on Palestine that takes the form of “Palestinians + X” where X is anything other than violence. You see feature stories in the Western press Palestinian soccer teams, Palestinian musicians, basketball players, as if it were somehow remarkable that Palestinians engage in the full…
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October 24, 2010
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