Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is something stunningly awful about this Hamas-Fatah-Israel story over the past 12 hours or so.
I’m not sure it doesn’t exceed the Hamas-Fatah battles that took place in Gaza in mid-June 2007, when first Hamas, then Fatah, each threw members of each other’s groups off of high-rise buildings to their deaths. There was also [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Torture
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is something very awful about this.
The “tahdiya” or cease-fire or truce that Egypt negotiated between Israel (which refuses to talk to Hamas because of conditions that Israel said the UN has imposed) and Hamas was supposed to lead — after a halt in violence from both sides which started last Thursday — to a [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
An article reported from Gaza by the Christian Science Monitor on 16 June informs us that:
“…Severe fuel shortage has forced motorists to buy soybean oil to replace the diesel fuel and gasoline that Israel now provides to Gaza at a severely diminished quantity. Cooking oil sells for around $8 per gallon while gasoline on [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Despite the spin from both sides, it is not entirely clear what happened in a one-hour summit meeting on Tuesday between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
An Israeli official told journalists who were waiting at the summit site as the meeting was underway that he expected the two leaders would discuss [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions
Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here are glimpses of the press at work — covering the summit meeting today in Sharm as-Sheikh between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Husni Mubarak:
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here are shots taken from our airport bus as we were waiting to go into the terminal at Sharm as-Sheikh. We were trying to cover the summit meeting between Egyptian President Husni Mubarak, who is shown arriving in his Egypt Air jet taxing around the runway to a concrete reinforced protocol bunker.
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Filed under: Egypt, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva reported on Sunday evening that an independent High Level Fact-Finding Mission led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (of South Africa) would be traveling to Gaza on 27 and 28 May – and entering from Egypt through the Rafah crossing.
The High Level Fact-Finding Mission to [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
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 March 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
An intriguing story in Haaretz today reports that Israeli and Egyptian representatives have “agreed in principle Wednesday to a deal that would have Egypt replace Israel as the Gaza Strip’s sole electricity provider”. The story also states that “Israeli security sources said the infrastructure minister and the Defense Ministry have been in talks [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Marian Houk
In a press conference on Wednesday in Jerusalem with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni before leaving the region, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told journalists that “There are enemies of peace that will always try to hold hostage the Palestinian cause and the future of the Palestinian people for their own state. And Hamas, [...]
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