Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Today, sewage flooded the streets in Gaza due to an electricity failure — due to a shortage of industrial diesel fuel to run Gaza’s only power plant — due to Israeli military-imposed fuel cuts — to give force to an Israeli government proclamation that Gaza is “hostile territory” or an “enemy entity” …
Is this any [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Jerusalem Post has reported that in today’s meeting of Israel’s Security Cabinet — at which Defense Minister Ehud Barak was not present, to the great annoyance of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, thus apparently preventing the taking of any decisions — “Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i reported that Israel was transferring fuel to the Gaza [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The IDF spokesperson announced that “In accordance with the Minister’s of Defense decision and in light of security assessments, a general closure of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, began last night, April 29th, 2008 at 12:00am, and will be lifted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 12:00am. The lifting of the closure will be [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
An urgent call was issued jointly Tuesday by Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups who are calling for an end to restrictions on Gaza’s fuel supply — and to the “unprecedented harm being caused to Gaza’s humanitarian needs”.
The groups, in their joint statement, expressed “concern and outrage at the systematic dismantling of the Gaza Strip’s [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Just back from the long Passover holiday, the Israeli State Attorney (Chief Prosecutor) has promised to write a letter to the Israeli human rights organization Gisha by today giving answers to questions about the provision of fuel to Gaza.
On Sunday, another one million liters of industrial diesel fuel was permitted to enter Gaza, and was [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
ABC reported after the much-anticipated briefing by the U.S. Administration to members of Congress on Israel’s attack on a Syrian target last September that “Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and ranking member Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., are furious with the Bush administration for failing to brief Congress until eight months after Israeli jets bombed a suspected [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Guest Post from Aletheia Kallos/MD:
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http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/geopolitical_diary_syria_and_israel_hint_peace_talks
Geopolitical Diary: Syria and Israel Hint at Peace Talks
April 24, 2008 | 0154 GMT
The morning of April 21, we woke up to a report in the Syrian media saying that Israel had agreed to hand the Golan Heights back to Syria in exchange for a peace agreement. The Syrian [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Israeli military has re-opened Nahal Oz fuel transfer terminal on Wednesday, and informed Palestinian authorities that it has instructed the private Israeli company Dor Alon to deliver 1 million liters of industrial diesel fuel needed to operate Gaza’s only power plant, just hours before the plant would have had to shut down without a [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Israeli human rights organization Gisha sent an urgent letter to the State Attorney´s office on Tuesday urging saying that the Israeli military should authorize delivery of industrial diesel fuel to Gaza´s only power plant in time to prevent its imminent shut-down – by Wednesday evening.
Gisha´s Executive Director Sari Bashi reported that Rafiq Maliha, Project [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter discussed details of a prisoner-swap plan with Hamas leaders during a just-concluded visit to the region, according to the head of the Carter Center Office in Ramallah, Timothy Rothermel.
There was apparently disagreement between Hamas and Carter on this – and not only on Carter’s proposal for a 30-day unilateral [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
