Month: February 2008

Hamas tells Egypt it is ready to discuss truce with Israel, Shalit deal  Hamas said Friday it has told Egyptian officials it would consider a cease-fire with Israel if it lifted its blockade of the […]

UN shocked by ‘grim’ life in Gaza  The UN’s top humanitarian affairs official has said he was shocked by the "grim and miserable" situation he witnessed on a visit to the Gaza Strip.  Undersecretary General […]

Israeli Army Destroying Palestinian Homes February 14 – Every single home in the West Bank villages of Humsa and Hadidiya is slated for destruction. The Israeli army has declared most of the Jordan Valley, where […]

8 Palestinians killed and 60 wounded in an Israeli air strike  15 Feb2008 Gaza Strip, Friday evening when US-supplied F-16’s bombed the house of Ayman al-Fayed, a commander in the Quds Brigades, the armed wing […]

Israeli army carrying out rampage of terror, sabotage in Palestinian town 14 Feb 2008 by Khalid Amayreh BEIT UMMAR, (PIC)– For the third consecutive day, hundreds of Israeli occupation soldiers and agents of Israel’s chief […]

West Bank woman denied ambulance dies 15 Feb 2008 Reuters, by Muin Shadid TULKARM, West Bank, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A Palestinian woman who was refused access to an ambulance at an Israeli military checkpoint […]

Salam Fayyad admits there are no peace prospects Khaled Amayreh reports for Al Ahram from the West Bank Israel’s "lack of will" to reach a genuine final-status settlement Israel reneging on commitments to the roadmap […]

Bringing Down The New Berlin Walls – John Pilger The recent breakout of the people of Gaza provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the […]

"The next logical step" for the Israeli government "will have to be a decision whether to target the top political leadership" of Hamas. So said an Israeli official quoted in The Jerusalem Post. Tzahi Hanegbi, […]

  The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated on Monday that he ordered the Israeli army to start preparing for the wide scale offensive against the Gaza Strip. Barak said that this possible attack comes […]