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| October 27, 2012
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Panicking cow kills Palestinian for Muslim feast

Man trying to slaughter beast for Muslim holiday killed instead

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A Gaza health official says that a panicking cow has killed a Palestinian man who was trying slaughter the beast during the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha.

Panicking Beast Archive photo: Reuters

Panicking Beast Archive – Photo: Reuters

Muslims around the world slaughter sheep, cows and goats during the four-day holiday to commemorate the sacrifice by their forefather Abraham. But accidents are comment as people frequently buy animals to slaughter at home instead of relying on professional butchers.

Official Ashraf al-Kidra said Saturday that another 150 more people were hospitalized in Gaza with knife wounds or other injuries caused by animals attacking butchers or bystanders. Continue Reading »

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| October 19, 2012
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Donated Qatari Fuel to Enter Gaza

PA official: Israel allowing donated fuel by Qatar to be pumped into Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing.

By Elad Benari

 

Despite ongoing rocket attacks by Gaza-based terrorists at southern Israel, Israel will allow fuel donated by Qatar to be pumped into Gaza via an Israeli crossing starting on Sunday.

The information was disclosed by a Palestinian Authority official who spoke to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency on Thursday.

Delivery of Qatari fuel began in July, Ma’an reported, but was cut off after a border attack on Egyptian officers on August 5.

The official, Nazmi Muhanna, told the news agency that fuel supplies will resume Sunday after delivery from Egypt and through the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| October 17, 2012
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Qatar funds major reconstruction project to rebuild Gaza

A $254 million plan, due to begin within 3 months, is the largest injection of reconstruction aid to Gaza since parts of it were left in ruins after Operation Cast Lead.

By Reuters

 

Qatar on Tuesday launched a $254 million plan to rebuild and modernize Gaza, the biggest injection of reconstruction aid for the Palestinian enclave since parts of it were devastated in Operation Cast Lead nearly four years ago.

doha

A view of Doha, Qatar. – Photo by Wikipedia

Projects announced at a news conference by Qatari ambassador Mohammed Al-Amadi will require the cooperation of Israel and Egypt to admit building materials and heavy machinery to Gaza,  which is under a partial blockade. Continue Reading »

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| October 17, 2012
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Israel Releases Details About Gaza Blockade Measures

Among the protocols taken by the blockade, the amount of calories were calculated by the IDF to avoid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

By Scott Krane

 

 

The IDF has said that a mathematical formula was devised to set the food needs of Gazans in order to avoid a humanitarian crisis during the blockade that started in September 2007.

The Israeli pro-Hamas NGO Gisha denies this information.

“The official goal of the policy was to wage ‘economic warfare’ which would paralyze Gaza’s economy and, according to the defense ministry, create pressure on the Hamas government,” reads the Gisha report.

The blockade of the region, populated by 1.5 million people was meant to weaken the abilities of militants to commit acts of terror. Continue Reading »

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| October 16, 2012
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Despite high prices, ‘poverty’, iPhone 5 snapped up in Gaza

Prices ranged from NIS 4,500 ($1,175) for the 16-gigabyte model to NIS 5,700 ($1,490) for 64 gigabytes.

By Reuters

 

Apple’s new iPhone 5 is selling well in the Gaza Strip despite inflated prices, reaching Palestinians via smuggling tunnels even before it comes to Israel.

Using the map function of Apple's iPhone 5.

Using the map function of Apple’s iPhone 5. – Photo by Reuters

The cutting-edge smartphone is being snapped up for almost double what it costs in the United States, its price jacked up by middlemen on its circuitous delivery route from Dubai via tunnels linking the blockaded territory with Egypt.

The iPhone 5 will not be available until December from mobile operators in tech-mad Israel, which along with Egypt maintains a partial blockade of Gaza to prevent the entry of anything that could be used for military purposes. Continue Reading »

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| October 13, 2012
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Egypt grants citizenship to 50,000 Palestinians

 

Egyptian newspaper El-Watan reports Interior Ministry instructed to give citizenship to all Palestinians with Egyptian mothers.

 

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Some 50,000 Palestinians, most of them from the Gaza Strip, have been granted Egyptian citizenship over the past few months, an Egyptian security official revealed Thursday.

Palestinians returning from Egypt cross into Gaza

Palestinians returning from Egypt cross into Gaza – Photo: REUTERS

The official said that the Egyptian Interior Ministry had been instructed to give Egyptian citizenship to all Palestinians who were born to Egyptian mothers.

The official, who was not identified, told the Egyptian newspaper El-Watan that the instructions came from the country’s High Administrative Court in Cairo last May.

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| October 9, 2012
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Terrorist Rockets Continue to Strike Southern Israel

Latest intensive barrage of rocket attacks by Gaza’s Arab terrorists on southern Israel continued into Tuesday night

By David Lev

 

The latest intensive round of rocket attacks by Gaza Arab terrorists on southern Israel continued Tuesday night, as terrorists fired three Kassam rockets at the region. One rocket hit the city of Netivot, while the two others fell in open areas of the Negev. Miraculously, there were no injuries or damage reported. IDF troops were sweeping the targeted areas to gather parts of the exploded rockets.

Earlier Tuesday terrorists fired two rockets at southern Israel, one on Tuesday afternoon, and one at about 6:00 AM. Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2012
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IDF response to Hamas rocket fire & hits Gaza targets

The IDF retaliated to a barrage of rockets on southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists.

Palestinians claim 16 civilians injured by IDF strikes since Sunday.

 

The Israel Defense Forces struck a number of sites in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including one located in a mosque, in response to continued rocket and mortar fire by Hamas and Islamic Jihad toward southern Israel throughout the morning.

Maj. Gen. Tal Russo and Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yalin.


GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Tal Russo with Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yalin, October 8, 2012. – Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz

In a statement released Monday, the IDF spokesperson said that the IDF hit “a number of terror cells and targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in response to the rockets fired this morning toward territory of the state of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| October 3, 2012
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Human Rights Watch: Hamas Abusing Citizens in Gaza

Int’l human rights group releases detailed report detailing severe abuses such as unfair trials, torture of their detainees & arrests without warrants.

Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday which revealed that Hamas’ security forces in Gaza are committing severe abuses, including torture of detainees, arrests without warrants, forced confessions, unfair trials and mock executions.

Palestinian prisoner at Hamas prison in Gaza - AP - 2007


In this July 9, 2007 file photo, a Palestinian prisoner is seen at the Hamas-controlled Saraya prison in Gaza City. – Photo by AP

The leading international rights group released a 43-page report on Wednesday and called on the militant Hamas group to reform its various security forces. Continue Reading »

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| October 2, 2012
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Gazans protest Egypt’s elimination of Hamas’ smuggling tunnels

Some of the protests are now being organized by Hamas, who so far had refrained from criticizing Morsi’s gov’t.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

For the first time since the election of President Mohamed Morsi, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have staged demonstrations against the demolition of tunnels along the border with Egypt.

Some of the protests were organized by Hamas, whose leaders had thus far refrained from criticizing Morsi and the new Egyptian government.

The protests are seen as the first sign of tensions between Hamas and the Egyptians since the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.

Gazans collect metal smuggled through tunnels

Gazans collect metal smuggled through tunnels – Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

In recent weeks, Egyptian security forces have destroyed dozens of tunnels that Hamas and many Palestinians used to smuggle goods and people across the border.

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| September 30, 2012
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To Save Her Baby, Gaza Mom Goes to Israeli Hospital

A Gaza mother accepts doctors’ advice & took her fourth to Israel after losing first 3 babies to rare birth defects in Egyptian hospitals.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

A Palestinian Authority mother from Gaza is home with a healthy baby thanks to Israeli doctors in Kfar Sava, after a complicated surgery.

After losing three babies to rare birth defects at Egyptian hospitals, Jian Abu Agram, 31, was faced with a difficult decision last year after another child was born last April with the same condition.

After speaking with her doctors, Agram took their advice and traveled through the Erez crossing with her infant daughter to Israel, where doctors at Meir Hospital performed intestinal surgery on the little girl. Continue Reading »

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| September 27, 2012
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Rare anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza over Baby’s Death

Protestors chant ‘down with regime’ at refugee camp where toddler died.

Protester: Don’t fear being clubbed by policemen

By Reuters

 

At least 500 protesters in the Gaza Strip have called for the overthrow of the ruling Islamist Hamas group in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage.

Protesters in the Bureij refugee camp, where the boy’s family lives, called for Hamas to be toppled and chanted “The people want to take down the regime” late on Tuesday night, echoing slogans adopted in Arab revolutions in neighboring countries. The police swiftly dispersed the crowd. Continue Reading »

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| September 5, 2012
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West Bank Gunmen kill Palestinian Authority security chief

Colonel Hisham al-Rukh attacked while driving in the Jenin refugee camp, which has been the target of security checks by PA forces since May.

By Reuters and The Associated Press

 

Gunmen killed a colonel in the Palestinian security forces early on Wednesday when they raked his car with gunfire in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, local officials said.

Palestinian security forces

Today, security coordination between Israel and the PA continues to prove itself. Here, PA security officers with the coffins of Palestinian terrorists. – Photo by Reuters

Hisham al-Rukh was attacked while driving home in the Jenin refugee camp, which has been the focal point of a broad sweep by security forces since May following an upsurge of violence led by criminal gangs and corrupt security officers. Continue Reading »

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| September 5, 2012
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Terror Relocation: Attacks Shift from Gaza to Sinai & Jerusalem

Terrorist attacks dropped in August. While terrorists in Jerusalem & Sinai launched more attacks, Gaza launched fewer.

 

Terrorists slightly changed their mode of attack in August, coming at Israel from the Sinai Peninsula rather than Gaza, the Shin Bet reported Wednesday. Twenty-one attacks were launched from Gaza in August, compared to 28 in July.

Two attacks originated in Sinai, one of them a major infiltration attempt in which terrorists killed 16 Egyptian soldiers and commandeered two APCs, which they used to try to enter Israel.

In a second attack, terrorists fired rockets at the city of Eilat.

While overall attacks from Gaza were down, the number of rocket launchings remained nearly unchanged, with terrorists firing 21 rockets and 3 mortar shells in August, compared to 18 rockets and 9 mortar shells in July. Continue Reading »

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| September 2, 2012
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600 Millionaires in Gaza, the ‘Humanitarian Disaster’

With 600 millionaires living in Gaza, mainstream media for years have reported a “humanitarian disaster” and blames Israel.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

There are 600 millionaires living in  Gaza, which mainstream media for years have reported is an “humanitarian disaster” blamed on Israel for what was a partial blockade of materials that could possibly be used to build weapons manufacturing plants and rockets aimed at Israeli civilians.

A Palestinian man moves a goat through a smuggling tunnel under the border at Rafah. – Photo: Associated Press

The blockade has been all but lifted, except for the maritime ban that a United Nations report has said is legal. Continue Reading »

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