• Israel created ‘terror without mercy’ in Gaza

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 April 2009 The Israeli military attacked civilians and medics and delayed – sometimes for hours – the evacuation of the injured during the January war in Gaza, according to an independent fact-finding mission commissioned by Israeli and Palestinian medical human rights groups. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian…

  • Gaza wears a face of misery: interview with Philip Rizk

    Adam Makary | Al Jazeera 4 April 2009 Philip Rizk, 27, a freelance journalist and blogger who has been reporting from Gaza since 2005, was arrested by Egyptian security forces after a pro-Palestinian rally in Cairo on February 6. He was released a few days later without being charged. While in Gaza, he filmed The…

  • Municipality of Jerusalem to ‘blow up’ houses

    Tsipi Malkuv | Yediot Yerushaliyim 6 April 2009 English Translation: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions THERE WILL BE AS BLAST [or a political blow-up; its a play on words in Hebrew]  by Tsipi Malkuv [Subtitle] The policy of demolishing homes [in Jerusalem] will continue at an increased rate The Jerusalem municipality continues to demonstrate determination…

  • Lost in the Buffer Zone

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 6 April 2009 KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza – “They’re always shooting at us. Every day they shoot at us,” says Alaa Samour (19), pulling aside his shirt to show a scar on his shoulder. Samour said he was shot on Dec. 28 last year by Israeli soldiers positioned along the…

  • Israeli Navy abducts 8 Gazan fishermen 100 meters off the coast

    6th of April 2009 at 7am: Israeli Naval forces abducted eight Palestinian fishermen (including two minors) from the Salateen area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the fishermen’s four hassakas (small fishing boats) have been taken by the Israeli Navy. According to eyewitnesses, the fishermen were only about 100 meters from the coast…