From Occupied Palestine

If Gaza falls...
SARA ROY
London Review of Books v31 n1 (1 January 2009)

Top UN official: Israel's policies are like apartheid of bygone era
SHLOMO SHAMIR
Ha'aretz, 25 November 2008

United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann on Monday likened Israel's policies toward the Palestinians to South Africa's treatment of blacks under apartheid.

Reuters cameraman killed in Gaza
NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Reuters, 16 April 2008 [3:19pm edt]

Gaza -- A Reuters cameraman was killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what appeared to be an Israeli military strike.

Fadel Shana, 23, was covering events in the enclave for the international news agency on a day of intense violence when 16 other Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were also killed.

Two youths passing by died in the same explosion that killed Shana, witnesses said. The cameraman had stepped from his car to film an Israeli tank dug in several hundred meters away.

Israeli minister warns of Holocaust for Gaza if violence continues
RORY McCARTHY
Guardian, 1 March 2008

Israel's deputy defence minister yesterday warned his country was close to launching a huge military operation in Gaza and said Palestinians would bring on themselves a "bigger shoah," using the Hebrew word usually reserved for the Holocaust.

Parallel lives
DALIA KARPEL
Ha'aretz, 4 October 2007

When she was in fifth grade, her father took her to the Golan Heights and showed her where he had lost his best friends in the battle for the Tel Faher outpost on June 9, 1967. "For years, that battle was an inaccessible emotional zone for him," says Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist whose years in the shadow of her father's battle trauma shaped her consciousness and steered her to her profession.

Hamas' stand
MOUSA ABU MARZOOK
Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2007

DAMASCUS -- Hamas' rescue of a BBC journalist from his captors in Gaza last week was surely cause for rejoicing. But I want to be clear about one thing: We did not deliver up Alan Johnston as some obsequious boon to Western powers.

UN committee: Israel should let Palestinians return to their land
YOAV STERN
Ha'aretz, 11 March 2007

A United Nations committee has called on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their property and land in Israel and to ensure that the bodies responsible for distributing property, such as the Jewish National Fund, not discriminate against the Arab population.

Israelis keep a fishy watch
JON ELMER
Inter Press Service, 14 February 2007

Gaza City, Feb 14 (IPS) -- In the driving rain, Suhail el-Amoudi stands on the wharf of the Gaza City port looking out over the aged and weathered fishing boats as they bob perilously amid the swells of a Mediterranean winter storm.

But for el-Amoudi, a 30-year veteran fisher of Gaza's waters, it is not the waves or the wind that concerns him. Rather, it is the Israeli naval vessel on the horizon, clearly visible despite the storm.

Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
JON ELMER
The Dominion, 25 January 2007

The Palestinians: It is the little things that make an occupation
Economist, 20 January 2007, p.64