Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

Gaza Update: Deaths and Injuries

Updated 7:00 pm

Martyrs – 69 (20 children, 8 women, and 9 elderly persons)
Injured – 660 (224 children, 113 women and 50 elderly persons)

November 18, 2012 |
Spot the Difference: Gaza Council of Ministers

Look at the video filmed yesterday outside the Council of Ministers.

Now look at the photograph taken from a few metres further back today. Can you spot the differences? (Clue: the stairs Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh descended in the video are the same as the ones in the photo.)

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Gaza Council of Ministers today

Press Release – New Zealand Green Party

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key should use any opportunity he gets to talk to President Barack Obama to raise the plight of civilians in Gaza, the Green Party said today. John Key and Barack Obama are both attending a dinner to start the East … Read more »

Column – Ramzy Baroud

Europe is different, as we are often reminded. The general wisdom is unlike the United States’ unconditional support for Israel. European countries tend to be more balanced in their approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Their politicians are less … Read more »

Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

Attack on Saleh house in Jabalia: 5 still under the rubble

In another crime against humanity, Israel targeted a civilian house in Jabalia refugee camp, and five people are reported to still be under the rubble.

More than 25 injuries from the Jabalia attacks, mostly children, have just arrived at Kamal-Odwan hospital.

Children arriving at Kamal-Odwan hospital – November 17, 2012 Read more »

Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

Egyptian Prime Minister Leads High-Level Solidarity Delegation to Gaza The Palestinian government today welcomed to Gaza an Egyptian delegation headed by Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, which included the Minister of Health, the Minister of Labour … Read more »

Press Release – Green Party

The Government needs to urgently and clearly state New Zealand’s views on the violence in Israel and Gaza, the Green Party said today. Read more »

Slaughter in Gaza
Ayman Qwaider
17-11-2012

For the last three days, Israel has been savagely launching aerial attacks on Gaza. The Israeli Air Force has conducted nearly 600 airstrikes resulting in at least 39 fatalities (including 10 children) and over 350 injuries, the vast majority of whom are civilians. The attacks are part of a larger and massively depressing spectacle of a usurping land-grabbing colony forcing a defenseless population into a wall-enclosed ghetto, and systematically starving and then bombing them. Read more »

Opinion – Uri Avnery

HOW DID it start? Stupid question. Conflagrations along the Gaza Strip don’t start. They are just a continuous chain of events, each claimed to be in “retaliation” for the previous one. Action is followed by reaction, which is followed by retaliation, … Read more »

Press Release – United Nations

UN Rights Official Urges All Parties in Gaza And Israel to Pull Back From Confrontation Read more »

Press Release – United Nations

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “extremely http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=6433 “>concerned” about the continued violence in Gaza and Israel and deeply worried by the rising cost in terms of civilian lives, his spokesperson said today. Read more »

Article – International Eyewitnesses in Gaza

Gaza Under Attack: International Eyewitnesses Call For Action
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, Gaza City

Beginning at 3:35 pm today, the Gaza Strip has been shaken by several Israeli army attacks from drones, apaches, F-16s, and naval vessels. One of the first people killed was Ahmed al-Jabari, chief of staff of Hamas’ military wing. Palestinian factions vowed revenge, and their armed wings have fired dozens of rockets towards Israel. Since the first attack this afternoon, Israeli forces have carried out more than 50 airstrikes across the Gaza Strip resulting in at least eight fatalities, including two young children and a woman pregnant with twins. The Ministry of Health also reports that more than 90 people have been injured.

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Large fire caused by an Israeli airstrike on a house in Tel al Hawa, Gaza City on Wednesday evening (14 November 12, Lydia De Leeuw)

Press Release – Gaza Interior Ministry

The number of victims continued in the last Israeli aggression on Wednesday evening to 11 martyrs, including two children , a pregnant woman , and an old man and more than 100 injured, including 15 children and 18 women. Read more »

Press Release – Gaza Interior Ministry

Capt.Habis Hassan Msmah “29 years” from Khan Younis- one of Palestinian police officers working at the Rafah crossing–was killed on Thursday morning as a result of the continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Read more »

Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh today received a phone call from Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Al-Marzouki, who affirmed his country’s solidarity and steadfastness with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip in the face of the treacherous Israeli … Read more »

Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

It is being reported in Wattan Voice that Palestinian rockets are now targeting Tel Aviv, for the first time in the history of the Palestinian resistance. Read more »

Press Release – Gaza Interior Ministry

The government of Ismail Haneyya has called on the Arab countries to adopt serious and important stands vis-à-vis the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Read more »

Press Release – International Solidarity Movement

Dear All. I am calling on all your support for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip. Read more »

Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

The latest tolls from Israel’s current criminal offensive on the Gaza Strip are: 55 airstrikes 8 dead 90+ injured, including ten women and children. At the time of writing, reports are coming in of leaflets being dropped by the Israeli Occupation … Read more »

Press Release – Gaza Interior Ministry

4 Palestinians were killed and 6 others were injured in a series of raids and attacks carried by Israeli warplanes since Wednesday afternoon. Read more »

Article – Julie Webb-Pullman

Minister of Health calls for international intervention, emergency medical aid in Gaza

At a Press Conference outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City the Minister of Health Dr Mofed Al Makhalalaty called on the international community to immediately intervene to prevent another massacre of Gaza civilians, such as occurred during Operation Cast Lead four years ago.