Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Because my Israeli Government Press Office [GPO] has not been renewed [wrongly, I am claiming] since 2010, I have been unable to travel to Gaza the way all accredited journalists here can travel, via Israel’s Erez crossing, or “terminal”. Therefore, I have only read about the relatively new phenomena of Hamas press cards. I first [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
23:55 pm: A Tweet from Turkish journalist @MahirZeynalov says that 11, not 10, Palestinian released prisoners has arrived in Ankara: “11 released Palestinian prisoners make sajdah right after they leave the plane in Ankara’s airport. Palestinian Amb. to Turkey met them”. UPDATE: The additional person appears to be a woman — perhaps the one [or [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Turkey
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Marian Houk
According to a report in Haaretz, here, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal and deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk “are expected in Egypt later Monday, to welcome the 40 prisoners whose release Israel has conditioned upon deportation from the Palestinian territories“. Earalier, Haaretz reported in another story that “the spokesperson for the military wing of Hamas, [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The prisoner exchange in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured in late June 2006, by Palestinian fighters from Gaza in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing, and presumably held in Gaza since then, is to be exchanged for some 1027 Palestinian prisoners in two installments, with the first group of 477 of what [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
The New York Times has posted a leaked, advance copy of the “Final” Report commissioned by the UN Secretary-General on how to avoid a repetition of the mayhem and deaths that occurred during the Israeli naval interception on the high seas of a Freedom Flotilla aiming to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. During the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Sanctions, Turkey, UN Secretary-General
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Israel launched reprisal attacks on Gaza within hours of the Eilat-area attacks on Thursday 18 August. Not too long afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu went on Israeli television and told his country and the world that the PRC, a small resistance group in Gaza, was responsible — and that Popular Resistance Committee [PRC] leaders [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists
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 24th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This footage, according to @CPSGaza on Twitter, was lost at sea during this attack by Israeli Navy water cannon (and apparently live fire?), but since recovered from the sea: Who is giving the orders to this Israeli Naval vessel to attack this monitoring boat with a water cannon? Who is allowing the use of live [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Here are some excerpts, which I’m recording here as notes for the record, from a discussion about the Israeli seizure of the Flotillas headed to Gaza and Israel’s continuing naval blockade of Gaza, in comments made on a post on Mondoweiss, written by Steve Fake and published on 19 July, entitled “Destination? Gaza!: The Freedom [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, International Tribunals, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
