UNRWA in Gaza: "Nowhere is Safe"

"GENEVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A senior U.N. aid official appealed on Tuesday for the international community to provide protection for civilians in Gaza, calling it a "test of our humanity".  John Ging, director...

Red Cross: Israel's use of white phosphorus not illegal

In the Gaza war as in most warsfacts are being lost in a flood ofpropaganda, with each side tryingto demonize the other without regard to truth, where every horriblerumor is published as fact."The international...

Israel Moves Further into Gaza City as UN Warns of Crisis

Israeli troops moved further into the suburbs of Gaza City and are engaged in street fighting with Palestinian militants. The United Nations is warning of serious humanitarian problems as more than 90,000...

Day 18 of Israeli War on Gaza: Death toll 980, wounded 4400

" Israeli MP and Leader: Afghdor Liberman says that "Gaza has to be erased from the Map by Nuclear bombs like what Americans used in Heroshima and Nagazaki."Israeli military operation is still increasingly killing more Palestinians mostly civilians. The victims are in...

Group accuses Israel of firing white phosphorus into Gaza

For 10 days I have heard from sources on the ground that white phosphorus is being used. Now the mainstream media is covering the issue. "HRW said the use of white phosphorus in Gaza would violate "the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible...

Israeli leader warns Hamas of 'iron fist'

Something has to happensoon to stop the killing. If Hamas thinks they are winning they have a perverted sense of what victory is. " Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stood within Hamas rocket range Monday and...

'Spirit of Humanity' Mercy Boat Sets Sail for Gaza

Cyprus, 11 January 2009 - The Free Gaza Movement ship, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, left Larnaca Port at 3:00 pm, Monday, 12 January, on an emergency mission to besieged Gaza. It is expected to arrive in Gaza at...

Israel asked to stop Unlawful use of White-Phosphorus in Gaza

Human Rights Watch accused Israeli forces of using white-phosphorus weapons in Gaza City, violating international humanitarian law - for all feasible precautions to be taken to avoid civilian injury and loss of...

US Congress passes pro-Israel Gaza resolution

.And Congress is heavily democratic. Anyone expecting a change in the US Israel/Hamas policy is going to bedisapointed."The resolution passed 390-5 on Friday "encourages the Administration to work actively to...

UN Calls for Independent Investigation of Israel War Crime

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke out in Geneva January 8, 2009 for an independent investigation into possible Israeli war crime in Gaza when the UN Office for the Coordination of...

Israel tells Gazans to brace for war escalation, avoid Hamas

This war is coming to a criticalpoint soon.  Israel cannot justhold the ground it has and getinto a war of attrition but theymust either withdraw or go after'the main Hamas forces.  A two sided cease...

GAZA: Dead Men "Bulldozed into Piles"

" Gaza - A Palestinian man captured by Israeli troops in Gaza said after his release on Friday that he had seen the corpses of many Islamist fighters bulldozed into piles covered with sand.  "They used a bulldozer to pile up the bodies of the dead. There were bodies...

UN to resume Gaza aid

The United nations will resume aid distribution for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, after receiving security assurances from Israel, the world body said in a statement late Friday. " The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East...

Egypt refuse Iranian field hospital offer on Gazan border

The Iranian leadership warned other Middle Eastern countries that if they didn't help Gazans and Israel managed to break the resistance of the Palestinians that Israel would turn against them.The leadership also...

Day 14 of Israeli War On Gaza More civilians killed

Breaking News: Step 3 of Israeli Military operation starts in Gaza. It aims at invading the densely populated areas.Breaking News: One of the Journalists buildings hit by drones. Journalists evacuate their offices...

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