Above Photo: A Palestinian child sits atop the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, May 21, 2021. Khalil Hamra / AP. Filmed during the attack and in the days following the ceasefire, the documentary tells the story of how Gaza’s armed resistance groups outwitted the vastly superior Israeli military and established their ability to intervene against Israeli ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and provocations at the al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem. “The Palestinian military capabilities are not highly sophisticated and destructive, but it becomes so […]
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Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion November 26, 2020 Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/gaza-e1606437573234.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian street vendors sell candy in Gaza City. Getty. Israel‘s blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclave’s economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday. The coastal enclave has been under an Israeli-enforced blockade since 2007, the year the Islamist movement Hamas took power. In the 11 ensuing years, its economic situation deteriorated dramatically, the UN Conference on Trade and Development found in a new report. Between 2007 and 2018, “the estimated cumulative economic cost of the […]
Israel has celebrated the deal with the UAE and Bahrain but Prime Minister Netanyahu has also faced a barrage of criticism, with tweeps accusing him of failing to handle the raging coronavirus and the threat emanating from Hamas. On Tuesday, it finally happened. After 26 years when the Middle East saw few glimpses of hope for a normalisation of Arab relations with Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed treaties with the Jewish state and sent a message to the world that they’d chose peace over war. In Israel, the ceremony at the White House was a reason for celebration, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/10/1080190509_0:215:3072:1943_1200x675_80_0_0_39be78b6fd69503587d3fa182d7c813d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009161080470283-rockets-fired-from-gaza-strip-towards-israel-idf-says/ The Israeli military said earlier that an alert has been activated in the city of Sderot and in the Gaza Envelope area following the reported attack. A bunch of rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory, the Israeli Defence Forces said in the early hours of Wednesday. Sirens warning of rocket fire sounded in southern Israel, it added. 🚨 Air-raid sirens are sounding in southern Israel 🚨 — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 16, 2020 Meanwhile, alleged footage of the rocket launch from Gaza has been shared on social media. […]
Kfar Gaza, a community located just a few kilometres from the Gaza Strip, has seen emergency situations before but the outbreak of COVID-19 is now presenting new challenges, the primary one being a full lockdown, set to be imposed on Monday. Only a month ago Kfar Gaza, a southern Israeli community located just five kilometres from the Gaza Strip, was associated with rockets emanating from the enclave and the resilience of its residents who chose to stay in the area despite the constant threat of terror. Now, however, with the coronavirus raging and the town declared a red-zone, meaning the number […]
Hamas, Israel agree to end weeks-long escalation of violence along Gaza fence …from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Qatar breaches the void between David and Goliath to stop the exchanges of Gaza’s fire balloons with the IDF’s bombing attacks, where the arithmetic does not work out for Hamas very well. Let’s cross our fingers that it holds. Badly needed supplies are flowing in, beginng with fuel, and to be followed by coronavirus assistance, of which Gazans have gotten very little, while Israel struggles with its own Covid problems including the recent strike from the public testing facilities. It seems they were […]
The militant group controlling the Palestinian enclave has said it reached an “understanding” with Tel Aviv that would help ease tensions in Gaza following weeks of hostilities as the region fights a Covid-19 outbreak. An agreement has been reached to “contain the escalation” and halt Israel’s “aggression,” the group said in a statement on Monday, adding that the deal was mediated by a Qatari envoy, Mohammed al-Emadi. Hamas did not provide the exact details of the accord but said that both sides agreed to “restore calm”, adding that the deal would also facilitate a “number of projects” that would benefit Gaza […]
Pressure On Netanyahu Mounts As Israel Bombs Gaza Again By Steve Topple, The Canary. August 24, 2020 Pressure On Netanyahu Mounts As Israel Bombs Gaza Again2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/netanyahu-protested-e1598295796710.jpg200px200px Above photo: Israeli PM – YouTube and Wikimedia. Additional images and reporting by PA News Agency. Embattled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been facing pressure at home and abroad amid his government’s continued bombing of the Gaza strip. With protests in both Jerusalem and the UK, Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has continued. And the Israeli PM is refusing to back down on all fronts. Netanyahu: pressure at home The PA news agency reported that on Saturday 22 August, thousands of protesters marched […]
Israel Cuts Fuel, Gaza Goes Dark By Tamara Nassar, Electronic Intifada. August 22, 2020 Israel Cuts Fuel, Gaza Goes Dark2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/gaza-flames-and-smoke-rise-after-bombing-2020-e1598107224502.jpg200px200px Above photo: Flame and smoke rise as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 16 August. By Ashraf Amara for APA Images. The Gaza Strip’s only power plant shut down on Tuesday after Israel stopped the transfer of fuel to the territory. The halting of fuel transfers is among a series of collective punishment measures Israel has imposed on Gaza. Israel has claimed the measures are a response to incendiary balloons released from Gaza. The launching of […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008201080231822-israeli-aircraft-strike-targets-in-northern-gaza/ Israeli aircraft on Friday local time struck targets in the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. According to reports, occupation warplanes have deployed three missiles in Beit Lahia, continuing attacks of the city for the tenth consecutive day. More details to follow. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008161080190382-israeli-tanks-attack-hamas-positions-in-gaza-strip-idf-says/ On Sunday, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the country’s soldiers had repelled an attempted “terror attack” against Rachel’s Tomb in the city of Bethlehem, detecting “terrorists who tried to hurl a Molotov cocktail toward the Tomb area”. In the early hours of Monday, the IDF announced that Israeli tanks had conducted an attack against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. The attack came, according to the IDF, in response to explosive balloons allegedly sent into Israeli territory and the instigation of riots along the Palestinian-Israeli border wall by “dozens […]
Years after Israel’s disengagement, some Palestinians are calling on Israel to come back and recapture the Gaza Strip. But would Israel ever want to go back, given that staying in the enclave would be both costly and dangerous. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006261079730930-two-missiles-fired-from-gaza-strip-towards-israel/ The attack comes less than a week after Hezbollah threatened to strike all regions in Israel using precision-guided missiles and just days ahead of the planned annexation of certain West Bank territories by Tel Aviv. The Israel Defence Forces announced via Twitter that two “rockets” were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, without specifying which region specifically was targeted. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
View the Frontline Documentary on Gaza that PBS pulled [ Editor’s Note: … Jim W. Dean ] Jim’s Editor’s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPalJim’s work includes research, field trips, Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more. Thanks for helping. Click to donate >> By Alison Weir, ..with the Council of National Interests (CNI) PBS stations around the U.S. were scheduled to show a riveting new Frontline documentary, “One Day in Gaza,” but at the last minute PBS pulled it. The film is missing important context about the issue, but it includes footage that Americans, as Israel’s top funders, should see – […]
After seizing control over the coastal enclave in 2007, the Islamist group has improved its attack capabilities, says a former security officer who witnessed the bloody events that paved the way for Hamas’ control, adding that getting rid of the organisation, deemed terrorist by Israel, will be a mission impossible. Mohammed Ibrahim will never forget that hot summer day in mid-June when Hamas, an Islamist group deemed terrorist by Israel, took control of Gaza, ousting the Fatah officials that had governed the enclave since 1993. Back then, Mohammed, who is now 36, was serving as a police officer in the headquarters […]