The three-year old Israeli blockade on Gaza has come under intense international scrutiny ever since Israel criminally boarded a flotilla of ships in international waters, killing nine activists coming to show solidarity with Gaza. The closure regime was always much more than "just" collective punishment on 1.5 million Palestinians to pressure ...

The Israeli government decision to end its three-year blockade of civilian goods entering the Gaza Strip is a welcome move. Sadly, it came about a year too late, and its timing and circumstances benefited the wrong parties. That's because the Netanyahu government (in all fairness, like many of its predecessors) ...

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame was moved to record this version of We Shall Overcome after the act of Israeli piracy off Gaza’s coast. The piece and the accompanying images are moving, and remind us all to stand together in the face of Israeli oppression, occupation, and now piracy. ...

No better time than the present for some Darwish therapy. Here is a translation of an excerpt from his ode to Gaza, “Silence for Gaza” (“صمت من أجل غزة”) MAHMOUD DARWISH: Silence for Gaza “Gaza has no throat.Its pores are the ones that speak in sweat, blood, and fires.Hence the enemy hates ...

Thanks to Oren Persico of the extraordinary Israeli media watchdog NGO, 7th Eye, who reported that Yediot Achronot columnist Sever Plotzker revealed that senior IDF officers vocally opposed the Israeli Navy’s attack on the Gaza flotilla. Yet no one in the Israeli media could report this: Yediot Achronot and other [Israeli] ...

I am finally back in the States and it is good to be back. I got out after spending four months and change trapped in Gaza. The world community has punished (rewarded is a better term) Hamas government with an embargo on this narrow Strip. This siege is really brutal ...

Booth was part of a group of people who embarked on a voyage in August 2008 to break the siege of Gaza, and she is optimistic that the blockade will be ...

I have wonderful news to share with you today, an amazing article on our work in Gaza from this morning's New York Times. It gives such an accurate feeling ...

JERUSALEM/LONDON (Reuters) - Anticipating fresh bids by pro-Palestinian activists to sail against its Gaza Strip blockade, ...

Group in charge of Gaza Strip says Palestinian Authority will be targeted if it continues arresting Hamas members. Hamas has warned the Palestinian ...

Taysir Hayb found guilty of manslaughter over the April 2003 shooting of Thomas Hurndall during an International Solidarity Movement protest in the Gaza ...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- All the Gaza crossings will remain closed until Monday morning as Israel celebrates the Jewish new year and the start of the High ...

In Israel today, just hours before the start of Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year— Gaza terrorists fired a mortar shell that exploded near ...

By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news Egypt Gaza Egyptian troops on Tuesday seized nine weapons consignments bound for the Gaza Strip that included ...

JERUSALEM — The Israeli cabinet on Sunday confirmed as armed forces chief Major General Yoav Galant, who directed Israel's 2008-2009 Gaza war, ...

Eitan Dangot tells Turkel Committee that Gazans have the goods needed to maintain basic lifestyle; says flotilla was intended to strengthen Hamas, not Gaza ...