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Today the Israeli Navy attacked and boarded a Free Gaza Movement boat that defied the Israeli blockade to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries. Passengers included Noble laureate Mairead Maguire...
Tags: Free Gaza, Hamas, Cynthia McKinney, Mairead Maguire, Cypriot Port Authorities, Associated Press, Huwaida Arraf, Free Gaza Movement, Israeli Navy, humanitarian aid, international law, Nobel peace prize laureate, U.S. Congressperson, Cast Lead, blockade
The Israeli Navy has intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with medicine, food and clothing destined for Gaza and forced the vessel to head toward an Egyptian port, Iran's state television reported today. Ahmad Navabi, head of the humanitarian aid group...
Tags: israel, gaza, iran, palestinians, war, Israel Navy, blockade, world, Gaza coast, Gaza Strip
Ghali Hassan/ uruknet/muslimindia (Gaza)::At least 400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were deliberately murdered and thousands are maimed and wounded when Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache attack helicopters began premeditated massive aerial...
Tags: Israili massacre in Gaza, children, civilians, casuality, blockade
Following the democratic election of Hamas in June 2007, Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has paralyzed the economy and resulted in a lack of food, fuel and medicine in the region home to 1.5 million people. Barhoum expressed anger over...
Tags: iran, israel, gaza, palestinians, children, war, blockade, Palestinian-Egyptian, Iranian, palestine
Israeli security officials say hundreds of riot police have been sent into the volatile West Bank town of Hebron after several days of unrest. Extremist Jewish settlers have been attacking Palestinians and Israeli soldiers there. Police spokesman Micky...
Tags: israel, gaza, hamas, attack, Israeli, Hebron, blockade, Gaza Strip, West Bank, war
At least six Israeli soldiers have been wounded when mortars fired by Palestinian fighters from Gaza landed in a military base in southern Israel. Israel's rescue service said one of the soldiers was critically injured, and the others were slightly or...
Tags: gaza, israel, soldier, attack, humanitarian crisis, Gaza Strip, terrorist, Israeli, children, blockade
An Israeli police spokesman said a rocket fired by militants towards Israel on Monday landed inside the Gaza Strip, failing to cross the border. Limited humanitarian aid was allowed into the coastal enclave for the second time in three weeks on Monday...
Tags: israel, gaza, blockade, Israeli, Gaza Strip, rockets, end, rocket fired, palestine, war
Blair's feisty sister-in-law has challenged him in his role as the international community's Middle East peace envoy to "show some guts" and visit the Gaza Strip to witness the suffering of its people in person. Lauren Booth, a journalist, broadcaster...
Tags: gaza, israel, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, palestine, Gazan, US-based Free Gaza Movement, Israeli Committee Against House, Hamas, blockade
Around 100 Palestinians gathered outside the UN refugee agency's headquarters in Gaza City yesterday to protest a nearly year-old Israeli blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory. The protestors, including a number of women and children, held signs saying...
Tags: israel, gaza, palestinians, children, blockade, hamas, palestine, Israeli
A Palestinian man died overnight when a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip collapsed, Palestinian medics said on Tuesday. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, identified the man as 40-year-old Helmi Arbea from...
Tags: gaza, israel, tunnel, Gaza Strip, Gaza City, Israeli, children, blockade, southern gaza, air strike