Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Acknowledging the significance and importance of the moment, after a chaotic day of ambushes, fighting and hot pursuit in the area of Eilat on Thursday — and some 48 hours of subsequent reprisal attacks on Gaza — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday that “Israel regrets the deaths of the three Egyptian policemen during [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
After attacks on a bus and a car and later on another target a bit north of the Israeli southern city of Eilat along the border between the Israeli Negev and the Egyptian Sinai on Thursday, there is incomprehension at subsequent Israeli air strikes on Gaza. The Israeli attacks on Gaza, hundreds of kilometers to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 21st, 2011 by Marian Houk
Speaking from Ramallah on a radio interview with the Democracy Now radio program, Amira Hass gave one of the few accounts publicly available about what happened during the Israeli Navy’s interception and commandeering of the yacht, Dignity, that was tring to sail to Gaza. NOTE: Amira Hass usually refuses to give interviews. UPDATE: Her own account [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Civil Peace Service Gaza — an initiative of international volunteers in Gaza (established after the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni two months ago) to accompany Gaza fishermen who are often the targets of Israeli Navy attacks — has been reporting a surprising fact in its first press announcements this week: the Civil Peace Service Gaza [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 28th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Egypt formally reopened the Rafah crossing today. Journalists on the scene report that the numbers of Palestinians crossing were fewer than anticipated — apparently partly because of suspicions based on long experience that things might not work out as expected, and partly because of a shortage of money among many in Gaza. It was one [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Donors, Egypt, European Union, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on May 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The EU Representative to the Palestinian Authority, Christian Berger, said in an interview in East Jerusalem that the EU stands ready, if asked, to “come back and resume the tasks of monitoring the [Rafah] crossing point”. As part of the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access, a bilateral agreement between Israel, after its unilateral “disengagement” from [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
According to a report by the Associated Press just published in Haaretz, Israel’s “Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz says he is delaying a cash transfer to the Palestinian Authority because of a new unity deal between rival Palestinian factions. Steinitz says he will hold up the transfer of $89 million in Palestinian tax funds and customs [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 29th, 2011 by Marian Houk
It only takes a minute for everything to turn wrong. This was a special crowd situation — in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, after the announcement that Husni Mubarak was stepping down from his long-held — since the assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat — post as Egypt’s president. There had been months of tension, weeks of [...]
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Filed under: Egypt, Human Rights, Journalism and Journalists, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment
Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
This drama has played out on Twitter for the past 48 hours. Since the Jan25 revolution in Egypt led to Husni’s Mubarak’s forced resignation, there has been speculation about a new and more open Egyptian policy to Gaza. But, the adventures of two Egyptian guys [@dooolism and @tarekshalaby] trying to enter Gaza via Rafah (or, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, Israel
Posted on April 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Hamas Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip — which has arrested four people accused of involvement in the brutal death of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni and which has published the photos of three more men who are wanted for the murder — has announced that the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt will [...]
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