Tag Archives: Gaza war

THE LEVANT –  By Jonathan Cook – Despite hailing as a victory the seven weeks of fighting that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and destroyed large swathes of Gaza’s infrastructure, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appears to have emerged as the main political casualty of Operation Protective Edge. In late …

THE LEVANT – Standing in front of the crumbling control tower of Gaza’s devastated airport, one-time air traffic controller Anis Arafat dreams of the day planes will land and take off here again. Re-opening this airport, closed since 2001, and ending Gaza’s isolation is a key demand of the Islamist …

THE LEVANT – As Israel resumed Saturday its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on the 26th day, committing bloody massacres against the defenseless civilian Palestinian population, it killed at least 90 Palestinians, most of whom are children women, and elderly, as well as injured dozens others, bringing the death toll to about …

By PATRICK COCKBURN for The Independent Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government …

BY NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI AND DAN WILLIAMS for Reuters Israeli tanks are seen in the northern Gaza Strip July 28, 2014. Reuters photo (Reuters) – A fragile truce in Gaza for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival was fraying on Monday as Israel’s prime minister saidUnited Nations calls for a long-term ceasefire ignored his country’s security needs. …

Israel said on Friday it was reducing its diplomatic presence in Turkey after protesters angered by its ground offensive into Gaza pelted its consulate in Istanbul with stones and draped Palestinian flags on the ambassador’s residence in Ankara. The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of “incitement” and said it was …