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Posts Tagged ‘siege’

Gaza Bonanza

By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

[Sabbah's Blog note: For simplicity, read COGAT = OCCUPATION ADMINISTRATORS. For your info, these are administrators in military uniform.]
By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
Every week, about 10 officers from the Israel Defense Force's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit convene in the white Templer building in the Kirya, the Defense [...]

Gaza… oh beloved Gaza

By Guest Post • Dec 13th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, Zionism

This video describes in pictures and words the shocking details of Israels deliberate ravaging of Palestinian life and society in Gaza. Its purpose is to call attention to the plight of a people under siege, which so far has been chillingly ignored by governments and the world media unwilling to call Israel to account for [...]

Gaza's sewage 'tsunami'

By Guest Post • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Newswire, Palestine

By Jeremy Bowen
BBC Middle East editor
A five-month-old baby lay on a blanket in the shade of a hut made of metal sheets.
Thin tree branches, with leaves and twigs intact, were laced around the ends of the hut to insulate it against the hot wind that blows into the sand dunes, rolling away to the border [...]

Sameh Habeeb – In Gaza: No shoe nor a drop of fuel

By Sameh A. Habeeb • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

By Sameh A. Habeeb*, via: Gaza Today
Siege imposed on the Gaza strip has become the first concern for Palestinian citizens who live in the biggest jail ever in this world. Those civilians are severely suffering from the Israeli collective punishment policy which influences them day and night in all life facets.
Many direct consequences and repercussions [...]