• LRB: Diary from Gaza

    London Review of Books By Louisa Waugh ‘Don’t ask me how I am,’ a colleague said to me when I arrived at the office yesterday morning. ‘You know how bad things are here now, so please don’t ask.’ Things are certainly very bad in the Gaza Strip. The fuel crisis grinds on, and though Israel has just allowed a small consignment of fuel in, nearly 90 per cent of private cars remain off the road. Bus…

  • Haaretz: Israel to build over 800 new homes in East Jerusalem areas

    By Nadav Shragai, published in Haaretz. To view original article click here Israel announced plans on Sunday to build more than 800 hundred new homes in eastern parts of the Jerusalem municipality, despite U.S. and Palestinian calls to halt settlement expansion. The announcement was issued two days before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert embarks on a three-day visit to Washington. The 2003 peace road map, reaffirmed by Israeli and Palestinian leaders at a conference hosted by U.S.…

  • Al Jazeera: Gazans wounded in border protest

    At least 15 Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli troops used gunfire to stop about 3,000 Hamas supporters from approaching one of the Gaza Strip’s main border crossings with Israel, witnesses say. Palestinian medical workers said on Friday that at least two of the wounded are in a critical condition. “The IDF [Israeli army] will operate with all its strength to prevent the demonstrators from approaching the security fence or the crossing … and from entering…

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